Month: July 2021 (Page 4 of 4)

The PopCulteer
July 2, 2021

Your PopCulteer is working on a treat for you all this weekend that may or may not happen. Because of that, I didn’t have time to compose a nice prose essay or put together a collection of fine photographs for you this week.

However, I will remind you that you can tune in to The AIR for a four-day marathon of Radio Free Charleston that starts Friday at 7 AM.  It runs until Tuesday and will wrap up with a new episode of RFC Volume 5.

I will also remind you about this week’s fun toy mystery that I posted here Wednesday, which was solved within an hour thanks to the hive mind of the internet (and Mark Hegeman,  who comprises quite a bit of the toy knowledge of that hive mind).

While you’re remembering all that stuff, and I’m trying to come up with a surprise thirteen years in the making, check out some stuff you can do in and around Charleston this holiday weekend. There is way, way more stuff than this going on, but these events were put on by folks who were industrious enough to make my job easy by creating easily-swiped graphics with all the important info. So go check this out, or find something else, but only go out if you are fully vaccinated. This mess ain’t over yet, folks.

That is our quick and easy PopCulteer this week. Your PopCulteer is not slacking. He’s trying to pull off a surprise treat for all of you. Check back with PopCult every day for fresh content, and you may just find out what it is.

Starting Friday, July 2 at 7 AM we will begin a four-day marathon of Radio Free Charleston Volume 5, on The AIR .  You can celebrate America and RFC at the same time!

At the beginning of 2020, I changed the format of Radio Free Charleston, combining the one-hour, local-focus RFC with the two-hour, not local RFC International into a three-hour weekly show that brings you local music mixed in with the coolest music I can find from all over the world.

This marathon will run from Friday at 7 AM until Tuesday at 1 PM. It will culminate with a brand-new episode. Fans of local music can tune in and hear their local favorites played alongside brand-new music from the world’s best bands from a variety of different genre. We’re even going to pre-empt the Sunday Midnight marathon of The Swing Shift for this.

This is part of us celebrating The Fourth of July weekend, and part of it is celebrating fifteen years since Radio Free Charleston made its triumphant return as a web-based video show (that video show is “volume two”). It’s also five years since we re-launched The AIR in its current format, as a free-form internet radio station adjunct to PopCult. So pick your party. We’re having a marathon!

If all goes according to plan, we might even have an additional surprise this weekend to mark the fifteenth anniversary of the RFC video show.  As part of this marathon, some of the episodes of RFC V5 we had to bump off the server last summer will be brought back so you can hear them once again.

Tune in at The AIR website, or on the embedded player in the right column of PopCult, you know…over there near the top of the page.