Month: May 2022 (Page 4 of 4)

Later today you will see a photo essay of a quick trip your PopCulteer took to New York City over the weekend. We got back very late Sunday, and yours truly had a lot to catch up on Monday, so there was no time to record a new Radio Free Charleston. However, I have Wednesday free, and a new RFC will debut Thursday afternoon at 2 PM, and then will be repeated in the regular timeslot next week so I can take care of some medical appointments and stuff.  Today we dug up a special treat for you in lieu of a new episode.

To listen to all of the fine programming on The AIR  you simply have to point your cursor over and tune in at the website, or you could just stay on this page, and  listen to the cool embedded player over at the top of the right column.

Tuesday at 2 PM and 10 PM you will hear the sixth episode of  RFC Volume 5, from February, 2020. The show has a few live tunes from The Swivel Rockers, as well as a spectuactular mix of music, both local and not. This is a pre-pandemic time capsule, for those who wish to relive the good old days.

Check out the playlist below, and then be sure to read PopCult on Thursday for all the notes on an all-new, three-hour episode of RFC, to help you slide into the weekend.

RFCV5006

hour one
The Swivel Rockers “She Said/Chicken Flop”
Maureen and the Mercury 5 “The Keepin’ Kind”
Paul McCartney “Nobody Knows”
Jerry Lee Lewis and Neil Young “Baby You Don’t Have To Go”
The Nanker Phelge “Mr. Creepy”
The Big Bad “Buried My Baby”
Sheldon Vance “Keep On Talking”
Mother Nang “Knee Deep In Wine”
Fletcher’s Grove “Mourning Mountaineer”
Junco Shakers “Sugar Coated”
Rel X “Believe The Lie”
Time And Distance “On My Own”
The Who “Detour”

hour two
The Swivel Rockers “Cinnamon Girl”
Transvision Vamp “I Want Your Love”
Hawthorne Heights “New Winter”
John Radcliff “Useless”
Peter Ivers “Eighteen and Dreaming”
Sparks “No More Mr. Nice Guy”
Scarlett Revolt “Bleed”
The Busters “Bust A Style”
Rasta Rafiki “Calypso Too”
Beggars Clan “Maiden Voyage”
Wolfgang Parker “The Heat”
69 Fingers “Pocket Full Of Change”
The Beat “Dangerous”
Madness “Idiot Child”

hour three
4 OHM MONO “Swandiver”
The Company Stores “So Good”
Stark Raven “Here Comes The Sun”
Elvis Costello & The Imposters “Unwanted Number”
Blue Million “Don’t Leave”
The Shoes “Stay The Same”
The Alarm “Brighter Than The Sun”
Strawfyssh “Netted Fish”
Dexy’s Midnight Runners “Incapable Of Love”
Crazy Jane “Echo Of A Season”
The Beautuful South “Blitzkrieg Bop”
Anthony Hoey “So So”
Mika “Tiny Love”
Hasil Adkins “Big Red Satellite”

You can hear this episode of Radio Free Charleston Tuesday at 10 AM and 10 PM on The AIR, with a replay Wednesday at 9 AM.

Thursday at 2 PM, we’ll bring you a brand-new show.

I’m also going to  embed a low-fi, mono version of this show right in this post, right here so you can listen on demand.

After RFC, stick around for encores of MIRRORBALL at 1 PM, and Ska Madness at 2 PM. At 3 PM we have two recent episodes of The Swing Shift.

Our art this week is an experiment in working with thick paint on a coarse canvas board using plastic eating utensils as brushes for part of the work. The paint is acrylic and the title of the piece is nicked from the song “Roundabout” by YES.

I am not usually an outdoorsy or nautical person, but this was inspired by some of the views you see while being driven along Lakeshore Drive in Chicago safely nestled in the back of a taxi. I didn’t use any photo reference, so this is basically a jumble of happy accidents and playing. I’ll be exploring this style a bit more in the future.

If you’d like to see it bigger, just click on the image.

Meanwhile, Monday at 2 PM on The AIR, we bring you a recent episode of  Psychedelic Shack, followed at 3 PM by a recent edition of Herman Linte’s weekly showcase of the Progressive Rock of the past half-century, Prognosis.  You can listen to The AIR at the website, or on the embedded radio player at the top of the right-hand column of this blog.

Psychedelic Shack can be heard every Monday at 2 PM, with replays Tuesday at 9 AM, Wednesday at 10 PM, Friday at 1 PM,  and Saturday at 9 AM. Classic episodes can be heard Sunday at 9 AM as part of our Sunday Haversham Recording Institute collection.

You can hear Prognosis on The AIR Monday at 3 PM, with replays Tuesday at 7 AM, Wednesday at 8 PM, Thursday at Noon, and Saturday at 10 AM. You can hear two classic episodes of the show Sunday at 2 PM.

Tonight at 8 PM you can hear an hour of classic humorous songs by Tom Lehrer on The Comedy Vault. Wednesday evening at 10 PM, we’ll have another new episode of The Comedy Vault.

Then, at 9 PM we bring you an overnight marathon of Sydney’s Big Electric Cat, providing you with five classic early episodes of our New Wave Music extravaganza, presented by Sydney Fileen and The Haversham Recording Institute.

This week we are revisiting a Sunday Evening Video from seven years ago. At the time, Charleston had a very promising Burlesque scene, and sadly, due to a myriad of reasons, the pandemic not being least among them, at the moment we don’t seem to have any Burlesque scene at all. I’m hoping this changes soon, and I know some fine folks have been planning so that our little town is once more blessed with the Burly-Q. When it happens I will tell you all about it here in PopCult.  In case you’re not familiar with Burlesque, tonight’s videos are a quick primer.

Burlesque is an art form. It doesn’t get the respect that it deserves because some people just can’t manage to see beyond the stripping-nekkid aspect of it, and miss the finer nuances of acting, story-telling, dance, costuming and performance art. Tonight we’re going to bring you a classic clip of Betty Page (above) so you can see a true legend in action.

Below we’re going to show you one of our own clips from 2014, with “Boylesque” dancer, Leo Tuxedo of Wayward BurlyQ, showing how Burlesque can be a form of political commentary. Both of these clips should be safe-ish for work, but maybe you’d better watch them at home, just to be sure.