Month: January 2023 (Page 1 of 4)

It’s Tuesday on The AIR  and that means it’s time for a new  Radio Free Charleston and a new The Swing Shift! You simply have to point your cursor over and tune in at the website, or you could just stay here, and  listen to the cool embedded player found elsewhere on this page.

We have another new/old hybrid show on Radio Free Charleston this week, with one all-new hour, followed by two all-local RFCs from July, 2019, at 10 AM and 10 PM Tuesday.   This week our latest Radio Free Charleston has killer new tunes from loads of artists,  but we open the show with a track from the influential post-punk guitarist, Tom Verlaine, who passed away over the weekend. We also close the first hour with a classic track from his band, Television.

We also debut new tracks by Cosmic Bull, in advance of their upcoming EP, Hangin’ In The I.P., due out February 17, and Joe Rian & the AM Drinkers, whose new single will be officially released February 10. Mix in new local tracks by The Switch, Buni Muni and Aristotle Jones, plus some classic local tracks and we get the show off to a strong start.

Our second and third hours resurrect two episode of Radio Free Charleston Volume Four from July 2019, and both hours are loaded with music from  Charlestonians, West Virginians, expatriots and a few folks who just passed through town. It all sounds great, though.

Check out the playlist below to see all the goodies we have in store. Live links will take you to the artist’s page…

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Tom Verlaine “Words From The Front”
Cosmic Bull “Guest List In Heaven”
The Switch “Bad Girl”
Bobaflex “Say What You Will”
Crazy Jane “Amazing”
Joe Rian & the AM Drinkers “I’m Gonna Love You”
Aristotle Jones “Straight To You”
Buni Muni “Club Kid”
Ben Castle and the Blah Street Band with Matt Berry “A Lesson In Jazz”
Ann Magnuson “Just A Guy”
Bon Air “Bizarre Love Gun”
Television “Marquee Moon”

hour two
Mediogres “Zombie Activist”
The Jasons “Mommy Got Beheaded By A Bimbo”
Kevin Scarbrough “Unsatisfied Animal”
The Heavy Editors “Meltdown”
Time And Distance “Hell To Pay”
Frenchy And The Punk “She Was A Flapper”
Geronimo “Not Just Stand There”
Todd Burge “That Damned Disguise”
Speedsuit “Upside”
Karen Allen “On and Off”
Byzantine “Moving In Stereo”
David Synn “Anesthesia”
Science of the Mind “Rat”
Feast of Steven “Tired of Sinkin’”
The Amazing Delores “Rats In My Trailer”
Fabulous Head “Dopamine Phone”

hour three
Spencer Elliott “Viking Lullaby
Fletcher’s Grove “Masterbeast”
Kevin Scarbrough “White Paper, Black Pen”
Emmalea Deal “Just Take”
The Heavy Editors ““To The Phonomatic”
Mediogres “Frontwards”
The Big Bad “Nobody Makes It Out Of Here Alive”
John Lancaster “Forever The Alarmist”
Holden Caulfield “End of Wars”
The Jasons “We’re Gonna Kill That Girl”
Todd Burge “Your Punk Is Dead”
Dead For Decades “Lonely Spotlight”
No Rain “Soul For Sale”
The Defectors “Nightlife In Tokyo”

You can hear this episode of Radio Free Charleston Tuesday at 10 AM and 10 PM on The AIR, with replays Wednesday at 9 AM,  Thursday at 3 PM, Friday at 9 AM, Saturday at Noon and Midnight,  and  Monday at 11 AM, exclusively on The AIR. Now you can also hear a different episode of RFC every weekday at 5 PM, and we bring you a marathon all night long Saturday night/Sunday morning.

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 last week’s new episodes of  MIRRORBALL at 1 PM and Curtain Call at 2 PM.

At 3 PM we offer up another new episode of The Swing Shift. Every week yours truly strives to bring you the best of over 100 years of Swing Music on one of our most-listened-to programs.

This week it’s all upbeat, fast and loud Swing Music, to get you jumpin’ so high they’ll have to mop the ceiling. Just check out this playlist…

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Stan Kenton “Artistry In Jump”
Brian Setzer Orchestra “The Dirty Boogie”
Harry James “Ciribiribin”
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy “Big Time Operator”
Glenn Miller Orchestra “When Johnny Comes Marching Home”
Ingrid Lucia & the Flying Neutrinos “Bei Mir Bist Du Schon”
Ruby Murray “Ain’t That A Grand and Glorious Feeling”
Royal Crown Revue “Hey Pachuco”
Eric Winstone & His Band “Choo Choo Special”
The New Morty Show “Take Me Tonight”
Anita O’Day “And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine”
Louis Jordan “Saturday Night Fish Fry”
Devil Doll “Bourbon In Your Eyes”
Cherry Poppin’ Daddies “No Mercy For Swine”
The Atomic Fireballs “Flowers In The Sand”
Enoch Light & The Light Brigade “King Porter Stomp”
Stan Kenton “Lover”

You can hear The Swing Shift Tuesday at 3 PM, with replays Wednesday at 8 AM, Friday at 10 AM and 8 PM and Saturday afternoon, only on The AIR . You can also hear all-night marathons, seven hours each, starting at Midnight Thursday and Sunday evenings.

This week I did another city scene, loosely based on Chicago, but I was mainly trying to show off the faux Sepia tone I got by mixing brown, red and orange Winsor and Newton inks.

There was a lot of straight-edge help with this one. The cross-hatching was pretty hard on my hands, too, but it’s a small price to pay to make one’s “art.”

I may not be done with this technique.  There are a couple of colors I haven’t busted out yet. Watch this space to see.

To see it bigger try clicking HERE.

Meanwhile, Monday at 2 PM on The AIR, we bring you a recent episode of Psychedelic Shack, and then at 3 PM 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 elsewhere on this page.

On Psychedelic Shack, Nigel Pye offers up an hour-long mixtape of Psychedelic Music that, on this show,  kicks off with Todd Rundgren.

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.

On a classic Prognosis, Herman Linte presents his usual assortment of prog-rock classics mixed with new tracks, and this show brings you a live performance by Tangerine Dream, with special guest Brian May.

At 8 PM you can hear an hour of the twisted music of Barnes & Barnes on the latest Comedy Vault.

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 9 PM we bring you an overnight marathon of Sydney’s Big Electric Cat.  Sydney marked her one-hundredth episode last Friday, so we’re running a selection of the best of her early shows this week as our marathon.

Sometimes you’re just in a Green Hornet mood. I’m talking about the 1960s TV version of The Lone Ranger’s great-nephew, not that awful movie from a few years ago. The TV show was a campy, fun romp…a companion show to the 1960’s Batman series (with the same producer, no less). This was the show with Bruce Lee as Kato and Van Williams as the Hornet-y guy himself.

Plus that car, I mean, geez!

It was a fun show, and it’s easy to drop in the blog when you’re on the road back home after a toy show. Above you see the first episode. Enjoy!

“Duh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh BATMAN Shirt,” henceforth known simply as “Batman Shirt,” was episode nine of Radio Free Charleston and originally appeared November 14, 2006, and was our first, and perhaps our only Thanksgiving show.

This is one of our most-watched and least-watched RFC video shows. Since being remastered and posted to YouTube about a decade ago, it has been viewed more than nine-thousand times. However, most viewers bail out after about ten seconds, probably disappointed that it isn’t the theme song sequence from the Batman TV show.

It is, however, a great local music showcase that features songs from Stephen Beckner and Mother Nang, a Pentagram Flowerbox cartoon, the short film, Hell for Turkeys and funny host segments from the pre-demolition food court at The Kanawha Mall. End credit music is by Greg Wegmann.

Still recovering from our first big Halloween shows, we took a low-key approach to this episode of RFC. Stephen Beckner returned with a second song recorded at the second-ever RFC recording session at LiveMix Studio, which also gave us his song for episode two. “Olive Or Twist” was on his “Apples” CD.

We also bring you archival footage of Mother Nang from 1992 performing “Knee Deep In Wine.” After this show was originally posted to The Charleston Gazette in 2006, Mother Nang reunited and appeared in more modern times on the show. Their frontman, Spencer Elliott, has gone on to become a big-shot amazing fingerstyle guitar recording artist for CandyRat Records.

There is an epic-length Pentagram Flowerbox Thanksgiving cartoon on hand, as Timmy and his grandma go hunting for a giant turkey and pay tribute to the late Iron Eyes Cody.

There’s much more in this edition of Radio Free Charleston: a glimpse of turkey hell, a brief visit by the Talking Adventure Team Commander, and end credit footage of The State Capitol Grounds, including the now-extinct fountain.

It’s hard to believe this was over sixteen years ago. Time flies when you’re having fun!

If you didn’t get enough RFC from the above show, here’s a “DVD extra,” the trailer I made to promote the show, back when we could only post trailers to YouTube because of their time constraints…

The PopCulteer
January 27, 2023

Just like last Monday with Prognosis, this afternoon on The AIR Sydney Fileen reaches her one-hundredth episode of our New Wave Music showcase, Sydney’s Big Electric Cat on The AIR. We also have a new episode of MIRRORBALL, for you Disco fanatics.   The AIR is PopCult‘s sister radio station. You can hear these shows on The AIR website, or just click on the embedded player found elsewhere on this page.

First, at 2 PM, Mel Larch uncorks a new MIRRORBALL! The AIR’s showcase of classic Disco music presents the first of two episodes devoted to the music of The Trammps.

Emerging from the ashes of the 1960’s R&B band, The Volcanos, vocalists Jimmy Ellis and Earl Young teamed up with the Wade brothers, from MFSB to form a Disco Music powerhouse. In this and the next episode of MIRRORBALL, Mel will bring you their hits along with important album tracks and a few oddities from their career. Disco wouldn’t have been the same without “Disco Inferno,” but there is so much more to The Trammps than that one iconic hit.

Check out the playlist…

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The Trammps

“Trammps Disco Theme”
“Penguin At The Big Apple/ Zing Went The Strings of My Heart”
“Sixty Minute Man”
“Rubber Band”
“Disco Party”
“Can We Come Together”
“Starvin “
“People of The World, Rise”
“Disco Inferno (long mix)”

You can hear MIRRORBALL every Friday at 2 PM, with replays throughout the following week.

At 3 PM, on Sydney’s Big Electric Cat, Sydney Fileen reaches her one-hundredth episode, keeping the New Wave Music flame burning brightly, and honoring a promise she’s made for years.

After opening show with her namesake song, Adrian Belew’s “Big Electric Cat,” Sydney assembles a playlist of “Quintessential New Wave Music” for her listeners.

As Sydney explains, “Some of these songs were major hits that defined the era, while others are deep album cuts by the artists who defined the genre. Either way, it’s going to be very New Wave-y here.”

Sydney don’t lie, as you can see from this playlist…

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Adrian Belew “Big Electric Cat”
Toyah “Good Morning Universe”
XTC “Sgt. Rock (Is Going To Help Me)”
The Police “Spirits In The Material World”
Madness “Tomorrow’s (Just Another Day)”
Eurythmics “Right By Your Side”
Bronski Beat “Hit That Perfect Beat (12” Mix)”
Thompson Twins “Sister of Mercy”
Elvis Costello “Busy Bodies”
DEVO “Girl U Want”
Lene Lovich “Angels”
Klaus Nomi “Total Eclipse”
Mike Batt “Love Makes You Crazy”
Hazel O’Connor “Decadent Days”
The B-52s “Party Out Of Bounds”
Joe Jackson “Steppin’ Out”
Kate Bush “Army Dreamers”
ABC “Poison Arrow”
Ultravox “We Stand Alone”
Nina Hagen “Blood In The Streets”
Adam & The Ants “Killer In The House”
Pretenders “Birds of Paradise”
New Musik “Science”
Missing Persons “Tears”
Split Enz “I Got You”
Siouxsie and The Banshees “Take Me Back”
The Clash “Death Or Glory”
The Stranglers “Mean To Me”
Gary Numan “Music For Chameleons”
Blondie “Living In The Real World”
The Art of Noise “Close To The Edit”

Sydney’s Big Electric Cat is produced at Haversham Recording Institute in London, and can be heard every Friday at 3 PM, with replays Saturday afternoon,  Monday at 7 AM, Tuesday at 8 PM, Wednesday at Noon and Thursday at 10 AM, exclusively on The AIR.

It’s been great to have such major deejays from the UK creating these labor-of-love programs for The AIR, and I want to thank Sydney, Herman, Nigel and all the crew at The Haversham Recording Institute for the hundreds of hours of quality radio programming they’ve given us over the past several years.

That’s what’s new on The AIR Friday, and that is this week’s PopCulteer. Check back all weekend for fresh posts even though yours truly will be at GI Joe Winterfest in Louisville. We have internets blogging magic that lets me do this stuff.

Your PopCulteer and his lovely wife will be heading West (it’s really a pleasant drive) to just South of Louisville, Kentucky for the GI Joe Winterfest, a toy show produced by the fine folks being The Kentuckiana GI Joe Toy Expo (which happens at the end of July). Check out the Facebook Event Page for full details and preview photos.

This will be our first Winterfest, and it’s the first show at the new home of The Kentuckiana show.  GI Joe Winterfest happens at the Paroquet Springs Conference Centre, at 395 Paroquet Springs Drive, in Shepherdsville, KY.  It’s not far at all from the South Louisville Antique Toy Mall, so most toy collectors ought to have an easy time finding it. Check out how cool it looks…

One of the main attractions for yours truly is the ample supply of new Super Joe Unlimited figures that will be for sale there from My Vintage Toys and Trains.  I recently told you about those HERE and posted another video about them HERE.  However there will be dozens of vendors  and the show promises lots of old and new 12 inch and 3 3/4 inch GI Joes, Star Wars toys, Super Hero figures, Marx Toys, Megos, Big Jim, Pop Culture items and much more.

I’m hoping we can find some SpongeBob stuff for Mel.

GI Joe Winterfest is Saturday, with a Friday preview. Here’s the hours and details:

Saturday 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM Admission Just $8.00
Early Bird Admission at 9:00 AM for $15.00

Friday Night Preview 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM for $30.00

All admissions payable at the doors.

This is our first GI Joe Winterfest, and it is at a new location, but to give you a hint of what it might be like, check out this video I made for last year’s Kentuckiana GI Joe Toy Expo…

We are smack dab in the middle of Winter but there’s plenty of STUFF TO DO in Charleston and the surrounding area this weekend. But first, I’m going to tell you about a very cool Kickstarter project about which I am very excited.

Intrusive Thoughts is a first chapter of a six-part comic book series written by Anthony D. Stokes.  Last year I told you about his mini-series, Decay (which is three parts into its five-part story), and I am enjoying Decay so much that I’ve already kicked in on this campaign and made the decision not to learn too much about it until I have it in my hands. I don’t want t ruin any elements of the story.

Here’s what Stokes says on the Kickstarter campaign page: “Intrusive Thoughts Issue 1 is the start of a six-issue horror mystery comic book series that’s a combination of The Sandman and Where The Wild Things Are. The first issue is 28 full color pages.”

That’s all it took to sell me on the book. In a short time I have become a big fan of Stokes’ writing, and I’m really eager to see how he wraps up Decay (a campaign for the fourth and fifth issues will launch in a few weeks).

So if you want to get in early on the career of a storyteller who I predict will be a major talent in the next few years, visit the Kickstarter page for Intrusive Thoughts, and while you’re there, add on the first three issues of Decay.  You can choose levels with print or digital rewards, plus a variety of art prints and variant covers. Check out the video here…

And now on with STUFF TO DO…

Live Music is back at Taylor Books. There is no cover charge, and shows start at 7:30 PM. Friday it’s Autumn Rae. Saturday That High Country Revival serenades the crowd at Charleston’s beloved Bookstore/Coffee Shop/Art Gallery.

The Empty Glass has some great stuff through the week to tell you about.   Thursday from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM, Swingstein and Robin play fiddle and piano and sing swing and early jazz standards. Each week they donate their tips to a local nonprofit.  Later on Thursday, Three’s Company Blues will play for a mere three-dollar cover.  Friday from 5 PM to 8 PM Timmy “Courts and Friends hold down the fort at the Glass. Friday at 10 PM Ruby–Mountain Soul Music will bring her violin to the stage at The Glass.  Saturday Andrew Pauley will be back, along with Rona Myers Sullivan and Mike Stange starting at 10 PM.  Next week they’ll have an open mic Monday night, and Songwriter Showcase on Tuesday. Weekend shows that have graphics are listed among the images below.

Please remember that the pandemic is not over yet. In fact, it’s surging again. Many people who have very good reasons are still wearing masks, and many of us, understandably, are still nervous about being in crowds, masked or not. Be kind and understanding  while you’re out.

If you’re up for going out, here are a few suggestions for the rest of this week, roughly in order except for the first item you see, which happens Sunday, and is for a very good cause.

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THURSDAY

FRIDAY

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Wednesday afternoon The AIR brings you a special new episodes of Curtain Call and Beatles Blast, both of which are the first halves of two-part specials!  You can tune in at the website, or if you’re on a laptop or desktop, you could just stay right here and  listen to the convenient embedded radio player lurking elsewhere on this page.

At 2 PM Beatles Blast presents a themed show that, when I first thought of it, I thought was a dumb idea and there wouldn’t be enough songs to fill out an hour. I had the silly idea of doing an hour of Beatles songs (group and solo) about animals, or at least that mention an animal in the title. The Beatles were all animal lovers, so I figured it might be worth a shot.

Then I started compiling tracks for the show, and discovered that it’s going to be a two-parter. They had more animal songs than I realized. So come back next week for part two. Check out the playlist for part one below. I damn-near had enough songs about birds to give them a show of their own, but I decided to mix it up a bit.

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The Beatles “Martha My Dear”
George Harrison “Baltimore Oriole”
John Lennon “Surprise, Surprise (Sweet Bird of Paradox)”
Ringo Starr “Bye Bye, Blackbird”
Paul McCartney “Long Tailed Winter Bird”
The Beatles “Free As A Bird”
Paul McCartney “All You Horse Riders”
George Harrison “Fish On The Sand”
John Lennon “Cold Turkey”
Ringo Starr “A Mouse Like Me”
The Beatles “Piggies”
The Beatles “Hey Bulldog”
Paul McCartney “Ram On (unreleased reprise)”
John Lennon “Hound Dog”
The Beatles “Blackbird”

Beatles Blast can be heard every Wednesday at 2 PM, with replays Thursday at 11 PM, Friday at 1 PM,  and Saturday afternoon.

At 3 PM on Curtain Call, Mel Larch salutes  25 years since the Broadway debut of the musical based on E. L. Doctorow’s Ragtime. Mel also want to pay her respects to Frank Galati, who directed the show, and who passed away on January 2.

Galati was a beloved director, writer, and actor. He was a member of Steppenwolf Theatre Company and an associate director at Goodman Theatre. He taught at Northwestern University for many years.

Ragtime featured music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and a book by Terrence McNally.

Set in the late-period gilded age of the early 20th century, Ragtime tells the story of three groups in the United States: African Americans, represented by Coalhouse Walker Jr., a Harlem musician; upper-class suburbanites, represented by Mother, the matriarch of a white upper-class family in New Rochelle, New York; and Eastern European immigrants, represented by Tateh, a Jewish immigrant from Latvia.

The show also incorporates historical figures such as Harry Houdini, Evelyn Nesbit, Booker T. Washington, J. P. Morgan, Henry Ford, Stanford White, Harry Kendall Thaw, and Admiral Peary, an weaves its narrative around some of the true-life scandals and events of the day.

It’s a great show, and also a long one. Rather than just bring you highlights, Mel decided to spread Ragtime over two episodes of Curtain Call, so like Beatles Blast, you get to come back next week for part two.

Curtain Call can be heard on The AIR Wednesday at 3 PM, with replays Thursday at 8 AM, Friday at 10 AM, Saturday at 8 PM and Monday at 9 AM. A six-hour marathon of classic episodes can be heard Sunday evening starting at 6 PM, and an all-night marathon of Curtain Call episodes can be heard Wednesday nights, beginning at Midnight.

Also on The AIR, Wednesday at 11 PM,  The Comedy Vault gears up a new episode for the new year.  This time you get a solid hour of the weirdly comical music of Barnes & Barnes.  The Comedy Vault can be heard every Wednesday at 11 PM, with the featured episodes replayed the following Monday at 8 PM.

It’s Tuesday on The AIR  and that means it’s Radio Free Charleston time, plus we also have a new edition of The Swing Shift for you enjoy. You simply have to point your cursor over and tune in at the website, or you could just stay here, and  listen to the cool embedded player found elsewhere on this page.

We have another fun hybrid show on Radio Free Charleston this week, with one all-new hour, followed by a classic two-hour Radio Free Charleston International, at 10 AM and 10 PM Tuesday.   This week our latest Radio Free Charleston has killer new tunes from loads of artists, and I’m going to tell you all about them now.

We open the show with a track from the next Zeroking album, and we continue with a cool mix of new stuff by local and indie artists, with a few ringers tossed in and the big deal this week, we have a preview track from the new album by legendary Alternative Rock band, Poi Dog Pondering, which will officially be released Friday (but you early adopters can snag it now from Bandcamp).

Poi Dog Pondering’s Keep On Loving Each Other, a song cycle that reverberates with the determination to follow one’s heart while living within an extended arm’s embrace of empathy, is the band’s 10th full-length album.

Our second and third hours resurrect an episode of RFC International from October, 2018, and it’s from back when almost every episode was a mixtape presentation that celebrates the concept of free-format radio.

Check out the playlist below to see all the goodies we have in store. Live links in the first hour will take you to the artist’s page…

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hour one
Zeroking “Dead Are Dancing”
Law Biting Citizens “So Long Suckers”
Least “Power Blazer”
The Switch “Broken Pieces”
Leathers “Runaway”
Nixon Black “Win Place Or Show”
Hello June “Stranger”
Poi Dog Pondering “Sweet Taste In My Mouth”
Frenchy And The Punk “Mon Souvenir”
Jeremy Short “Happy Trees”
Marc Almond “My Love”
Buni Muni “Get Out Of The City”
We Are Scientists “Human Resources”
Stark Raven “Whiter Shade of Pale”

hour two
Elvis Costello and The Imposters “Under Lime”
Glen Matlock “Strange Kinda Taste”
Antarcticats “Pony”
Be Bop Deluxe “Shine”
Bourbon “Fuente Vieja”
Echo and the Bunnymen “Ocean Rain (Trasnformed)”
Ian Gillian and the Javelins “You’re Gonna Ruin Me Baby”
Joe Strummer “Coma Girl”
Katie Melua “Closest Thing To Crazy”
Keith Emerson “Walter L”
Argyle Goolsby “Nightsurf”

hour three
Billy F. Gibbons “Standing Around Crying”
Dave Davies “Same Old Blues”
Boz Scaggs “On The Beach”
Neil Finn and Paul Kelly “Deeper Water”
Kirsten Hersh “Lady Godiva”
Les Big Byrd “I’ve Tried So Hard”
Nazereth “My White Bicycle”
John Lennon “Oh My Love”
Paul McCartney “Ceasar Rock”
Pink Fairies “Resident Reptile”
Shriekback “My Spine Is The Bassline”
The Struts “Fire” and “Ashes”

You can hear this episode of Radio Free Charleston Tuesday at 10 AM and 10 PM on The AIR, with replays Wednesday at 9 AM,  Thursday at 3 PM, Friday at 9 AM, Saturday at Noon and Midnight,  and  Monday at 11 AM, exclusively on The AIR. Now you can also hear a different episode of RFC every weekday at 5 PM, and we bring you a marathon all night long Saturday night/Sunday morning.

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 Curtain Call at 2 PM.

At 3 PM we have a new hour of The Swing Shift that’s loaded with classic Big Band Era artists, mixed in with newer stuff and even a track from The Yardbirds to pay tribute to Jeff Beck.  Check out this playlist…

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Paul Carrack “Frim Fram Sauce”
The Yardbirds “Jeff’s Boogie”
Tyler Pedersen “Steppin'”
David Campbell “You’re Nobody Til Somebody Loves You”
Daniel Glass Trio “Smoke On The Water”
Kenny “Blues Boss” Wayne “New Way To Love”
Artie Shaw & His Orchestra “Frenesi”
Carroll Gibbons & Savoy Hotel Orpheans “I’m Going To Get Lit Up When The Lights Go Up In London”
Ronnie Lane & Pete Townsend “Catmelody”
Duke Ellington “I Let A Song Go Out of My Heart”
Lester Young “Jumpin’ At The Woodside”
Buddy Rich “The Trolly Song”
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy “Five Months, Two Weeks, Two Days”

You can hear The Swing Shift Tuesday at 3 PM, with replays Wednesday at 8 AM, Friday at 10 AM and 8 PM and Saturday afternoon, only on The AIR . You can also hear all-night marathons, seven hours each, starting at Midnight Thursday and Sunday evenings.

Herman Linte’s Prognosis hits a massive, epic and bombastic milestone Monday, as the show hit’s its 100th episode.

But first, Monday at 2 PM on The AIR, we bring you a new episode of Psychedelic Shack  You can listen to The AIR at the website, or on the embedded radio player elsewhere on this page.

On Psychedelic Shack, Nigel Pye offers up an hour-long mixtape of Psychedelic Music that, on this show,  kicks off with new music from Belle and Sebastion. Check out the playlist…

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Belle and Sebastian “Juliet Naked”
Simon T. Stokes “Cobwebs”
The Glass Menagerie “End Of The Line”
The Radical Five ‘I Should Have Stayed In Bed”
Gypsy Moss “Captive To The Night”
Alan Avon & The Shop “A Night To Remember”
Kate Kennedy Construction Company “Armagedden”
Motivation “Little Man”
Edwick Rumbold “Boggle Woggle”
The Glass Opening “Does It Really Matter”
Steerpike “Prelude and The Marble Steps”
Orange Machine “Dr. Crippen’s Waiting Room”
White Trash “Illusions”
The Majority “Time Machine Man”
Harsh Reality “Praying For Reprieve”
The Unknown Group “Out of my Mind (Over You)”

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.

The big deal Monday starts at 3 PM. On a very special Prognosis, Herman Linte presents two full hours of epic Progressive Rock, and to mark the 100th episode, Herman Linte has loaded this program with ALL NEW MUSIC. Every track you hear in this show was released less than six weeks ago.

He opens with the preview single from the forthcoming new Jethro Tull album, RökFlöte, which is due out in April. This record sees Ian Anderson and crew exploring Norse Paganism. Following that we get new music from Peter Gabriel, Tranatlantic, John Cale and loads of newer Progessive Rock artists.

Also of note, opening the second hour, Herman treats us to a preview of Jon Anderson’s upcoming sequel to his Olias of Sunhillow album.

It’s been a real kick having Herman and the rest of the Haversham Recording Institute crew making these programs of theirs, true labors of love, for the last six and a half years, and it’ll be cool to see what they have in store for us in the future. If you’ve been scoring at home, you may realize that, if Prognosis has hit one-hundred episodes, then that means that on Friday, so will Sydney Fileen,  and Sydney’s Big Electric Cat. You won’t want to miss that.

But check out this playist of all-new Progressive Rock on today’s Prognosis…

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JethroTull “Ginnugagap”
Peter Gabriel “Panopticom”
Floor Jansen “Invincible”
Hypnose “Sheol Part II”
Transatlantic “Rose Colored Glasses (live)”
Sermon “Golden”
Riverside “The Place Where I Belong”
John Cale “Moonstruck (Nico’s Song)”
Jon Anderson “Zamran Is Coming”
The Prog Collective “A Matter of Time”
Skald ” Då Månen Sken”
69 Windmills “Tiny Robots”
Dead Meadow “The Left Hand Path”
VV “Vertigo Eyes”
The Subways “Futures”
Emolecule “Mastermind”
The Ocean “Preboreal”

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 9 PM we bring you an overnight marathon of some of Herman’s favorite episodes of Prognosis.