Month: January 2023 (Page 4 of 4)

We welcome our 2023 overlords this week on The AIR  as we premiere an all-local and partly-new episode of Radio Free Charleston! 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 elsewhere on this page.

We’ve created another new/old hybrid for you this week that you can hear at 10 AM and 10 PM Tuesday. The first hour is filled with new, local music. Hours two and three bring you a couple of our one-hour, all-local episodes of RFC Volume Four, from February 2017.

We open with just-released music from the Maestro, Chuck Biel. If you saw the latest video episode of Radio Free Charleston (it debuted Saturday and you can see it HERE) then you saw Chuck with one of his old projects, Doctor Curmudgeon. Chuck dropped me a message via FB to let me know that he had new music out, and we not only open the show with it, but I’m posting the video Chuck made for it right here…

And that nifty! You can see more of Chuck’s recent videos at his YouTube page.

Also in our first hour we have brand-new music from Zeroking, Byzantine, The Carpenter Ants, Blue Twisted Steel and making his RFC debut, Patrick Lawrence.

For our second and third hours I went back and dug up two episodes of Radio Free Charleston from February, 2016. These shows haven’t been heard for over five years, and I didn’t want to let them languish any longer. Note that hour two is all-instrumental. I don’t have current links for every artist after the first hour, but I’ll drop in a few.

Check out the playlist below to see all the goodies we have in store (live links will take you to the artist’s pages where possible)…

hour one
Chuck Biel “Xenoglossy”
The Carpenter Ants “Shakin’ Hands With Charlie Tee”
Patrick Lawrence “Dandelion Wine”
The Paranoid Style “Moveable Feast Blues”
Blue Twisted Steel “Austin”
Heavy Set Paw Paws “Girl With A Mandolin”
The Long Lost Somethins “Voyeur”
Zeroking “Back Off”
Byzantine “God Shame”
David Synn “The Island of Gorgo”
The Red Book “Inside/Outside”
The Company Stores “Fathers”

hour two
Chuck Biel “Thufir Hawat”
Scrap Iron Pickers “Iron Bucket”
Frank Panucci “A Call To Inaction”
Deni Bonet “BBC2”
A Flying Fortress “When In Rome”
Ryan Kennedy “Three Pieces by Franciso Tarrega”
Beat To Death “I Can’t Breathe”
The Fat N Sassy Band “Breathe”
David Synn “Harlequin’s Last Dance”
C2J2 “The Fallen”
The Panucci Brothers “Dancing Midget Spider-man Fantasia”

hour three
Speedsuit “Gwendoline”
Wren Allen Band “Portside”
Bon Air “Tell Me Why”
The New Relics “Good Night”
NRVS LVRS “2 Young 2 Know”
Ona “Tornado Rider”
Sasha Collete “Rock of Ages”
Tofujitsu “Mutants”
The Wild Rumpus “Columbus Stockade Blues”
Red Audio  “Money Tree”
Vinna Bee “Snowglobes of a Dustbowl”
American Minor “Buffalo Creek”
Anna Bo “Gone”
Bedowyn “Leave The Living For The Dead”
The Amazing Delores “Rats In My Trailer”

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 2 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.

Then at 1 PM we have MIRRORBALL, followed at 2 PM by Curtain Call. At 3 PM two great recent episodes of The Swing Shift arrive.

You can hear The Swing Shift Tuesday at 3 PM, with replays Wednesday at 8 AM, Thursday at 9 AM, Friday at 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.

We kick off the new year with an abstract piece that’s really just me trying out a Christmas gift. Mrs. PopCulteer got me a set of Windsor and Newton inks, and since I haven’t worked with them in almost forty years, I decided to just limber up and mess around with them on paper for pens. That’s the resulting doodle you see above.

If you look close, you’ll see that I still have a long way to go in terms of brush control and ink consistency, but it still came out looking decent enough to use here for our first new piece of 2023.

Instead of scanning it, because the finished piece was too big, I took a quick photo. Once I had the image in the computer, I changed the background from white to very dark gray. This was just an exercise in pushing ink around on paper, but it didn’t suck too much, so here it is for public consumption.

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  The Lickerish Quartet.

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 he opened this romantic-themed show with music from Emerson, Lake and Palmer.

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 MIRRORBALL, hosted by Mel Larch. We’ll kick this off with both parts of her tribute to Giorgio Moroder.

In honor of New Year’s Day, when hardly anybody reads this blog, tonight we bring you something you can really get your teeth into, a documentary on the 75th Anniversary of Bazooka Bubble Gum.

It’s not too long and it has Pulitzer-winner Art Spiegelman in it.

The short film is directed by Daniel Brea of the award-winning indie short American Hate and produced by Chris McKee, an award-winning producer of the HBO series, The Black List. And it’s a nice look at the history of the company, which was split in two last year, as they sold off their Topps Trading Card company, and all its trademarks, to Fanatics.

Now they’re just The Bazooka Candy Company, but they’re still sticking with it, and ruining teeth around the world.