Month: May 2023 (Page 4 of 4)

Once again it’s Tuesday on The AIR  and that means it’s time for a new  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 found elsewhere on this page.

We have three full hours of new stuff on Radio Free Charleston this week, with loads of new music, tons of old music–some of it local, some not. Much of the show is a deep dive into the RFC Archives, but the new stuff is bright and shiny, so it should keep your attention for the full three hours.

Our new local tracks this week come from Golden, Payback’s A Bitch, Massing and more. New Indie music is courtesy of Novelty Island, Dave Strong, Andy Prieboy, Nervous Twitch, The Anchoress, Ian Hunter and more.

On top of that, we have quite a few gems from the past forty years of The RFC Archives.

Check out the playlist below to see all the goodies we have in store. Live links (where available) will take you to the artist’s pages so you can find out more about them, buy their music and find out where to see them perform live…

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hour one
Golden “Wrong Way”
Weedhaven Laughing Academy “Fight Song”
Abandon The Ship “Burning The Night”
Dave Strong “Katie Is A Chainsmoker”
The Dollyrots “Still Holding On”
The Dirteez “Talisman”
Law Biting Citizens “Selective Memory”
Andy Prieboy “Five Simple Rules”
Garbage “Cities In Dust”
The Long Lost Somethins “Voyeur”
Byzantine “Purity”
Nervous Twitch “More Than Enough Warning”
The Company Stores “Ways”
Cassius At Best “Spearate Identity”

hour two
Payback’s a Bitch “Get Up…Go”
Safetybelt “Look Down”
Rain May Fall “Remember Everything”
Feast of Stephen “Chemical City”
Hazel O’Connor “Will You”
City Boy “The Blind Leading The Blind”
Under Social “Dead Inside”
Treasure Cat “Battle of Britain”
The Mars Volta “Graveyard Love (acoustic)”
Ian Hunter “I Hate Hate”
The Melvins “Stop Moving To Florida”
Farnsworth “American Dream”
Bad Keys of The Mountain “Don’t Think Twice”
Todd Rundgren, Geoff Downes, Zoot Horn Rollo, Scott Connor “Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar)”

hour three
Massing “Go Away”
Novelty Island “Stitches”
The Anchoress “This Is Yesterday”
Audrey Smiley “Peppermint and Innocence (Pie Mix)”
Bottle and Bride “Snake Oil”
Blue Twisted Steel “Fight For Your Life”
Hello June “Fight, Don’t Fight”
The Defectors “Johnny”
Laser Beams “Patrick Morrisey”
Keith Hell “Paranoia Swing Swing”
Under The Radar “Dog Day Dallas Doo Dah Demons”
The Ghosts of Now “Patton’s Blues”
Hasil Adkins “If You Want To Be My Baby”

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 episodes of  MIRRORBALL at 1 PM and Curtain Call at 2 PM.  At 3 PM we’re going to bring you the first two parts of the History of Swing, which ran from episode 99 to episode 103 on The Swing Shift. We’ll bring you the final two parts next week, then the plan is to return with new episodes after that.

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.

It’s a big day for fans of Disco Music today on The AIR.  Mel Larch’s MIRRORBALL marks three years of flying her freak flag high while shaking her groove thing Monday at 9 PM with a special preview airing of this Friday’s new episode of the show.  It’s actually a double celebration because tonight Mel also marks 75 episodes in addition to her third anniversary by jumping in the Disco time machine and heading back to 1975 with a special mix of classic dance tracks from one of the key years of the Disco era on MIRRORBALL!

Mel celebrates both of these milestones with an hour of music from the year right before the Bicentennial of these United States of Disco America.

For an “Air Music Special” that nobody involved thought would ever get a second episode, MIRRORBALL proved to be a hugely successful surprise, and is one of The AIR’s most-listened-to programs.

Fans can tune in tonight at 9 PM for The Monday Marathon, which kicks off with a preview of Friday’s new episode. Following that,  you can dance all night as we bring you nine more great episodes of MIRRORBALL from the last 12 months. You can listen to The AIR at the website, or on the embedded radio player elsewhere on this page.

It all begins with the “75 Special” program. Check out this playlist…

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Van McCoy “The Hustle”
Brass Construction “Movin'”
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes “Don’t Leave Me This Way”
Gloria Gaynor “Never Can Say Goodbye”
KC & The Sunshine Band “That’s The Way (I Like It)”
Barry White “What Am I Gonna Do With You”
The Blackbyrds “Walking In Rhythm”
Gary Tom’s Empire “7-6-5-4-3-2-1 Blow Your Whistle”
Tavares “It Only Takes A Minute”
Salsoul Orchestra “Tangerine”
Silver Convention “Save Me”
MFSB “Sexy”
Hot Chocolate “You Sexy Thing”
The Bee Gees “Jive Talkin'”

You can hear MIRRORBALL every Friday at 2 PM, with replays throughout the following week, Saturday at 9 PM, Sunday at 11 PM, Monday at 9 AM and Tuesday at 1 PM. This special episode won’t be replayed again until this coming Friday.

Before we kick off the all-night Disco party, we offer up two new episodes of our AIR Music Specialty shows Monday afternoon as Nigel Pye’s Psychedelic Shack  and Herman Linte’s Prognosis present their first new episodes in over a month. Seems our friends at Haversham Recording Institute in London have been preoccupied with some sort of moderately-sized shindig coming up over there.

Monday at 2 PM on The AIR, we do indeed bring you a new episode of Psychedelic Shack  

On Psychedelic Shack, Nigel Pye collects and collates an hour of great psychedelic bands. Nigel has put together a killer assortment of mind-expanding songs. Just check out the playlist…

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Flo & Eddie “Marmendy Mill”
The Flowers “Combination of The Two”
The Move “Sunshine Help Me”
Jimi Hendrix “All Along The Watchtower”
Loose Sutures & Marcos Neiddu “Sunny Cola”
Rural Tapes “Reddal”
MC 5 “Starship”
Grombira “Civilization One”

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.

Our afternoon of new programming continues at 3 PM. On a split topic edition of Prognosis, Herman Linte presents one hour of double-shots of BRAND-NEW music from prog-rock stalwarts, YES, Peter Gabriel, Jethro Tull and Hawkwind. YES and Gabriel are represented by tracks from their upcoming albums, Mirror To The Sky and i/o, while the Tull and Hawkwind tracks are from the just-released albums, RökFlöte and The Future Never Waits.

The second hour is a mixtape of music by the sadly-forgotten, Queen-inspired prog-pop group, City Boy, whose music has largely been forgotten for the past four decades. Herman hopes to raise the profile of these unsung heroes who sort of got lost in the New Wave/Music Video world of the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Check out this split playlist of brand new and sadly overlooked Progressive Rock on today’s Prognosis…

Prognosis 103

YES “All Connected”
YES “Cut From The Stars”
Peter Gabriel “The Court”
Peter Gabriel “I-o (Bright Side Mix)”
Jethro Tull “Wolf Unchained”
Jethro Tull “The Navigators”
Hawkwind “They Are So Easily Distracted”
Hawkwind “Rama (The Prophecy)”

City Boy Mixtape
“Oddball Dance”
“5000 Years-Don’t Know, Can’t Tell”
“Dinner At The Ritz”
“The Sound of The Bell”
“State Secrets- A Thriller”
“Mr. Shoes”
“Dear Jean (I’m Nervous)”
“Bordello Night”
“The Man Who Ate His Car”
“Cigarettes”
“5-7-0-5”
“The Day The Earth Caught Fire”
“Beth”
“The Blind Leading The Blind”

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.

This week we have a digital piece that started out as a pencil drawing.

I’d decided to limber up my fingers by doing a quick doodle of a young lady in a classic pin-up pose. Unfortunately, my fingers never did become limber, and I got frustrated with the drawing and wound up just blacking it all in.

At that point, I decided that the silhouette looked pretty good, so I grabbed a Sharpie and inked it in. However, I thought it would look much better with a background, and since my MG-afflicted fingers were not co-operating, I just scanned it and composited it over a psychedelic background I’d created in the computer.

Actually, there are two backgrounds there. I superimposed the image over two different backgrounds and pasted one as a new layer over the other.  Then I cut away chunks of the top layer. I did a bit of digital painting and ran it through several filters until it looks like it does now.

To see it bigger,  try clicking HERE

Over in radioland, Monday on The AIR, we have new programming in the afternoon, and we’re also going to give you a sneak preview of Friday’s new MIRRORBALL at 9 PM.  You can listen to The AIR at the website, or on the embedded radio player elsewhere on this page. Check back with PopCult before Noon, and I’ll have full details and playlists and tell you why MIRRORBALL gets the Monday Marathon.