Month: March 2024 (Page 2 of 4)

Today I have a couple of great Kickstarter campaigns to recommend. I’ve already kicked in on both of them, and I think a lot of my readers will be interested too.

It’s been a while since I’ve done a Kickstarter Alert here in PopCult. There are a few reasons for that. The main reason has been that campaigns have been getting shorter, and with many of them, by the time I have room to fit them into the blog, they’ve ended.

Another reason is the growing use of BackerKit, a service that isn’t affiliated with Kickstarter, to charge shipping after the Kickstarter campaign ends and is ready to be fulfilled. I understand all of the reasons that folks running Kickstarter campaigns use BackerKit. It’s great for them. It apparently has all sorts of advantages in terms of organization and helps them manage their campaigns.  By not charging for shipping until the project is ready to go, the folks running the campaign don’t get surprised by any shipping rate hikes. It makes a lot of sense for folks to use BackerKit to manage their campaigns.

As a patron/customer, I despise BackerKit. I hate having to log into a separate service, and than have to provide my payment information to a third party, and deal with their clunky interface. Most of all, I hate that I have to enter that payment info and pay even more to get a project that I helped fund months (or years) earlier. It’d be a tiny bit less annoying if BackerKit accepted PayPal, like Kickstarter does.

What makes this worse is when projects get delayed. It’s only natural for Kickstarter deadlines to slip a little.  It’s to be expected. Life happens. I’m cool with that as long as there’s regular communication. But…when several projects get delayed, and others are on time and then they’re all ready to ship at the same time…and they all just happen to use BackerKit to charge shipping…then you wind up getting hit with nearly two hundred bucks in shipping charges over the span of a month, and your enthusiasm winds up a little sapped.

I am almost at a point where the use of BackerKit to charge shipping will be a dealbreaker for me. As it is, I have cut back my Kickstarter support to the point where I’m only supporting creators whose work I already really admire. I can’t afford to explore new talents, especially when, with shipping, they’re asking for twenty five bucks for a 32-page comic book. I’m an old guy who hates reading comics in a digital format, so some of this is on me, but I’m afraid that the current Kickstarter boom is going to turn into a bust if these trends continue.

Having said that…my first recommendation today uses BackerKit for shipping.

Craig Yoe’s Woman & Man+ Underground Comix

This is an underground comic that explores the Woman & Man relationship through art work of comic legend Craig Yoe! Actually, it’s hardcover book, and it’s a “loudly wordlesss” work that delves into Craig’s impressions of relationship adventures and misadventures in a deliciously surreal manner.

The creator’s first self-drawn solo comic, back in the 1970’s, was a spiritually infused contribution to the underground comix movement, with the cover colored by Yoe’s pal, legendary underground comix legend, Rick Griffin! Now, over fifty years later, Yoe’s second solo comic is unlike anything else in the graphic novel landscape.

Yoe’s passion for drawing comics was sidetracked for over a half a century by a career as a creative director for Jim Henson and the Muppets, Disney, Nickelodeon, and MTV. Coming back to his roots, he now dives deep into sex, horror, and drama, with a hint of humor and a whiff of hope.  Longtime PopCult readers may remember Craig’s name from the many times I’ve recommended his books devoted to comics history.

As Craig says in the campaign page…

I’m high as a kite from excitement that, thanks to my pals at Clover Press, Woman & Man+ is being offered to you. The humble-underground comix-slash-pretentious-art book is a psychedelic telling of my fleeing the U.S. to hook up with underground comix comrades in Berlin, then booted out of Germany to find solace—then devastating heartbreak—in the Canary Islands. Finally the Philippines have granted me asylum… and hope.

My story is all told through comics surrealism, IT’S A LOUD WORDLESS BOOK!!!

Thank you friends for your backing and support. It means the world to me!

Peace and love,
Craig Yoe!

There are a variety of rewards, starting at the $49 regular hardcover, and including tiers that include stickers, prints, a jigsaw puzzle, signed slipcover editions and original artwork. Be warned (and note that I am typing this with gritted teeth) that when the book is ready to ship (projected to be in August) you will be contacted to provide your address and will be charged an additional shipping fee.

It is a testament to how much I admire Craig’s work that I still kicked in on this campaign with the BackerKit shipping thing. You can find this campaign HERE for the next fourteen days. It’s already fully-funded.  Check out the video…

Nosferatu
An Illustrated Card Set And Book By Robert Jimenez

Also already fully-funded, and with thirteen days left in its campaign, is the latest project by Robert Jiménez.  It’s his take on the legend of Nosferatu.

Nosferatu is a 36 card set, based on the 1922 film by F. W. Murnau, illustrated by Robert Jiménez. This set features 36 illustrated cards in a tuck box. Included with the trading cards set is a lenticular card, a sticker and a promo card.

There is also a 6×9 hardcover book available which collects the entire 36 card set (front and back) along with bonus sketches.

Add-On rewards include original sketches, the Nosferatu’s Christmas In New York coloring book, metal signs, past Zerostreet trading card sets and more. I think I’ve plugged at least seven of the previous eight Zerostreet trading cards in this blog, so it’s not exactly a shock that I’m recommending this project. Check out the video…

Robert’s work has appeared on album covers, in publications such as THE THING: ARTBOOK, Tiki Magazine and Pinstriping & Kustom Graphics Magazine, and has shown in galleries including Disneyland’s Wonderground, Harold Golen, M Modern, Creature Features, and Bear & Bird among others. You can also see Robert’s work in trading card sets for Topps, Cryptozoic, and Upper Deck on licenses such as Garbage Pail Kids, Wacky Packages, Mars Attacks, Star Wars, Ghostbusters and more. You can kick in on this already fully-funded campaign and get the trading cards and/or book (plus other goodies) HERE.

The last of the green beer should be well out of your system by now, and it’s too soon to crack into the peanut butter eggs, but there’s still stuff to get into this weekend. You should know the drill by now.  There’s plenty of STUFF TO DO in Charleston and all over the Mountain State as we celebrate the first weekend of spring by…keeping the heat turned on, so let’s just soak in this partial list of doable thing suggestions.

As I have been copying and pasting of late, this a good time to remind you that THIS IS NOT A COMPLETE LIST OF EVENTS.  It’s just a starting point, so don’t expect anything comprehensive, and if you feel strongly about me leaving anything out, feel free to mention it in the comments.

There is no ArtWalk in Charleston this month, however, there are a couple of post-ArtWalk happenings. I’m not sure how this feat was accomplished, but I’m leaning toward either sunspots or magnets being the cause.

Live Music is back at Taylor Books. There is no cover charge, and shows start at 7:30 PM. As in the last couple of weeks, they ain’t saying who’s playing.

The World Famous Empty Glass Cafe has some great stuff this week  to tell you about. Nolan Collins will be playing every Wednesday in March at 9 PM. Thursday at 5:30 PM the Helping Hour with Swingstein & Robin makes the world a better place with music.   Friday, Tim Courts plays during happy hour.  You can check below for the graphics for other cool weekend shows at The Empty Glass.

Please remember that the pandemic is still not entirely over yet. It’s a going concern with the ‘rona surging again. And now there are seasonal allergies, the flu, those damned blue diamonds, Danhusen, innocuous-looking old-people catalogs that turn out to be filled with sex toys and other damned good reasons to be careful. 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.

Keep in mind that all shows are subject to change or be cancelled at the last minute.

If you’re up for going out, here are a few suggestions for the weekend, roughly in order…

Tuesday is “New Show Day” on The AIR.  As such, we have new episodes of  Radio Free Charleston and The Swing Shift for you. To listen to The AIR, 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.  

You can hear Radio Free Charleston Tuesdays at 10 AM and 10 PM, with boatloads of replays throughout the week.

Our first hour is our usual collection of cool local, independent and brand-new music. We open with brand new music from Deni Bonet. Our old buddy from the Charleston Playhouse/Stark Raven/Twister Sisters days has a new single out, and you can find it on all the hip streaming outlets.

The rest of our new first hour is loaded with new goodies from Massing, The Dread Crew of Oddwood, Unmanned, Tucker Riggleman & The Cheap Dates, David Synn, Novelty Island, Peter Garrett and more.

We also feature a song from Larry McClurg and the Mind Garage. Larry was one of the original members of the legendary Morgantown band (who should absolutely be in The West Virginia Music Hall of Fame), and he posted this song to the Mind Garage Music and Art Facebook Page, which is a terrific page dedicated to music and art, but is also a good way to keep up with Mind Garage, the band.  Over the last couple of days there have been posts floating the idea of a compilation of music by this unjustly overlooked band.

For our second and third hours, we go back to an episode of Radio Free Charleston Volume Four from 2016.  This one hasn’t been heard for over seven years, so it’ll be new to most of you.  It’s loaded with great local music from year’s past, and even includes a handful of tracks that were exclusively recorded for the RFC video show.

The links in the first hour of the playlist will take you to the pages where you can learn more about each artist and buy their music or find out where to see them (where available)…

RFC V5 168

hour one
Deni Bonet “Always Come Home”
Massing “Waffles & Pancakes (Rejuiced)”
The Dread Crew of Oddwood“Squall of Death”
Unmanned “Leave That Girl Alone”
Tucker Riggleman & The Cheap Dates “Queen of Diamonds”
Andy Prieboy “02 10 AM in Beverly Glen”
Larry McClurg and the Mind Garage “Pirate of Love”
David Synn “Instru-Mental”
Six By Six “The Arms of a Word”
Novelty Island “In 2D”
Lords of Atlantis “Seaglass”
The Paranoid Style “The Formal”
Peter Garrett “Innocence Parts One & Two”

hour two
Michael Cerveris “Phoenix”
Larry Groce “The Boxer”
Garagecow Ensemble “I Never Slept With Allen Ginsberg”
Blue Million “Will You Think Of Me”
Company Stores “No Middle Name”
Jordan Andrew Jefferson “One Thing I Do Know”
Quick And Dirty “Super Ninja”
Ann Magnuson “Man With No Face”
The Big Bad “Maniac Mansion”
The Velvet Brothers “Savannah Moon”
Whistlepunk 2.0 “The Good”
Pepper Fandango “Wayward Girls”
David Synn “Space Gun”
Karma To Burn “Forty”
Dog Soldier “Christmas Song”

hour three
Qiet “Bring My Day”
Hybrid Soul “Chain of Fools”
Time And Distance “Hell To Pay”
The Jasons “Camp Arawak”
The Nanker Phelge “21st Century”
Mother Nang “Bully”
The Smoky Room “Sound The Alarms”
Byzantine “Agonies”
Talented “Put Ya Gloves On”
Crystal Bright and the Silver Hands “Finest of Dreams”
Tape Age “Wish I Could Have You”
Under Surveillance “Breaking Point”
Ona “Sleep Rinse Repeat”

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 classic 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 offer up part three of our Boogie Woogie primer on The Swing Shift.  This is the third of what has been expanded to become a four-week dive into Boogie Woogie and its essential contribution to the success of Swing Music.  This week, rather than doing a mixtape, I do all the proper back-announcing and talk just a little about the importance of Boogie Woogie, which sprung out of The Blues and became the backbone of Swing, and the launching pad for Rock and Roll.

It’s the kind of music that you won’t be able to keep still when you’re listening.  Check out the playlist…

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Louis Jordan “Pine Top’s Boogie Woogie”
Dick Davis “Screaming Boogie”
Tina Dixon “Parrot Bar Boogie”
Amos Milburn “Chicken Shack Boogie”
Kitty Kaye & The Cats “Fishtruck Boogie”
T-Bone Walker “T-Bone Boogie”
Joe Lutcher “Lucky Lindy Boogie”
Roosevelt Sykes “Blues ‘n’ Boogie”
Jimmy Liggins “Nite Life Boogie”
Wynonie Harris “Dig This Boogie”
Roy Brown “Roy Brown Boogie”
T.J. Fowler “Fowler’s Boogie”
Slim Galliard “Slim Galliard’s Boogie”
Sticks McGhee “Housewarmin’ Boogie”
Sarah “Fatwoman” Dean “I Got Your Boogie”
Cecil Grant “Shotgun Boogie”
Johnny Otis “Lover’s Lane Boogie”
Big Jay McNeely “Roadhouse Boogie”
Jay McShann “Crown Prince Boogie”
Big Bertha Henderson “Rock Bertha Rock”
Chuck Miller “Chuck’s Boogie”

 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 been over a year since I posted a pure ink creation here, so this week’s art is “Ink Street,” an ink on weird textured paper darwing that takes its inspiration from five or six photos I took out of the window of The Amtrak Cardinal on the way back from New York in January.

The inks are a combination of Winsor Newtons, india ink and cheap markers. Aside from markers and traditional brushes, I used dental brush-picks for some of the finer details.

This piece is decidedly NOT Hopperesque. I decided to break away from the conventions of his style for this one, just to prove I still could. It’s not exactly Impressionistic or Expressionistic. It’s more a sort of semi-abstract minimalist realism.

Be advised that sometimes I come up with descriptions for the style I’m employing just to make the heads of art teachers explode.

I was tempted to crop out the sloppy attempt at power lines. By the time I got to those, my fingers were rebelling. But I left ’em in just so I didn’t turn the piece into a widescreen affair.

To see it bigger try clicking HERE.

Over in radioland, Monday at 2 PM on The AIR, we bring you encores of 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.

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. 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. All times listed are Eastern, so if you’re in another timezone, adjust accordingly.

At 8 PM you can hear an hour of funny songs by Shel Silverstein, which we mistakenly listed here last week, on a recent episode of The Comedy Vault.

Tonight at 9 PM the Monday Marathon the laughs continue as we bring you ten more hours of The Comedy Vault.

It’s Saint Patrick’s Day, and even though your humble blogger is half Irish, I’m not really too emotionally invested in the holiday.  It’s become primarily a drinking holiday…and I don’t drink. I also don’t have fond memories of having to worry about wearing green on that day while I was in elementary school.

So…this is about all I can muster. Above you see a collection of Lucky Charms commercials, not in chronological order, and with the the earliest example being well after the traumatic addition of blue diamonds to what had been a terrific cereal before that.

Below you get a Famous Studios cartoon about Leprechauns.

Sorry about the half-arsed nature of today’s post. Please drink responsibly.

Okay, here are two very early Lucky Charms commercials, for us older people.

I still resent the blue diamonds.

Radio Free Charleston’s seventy-second episode, “Sulu Nation Shirt,” was posted in June, 2009, and it contains a lot of “firsts.” This episode featured music from The Scrap Iron Pickers and Whitechapel District. We also had a guest appearance by The Chemical Valley Rollergirls, who were just getting started back then. Host segments were recorded at a CVRG practice at Skateland in Campbell’s Creek. We also have Frank Panucci’s “Porklips” in this edition of RFC and a 90 Second Art Show.

This was a fun show to produce, with a cool host location and lots of action. It was really cool having Scrap Iron Pickers on. This instrumental progressive metal powerhouse was real bright spot on the local scene, and ithey left a legacy of great music.

Whitechapel District is rarely performing these days, but you never know when they’ll make a return. The original production notes can be found here.

The PopCulteer
March 15, 2024

You PopCulteer is still a bit buried under outside work, so once again, all we have for you this week is the playlist for today’s new episode of MIRRORBALL on The AIR, so let’s just jump into a radio-heavy end-of-the-week post, shall we?

The AIR is PopCult‘s sister radio station. You can hear our shows on The AIR website, or just click on the embedded player found elsewhere on this page.

Friday at 2 PM on The AIR, Mel Larch devotes her hour of Disco to a decidedly random assortment of classic dance tracks from the golden age of Disco. She opens the show with a rare Disco turn from the band, Chicago, then runs through everything from Narada Michael Walden and Dee Dee Bridgewater to Lalo Schifrin and Herbie Mann.

IIt’s a wild assemblege of crafty dancefloor mutations. Check out the playlist…

MIRRORBALL 094

Chicago “Street Player”
Stuff “Honey Coral Rock”
Eloise Laws “1,000 Laughs”
Narada Michael Walden “Tonight I’m Alright”
Dee Dee Bridgewater “Bad For Me”
Lalo Schifrin “Dimelo”
Gene Page “Wild Cherry”
Montana “I Love Music”
Herbie Mann “Jisco Dazz”
Phreek “Weekend”
Terry Caller “Disco In The Sky”

You can hear MIRRORBALL every Friday at 2 PM, with replays throughout the following week Monday at 9 AM and Tuesday at 1 PM and a mini-marathon Saturday nights at 9 PM

At 3 PM we bring you  an encore of one of the 12″ dance mix episodes of Sydney’s Big Electric Cat. This was the sixth Big Electric Cat mixtape of New Wave 12″ extended remixes.  This time Sydney introduced the show and then presented almost two full hours of dance-remixed New Wave classics.

Back in the day, all the top New Wave artists released special extended mixes of their hits so that they could get extra club play and confound the collectors of today, who can’t keep track of all the wild versions of these tunes.  This show has lots of great New Wave hits, some of which are barely recognizable.

Peruse this here playlist for a preview…

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A-Ha “Take On Me”
Thompson Twins “In The Name Of Love”
Duran Duran “Wild Boys”
Visage “The Damned Don’t Cry”
Human League “(Keep Feeling) Fascination”
Adam Ant “Apollo 9”
Eurythmics “Sexcrime (1984)”
Red Box “For America”
Malcolm McLaren “Double Dutch”
Tears For Fears “Everybody Wants To Rule The World”
Bronski Beat w/Marc Almond “I Feel Love”
New Order “True Faith”
Eighth Wonder “I’m Not Scared”
Haircut 100 “Love Plus One”
Bananarama “Cruel Summer”
Frankie Goes To Hollywood “Rage Hard”
Alison Moyet “Love Resurrection”
Kim Wilde “Never Trust A Stranger”

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. Classic episodes can be heard Sunday morning at 10 AM.

That’s what’s new on The AIR Friday, and that is this week’s PopCulteer. Check back for our regular features every day.

Your humble blogger is in deadline hell again this week, so rather than rush out a hastily-composed post that might not be up to my normal standards, I’m going to revive a post from exactly fourteen years ago.  This was a Sunday Evening Video entry, and the many times this blog has been ported around have caused the original embed codes to be hopelessly mangled, so I’m re-presenting it here, with everything fixed.

Below, you see the exact images Syd Barrett saw in his mind when he wrote this song…

It explains so much, doesn’t it.

You should know the drill by now.  There’s plenty of STUFF TO DO in Charleston and all over the Mountain State as folks indulge in the stereotypical drinking of the green this weekend, so let’s just soak in this partial list of suggestions.

As I have been copying and pasting of late, this a good time to remind you that THIS IS NOT A COMPLETE LIST OF EVENTS.  It’s just a starting point, so don’t expect anything comprehensive, and if you feel strongly about me leaving anything out, feel free to mention it in the comments.

Live Music is back at Taylor Books. There is no cover charge, and shows start at 7:30 PM.  Unfortunately, I’m writing this early and they’re posting who’s playing late, so you’ll just have to go find out for yourself who they got this week.

The World Famous Empty Glass Cafe has some great stuff this week  to tell you about. Nolan Collins will be playing every Wednesday in March at 9 PM. Thursday at 5:30 PM the Helping Hour with Swingstein & Robin makes the world a better place with music. Thursday at 10 PM Eric Robbins hosts an open mic night. Friday, Tim Courts plays during happy hour.  Saturday at 10 PM The Charleston Rouges get all Celtic all o’er the stage. Sunday at 10 PM it’s the always-hapnin’ Post Mountain Stage Jam, hosted by The Carpenter Ants.  You can check below for the graphics for other cool weekend shows at The Empty Glass.

Please remember that the pandemic is still not entirely over yet. It’s a going concern with the ‘rona surging again. And now there are seasonal allergies, the flu, dervishes-both whirling and stationary, evil Leprachauns who won’t share their delicious cereal, people who still post anti-Obama memes and other damned good reasons to be careful. 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.

Keep in mind that all shows are subject to change or be cancelled at the last minute.

If you’re up for going out, here are a few suggestions for the weekend, roughly in order…

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It’s another big day on The AIR.  We have a new episode of  Radio Free Charleston, which includes the second part of our salute to Budget Tapes & Records.  To listen to The AIR, 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.  

You can hear Radio Free Charleston Tuesdays at 10 AM and 10 PM, with tons of replays throughout the week.

Like last week, our first hour is our usual collection of cool local, independent and brand-new music. We open with brand new music from Tucker Riggleman & The Cheap Dates.

The remainder of our first hour has new music from Unmanned, Kim Gordon, Catherine Campbell, Radio Free Honduras, Duck City Music and more cool tunes that come from all over the map,musically.

Our second and third hours are also new, but like last week they are even more of our extended tribute to Budget Tapes & Records, which just closed a week ago Sunday. These two hours consist entirely of music that I purchased at Budget over the years. It’s more of my personal playlist of music I bought at Budget.

In hour two of this week’s show, I talk (too much) about the records, who sold them to me, and which location of Budget I patronized to purchase them (a long time ago they had three stores). The final hour of today’s show is just a mixtape, without me rambling about which store I went to to buy the music. I had to do something to fit it in, or there’d have to be a part three of this.

I also want to again recommend my post from a couple of weeks ago, and a great entry by Douglas Imbrogno at WestVirginiaVille that collects Doug’s memories of Budget, along with those of Stephen Schmidt, of Astrodot fame. For the unintiated, this is a good way to catch up on the history of Budget. Also, hiding behind a paywall, is a great article by Jason “Roadblock” Robinson at Coal Valley News. This is a good way t catch up on why Budget was so special.

The links in the first hour of the playlist will take you to the pages where you can learn more about each artist and buy their music or find out where to see them (where available)…

RFC V5 167

hour one
Tucker Riggleman & The Cheap Dates “Bucket and the Boot”
Radio Free Honduras “Bellos Momentos”
Duck City Music “Can It All Be So Simple”
Andy Prieboy “Did We Come All This Way For Nothing”
Unmanned “Aliens”
Kim Gordon “Dream Dollar”
Lords of Atlantis “Sands of Mauritania”
The Broken Relics “Night In The Desert”
The Paranoid Style “Style Makes Fights”
Dion “Soul Force”
Pallas “Ghostdancers (Violin Mix)”
Sarah Jane Morris “Sisterhood”
Catherine Campbell “Orion”
Fischer Z “Amoral Vacuum”
63 Eyes “Strange Way”

hour two
Mike Batt “Love Makes You Crazy”
Roger Daltry “Bitter and Twisted”
Nektar “Recycle”
Heart “Strange Night”
David Bowie “Young Americans”
ELO “The Diary of Horace Wimp”
Peter Gabriel “I Don’t Remember”
Oingo Boingo “Reptiles and Samurai”
The Boomtown Rats “Skin On Skin”
The Buggles “Clean Clean”
Shriekback “Nemesis”
Hazel O’Connor “Will You”
New Musik “Dead Fish Don’t Swim Home”

hour three
The Budget Tapes & Records Mixtape

The English Beat “Twist and Crawl”
Madness “My Girl”
The Selecter “Too Much Pressure”
The Specials “Ghost Town”
Vanilla Fudge “Ticket To Ride”
Donovan “There Is A Mountain”
Small Face “Here Come The Nice”
Jefferson Airplane “White Rabbit”
Badfinger “Come and Get It”
The Rutles “Let’s Be Natural”
The Knack “My Sharona”
Klaatu “Hope”
Utopia “That’s Not Right”
Nina Hagen “TV Glotzer”
Mi Sex “Computer Games”

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 classic 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  have to interrupt our four-part series of Boogie Woogie because on Monday, too much life happened and something had to give. So our crash course in Boogie Woogie will have to return next week with new episodes. In its place today, we’ll give you a chance to play catch up by running the first two installments.

 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.