Month: June 2025 (Page 4 of 4)

All this week we are going to treat you to marathons of The AIR‘s music specialty programming. Beginning at 7 AM today you will be able to immerse yourself in a solid day, that’s twenty-four hours, of one particular program. 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.   

Today the honors go to our flagship program, Radio Free Charleston. Hosted by your humble blogger, this show has been around in radio and video form since 1989.  You can expect a wild mix of local, independent and excellent and/or bizarre music, presented in a free-format radio style for three hours of crunchy sonic delightfulness.

Normally, RFC premieres Tuesdays at 10 AM and 10 PM, with replays throughout the week, and a classic episode running every weekday at 5 PM.

What you see above is a very small acrylic study, based on a phone photo I snapped Wednesday night at the Three Things event. I grabbed the photo because the early evening sunlight was so drastic and dramatic.

I tried to capture that in paint.  In the picture you see Mark Davis and Larry Groce, who should need no introduction for fans of West Virginia music.  I’m not sure who the other two folks are. This was done on illustration board, but I will probably take it to a larger canvas some time in the future.

To see it bigger, click HERE.

You can find out about today’s programming on The AIR in a separate post today, since it’s a special marathon week.

For the next week, we are going to treat you to marathons of The AIR‘s music specialty programming. Beginning at 7 AM Monday, you will be able to immerse yourself in a solid day, that’s twenty-four hours, of one particular program. 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.   

Our first marathon comes from our overseas production partner, the Haversham Recording Institute, Prognosis is two hours of progressive rock, presented by acclaimed recording engineer and musicologist, Herman Linte.  In every episode Herman treats us to “Prog’s greatest hits,” with classic tracks from YES, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Pink Floyd, Genesis, King Crimson, and more classic and new progressive rock titans.

Normally, Prognosis airs every Monday at 3:00 PM, with repeats throughout the week.

Sometimes in life, sudden trips to Chicago happen.

I’m not saying that’s what’s going on here, but for the next eight days, we are going to treat you to marathons of The AIR‘s music specialty programming. Beginning at 7 AM Monday, you will be able to immerse yourself in a solid day, that’s twenty-four hours, of one particular program.

You’ll be able to come to PopCult every day to see which show gets the honors that day. We will have full days devoted to Prognosis, Radio Free Charleston, Curtain Call, The Swing Shift, Sydney’s Big Electric Cat, MIRRORBALL, Beatles Blast and Psychedelic Shack.

Keep in mind that this is purely a way to introduce new listeners to all of our programming, and not just a cheap stunt to give me a way to take a week off for a trip without forcing myself to post fresh content to the blog from the road.

However, there is a chance that you might be seeing some additional posts to PopCult over the next week. I mean, I’ve got photos from WonderFest and there’s cool stuff in Chicago.

This week we bring you an encore of a cool video we first ran back in November, 2023.

It’s a wonderfully eerie song that she performed at her Surruralism show, and she talked about it when we were both on Josh Gaffin’s Afternoon Show on Status Quo back then. She’d been working down to the wire to get it out in time for All Hallow’s Eve, and she just did manage to sneak it in. We originally shared it here a few days later.

“Ghost Cat” has a cool, spooky, timeless quality that transcends Halloween and celebrates the long legacy of Appalachian Mystic Weirdness. So you can watch it any time you want.

And the reason I’m posting it again now is because, just last Wednesday I got to see Ann perform this song live, with backing from the Carpenter Ants, at the FestivALL kickoff event, Three Things. It was a great evening with Ann and the other speakers, and it was cool to catch up with her afterward to talk a little about Pepperland, Alfred Jarry and underground comix.

And to be slightly coy, I did shoot video of the performanance and it may wind up on this year’s video edition of RFC, but I’m not making any promises because I haven’t been able to check out the quality as I write this. Besides, there’s that cool semi-animated video above that you can all enjoy now.

Now that youv’e see it, visit Ann’s Store for cool Ghost Cat stickers and patches (and lots of other cool things) and then hit up her Bandcamp page and download the song as well as her other albums.