In case you missed the news yesterday, this week all of The AIR Musical Specialty programs will be brand-new. That means that…Tuesday is once again “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.

The first hour of this week’s RFC is loaded with local, independent and whatever else music I feel like playing, and it’s filled with gems.

We open with a new track from Corduroy Brown, and it’s a Britney Spears cover, because…why not?  It’s part of an EP he recorded at WDVX and released via Bandcamp.

Speaking of Bandcamp, I mention repeatedly in this week’s show that Bandcamp Friday happens this week. finally I got it right! The next Bandcamp Friday is just days away on May 2.  Follow those links below and give money to these people.

Our first hour is filled with lots of new music from Dice Johnson, Kerosine Stars, Billy Idol, Nellie McKay and more.

Our second and third hours of the show revive a ten-year-old episode of Radio Free Charleston Volume Three, from back when The AIR was Voices of Appalachia/New Appalachian Radio, and I did RFC as a two-hour, all-local show.  In this episode, I resorted to a gimmick to make programming the show easier. Here’s what I wrote…

After our first set of random cool new music, the rest of the show will consist of four-song blocks from some great local artists.

Some of you may remember that back in the olden days of Rock 105, they’d play ROCK BLOCKS with two-to-four songs in a row by the same artist. I have a little bit of fun with that idea this week. I have fun with the reverb, too.

The links in the first hour of the playlist will take you to the pages for the artists in this week’s show.

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hour one
Corduroy Brown “Hit Me Baby (One More Time)”
Kerosene Stars “Kerosine”
Billy Idol w/Avril Lavigne “77”
The Settlement “Snake Farm”
Alice Cooper “Black Mamba”
Ghoulbox “Necrokiss”
Sinz of Eden “Angels Turn Away”
Dice Johnson “Caravan”
Matt Berry “Silver Rings”
Nellie McKay “Initiation”
Massing “Frozen Blood”
Adrian Belew “Elephant Talk (Live)”

hour two
Byzantine “Agonies”
Talented “Put Ya Gloves On”
Crystal Bright and the Silver Hands “Firest of Dreams”
QiET “Cosby Sweater”

The Company Stores
“Street Corner Blues”
“Dear Universe”
“Pocket Change”
“Lips”

Highway Jones
“I Get Numb”
“Cigarettes and Liquor Stores”
“Beautiful and Grace”
“Gimme Back My Radio”

Total Meltdown
“Silverine”
“Bad Bad Leroy Brown”
“Country Roads”
“Wake Me Up When September Ends”

hour three
Andy Park and the True Lovers
“I Got Some Swag”
“Drones”
“Black Chicken”
“A Little Attention”

Zeroking
“Dead Rock Star”
“Love Is Dead”
“Girls of California”
“Showtime Revolution”

Hillbilly Deathride
“I Am”
“Necessities”
“Bilderburger”
Weaponized”

Tape Age
“Tell me Why”
“You Need Me To Need You”

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, Sunday at 8 PM 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 a new episode of The Swing Shift that collects a bunch of brand-new and old-classic Swing tunes, with a more mellow bent, but don’t get too relaxed, some hyper-swinging moments will take you by surprise.

I’m also really happy to open this show with a track by Dice Johnson, who just released his debut album days ago (and who you also hear on RFC this week). Dice is a Marshall student, a great vibe player and arranger and he grew up less than two blocks from me. It’s a kick to have him open up The Swing Shift this week.

Check out the playlist…

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Dice Johnson “Spachik”
Sean Nelson & New London Big Band “Reply All”
Doc Severinsen “They Can’t Take That Away From Me”
David Carroll “Witchcraft”
Vince Guaraldi Trio “Fly Me To The Moon”
The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra “The Sunny Side of the Street”
Marilyn Monroe “My Heart Belongs to Daddy”
Duke Ellington “Take The A Train”
Lester Young “Lester’s Be-Bop”
Clark Terry “Gravy Waltz”
Stephane Grapelli “It Don’t Mean A Thing”

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