Tuesday is always a great day to tune into The AIR  with a new episode of Radio Free Charleston to lighten your mood and make you feel less homicidal. This week we have a new edition of The Swing Shift, too! 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.

Radio Free Charleston brings you a new show that includes two slightly-recycled hours from almost exactly two years ago.  Doing this brings back parts of two great shows that aren’t due to be in the rotation for our daily show for a few months, and it also lets me finish the show on time and do The Swing Shift and maybe get some sleep.

So it’s all good.  We open the program with a rarity from the legendary Huntington band, CHUM, who are releasing items from their back catalogue and putting some gems up on Bandcamp in advance of some upcoming reunion dates. This particular gem was part of a compilation album back in 2004. Given the option of making a joke in the outro about Plankton from SpongeBob Squarepants, or the musical, Cabaret, I opted for the only slightly more cerebral one.

The rest of our first hour combines great new local tracks with great new non-local tracks and one ringer from the late 1960s.

Our second and third hours revive the opening hours from a couple of shows that premiered in August, 2023. They are loaded with terrific music and hold up remarkably well.

Check out this playlist, with links to the artist’s page, where available…

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hour one
CHUM “Embracing The Eyesore”
Emmalea Deal & The Hot Mess“Does She Have You”
The Darkness “Don’t Need Sunshine”
Joy Viver “It’s Not Supposed To Be Easy”
Novelty Island “The Only Train Driver In England”
The Heavy Editors “Bleed”
The Settlement “Linger”
Golden“Gotta Let It Go”
Kerosene Stars “Kerosine”
Sophie Ellis-Bextor “Heart Sing”
Aliza Hava “Fix My Fate”
Harry Nilsson “1941”
A Tale of Two “1934”
Chuck Biel w/Scott Milam “Ripstaver”

hour two
Hello June “Interstate”
Jonny Strykes “All The Way Home”
Brian Diller “Drive”
The Anchoress “This Is Yesterday”
Jim Lange “Sky of Fire”
Novelty Island “Turn To Me”
Matt Mullins and The Bringdowns “There You Are”
Guitarmy of One “Top Secret Agent Man On A Wire Tapped Phone At Sea”
The Tentakills “Split The Sea”
Galen and Paul “A Sea Shanty”
Sierra Ferrell “The Sea”
Pete Townshend “Sea and Sand”
Bottle and Bride “A Call To The Sea”
Jerks “Ok New Wave”
Lost Decades “Essex”
Dave Strong “She’s The One”

hour three
Jerks “This Is Fine”
Alabaster Boxer “Build You An Ocean”
The Cleverlys “She’s Not There”
Matt Mullins and The Bringdowns “Appalachain Highway”
Aristotle Jones “Streets of Osage”
Frank Sinatra “Michael and Peter”
Verdeant (Chloe Florence) “Reckless (Demo)”
Foz Rotten “From The Top”
Jonny Strykes “Gimme A Sign”
Buni Muni “Kids Are Dead”
Blur “Far Away Island”
Jack Hues “Since 2017”
The Fusion Syndicate “Io”
Galen and Paul “Esmeralda”

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  The Swing Shift marks 175 episodes with a red hot show. In fact, the whole hour is devoted to Red & The Red Hots. Unfortunately, I don’t have a playlist for this mixtape special because a power flicker took it out before I could hit “save.”  You can find out more about this great Swing Revival band HERE.

 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.