Tuesday…you may know it as the second workday of the week, but regular PopCult readers also know it as a great day to tune into The AIR  with a partly new episode of Radio Free Charleston to brighten your gosh-darn day.  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 opens with an all-new hour that’s loaded with great new music, then we bring you an encore of the very first episode of Radio Free Charleston International, from January 2016.

The plan was to bring you an all-new show, but the fates conspired to make it unbearably loud right outside my studio window on Monday afternoon, so I was lucky to get one hour of new stuff to you. One of these days I’m gonna have to soundproof this place.

Our first hour opens with a brand-new tune from our old friend, John Radcliff. We also have special new tracks from Novo Combo and Payback’s a Bitch. If you are so moved, please feel free to comment on these new tunes below, and I’ll make sure the artists get to see them.

Our first hour is also loaded with new tracks from Chrissie Hynde’s new duets album as well as RFC favorites, Guitarmy of One, Novelty Island, Aliza Have, Jeremy Short and Vinto Van Go.

For our second and third hours we go back to the first RFC International, the series which I merged into this program almost five years ago to create the show you hear each week now. It’s loaded with some of my favorite tunes that I was dying to unleash into the world back then.

Check out this playlist, with links to the artist’s page for the first hour…

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hour one
John Radcliff “Look Smart”
Novo Combo “Don’t Fear the Reaper”
Payback’s A Bitch “Searching For Eden”
Chrissie Hynde and Brandon Flowers “I’m Not In Love”
Novelty Island “Floating”
Aliza Hava  “Behind Your Eyes”
Guitarmy of One “The Chase for the Hidden Face”
CHUM “Embracing The Eyesore” Find their merch HERE.
Byzantine “The Shortest Straw”
June Swoon “Transatlantic Accent”
Ace Frehley “Do Ya”
Jeremy Short“Happy Trees”
Vinto Van Go “Diamond Dust”

hour two
The Beatles and Led Zepplin “Helter Skelter”
The Beetlevanias “Smells Like Teen Spirit”
The Rutles “Shangra La”
Chemical Beats “Welcome To The Black Parade”
Todd Rundgren “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”
The Beatnix “Stairway To Heaven”
Be Bop Deluxe “Surreal Estate”
Kerry Livgren “Mask of the Great Deceiver”
The Buggles “Vermillion Sands”
Nightwish “The Heart Asks Pleasure First”

Ian Dury and the Blockheads “Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll”
Madness “One Step Beyond”
Lene Lovich “Lucky Number”
DEVO “Jocko Homo”
ELP “Benny The Bouncer
FFS “Dictator’s Son”
David Bowie “Blackstar”
Transvision Vamp “Velveteen”
Jellyfish “Brighter Day”
Split Enz “Bullet Brain and Cactus Head”
Hazel O’Connor “Writing on the Wall”
Kate Bush “Suspended in Gaffa”

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 is an encore of two recent episodes.

 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.