Tuesday is always a great day to tune into The AIR  and today we prove it with a new episode of Radio Free Charleston AND a new edition of The Swing Shift, too!  Both of these shows were recorded very late Monday/Early Tuesday because the leaf blower fairy decided to grace my neighborhood with its presence. 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.

 This week we open with a full hour of the best local aind independent music that we can get our grubby little fingers on, and then we present two nearly ten-year-old episodes of Radio Free Charleston Voume Four that are filled to the brim with killer local and regional artists.

But back to that first hour…we open with a new release that was recorded back in the 1980s by The Tunesmiths, one of the favored bands from the original broadcast incarnation of RFC. Mark Beckner and Mark Mingrone have remastered the original 4-track recordings and you can find them on Bandcamp. This is like finding lost treasure that had been buried for decades.

The rest of our first hour is loaded with new tunes from GRPPLING (a band that includes the wrestlers, The Motor City Machine Guns), Cricketman, Thee Levianthans, Jim Lange, Samuel S.C., The Holler Hounds and Ghoulbox.

Hours two and three, both from July, 2016, bring you local and regional music back from when we were all-local, and only an hour long.

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

RFC V5 268

hour one
The Tunesmiths “Baby Can’t Be Trusted”
GRPPLNG “Hovering”
Cricketman “We Get Bigh”
Thee Leviathans “Enter the Spy Magician”
Jim Lange “Roger Zero G (And I Feel Fine)”
The Paranoid Style“DFL”
Samuel S.C. “Celestial”
The Settlement “Keeping Score”
The Moon My Twin “Tie Score”
David Synn “Sea of Tranquility”
Catherine Campbell “In My Room”
A Different Scene “Sounds”
Frenchy & The Punk “War On War”
The Holler Hounds “Cry Revolution”
Ghoulbox “Juju Bag”

hour two
Superfetch “Popcorn Time (Live)”
Jeff Ellis and 40 Days “South Charleston City Beat Blues”
Jonathan Mason “Ohio Is Killing Me”
Hybrid Soul Project “Hate On Me”
Radarhill & Nick Weckman “Spider Respects Nothing”
HARRAH “Pay The Piper”
Farnsworth “Everything Must Go”
Under Surveillance “99 Reasons”
Todd Burge “Jesus Night Light (Live)”
Michael Cerveris “Tenth Grade”
Larry Groce “When The Mist Clears Away”
The Company Stores “Dear Universe”
Mark Wolfe “A Kinda Blues”

hour three
Jonathan Mason “We Can’t Fix This”
Jeff Ellis and 40 Days “Nightshift”
Todd Burge “The Longer”
Radarhill and Nick Weckman “Petitions”
Mother Nang “Land of the Free”
Radio Cult “Hungry Like The Wolf”
Billy Matheny “Don’t Feel Guilty”
Crack The Sky “Animal Skins”
Scooter Scudieri “Mother of God”
The Renfields “Last Man On Earth”
The Big Bad “Possession”
The Jasons “Stalk and Slash Summer”
The Nanker Phelge “Scream”
Qiet “Brush Brush”

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 get ready for a new edition of The Swing Shift. This special episode is devoted to the music of Tommy Dorsey and I don’t have a playlist because I’m typing this at 2 AM.

 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.