After a rare two-week break, we return this week with a new episode of Radio Free Charleston on Tuesdays on The AIR.  Our reruns this past couple of weeks were both great episodes, and each one included an hour of cool surf music…and now that we’re back pressing our nose to the grindstone, I decided to give you TWO HOURS of Surf Music this week, as a super-special bonus for taking time off.  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.

We open our show with an hour of great new local, independent and cult-following music that includes almost exclusively-new or newly-released tunes. You get local  stuff from Blue Twisted Steel, David Synn, The Tunesmiths, Cricketman, The Apurna Project, The Moon My Twin and Ghoulbox.  Indie tracks come our way from Stratifaction Music and Sirius Blueray, The Anchoress, Chvrches, James McCartney, and more.

Our second and third hours are devoted to Surf Music. You’ll hear tons of new and innovative surf tracks as well as some of the seminal classics of the form.  It took a while to get back in the groove of doing a show this week, but I think the end result is pretty epic.

The links in the playlist will take you to the pages for the artists in this week’s show where possible…

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hour one
Blue Twisted Steel “Eternal Fire”
Stratifaction Music, Sirius Blueray and David Synn “Inside The Tarot”
The Apurna Project “Treading Forward (demo)”
The Anchoress featuring Eaves Wilder “Damsels”
Chvrches “Addicted To Love”
Peter Frampton “Carry The Light”
Cricketman “Love Song”
James McCartney “I’ll Say what I Want To”
The Tunesmiths “Totally To You”
Linda Perry “Push Me In The River”
The Moon My Twin “Posession”
The Holler Hounds “I Am The Man”
Tori Amos “Gasoline Girls”
Ghoulbox “JuJu Bag”
David Synn featuring Across the Frostlands “Duality (The Choice)”

hour two
I. Jeziak and The Surfers “The Swell”
GOONS “Land Of A Thousand Crimes”
Shorty’s Swingin’ Coconuts “Theme From Star Trek”
The Ventures “Hawaii Five-O”
The Pornadoes “Rail Ripper (Surf Theme from Isle of the Forbidden)”
The Other Timelines “Deckard’s Dilemma”
GWAR “Surf of Syn”
Guitarmy of One “Zombie Detectives Lurk for Work”
The Surfrajettes “Lickity Split”
Thee Leviathans “Unholy Mackeral”
The Tikiyaki Orchestra “Hit It Shorty”
The Volcanics “Booby Trap”
Los Grainders “Buff”
The Tentakills “Escape From Bermuda”
Dark Entities “March of the Skulls”
Lords of Atlantis “Leading Edge”
The Madeira “Caravela”
Test Subject 17 “Patient Zero”
The Jagaloons “Disco Volante

hour three
The Routes “Love Will Tear Us Apart”
The Wipeouters “Wounded Surfer”
Messer Chups “Model”
Dick Dale “Lonesome Road”
The Surfaris “Wipe Out”
The Chantays “Pipeline”
The Sunrays “I Live For The Sun”
Disco Circus “Barbara Ann”
Jim And The Sea Dragons “Aqua Regia”
The 4D Man “Revenge of the Gamma People”
The Sentinals “Latin’ia”
The Shadows “Guitar Tango”
The Trashmen “Surfin’ Bird”
The Beach Boys “Boogie Woodie”
Wall of Voodoo “Don’t Spill My Courage”
The Rivieras “California Sun”
The Markett’s “Out of Limits”

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 two classic episodes of The Swing Shift.

 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.