Tuesday is always a great day to tune into The AIR  and today we prove it with a new episode of Radio Free Charleston to excite and delight you and yours.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 with three full hours of newly-assembled music. Our first two hours are our usual mix of great local, independent and cult music, and our third hour is a mixtape of covers, some of which are goofy as hell.

We open the show with a brand-new track from Blue Twisted Steel, and we also bring you new tracks from The Paranoid Style, Lucy Kurger & The Lost Boys, Velvet Two Steps, June Swoon and more.

We also bring you a mid-show set of adventurous and ponderous music.

Our third hour is a mixtape of cover tunes, including three from local artists. The mixtape format is popular with our listeners, and it’s also a great way to do less announcing when the plow is scraping by my office window ever ten minutes. This theme is here because I just love unusual cover tunes, and am not above inflicting them on anybody within listening distance.

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

RFC V5 260

hour one
Blue Twisted Steel “Lowlight”
Samuel S.C. “Another Good Lie”
The Paranoid Style “White Wine Whatever”
Frenchy & The Punk “War On War”
Emmalea Deal & The Hot Mess “Thankful”
Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys “Ghosts”
Velvet Two Stripes “Fire 2.0”
U2 “American Obituary”
Tape Age “The Dossier”
June Swoon “Someone Else’s Dream”
Heavy Set Paw Paws “Telephone Gangs”
The Other Timelines featuring The 4D Man “Drones”
Gogol Bordello “We Did Good With The Good We Did”
Buzzcocks “Queen Of The Scene”
Nervous Twitch “Knitting With Anger”
The Polkamaniacs “Roll Out The Barrel (Psychotribe Remix)”

hour two
Ghoulbox “Juju Bag”
Parry Casto “It’s A Beautiful Day”
The Myth of Logic “An Empath In Exile”
Parenthèse “Nosferatu”
The Settlement “Cycles”
Massing “Soup Blanket”
They Might Be Giants “Eyeball”
Custard Flux “The Oblivion Capsule”
CHUM “Headhunter”
The Residents “Beet War”

hour three
Payback’s A Bitch “Saturday Night”
The Heavy Hitters Band “Papa Was A Rolling Stone”
Michael White, Rick Wakeman, Billy Sherwood, Vinnie Colaiuta “Fool In The Rain”
Bruce Woolley & The Camera Club “Video Killed The Radio Star”
Telex “Rock Around The Clock”
Suggs “Cecilia”
Models “Blue Moon”
Kyle Gass “Kiss You All Over”
Big Daddy “Every Breath You Take”
The Damned “See Emily Play”
Byzantine “Sirens”
Me First & The Gimme Gimmes “Nothing Compares To You”
The Bad Shepherds “Making Plans For Nigel”
Pink Turtle “Nothing From Nothing”
Postmodern Jukebox “Just Dance”
Richard Cheese “Super Freak”
Lillian Briggs “Blues In The Night”
The Dickies “Banana Splits Theme”
Joss Stone “Under Pressure”

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 recent episodes of The Swing Shift. If you missed them the first time, then they’re NEW TO YOU!

 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.