Somehow Tuesday has happened once again on The AIR.  As such, we have a new episode of  Radio Free Charleston for you. 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.

Today we have three full hours of cool stuff for you. Our first two hours are our usual mix of local, independent and just plain cool music, while our third hour brings you the 2006 Caustic Eye Productions Sampler CD (minus the non-local tracks) which was a benefit CD for AdamFest.

Of late you may have noticed that I’ve been using special themes or gimmicks to fill up the third hour of the show. This is my way of mixing up the formula. I’m trying to cut down on using recylced episodes of previous incarnations of the show, but sometimes my schedule gets a little too heavy to do three full hours each week.

So I’m trying out “mixtape” themes for the third hour.  It’s less work for me since I don’t have to record back-announcing for that hour, and it keeps us from falling into a rut. In the coming weeks you’ll see us throw the RFC spotlight on different genres and special collections.  This week we celebrate a cool Charleston-based record label from the decade before last.

But before that, we open the show with brand-new music from Emmalea Deal & The Hot Mess, and the rest of the show includes new music from Gardenn, Chvrches, David Synn, Mapped By A Forest, Bleachers and more.

For the second week in a row, we play a track from Tony Levin’s new album, Bringing It Down To The Bass, and coincidentally this week on WVPR’s Electopia, hosted by Jim Lange, the entire show is devoted to an interview with Mr. Levin, who you may know as the bass player for King Crimson, Peter Gabriel and on tons of recording sessions, like those for John Lennon’s Double Fantasy.

You can hear Electopia Friday & Saturday nights at 9 PM. He’ll talk about his new album, plus lots of insights, road stories and a bit of fun too. If you can’t pick it up on the old wireless, tune in on your computorial device HERE.

Hour two begins with some Pirate music from The Dread Crew of Oddwood, to get you in the mood for “Talk Like A Pirate Day” on September 19.

For our third hour, I’ve put together a mixtape of the first eleven tracks from Guilty By Association: Five Years of Caustic Eye. Released in 2006 as a benefit for AdamFest, this CD includes music from Byzantine, Jeff Ellis, Stone Ka-Tet and more. It’s a pretty nifty snapshot of the local music scene, roughly two decades ago. Caustic Eye was the brainchild of Rod Lanham, who’s done quite a bit to support the local scene.

The links in the playlist will take you to the pages for the local and independent artists where possible…

RFC V5 194

hour one
Emmalea Deal & The Hot Mess “Kira”
Gardenn “Mt. Mama”
William Orbit “A Hazy Shade of Random”
Chvrches “Good Girls (John Carpenter Remix)”
David Synn “Hypomania”
The Settlement “Midnight Train”
Mediogres “Drownin'”
The Residents “The Weatherman (Demo)”
Frenchy & The Punk “Sleepwalk Shuffle”
Mapped By A Forest “Big Fish”
Tony Levin “Espressoville”
John Bunkley “On The Basis of Something Superficial”
Joi “Seven In, Seven Out”
Mark Davis “Little Girl In The Ring”

hour two
The Dread Crew of Oddwood “Give Me Your Beer”
The Broken Relics “Crosswalk”
4 OHM MONO “Entertain Me”
Dhani Harrison “New Religion”
Bleachers “Ordinary Heaven”
M & Chuck Biel “Fools Line Up”
Hellblinki“Bella Ciao”
Milva “Uno Come Noi”
Kitten & The Tonics “Howlin'”
Hasil Adkins “Ha Ha Catwalk Baby”
Kevin Scarborough “Algorithm Rock”
Treasure Cat “Hurt Myself Being Stupid”
Crazy Jane “Silver”

hour three
The Caustic Eye Sampler, A Benefit for Adam Weaver
Against “My Bitter Half (DBD)”
Jeff Ellis  “Hatfield (Cover)”
Byzantine “Purity”
David White “Zwak”
Guinness Clarke’s Wine “In Pieces”
Stone Ka-Tet “A Song For Adam’
Jeff Ellis  “Tina”
David White “Intransit”
The Fringe “2 (Version)”
Guinness Clarke’s Wine “Last Days Of Summer”
David White “Aurora”
Jeff Ellis  “On Top Again”

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 we give you an encore of two classic episodes of The Swing Shift.

 You can hear The Swing Shift Tuesday at 3 PM, with replays Wednesday at 8 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 Thursday and Sunday evenings.