For the first time since May, today both of The AIR Music Specialty programs will be brand-new. That means that…Tuesday is once again “New Show Day” on The AIR.  As such, we have new episodes of  Radio Free Charleston and The Swing Shift 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.

This week our all-new three-hour Radio Free Charleston is a gimmick-laden affair, with one hour consisting entirely of live performances, and another presenting mostly instrumental music.

And our first hour is our usual eclectic collection of great local, independent and cult music.  We open with a track from the new, highly-anticipated, album from The Settlement, Days Go By, which will be offically released on Thursday. And while their album comes out Thursday, if you can stand the extra wait, this coming Friday is Bandcamp Friday.  That’s the day when my favored streaming service, Bandcamp, foregoes their usual cut of the money and lets the artists keep all the money spent on their music and merch.

And yes, that album cover is by PopCult‘s old buddy, Ian Bode.

The artists get a much bigger cut of the proceeds. You know what to do to support the local scene and independent artists. I mean, I preach about it on almost every episode.

Our first hour also includes new music from Tyler Childers, Sierra Ferrell, Vinto Van Go, Byzantine, Cold Slither, Tim Minchin and more.

Our second hour opens with a new tune from Alice Cooper before settling in for three chunks of great live music by The Defectors (the soundtrack to Sunday’s video), Pink Floyd (their legendary Live8 performance) and The Settlement (just to remind  you about their new album).

Our third hour presents a wide variety of styles of instrumental music, but our mystery bonus tracks have words…very clever ones. also, I end the show with guitarmy of One, and you should go check out and kick in on the Kickstarter Campaign for their next album while you can.

Check out this impressive playlist…

Radio Free Charleston V5 234

hour one
The Settlement “Lift”
Byzantine “The Unobtainable Sleep”
Vinto Van Go “Hope In Aulis”
Ghoulbox “Necrokiss”
Dark Entities “March of the Skulls”
Cold Slither “Under The Dreadnok’s Spell”
Tim Minchin “The Song of the Masochist”
Tyler Childers “Eatin’ Big Time”
Sierra Ferrell w/Nikki Lane “A Lesson In Leavin'”
Chuck Berry w/Martha Berry “Come On”
Badfinger “Blind Owl”
Joy Viver “Anybody Else”
June Swoon “Love Is Strange”

hour two
Alice Cooper “Up All Night”
The Defectors at The Criel Mound “Better Hurry Up,” “Bag It,” and “I Found That Essence Rare”
Pink Floyd at Live8 “Speak To Me/Breathe Reprise” “Money” “Wish You Were Here” “Comfortably Numb”
The Settlement “Lizard On The Run (live)”

hour three
Brian Diller “Twilight”
Byzantine “Irene (Instrumental)”
Messer Chups “Margarita For Me and My Horse”
John Bunkley“Gravity Groove”
YES “Onward”
Wendy Carlos “Suicide Scherzo (Beethoven’s Ninth, Second Movment, abridged)”
David Synn “The Chase”
SPACE FREQ“Submerge”
Shining Glass “Three Died”
Novo Combo “Sirocco (Drum Solo)”
Dinosaur Burps“Resonator Test”
The Surfrajettes “Hot Doggin'”
Harvey Mandel “Snake Walk”
King Crimson “The Sheltering Sky”
Guitarmy of One “Soylent Seafoam Green”

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 offer up a new episode of The Swing Shift that returns to our original format and offers up a heaping helping of Swing Music ranging from the golden era of the Big Bands to today.

And it Swings, big time. Check out the playlist…

The Swing Shift 172

The Lady & The Dappers “No More”
Stan Kenton “Everybody Swing”
Tape Five “Crazy Little Thing Called Swing”
The Dutch Swing College Band “Don’t Fence me In”
Rod Stewart & Jools Holland “Lullaby of Broadway”
Dean Martin “Ain’t That A Kick In Head”
Larry Coryell “Relaxin’ At The Camarillo”
Cherry Poppin’ Daddies “Pink Elephant”
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy “Oh Yeah”
Brian Setzer Orchestra “This Cat’s On A Hot Tin Roof”
Dem Brooklyn Bums “Speak Softly Love”
Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers “Big Fine Daddy”
Royal Crown Revue “Brazil”
Postmodern Jukebox with Chloe Foreanzo “Enjoy the Silence”
Richard Cheese “Need You tonight”

 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.