Both of The AIR Music Specialty programs will be brand-new Tuesday, which is once again “New Show Day” on The AIR.  Even in the midst of PopCult‘s 20th Anniversary week, 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 Radio Free Charleston kicks off with a new track from Emmalea Deal & The Hot Mess, which is off their just-released new album (You can find it HERE), and after that sparkling new music, we jump back to the RFC Video Archives and bring you THREE HOURS (almost) of music originally recorded for Volume Two of Radio Free Charleston, which is more commonly known as “The Video Version of RFC.”

Probably half of these tracks were recorded at the late, lamented LiveMix Studio. Others were recorded at The Empty Glass, The Blue Parrot and various other local venues. We also have a few studio creations in the mix, but everything you hear in this program (after the first song) appeared originally in the first 76 video episodes of Radio Free Charleston, between 2006 and 2009. Hopefully this will cut through the hazy memories and show everyone how vital the music scene in Charleston is.

I tired to go for a wide variety of musical styles, and bring back some tunes that haven’t been heard on this incarnation of the radio show before.

Because so many of the artists in this week’s show do not currently have websites (and also because PopCult isn’t my only big anniversary this week)  there are no links in the playlists.

Check out this impressive playlist what’s got no links in it…

RFC V5 238

hour one
Emmalea Deal & The Hot Mess “Chasing You”
Whistlepunk “Spy Song”
Stephen Beckner “Falling Star”
Sean Richardson, Jay Lukens, Deron Sodaro “Story of the Coyote People”
Raymond Wallace “Champagne Charlie”
Under The Radar “Me, The Boys and Jack”
Appalachian Celtic Consort “Johnny Jump Up/Monaghan’s Jig”
Two Watts of Power “World”
Professor Mike “Greater Good”
Martyranny’s Collective Pulse “Breathing Banshee”
The Concept “Guitar Pick In My Kool Aid”
John Radcliff “Something’s Gotta Give”
Ghosts of Now “Deathburn”
Whistlepunk 2.0 “Satellite”
Feast of Stephen “No Vaccination”
Doctor Senator “Jesus Fish”

hour two
Comparsa “La Buena Comparsa”
Seven Minutes ‘Til Midnight “Hey John, I did Imagine”
Go Van Gogh “Requiem For Pepperland”
The Synergy Collective “Looking For Heaven”
Blue Million “I’m Gonna Catch You”
Lady D “Go Higher”
Spurgie Hankins Band “Bullets and Fire”
Quick and Dirty “Jack Daniels and Razor Blades”
T.J. King “Good People”
Dog Soldier “A Christmas Song”
Casi Null “Blue Haze”
The Button Flies “Butch Bottom”
The Hellblinki Sextet “Bella Ciao”
Brain Trauma “Rock It”
The Underdog Blues Revue “What You Say”
Diablo Blues Band “The Price of a Broken Heart”

hour three
Mark Bates & The Vacancies “Michelle”
Elemental Devices “Spirit Molecule”
Punk Jazz “Little Star”
Tofujitsu “Clap On, Clap Off”
The Bible Beaters “Praise Jesus”
A Place of Solace “You Will”
WATT 4 “Empty”
The Scrap Iron Pickers “William S. Burroughs/Coal Bucket”
White Chapel District “How Heavy Is Thy Crown”
Ovada “Church of Paranoia”
The Limbs “Razor Game”
J Marinelli “Pilgrim’s Progress”
Option 22 “Soul song”

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 does not have a playlist because I need to get this post written before I head out for a brief Wedding Anniversary mini-adventure.

However, you lucky listeners will be treated to an hour of the amazing voice of Anita O’Day, an incredible vocalist and a strong-willed woman who butted heads with some of the top figures in Big Band Swing before establishing herself as a Jazz artiste in her own right.

 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.

You can expect more posts here in PopCult today, even though it’s my eleventh Wedding Anniversary. Apparently the gift for eleven years is “more work.”