Today your humble blogger and radio host finds a fresh new way to slack off and do less work on The AIR.   Radio Free Charleston, is all-new, but includes two hours of a special mystery mixtape.  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 tons of replays throughout the week.

This week I have front-loaded the show with a killer first hour that mixes local and independent music. We open with a new track from Emmalea Deal & The Hot Mess, who, along with Golden, closed out Live On The Levee last Friday. We have loads of new music in our first hour (and one song into the second) and you can follow the links in the playlist to find their websites.

Most of our second and third hours expand the “Mystery Bonus Tracks” that usually close our show to a ridiculous size so that I can knock off early and have a routine doctor’s appointment, then celebrate my birthday on Tuesday, while you all are listening to this show. I’m seriously taking it easy. I even recycled the feature image for this post.

This is a randomly-chosen mix that includes many of my favorite artists and some of my favorite songs. If you’re guessing that you’ll hear The Beatles, DEVO, Kate Bush, YES, Split Enz, The Stranglers and a bunch of way more obscure acts, you’d be correct. Essentialy, this was a way to slack off and avoid typing the playlist or doing much announcing.

It’s my birthday. Give me a break.

Here’s the playlist for the first hour of the show. Follow the links for details on the artists…

RFC V5 189

hour one
Emmalea Deal & The Hot Mess “Ignorant”
Of Many Words “Elon Musk Is Pissed”
Saycouth “Closer”
The Settlement “Wagon”
Government Cheese“Mamaw Drives The Bus”
John Radcliff “Goodbye”
Mediogres “Electric Sex”
Maxx McGathey “The Staircase”
Well Tempered Madness “Everything Changes”
John Bunkley “Sugar In My Coffee”
The Residents “Betty’s Body”
Frenchy & The Punk “Mr. Scorpion”
Massing “Lemon Jose (Rejuiced)”
Golden “Impossible”

hour two and three
Clownhole “Get A Grip”
Mystery Bonus Tracks

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.