Somehow Tuesday has happened once again on The AIR.  As such, we have a partly 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.

This week we open, as usual with a full hour of new local, independent and alternative music for you, and then we dive into our archives for two episodes of Radio Free Charleston Volume Four from September and October, 2016.  These local extravaganzas have not been heard for over seven years.

Our opening track comes from Nashville’s Saycouth, whom you have heard on the show before.  Coming to us from our Chicago pipeline, by way of Tennessee, Saycouth consists of: Mikayla Debasio – Vocals; Nick Bilski – Guitar; Frankie Hill – Keys and Sax; Jarred Harris – Bass; and Herschal Van Dyke – Drums. Saycouth has followed up on their singles “Pharoah,” “Miles,” and “Closer” with the new track you hear on this week’s RFC,  “Full On.” All four singles are included on the band’s debut EP, A Full Moon Night in Sheffield, which was released last week and can be found on Spotify and other streaming services.

Our first hour also includes newly-released tunes from Brian Diller, Julian Lennon, Emmaline, Tony Levin, Tucker Riggleman & The Cheap Dates, The Surfrajettes, Never Zero and more.

And then we go back into the archives. The reason for this (and the reason I’ll do something like this next week) is that in two weeks I will be dropping the 200th episode of Radio Free Charleston Volume Five.  Back in 2020 I re-launched RFC, combining the one-hour all local show with RFC International into a three-hour show that would mix local music with the independent, alternative and progressive free-format concept of RFCI. This was closer to the original concept of Radio Free Charleston Volume One, which was on broadcast radio way back in 1989 and 90.

If you’re scoring at home,  RFC Volume Two is our still-running and now annual video program, while RFC Volume Three was produced for Voices of Appalachia internet radio in 2014-15.

November marks ten years of RFC as an internet radio program hitting the web every Tuesday at 10 AM, but I’m not going to bother mentioning that again because I have too damned many anniversaries to write about in this blog already.  However, for episode 200, rest assured that I’ll be pulling out all the stops to provide a memorable milestone show.

Back to the contents of our second and third hour: Hour two is an hour of our then-usual collection of local artists, mixing then-new tunes with archive tracks.  The third hour was done to promote the much-missed ShockaCon horror convention, and features multiple-song sets by the artists who were set to perform there.

The links in the first hour of the playlist will take you to the pages for the local and independent artists where possible. I will also drop a few links in the last two hours. Be advised that I had to guess at the song titles in the third hour and many of them are probably wrong. …

RFC V5 198

hour one
Saycouth “Full On”
Brian Diller “Some Miles Back”
Julian Lennon “I Should Have Known (Spike Stent Version)”
Emmaline “Beechcraft Baby”
Tony Levin “Boston Rocks”
Tucker Riggleman & The Cheap Dates “Bucket and the Boot”
The Surfrajettes “Word Salad”
Frenchy & The Punk “End of an Era”
The Settlement “Dirty Laundry (live)”
Mediogres “Kim’s Vegan Crisps”
The Aquabats “Little Lady Amazing”
Never Zero “Happily Evermore”
Matt Deal “Our Front Porch”

hour two
Deadknot “Losing My Dreams”
The Rose Garden “Next Plane To London”
Happy Minor “Foolish Games”
Dr. Curmudgeon “My Demon Math Metal Tune Just Ate Your Artsy-Folksy Americana Song…Sorry”
Whitechapel District “Revolution”
Mother Nang “Painter”
Crazy Jane “Alienation”
600 lbs of Sin “Too Big To Fail”
Amon’s Horn “Options”
Hurl Brickbat “Brooke”
Jason Barnhouse the Wounded Project “If I Were You”
Amazing Delores “Stop Messin’ With My Mind”

hour three
Mark Beckner Group (Nixon Black) “Sad Delilah”
Charlie Anteater “Kill”
Orville Rex “She’s Built”
Weird Paul Petroskey “Bone Disease”
“Beach Ball”
“In The Garbage”
“Go Viral”
The Renfields “Let’s Go”
“The Last Man On Earth”
“Haddonfield”
“Prom Night”
Miniature Giant “Dawn”
“Keep Walking”
“Kill Yr Friends”
“Wendigo”
Hurl Brickbat “Don’t Break Me”
“Make You Buy”

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.