With your PopCulteer returning from Chicago tomorrow, we have a prepared-in-advance archival show Tuesday on The AIR.   Radio Free Charleston, is a time capsule of three episodes of RFC Volume 4 from August, 2019.  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 went back and dug out three consecutive episodes of our all-local, one-hour incarnation, RFC Volume 4, and combined them into one big supershow. The first hour (RFC V4 117) is a “normal” episode, loaded with great local tracks, while the second and third hours (RFC V4 118 and 119) go back to the 2012 Tribute To The Troops show, put on at the Saint Albans City Park Amphitheater.  And yes, I get the year wrong in the introduction to this compilation show.

Some of these songs were heard on a three-part series on the RFC video show, while others were heard here for the first time when these shows first aired. We have previously recycled the two Tribute to the Troops shows, but that was 138 episodes ago, and this time we’re running three shows in consecutive order.

We don’t have links this week, nor do we have a complete playlist for the second and third hours. Your humble blogger is attempting to produce this show, write six days worth of PopCult posts, edit a big photo essay and a short music video, pack and get over a sinus infection before we hop the train on Friday (the 26th). So, let me know if I pulled this off in the comments.

And also check out what we have of the playlist…

RFC V5 187

hour one
The Bounty “Big Love”
Mediogres “Cream Hole”
John Radcliff “Dreaming”
Dead For Decades “Mr. Mouth”
The Big Bad “Bat Repellant”
Fletcher’s Grove “Virgil Burgess”
Emmalea Deal “Everything I’m Not”
Spencer Elliott “Folding Space”
Beggars Clan “Turn It Around”
Rasta Rafiki “Today’s Slop”
The Heavy Editors “Alien Lover”
Kevin Scrabrough “Middle School”
Speedsuit “Roller Coaster of Booze”
Dog Soldier “Blanket Number One”
Corporate Orange “Stay Listening”

hour two
This hour goes back into our video vaults for the first of two shows that bring you highlights of the Tribute To The Troops II show, held at Saint Albans City Park back in the summer of 2012. Some of these songs were heard on a three-part series on the RFC video show, while others are being heard here for the first time. This week we bring you performances by HARRAH, Deck of Fools, The Under Social, Remains Unnamed, Candace Weaver, Breedlove,Point of Jerus and Johnny Compton.

hour three
This hour brings you performances by Everpulse and Point of Jerus. For some reason we had audio recordings of two entire sets by these bands, so we made them the second part of this series.

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. New episodes will return next week.

 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.