We are two weeks into 2026 on The AIR  and we’re marking the occasion with a new episode of Radio Free Charleston that is packed with three hours of local, independent and really cool music. 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.

Radio Free Charleston brings you a brand-new show with the first two hours loaded with great local and independent stuff, and the final hour showcasing some great and varied instrumental music.

We open our show this week with Samuel S.C., a band recommended highly by local Scenester, Jon Raider. Jon also mentioned that they’d like to land a show in Charleston, since they’re playing so many towns around us.

We also load up our first hour with great new tunes from J Marinelli, Armeda’s Island, Kula Shaker, and more. Our second hour features new tunes from The Heavy Hitters Band, The Settlement, Spock’s Beard, Moron Police, Gardenn and more.

The third hour this week is all instrumental music, leading off with a brand-new track from David Synn. It’s also a mixtape, so you don’t have to listen to so much of my voice.

This show was recorded less than 12 hours before it’s debut airing, because other stuff was going on all day. So if I sound a little loopy, that’s why.

Check out this playlist, with links to the artist’s page where available…

RFC V5 255

hour one
Samuel S.C. “Evergreen”
J Marinelli “I Can’t Care”
HARRAH “Nothing Me”
Custard Flux “Winter”
Byzantine “Servitude”
Karen Lawrence & The Pinz “I Won’t Stop”
Ghoulbox  “Rats in the Morgue”
Armeda’s Island “A Truth Hard to Tame”
Joy Viver “Anima Mundi”
Kula Shaker “Be Merciful”
Heavy Set Paw Paws “Molly’s Chambers”
June Swoon “Blood From A Stone”
Erik Woods “Do You Ever”
The Bad Shepherds “Rise”

hour two
The Heavy Hitters Band “Ain’t No Sunshine”
The Settlement “Lizard On The Run (Live)”
Spock’s Beard “St. Jerome In The Wilderness”
Moron Police “Pachinko”
Unmanned “Light The Beacons”
Gardenn “Tour Dates”
Julian Lennon “I Hope”

hour three
David Synn “1984”
Steve Morse Band “Tumeni Partz”
Byzantine “The Clockmaker’s Intention”
Guitarmy of One “Western Spies Surf at Dawn”
Peter Frampton “The Frightened City”
Ritchie Blackmore “Apache”
Devon Allman & Nightvision “Welcome To Rylos, my boy!”
Jan Akkerman “Big Sur”
Dark Entities “March of the Skulls”
Jim & The Sea Dragons “Shooting Stars”
The Ventures “Love Goddes of Venus”

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  The Swing Shift is an encore of two recent episodes.

 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.