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All this week we are going to treat you to marathons of The AIR‘s music specialty programming. Beginning at 7 AM today you will be able to immerse yourself in a solid day, that’s twenty-four hours, of one particular program. 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.   

Legendary London DJ Sydney Fileen presents our second program from the Haversham Recording Institute, Sydney’s Big Electric Cat.  This two hour weekly megadose of pure New Wave music will whisk you back to the days of neon, skinny ties, big hair, Swatch watches, and Farfisa organs.  Sydney’s Big Electric Cat can be heard every Friday at 3:00 PM, with repeats throughout the following week.

All this week we are going to treat you to marathons of The AIR‘s music specialty programming. Beginning at 7 AM today you will be able to immerse yourself in a solid day, that’s twenty-four hours, of one particular program. 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.   

Today our marathon is devoted The Swing Shift. After two very well-received episodes of Radio Free Charleston International devoted to Swing Music, I decided to go all-in and do an all-Swing program. This also tied in with some nice synergy involving our music license, and now The Swing Shift is among our most-listened-to programs.  The Swing Shift is a weekly one-hour show that mixes together the best swing music from the last century into a concise, swinging, blast of jumpin’ music. We mix Swing hsitory with brand-new music and even some genre-bending experiments…but they all still Swing.

can normally be heard Tuesdays at 3 PM, with replays throughout the week and overnight marathons Thursday and Friday beginning at midnight.

All this week we are going to treat you to marathons of The AIR‘s music specialty programming. Beginning at 7 AM today you will be able to immerse yourself in a solid day, that’s twenty-four hours, of one particular program. 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.   

Mel Larch presents a weekly hour of the best of musical theatre with Curtain Call.  Running the gamut from the early days of Broadway to today, Curtain Call will bring you the entire history of the world of musical theatre in weekly one hour doses.  Curtain Call can be heard  every Wednesday at 3:00 PM, with replays throughout the following week. You can also hear an overnight marathon every Wednesday at midnight, and six more hours of classic episodes Sundays beginning at 9 AM.

All this week we are going to treat you to marathons of The AIR‘s music specialty programming. Beginning at 7 AM today you will be able to immerse yourself in a solid day, that’s twenty-four hours, of one particular program. 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.   

Today the honors go to our flagship program, Radio Free Charleston. Hosted by your humble blogger, this show has been around in radio and video form since 1989.  You can expect a wild mix of local, independent and excellent and/or bizarre music, presented in a free-format radio style for three hours of crunchy sonic delightfulness.

Normally, RFC premieres Tuesdays at 10 AM and 10 PM, with replays throughout the week, and a classic episode running every weekday at 5 PM.

What you see above is a very small acrylic study, based on a phone photo I snapped Wednesday night at the Three Things event. I grabbed the photo because the early evening sunlight was so drastic and dramatic.

I tried to capture that in paint.  In the picture you see Mark Davis and Larry Groce, who should need no introduction for fans of West Virginia music.  I’m not sure who the other two folks are. This was done on illustration board, but I will probably take it to a larger canvas some time in the future.

To see it bigger, click HERE.

You can find out about today’s programming on The AIR in a separate post today, since it’s a special marathon week.

For the next week, we are going to treat you to marathons of The AIR‘s music specialty programming. Beginning at 7 AM Monday, you will be able to immerse yourself in a solid day, that’s twenty-four hours, of one particular program. 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.   

Our first marathon comes from our overseas production partner, the Haversham Recording Institute, Prognosis is two hours of progressive rock, presented by acclaimed recording engineer and musicologist, Herman Linte.  In every episode Herman treats us to “Prog’s greatest hits,” with classic tracks from YES, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Pink Floyd, Genesis, King Crimson, and more classic and new progressive rock titans.

Normally, Prognosis airs every Monday at 3:00 PM, with repeats throughout the week.

Sometimes in life, sudden trips to Chicago happen.

I’m not saying that’s what’s going on here, but for the next eight days, we are going to treat you to marathons of The AIR‘s music specialty programming. Beginning at 7 AM Monday, you will be able to immerse yourself in a solid day, that’s twenty-four hours, of one particular program.

You’ll be able to come to PopCult every day to see which show gets the honors that day. We will have full days devoted to Prognosis, Radio Free Charleston, Curtain Call, The Swing Shift, Sydney’s Big Electric Cat, MIRRORBALL, Beatles Blast and Psychedelic Shack.

Keep in mind that this is purely a way to introduce new listeners to all of our programming, and not just a cheap stunt to give me a way to take a week off for a trip without forcing myself to post fresh content to the blog from the road.

However, there is a chance that you might be seeing some additional posts to PopCult over the next week. I mean, I’ve got photos from WonderFest and there’s cool stuff in Chicago.

This week we bring you an encore of a cool video we first ran back in November, 2023.

It’s a wonderfully eerie song that she performed at her Surruralism show, and she talked about it when we were both on Josh Gaffin’s Afternoon Show on Status Quo back then. She’d been working down to the wire to get it out in time for All Hallow’s Eve, and she just did manage to sneak it in. We originally shared it here a few days later.

“Ghost Cat” has a cool, spooky, timeless quality that transcends Halloween and celebrates the long legacy of Appalachian Mystic Weirdness. So you can watch it any time you want.

And the reason I’m posting it again now is because, just last Wednesday I got to see Ann perform this song live, with backing from the Carpenter Ants, at the FestivALL kickoff event, Three Things. It was a great evening with Ann and the other speakers, and it was cool to catch up with her afterward to talk a little about Pepperland, Alfred Jarry and underground comix.

And to be slightly coy, I did shoot video of the performanance and it may wind up on this year’s video edition of RFC, but I’m not making any promises because I haven’t been able to check out the quality as I write this. Besides, there’s that cool semi-animated video above that you can all enjoy now.

Now that youv’e see it, visit Ann’s Store for cool Ghost Cat stickers and patches (and lots of other cool things) and then hit up her Bandcamp page and download the song as well as her other albums.

We are in the midst of a run of The RFC Flashback that goes back to the most ambitious series of episodes in Radio Free Charleston history.  In June, 2011 I decided to try and do something sort of crazy. I’d managed to crank out Radio Free Charleston on a weekly basis before, which was no mean feat since the show was basically produced by me alone, with camera help from my now-wife Mel Larch and occasional help from other friends. For FestivALL 2011, I managed to produce eight episodes of Radio Free Charleston in under two weeks.

With this show we dive into the second week of Radio Free Charleston‘s ridiculously extensive coverage of FestivALL 2011. The video you see up there is Radio Free Charleston 137, Part Five of our FestivALL 2011 coverage. This episode takes music recorded at the Derick Kirk Memorial Concert and combines it with dance recorded all over town during FestivALL. Our music performed live at Capitol Roasters is provided by the Velvet Nomads, Comparsa, and The Voodoo Katz.

Our featured dancers included the Capitol High School Dance Company, Mandy Petry, Brian Roller, Kevin Pauley, and Jeff Bukovinsky of the No Pants Players, Jenna Brooke Swanson and Raqs Shakti, Professor Danger (left), Kathleen Coffee, the Trillium Performance Art Company (above), and Some Guy In Davis Park.

This whole show was blast to edit. This show was a bit of a departure from our normal format, but we were cranking out so much video that I changed things up just to keep it interesting. We have three more weeks of our FestivALL 2011 shows in our chronological presentation of our video show, but FestivALL 2025 is going on NOW.  If you’re in town, follow that link to a schedule and get out and enjoy. The kickoff last Wednesday was loads of fun.

The PopCulteer
MAY 30, 2025

New episodes of our Music Specialty Shows make you feel alive on The AIR Friday afternoon as Mel Larch’s MIRRORBALL and Sydney Fileen’s Sydney’s Big Electric Cat  both return with new episodes.  The AIR is PopCult‘s sister radio station. You can hear our shows on The AIR website, or just click on the embedded player found elsewhere on this page.

Friday at 2 PM on The AIR, we have a new episode of MIRRORBALL where Mel Larch once again presents a selection of the best and brightest of the classic Disco era. This time she brings the platform shoes to the dancefloor with extended mixes of some of the biggest hits of the Disco Era.

Don’t believe us? Check out the playlist. It’s got filled to the rim with Disco…

MIRRORBALL 116

Evelyn Champagne King “Shame”
The S.O.S. Band “Take Your Time (Do It Right)”
Michael Zager Band “Let’s All Chant”
Vicki Sue Robinson “Turn The Beat Around”
Lou Rawls “You’ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine”
Chic “Good Times”
Anita Ward “Ring My Bell”
First Choice “The Player”

You can hear MIRRORBALL every Friday at 2 PM, with replays Sunday night at 11 PM and throughout the following week Monday at 9 AM and Tuesday at 1 PM plus there’s a mini-marathon that includes the latest episode Saturday nights at 9 PM

At 3 PM, it’s Big Electric Cat time as Sydney Fileen delivers a special NEW mixtape edition of her show that pays tribute to The Alarm.  This episode was in the planning stages when The Alarm’s frontman passed away in April, after battling blood cancer for three decades. Sydney decided to stick with her plans, but turn the show into a tribute.  It’s loaded with great New Wave era songs from a band that deserved more attention that they got.

Check out this killer playlist…

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The Alarm

“Sixty-Eight Guns”
“Declaration”
“Marching On”
“Where Were You Hiding When The Storm Broke”
“Shout To The Devil”
“Blaze of Glory”
“What Kind of Hell”
“The Chant Has Just Begun”
“Absolute Reality”
“Knife Edge”
“Strength”
“Dawn Chorus”
“Spirit of 76”
“The Stand”
“Father To Son”
“The Day The Ravens Left The Tower”
“Rain In The Summertime”
“Newtown Jericho”
“Hallowed Ground”
“Rescue Me”
“Permanence In Change”
“Eye of the Hurricane”
“Devolution Workin’ Man’s Blues”
“Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door (live)”
“Live Covers Medley”

Sydney’s Big Electric Cat is produced at Haversham Recording Institute in London, and can be heard every Friday at 3 PM, with replays Saturday afternoon,  Monday at 7 AM, Tuesday at 8 PM, Wednesday at Noon and Thursday at 10 AM, exclusively on The AIR.

That’s it for this week’s PopCulteer, check back for all our regular feature, with fresh content, every day, even if I sneak out of the state and hop a train for two separate trips in the next week.