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…

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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.