The PopCulteer
April 25, 2025

Music helps you feel alive on The AIR Friday afternoon as Mel Larch’s MIRRORBALL and Sydney Fileen’s Sydney’s Big Electric Cat 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.

Rejoice and prepare to feel four or five decades younger (where applicable).

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.

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

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Tina Turner “Love Explosion”
Miami “Disco Weekend”
Stargard “You’re The One”
The Natural Four “Try To Smile”
Blue Magic “Welcome To The Club”
The Meters “Disco Is The Thing Today”
Norma Jean Wright “Sorcerer”
The Undisputed Truth “Let’s Go Down To The Disco”
Eloise Lewis “1,000 Laughs”
Curtis Mayfield “Move On Up”
Tasha Thomas “Shoot Me (With Your Love)
Gene Page “Wild Cherry”

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 brings you an all-star LIVE IN CONCERT mixtape of the greatest hits of the New Wave era performed in front of actual, living hoomin beans.

Most of these are vintage performances, recorded during the New Wave era, but Sydney has slipped in a few recently-recorded ringers, and being the sly fox she is, she isn’t saying which tracks are old and which are newish. You’ll just have to figure it out for yourself. Rest assured, all of the songs are indeed recorded live in concert. She swears it.

Check out this killer playlist…

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Live Mixtape

Thompson Twins “Hold Me Now”
The Tubes “Talk To Ya Later”
Human League “Don’t You Want Me”
DEVO “Somewhere With DEVO Medley”
Blondie “Rip Her To Shreds”
Shriekback “My Spine Is The Baseline”
Talking Heads “Psycho Killer”
Ramones “Pinhead”
The Cars “You’re All I’ve Got Tonight”
Elvis Costello “Radio Radio”
The Police “Can’t Stand Losing You”
Cyndi Lauper/Blue Angel “Can’t Blame Me”
Joan Jett “Bad Reputation”
Joe Jackson “Friday”
The Alarm “Sixty Eight Guns”
ABC “How To Be A Millionaire”
Camoflage “Computerliebe”
The Teardrop Explodes “Ha Ha I’m Drowning”
Annie Lennox “Here Comes The Rain Again”
Heaven 17 “Temptation”
Lene Lovich “Lucky Number”
The Dickies “You Drive Me Ape”
Gang of Four “At Home He’s A Tourist”

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 when we sneak one town over to see a musical.