Even when we are snowed in on The AIR  we manage to come through 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 songs about snow, ice and storms.

We open our show this week with June Swoon, who just released a new EP last Friday.

We also load up our first two hours with great new tunes from Jim Lange, Tape Age, Samuel S.C., The Heavy Hitter’s Band, Cult Canyon, The Settlement, They Might Be Giants, Robbie Williams, Emmalea Deal & the Hot Mess, Gardenn and more. We also sprinkle in some recent and classic tracks from our local, independent and cult archives, and get you all warmed up for our third hour.

Probably because I had to make a challenging two-hour drive from Ashland, Kentucky Sunday morning in far less than ideal driving conditions, I was inspired to assemble a mixtape filled with songs about snow, ice and storms. Hopefully it’s more fun to listen to than it was to make that drive through ice and snow on Sunday.

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

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hour one
June Swoon “Cactus Tree (Lightning Scorched Version)”
Jim Lange “Little Bird”
Tape Age “The Dossier”
Samuel S.C. “A Serious Sound”
Payback’s A Bitch “Only 17”
The Heavy Hitters Band “Folsum Prison Blues”
Cult Canyon “The Real Sublime”
The Settlement “Be Yourself”
The Myth of Logic “The Skeleton Flower”
They Might Be Giants “The Glamour of Rock”

hour two
Robbie Williams “Morrissey”
Simple Minds And The Stranglers “(Get A) Grip {On Yourself}”
Moron Police ” “Take Me To The City”
Emmalea Deal & The Hot Mess “Rhinoplasty”
Custard Flux“Superposition”
Byzantine “Dam That River”
HARRAH “Nothing Me”
Gardenn “Two Ways Too Late”
Switchblade Symphony “Night Shift”
Nothing To Protect “In Full Flower”
Buni Muni “Moringa”
Barnes & Barnes “Cemetery Girls”
White Magic For Lovers “A Riddle Without a Clue”
The Bad Shepherds“Friday Night, Saturday Morning”

hour three
Jay Parade “Let It Snow”
DEVO “Snowball”
Laurie Anderson & The Kronos Quartet “CNN Predicts A Monster Storm”
The Alarm “Where Were You Hiding When The Storm Broke”
Todd Burge “Snow”
The New Pornographers “Fireworks In the Falling Snow”
Nancy Sinatra “One Jump Ahead of the Storm”
MECO “The Battle In The Snow”
Steve Howe “Hail Storm”
Bill Wyman “Storm Warning”
Lindsey Sterling “Ice Storm”
Doc Severinson “Stormy Weather”
Annie Lenox “See Amid The Winter’s Snow”
YES “Into The Storm (Instrumental)”
Kate Bush “50 Words For Snow”

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 early episodes from a decade ago.

 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.