The PopCulteer
April 4, 2025

Originally today’s PopCulteer was going to present notes and the playlists for new episodes of MIRRORBALL and Sydney’s Big Electric Cat on The AIR.

However, those new episodes will now appear next week. A download error that I have yet not been able to rectify caused technical problems with Sydney’s Big Electric Cat, while our post-climate change April extreme weather combined with some other stuff happening at Stately Radio Free Charleston Manor, caused Mel and I to decide to delay recording a new MIRRORBALL Thursday evening.

You can tune in Friday afternoon for some lovely classic episodes of those programs.

However…that means I don’t have a column for you this week, and since I plan to be offline to complete the long-delayed computer switch (don’t ask why that’s been taking this long), I’ve decided to once again mine the rich history of this blog and look back at some stuff I did on this date many years ago.

One Year Ago, I was pretty much in this same situation, only a bit worse. I was holed up in a hotel that had electricity, and took a look back at an edition of The RFC Flashback that was originally posted ten years ago today (nine when I wrote this post). For those of you scoring at home, this is a flashback post to a flashback post to an RFC Flashback post.

Five Years Ago, well, the joke starts to get thin.  On this day in 2020 we had another edition of The RFC Flashback, and by a bizarre coincidence, it’s for the very next episode of Radio Free Charleston after the one we flashed back to in the previous link. I swear I did not plan this.

I’m making this up as I go along, and since last year’s post on this day was a flashback to what was then nine-years ago and is now ten, we’ll not be doing round numbers.

Twelve Years Ago I plugged the Kickstarter for Elaine Lee and Michael Kaluta’s awesome Starstruck collection. It’s still got a spot of honor on my bookshelf.

Fifteen Years Ago I shared then-newly restored versions of three of our early video episodes of Radio Free Charleston. I did a lot of that on April 4 over the years.

Nineteen Years Ago, well before the revival of Radio Free Charleston as a video show, I actually posted a song from one of the top RFC bands from the original broadcast radio days. It’s Three Bodies, performing “Shingles and Tar,” a demo produced by yours truly and Spencer Elliott way back in 1992.

And that is our flashback-heavy PopCulteer this week. It occurs to me that next Thursday is also the sixteenth anniversary of The PopCulteer, so as a bonus, you can go back and read the first column, with disgust, because it only got worse from there.

Check back for fresh content every day. Tomorrow it’ll be another RFC Flashback.