Where were we before we were so tragically interrupted?

Oh yes.  Because of my work on The 2025 PopCult Gift Guide, which ran an extra week but is now in our rear-view mirror, I decided to tinker with the format for the episodes of Radio Free Charleston  that you heard two weeks ago, and can hear today on The AIR.  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.

Today’s show is the second of what will now be two “Best of 2025” episodes. I open the show with a new song from the Heavy Hitters Band, plus bring you a new set of four more new tunes, and then we go back to earlier this year for chunks of previous shows–the best chunks–I’m talking USDA Grade A chunks of internet radio–so you can revisit the vital and thriving local and independent music scene that our free-format show brings you each week. Last week’s show was turned into a memorial for Lee Harrah, and this week’s show is basically me covering my ass because I’m in Chicago for my lovely wife’s birthday, and won’t be back until tomorrow.

Our new music this week is from the aforementioned Heavy Hitters Band, Corduroy Brown (with a Charlie Brown Superstar remix), Gardenn, Moron Police and Jim And The Sea Dragons.

And then we check out some of the best segments from Radio Free Charleston from the middle of 2025. We don’t do the hourly breaks clean at the top of the hour, so the playlist is just one long stream.

Check out the playlist. Links will take you to pages for the artists…

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The Heavy Hitters Band “No Mask”
Corduroy Brown “Doin’ My Best (EDM Remix by Charlie Brown Superstar)”
Gardenn “MailMan”
Moron Police “King Among Kittens”
Jim And The Sea Dragons “Happy Go Lucky”
Ligature “Breathe”
Masser Chups “Kiss of the Night”
Falling Stars “Do Your Thing”
The Heavy Editors “Bleed”
Massing “Stay Inside”
Lady Gaga “Killah”
AJ Rosales “Wait”
Tucker Riggleman & The Cheap Dates “Void”
Matt Mullins and The Bringdowns “Big Sky”
Sierra Ferrell “American Dreaming”
Hello June “Honey I Promise”
Catherine Campbell “Long Hair”
The Settlement “The One That Got Away”
Electric Pets “Kowtow”
Jim Lange “Departure”
SPACE FREQ “Strut”
Dark Entities “Undertow”
Djabe & Steve Hackett “A Storm Is Brewing”
Tori Amos “Insect Ballet”
ABC “Brighter Than The Sun”
A Tale of Two “Renegade”
Novelty Island “Northern Nowhere”
Matching Outfits “Everybody Drives”
Erik Woods “My Turtle”
Masser Chups “Insomnia of the Mummies”
Corduroy Brown “4th Avenue”
Speedsuit “Paroled”
Tyler Childers “Bitin’ List”
Joy Viver “Precious Stones”
June Swoon “What Ever After”
M Robin Scott “God Knows Why”
A Tale of Two “Once Upon A Summer’s Day”
Brian Diller “Drive”
Sheldon Vance “Tonight We Sing”
The M.F.B. “Karaoke Casualty”

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 recent episodes.

 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.