Like I told you last week, Tuesday is our most-listened-to day on The AIR so we try to load it up with new episodes of our most popular shows, and once again that’s exactly what we did this week as we bring you more great local music and other goodies like Swing and Psychedelica. This week all three of our music programs feature new episodes, and they’re all pretty life-elevatingly terrific.  You can tune in at The AIR website, or listen in on this swell embedded radio player…

Today at 10 AM we are bringing you yet another brand-new episode of Radio Free Charleston, opening with brand new music from Jeff Ellis (his new single, “The Destroyer, seen below), and continuing with a great mix of new music and stuff from our archives, including Ann Magnuson, Stonebeard, In The Company of Wolves, Karma To Burn and more.

We also have a special treat courtesy of Jay Silverman, the co-host of The Third Shift (heard every Friday night on The AIR).  Jay shot a video of the band Shine performing a cover of Led Zepplin’s “Dazed and Confused” when they played Live on the Levee back in June, and he gave us the okay to use the audio from his video clip, so we could shine the light on Shine, one of Charleston’s best bands.

We’ll post the full playlist at the bottom of this post, after the jump.

Radio Free Charleston can be heard Tuesday at 10 AM and 10 PM, with replays Thursday at 2 PM, Friday at 8 PM and Saturday at 11 AM and Midnight, exclusively on The AIR.

At 2 PM it’s time for Nigel Pye and his psychedelic mixtape program, Psychedelic Shack. This week we get yet another new episode of Psychedelic Shack in its new one-hour format, bringing you Nigel and his weekly hour-long mix of mind-blowing psychedelic music. In this week’s show you’ll hear vintage Grateful Dead and more classic acid-trippy music, but again this week Nigel didn’t send us a playlist this week, so you’ll have to tune in to find out what he has up his Nehru-jacketed sleeve for you.

Psychedelic Shack can be heard Tuesday’s at 2 PM, with replays Wednesday at 11 AM, Thursday at 5 PM and Saturday at 7 AM.

At 3 PM The Swing Shift brings you a special themed-episode where the Swing bands attempt to go legit by applying the style of Swing to some of the most recognizable melodies of Classical Music. In one corner you have Glenn Miller, Les Brown, Benny Goodman and Brian Setzer, and in the other corner you have Bizet, Beethoven, Chopin and Wagner. It’s a Classical/Swing mash-up and both sides come out swinging. You’ll find the playlist at the bottom of this post, after the jump.

You can hear The Swing Shift Tuesday at 3 PM, with replays Wednesday at 7 AM, Thursday at 7 PM and Saturday at 9 AM, only on The AIR. You can also hear all-night marathons, seven hours each, starting at Midnight Thursday and Sunday evenings.

Remember, you can tune in to The AIR at all hours of the day and night for a variety and quality of programming that you will not find anywhere else.

Here are those playlists you ordered…

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Jeff Ellis “The Destroyer”
Shine “Dazed and Confused”
Stonebeard “Dreams Die Hard”
Blame The Day “Breathe”
In The Company of Wolves “Red Star Anthem”
Karma To Burn “Thirty-Three”
Science of the Mind “Sending You To Hell”
Ann Magnuson “Be A Satyr”
Rennaissance with Stephanie Adlington
The Company Stores “Love Me Again”
Emmalea Deal “Ghost”

Radio Free Charleston can be heard Tuesday at 10 AM and 10 PM, with replays Thursday at 2 PM, Friday at 8 PM and Saturday at 11 AM and Midnight, exclusively on The AIR.

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Les Brown “Bizet Has His Day”
Glenn Miller “Song of the Volga Boatmen”
Brian Setzer Orchestra “Take The 5th”
Stan Kenton “Ride of the Valkeries”
Woody Herman “Rhapsody in Wood”
Benny Goodman “Bach Goes To Town”
Jimmie Lunceford “Chopin’s Prelude 7”
Paul Whiteman “Rhapsody In Blue”
Mint Julep Jazz Band “Night On Bald Mountain”
Emily Cole and the Hoppocampus Jass Band “Bounce of the Sugar Plum Fairy”
Stan Kenton “Lohengrin-Wedding March”
Glenn Miller “Moon Love”
Brain Setzer Orchestra “Swinging Willie”

You can hear The Swing Shift Tuesday at 3 PM, with replays Wednesday at 7 AM, Thursday at 7 PM and Saturday at 9 AM, only on The AIR. You can also hear all-night marathons, seven hours each, starting at Midnight Thursday and Sunday evenings.