A planned week off due to computer moves did not happen yet, so we’ve got another huge episode of Radio Free Charleston for you 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.

The week we bring you another three full hours of our free-format blend of local, independent, alternative, weird and whatever else I feel like playing music, and then a bit more than our third hour recreates yet another Alternative Rock sampler from 1989 that was heavily played on the original broadcst version of RFC.   This week you can “Just Say Mao” with hits from the Warner Brothers/Sire family of labels.

We open the show with a new single from Ghoulbox, and then continue for the next 95 minutes or so with new music from The Heavy Editors, Emmalea Deal & The Hot Mess, Jethro Tull, David Synn, Novelty Island, The Settlement, John Bunkley and more. We also mix in some mighty fine independent music and some weird gems from my collection of offbeat music.

Our third hour starts about twenty minutes early so I can bring you every song from Just Say Mao, which was volume 3 of the “Just Say Yes” series of Warner music samplers. In previous shows I told you a little bit about how I had to do RFC back when we were on broadcast radio over 35 years ago, and why CD samplers were like manna from Heaven. Every few weeks I’ll bring you one of these little time capsules of a time when new music was overflowing with creativity…sort of like how the local and indie scene still is today.

The links in the playlist will take you to the pages for the artists in this week’s show where possible, except in the third hour because I’m lazy…

RFC Vv 219

hour one
Ghoulbox “Necrokiss”
The Heavy Editors “Paper Cuts”
Emmalea Deal & The Hot Mess “Sour”
Massing“Do The Right Thing”
Dread Zepplin “Born On The Bayou”
Jethro Tull “Puppet and Puppet Master”
David Synn “The Chase”
Novelty Island “Calendar”
The Settlement “Lizard On the Run”
Superfetch “Electrolacian Mind Gospel”

hour two
John Bunkley “The Hustle, The Bustle”
Frenchy And The Punk “Midnight Garden”
Lazerpunk “Crusader”
Eighty Mile Beach “Arboleda de Manzanitas”
Red Audio “Holograms”
Renaissance with Stephanie Adlington “Northern Lights”
Novo Combo “Long Road”
Anoushka Shankar “Dancing On Scorched Earth”
Billy Idol  “Running From The Ghost”
Rockwell’s Ghost“The Whimper”

hour three (starting early) Just Say Mao

Depeche Mode “Everything Counts (Bomb Beyond the Yalu Mix)”
Martin L. Gore “In a Manner of Speaking”
Figures on a Beach “Accidentally 4th Street (Gloria) (Remix)”
Thrash “Underworld”
Erasure “Pistol”
Nasa “Insha-Allah”
Throwing Muses “Dizzy (Remix)”
Danielle Dax “Whistling for His Love (Remix)”
Morrissey “Lucky Lisp”
The Ocean Blue “Between Something and Nothing”
Ofra Haza “Da’ale Da’ale (Remix)”
Tom Tom Club “Don’t Say No (Remix)
Ice-T “Hunted Child”
Royal Crescent Mob “Nanana”
The Replacements & Tom Waits “Date To Church”
k.d. lang “Nowhere To Stand”
Lou Reed “Strawman (live)”

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 we give you an encore of two classic episodes of The Swing Shift.

 You can hear The Swing Shift Tuesday at 3 PM, with replays Wednesday at 8 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 Thursday and Sunday evenings.