rfci-logo-4-06Radio Free Charleston International opens with a brand-new cut from the late father of Rock and Roll, Chuck Berry at 3 PM Thursday on The AIR. Tune in at the website, or on this handy embedded radio player…

After a morning and afternoon filled with special encores of Curtain Call, Radio Coolsville and Sydney’s Big Electric Cat (the latter two returning with new episodes on Friday), we kick out the jams on Radio Free Charleston International at 3 PM with a show that brings you a ton of new music with no regard to the artificial barriers of genre.

pc-3-24-01You will hear mostly brand new songs by Bob Dylan, Aimee Mann, Depeche Mode, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Mastadon, blink 182Jamiroquai, Body Count and more, and it all starts with “Big Boys,” the first track from the upcoming final album by Chuck Berry.

For information on how you can pre-order CHUCK, the new album by Chuck Berry, follow THIS LINK. You’ll find options for CD, vinyl and digital download. The album is due in June, but you get the track, “Big Boys” immediately.

You can hear Radio Free Charleston International on The AIR Thursday at 3 PM, with replays Friday at 9 AM and 10 PM, Saturday at 11 AM and Sunday at 1 AM and 10 PM.

Following RFC International on Thursday,you can listen to this week’s new Radio Free Charleston, with the Velvet Brothers, and The New Music Show at 6 PM , The Crazy Show at 6:30 PM, and in prime-time, it’s this week’s episodes of The Swing Shift and Curtain Call, followed at 10 PM by Live From The Empty Glass (this week with Matt McGuire, John Lancaster, Spurgie Hankins Band and The Scrap Iron Pickers). All night long after that, it’s a marathon of The Swing Shift.

Check out the playlist for this week’s Radio Free Charleston International:

Chuck Berry  “Big Boys”
Bob Dylan  “Stardust”
Jamiroquai  “Dr. Buzz”
Mastadon  “Roots Remain”
Body Count  “This Is Why We Ride”
Blink 182  “Misery”
Goldfrapp  “Everything Is Never Enough”
The Blues Swingers  “By Friday”
Aimee Mann  “Good For Me”
Postmodern Jukebox  “Roxanne”
The Jesus and Mary Chain  “Los Feliz (Blue and Green)
Depeche Mode “Going Backwards”
UK  “Carry The Cross”
The Beatles  “I’m Only Sleeping (Mono)”
The Beach Boys  “God Only Knows”
Ruby Dee and The Snakehandlers “Who Do You Think I Am”
Delta 88 “Boppin’ Little Witch”
Mike Oldfield  “Return To Ommadawn part one”
Todd Rundgren “Bang On The Drum All Day”
The B-52s “Party Out of Bounds”
DEVO “Mechanical Man”