It’s a mix of new music and a storm-induced throwback to 2016 on a partly-new 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.

We open this week’s show with a new track from The Heavy Hitters Band. We also preview upcoming singles from Chicago-connected musicians, Ascendant and AJ Rosales, and offer up new tracks from David Synn, Suzanne Vega, Novelty Island, Ghoulbox, Messer Chups, Propagandhi and The Settlement.

Our second and third hours bring a couple of episodes of Radio Free Charleston Volume Four out of cold storage because a storm whipped up while I was putting the show together, and I was afraid I wouldn’t have time to get a three-hour show assembled before the power went out. I’m actually still racing that while I write this post, which is why we have recycled graphics this week.

Both of these shows are from August, 2016, and they have not been heard by anyone for more than eight years. I’m not including links for those hours because this is a bit of a race for me.

The links in the playlist will take you to the pages for the artists in the first hour of this week’s show…

RFC V5 224

hour one
The Heavy Hitters Band “Voicemail (Tiny Desk version)”
Ascendant “Love Saved My Life”
David Synn “Sea of Tranquility”
Novelty Island “Blood Pressure Music”
Suzanne Vega “Witch”
Jennifer Lynn & The Groove Revival “Soul Saver”
AJ Rosales “Lietmotif”
Ghoulbox “Dead, White, & Gloom”
Messer Chups “Big Foot’s Shadow”
Sting & The Radioactors “Nuclear Waste”
The Dollyrots“Still Holding On”
Massing “Million To One”
Propagandhi “At Peace”
The Settlement “Wagon”

hour two
Under Surveillance “Pushed Me Too Far”
Time And Distance “Live A Lie”
Westerberg High “Walking With A Ghost”
Hellblinki “Rust”
Charlie West All Stars “Frankenstein”
Charlie West All Stars “Snortin’ Whiskey”
Unknown Hinson “Peace Love and Hard Liquor”
The Nanker Phelge “Killer Took A Holiday”
Joe Vallina “Haven’t Got Enough”
QiET “Hirundieans”
Mike Morningstar and Rick Roberts “East End Bar”
Swivels “Chemical City”
The Company Stores “Rollin’ In”
J Marinelli “Acceptable Faces”
Bobaflex “You Don’t Wanna Know”
The Renfields “Forbidden Planet”

hour three
The Irreplaceables “PC Paradise”
Mark Beckner “Ain’t It Hard”
Amon’s Horn “Bookworm”
Justin Johnson “Trail of Tears”
Treasure Cat “Queen of Spades”
John Lancaster “A Burning Farewell”
Chum “Live In A Circle”
Axis Everything “Beat Cop”
Calendars and Kerosene “I’m Over You”
What Now “Not In Glenville”
600 lbs of Sin “Tidal Wave”
The Horse Traders “Nothing At All”
Sheldon Vance “Watch It Burn”

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.