It’s a weird and trivial milestone week 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.

This week sees episode 221 of Radio Free Charleston: Volume 5, the current weekly three-hour radio version of the show that I’ve been doing since January, 2020. That equals the 221 episodes of Radio Free Charleston: Volume 2, the video version of the show, which is still ongoing, but pretty much on an annual basis these days. Ultimately, it’s not really a big deal, except for the numerologists, but I’m mentioning it here because I forgot to say anything in the show.

Because of real-life intrusions, this week’s show only has one new hour of content, but the second and third hours haven’t been heard by human ears in more than eight years, so it’s cool to revive the third episode of RFC: Volume 4, the old all-localish version of the show.

But our first hour has plenty of cool stuff in it, and by all rights you should be terrifically excited about the whole show.  We have brand-new tunes from Jim Lange, J Marinelli, the Waterboys and The Settlement, plus lots of really cool other stuff.

We also encore some great recent songs and dig into the archives a bit for you.

Hours two and three are like a time capsule of local and regional music from 2016, except that some of the music is older than that.

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

RFC V5 221

hour one
Jim Lange “Think I Like It”
J. Marinelli“Vegatables, Man”
Justin Hayward & Mike Batt “Life In A Northern Town”
Skyflake “Luminescent”
Saycouth “Phantom Love”
The M.F.B. “P H Steve”
Massing“September”
The Settlement “Sweetness (Live at The Foundry)”
Adrian Belew “One of Those Days (live)”
The Waterboys “Everybody Loves Dennis Hopper”
Ann Magnuson “M.K.C.F.”
Clownhole “Get A Grip”

hour two
Tape Age “So Happy”
David Synn “Battle of Anihilation”
John Lancaster “Phantom Moon”
Black Cross Brotherhood “Megido”
Bobflex “I’m Glad You’re Dead”
Lady D “Higher”
Spurgie Hankins Band “Dirty Rule”
Donny Iris “River of Love”
Company Stores “Rise”
The Boatmen “Heartbreak Hangover”
Joe Vallina “Year of the Wicked”
John Radcliff “Hanging On”
Foz Rotten “Funklips”
South Park Enterprise “Next Level”

hour three
Miniature Giant “Wendigo”
The Monsoon Band “Don’t Cry
The Horse Traders “Southbound 65”
Ona “Sleep Rinse Repeat”
Ghosts of Now “Alaska Looks Like Arizona”
Karma To Burn “Waltz of the Playboy Pallbearer”
Granny’s 12 Gauge “Full Speed Ahead”
Hasil Adkins “Roll Roll Train”
The Nanker Phelge “Killer Took A Holiday”
Crack The Sky “Robots For Ronnie”
Hellblinki “Bubbles”
The Jasons “We’re Going To Manhatten”
Joseph Hale “Time”

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.

This week I had to revert to presenting a piece of purely digital art. I’m not having an MG flare-up, but real-world intrusions kept me from spending any time making physical art last week, so I decided to go back and revise a digital piece from fourteen or fiften years ago.

In Warpscape Revisited, I took the original image, rotated it 90 degrees, mirrored it, and repainted it in a different color scheme with a bit more detail and contrast.  I’ve actually revised this once before, and I’ve used it as backgrounds for a few other header images.

I like it. It looks sort of spacey, or maybe like a shirt design on Temu.

To see this week’s art bigger try clicking HERE.

Over in radioland, Monday beginning at 2 PM on The AIR, we bring you a classic episode of Psychedelic Shack, and then at 3 PM an also classic edition of Herman Linte’s weekly showcase of the Progressive Rock of the past half-century, Prognosis.  You can listen to The AIR at the website, or on the embedded radio player elsewhere on this page.

Psychedelic Shack can be heard every Monday at 2 PM, with replays Tuesday at 9 AM, Wednesday at 10 PM, Friday at 1 PM,  and Saturday at 9 AM. You can hear Prognosis on The AIR Monday at 3 PM, with replays Tuesday at 7 AM, Wednesday at 8 PM, Thursday at Noon, and Saturday at 10 AM.

At 8 PM you can hear more of Viv Stanshall’s Rawlinson’s End on last week’s new episode of The Comedy Vault.

Tonight at 9 PM for the Monday Marathon we bring you ten hours of our music specialty programs from April, 2020.

Back in December, 2023, I got to see the out-of-town trial run of the new musical, BOOP!  I raved about it HERE, and revised that review a few weeks ago when it started previews on Broadway HERE.

Well, last night it offically opened, and now the whole world can find out how much fun this musical is.

Today we’re going to bring you several videos about the new Broadway run of what I suspect will be a massive hit, and a major star-making vehicle for Jasmine Amy Rogers in the title role.

From May, 2011, we bring you Radio Free Charleston episode 129, “Adventure Wars Shirt. ” This week we featured music by Blue Million, HARRAH and Ryan Hardiman.  We also had a preview of a great CYAC show, “Airwaves.”  There was animation by Frank Panucci, too.

Before we got too far into the show, there’s animation by Frank, and we ran the promo for the 2011 East End Yard Sale again, just to be on the safe side.

Our first musical guest is Blue Million. We recorded Alan, Andy and Gary at The Empty Glass. I’ve known Alan Griffith and the guys for more than 35 years, and I’m always in awe of his songwriting and performing prowess. Blue Million treated us to the lead song off of their then-new 6 Song EP, “Down To A Groove.”

Austin Sussman contributed a great promo clip for the CYAC production, “Airwaves,” which people still talk about fourteen years later.

Our next musical guest was HARRAH.  This was Lee Harrah’s band, and he’s practically family, so going on and on about him would just embarrass the guy. HARRAH unleashed the song, “Green (Day of Rage),” inspired by Lee’s favorite super-hero, The Incredible Hulk.

Playing us out this week was Ryan Hardiman, star of countless local musical productions like “Jack The Ripper” and “Rent,” and a good friend of RFC. We brought you Ryan, backed by Mark Scarpelli, from the 2010 “Good Night” event, performing a great cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah,” recorded at Trinity Lutheran Church.

You may, if you wish, read the original production notes HERE.

The PopCulteer
April 4, 2025

Originally today’s PopCulteer was going to present notes and the playlists for new episodes of MIRRORBALL and Sydney’s Big Electric Cat on The AIR.

However, those new episodes will now appear next week. A download error that I have yet not been able to rectify caused technical problems with Sydney’s Big Electric Cat, while our post-climate change April extreme weather combined with some other stuff happening at Stately Radio Free Charleston Manor, caused Mel and I to decide to delay recording a new MIRRORBALL Thursday evening.

You can tune in Friday afternoon for some lovely classic episodes of those programs.

However…that means I don’t have a column for you this week, and since I plan to be offline to complete the long-delayed computer switch (don’t ask why that’s been taking this long), I’ve decided to once again mine the rich history of this blog and look back at some stuff I did on this date many years ago.

One Year Ago, I was pretty much in this same situation, only a bit worse. I was holed up in a hotel that had electricity, and took a look back at an edition of The RFC Flashback that was originally posted ten years ago today (nine when I wrote this post). For those of you scoring at home, this is a flashback post to a flashback post to an RFC Flashback post.

Five Years Ago, well, the joke starts to get thin.  On this day in 2020 we had another edition of The RFC Flashback, and by a bizarre coincidence, it’s for the very next episode of Radio Free Charleston after the one we flashed back to in the previous link. I swear I did not plan this.

I’m making this up as I go along, and since last year’s post on this day was a flashback to what was then nine-years ago and is now ten, we’ll not be doing round numbers.

Twelve Years Ago I plugged the Kickstarter for Elaine Lee and Michael Kaluta’s awesome Starstruck collection. It’s still got a spot of honor on my bookshelf.

Fifteen Years Ago I shared then-newly restored versions of three of our early video episodes of Radio Free Charleston. I did a lot of that on April 4 over the years.

Nineteen Years Ago, well before the revival of Radio Free Charleston as a video show, I actually posted a song from one of the top RFC bands from the original broadcast radio days. It’s Three Bodies, performing “Shingles and Tar,” a demo produced by yours truly and Spencer Elliott way back in 1992.

And that is our flashback-heavy PopCulteer this week. It occurs to me that next Thursday is also the sixteenth anniversary of The PopCulteer, so as a bonus, you can go back and read the first column, with disgust, because it only got worse from there.

Check back for fresh content every day. Tomorrow it’ll be another RFC Flashback.

Spring has sprung. Pollen is flying free in the air, and we have a quick list of STUFF TO DO in and around Charleston, WV, this coming weekend and beyond, just like almost every week. There are a couple of theatre events in the mix this week, along with a live reading of a radio play and a murderous robot animal party!

As always, you should remember that THIS IS NOT A COMPLETE LIST OF EVENTS.  It’s just a starting point, so don’t expect anything comprehensive, and if you feel strongly about me leaving anything out, feel free to mention it in the comments. Also, if you have a show that you’d like to plug in the future, contact me via Social Media at Facebook, BlueSky or Twitter. I dont charge for this, so you might as well send me something if you have an event to promote. Note that some links look like they shouldn’t work because they have lines through them, but that’s just a WordPress glitch, so click on them anyway. They should still work.

This Saturday, starting at 10 AM, at Billy Bob’s Pizza Wonderland in Barboursville, which is the last operational Rock-A-Fire Explosion restaurant in the nation, they will have an all day cosplay event where folks can dress up like their favorite characters from Five Nights at Freddy’s. This is either a brilliant marketing move…or it’s really tempting fate. Here’s what they say about it…

Get ready for a blast at Billy Bob’s Wonderland on April 5th! We will have a Cosplay Gathering for all you Rock-afire Explosion and FNAF fans, so come dressed as your favorite Rockafire Explosion character and get ready to party with some FNAF characters crashing the party!

So, if you want to enjoy some pizza, have fun, catch the animatronic band and perhaps take your own life in your hands, head on down to Billy Bob’s.

We are also very happy to announce that Cristen Michael has created an interactive calendar that is way more comprehensive than this list of STUFF TO DO, and you can find it HERE. Just click on the day and the event and you’ll be whisked away to a page with more details about loads of area events.

You can find live music in and around town every night of the week. You just have to know where to look.

Most Fridays and Saturdays you can find live music at Taylor Books. There is no cover charge, and shows start at 7:30 PM. This Friday Steve Himes performs, while Saturday Toby Announced is back again.

You can find live music every night at The World Famous Empty Glass Cafe. Mondays feature open mic night. The first Tuesday of every month sees the legendary Spurgie Hankins Band perform. There’s both Happy Hour music and local or touring bands on Thursday and Friday, and live bands Saturday nights. On Sundays when there’s a new Mountain Stage, musicians from the legendary WV Public Radio show migrate to The Glass for the Post-Mountain Stage jam.

Live at The Shop in Dunbar hosts local and touring bands on most weekends, and is a nice break away from the downtown bar scene.

Louie’s, at Mardi Gras Casino & Resort, regularly brings in local bands on weekends.

In Huntington, local institution, The Loud (formerly The V Club), brings in great touring and local acts three or four nights a week.

The Wandering Wind Meadery holds several events each week, from live piano karaoke to bands to comedy to burlesque.

The multitude of breweries and distilleries that have popped up in Charleston of late bring in live musical acts as well. I tend to miss a lot of these because, being a non-drinker, they fly under my radar.

Roger Rablais hosts Songwriter’s stage at different venues around the area, often at 813 Penn, next door to Fret ‘n’ Fiddle in Saint Albans and also at The Empty Glass. You might also find cool musical events at Route 60 Music in Barboursville and Folklore Music Exchange in Charleston.

To hear music in an alcohol-free enviroment, see what’s happening at Pumzi’s, on Charleston’s West Side. You can also visit Coal River Coffee in Saint Albans for live music in an alcohol-free environment. I am looking to expand this list, so please contact me through the social media sites above if you know about more alcohol-free performance venues. The Huntington Music Collective has recently started hosting all ages shows at Event Horizon.

For cutting-edge independent art films, downstairs from Taylor Books you’ll find the Floralee Hark Cohen Cinema by WVIFF. Each week they program several amazing movies in their intimate viewing room that you aren’t likely to see anywhere else.

Please remember that viral illlnesses are still a going concern and many people who have very good reasons are still wearing masks, and many of us, understandably, are still nervous about being in crowds, masked or not. Be kind and understanding  while you’re out. And if you’re at an outdoor event, please remember that it’s awfully inconsiderate to smoke or vape around people who become ill when exposed to that stuff.

Keep in mind that all shows are subject to change or be cancelled at the last minute.

Here we go, roughly in order, it’s graphics for local events that I was able to scrounge up online…

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On Wednesday The AIR brings you great new episodes of Curtain Call and Beatles Blast that are bright and shiny and have that new car smell.  You can tune in at the website, or just stay right here and  listen to the convenient embedded radio player lurking elsewhere on this page.

At 2 PM (EDT) Beatles Blast is inspired by the photos of the cast of Sam Mendes’ upcoming movies based on The Beatles to bring you, for the third time, very Beatlesque music that is NOT by The Beatles.

I saw the photos, and my first thought was, “That’s not The Beatles,” and then I remembered that I do this on the show from time to time.

Seriously, one guy is way taller than the others. The guy playing Paul looks way more like John. The guy playing Ringo appears to be Asian, but I could be wrong on that. And the guy playing George is an uncanny doppleganger…for Mark Zuckerberg.

The movies might be good, but they placed an obstacle in the way of that with this cast. Along the lines of who they’ve cast, I figure we might see Dave Bautista as Brian Epstein, Ricky Gervais as George Martin and Matt Berry as The Maharishi.

Actually, I’d sort of like to see Matt Berry as The Maharishi.

Anyway, these songs sound more like The Beatles than the actors look like them.

Check out the playlist…

Beatles Blast 119
Not The Beatles III

Famous Groupies “Apple Obscura/Feels of Fire”
The Analogues “Magnetic Fields”
The Rutles “Good Times Roll”
Vinyl Kings “Change Is”
Dukes of Stratosphear “Collideascope”
The Analogues “Damned If You Do”
Utopia “Everybody Else Is Wrong”
Vinyl Kings “Give It Away”
The Rutles “Shangri La”
Famous Groupies “Flight of Europa”
The Rutles “Don’t Know Why”
Vinyl Kings “Long Way Down”
Famous Groupies “Penny Doesn’t Live Here Anymore”
The Analogues “Still Waiting”
The Rutles “Piggy In The Middle”

Beatles Blast can be heard every Wednesday at 2 PM, with replays Thursday at 11 PM, Friday at 1 PM,  and Saturday afternoon.

At 3 PM (EDT) on Curtain Call, Mel Larch presents a mixtape salute to Richard Chamberliin, who passed away over the weekend.

Though he’s known more for his work in straight drama, Chamberlin was an accomplished singer who recorded several albums and appeared in musicals on stage and screen.  Mel brings you an assortment of his album tracks, plus tunes from a rare tribute to Irving Berlin and songs from the feature film musical, The Slipper and The Rose.

Curtain Call 154

Richard Chamberlin

“Try To Remember”
“Hush-Hush, Sweet Charlotte”
“You Always Hurt The One You Love”
“Rome Will Never Leave You”
“Love Makes The World Go ‘Round”
“Lonely Heart”
“Why Can’t I Be Two People”
“Fools Fall In Love”
“What A Comforting Thing to Know”
“It’s A Lonesome Old Town (When You’re Not Around)”
“True Love”
“A Bride Findinig Ball”
“How’s The Chances”
“I’ll Be Around”
“Secret Kingdom”
“He/She Danced With Me”
“A Kiss To Build A Dream On”
“Secret Kingdom (Reprise)”
“I’m Getting Tired So I Can Sleep”
“Blue Guitar”
“Theme From Dr. Kildaire”

Curtain Call can be heard on The AIR Wednesday at 3 PM, with replays Thursday at 8 AM, Friday at 10 AM, Saturday at 8 PM, Monday at 9 AM and Tuesday at 1 PM. A marathon of classic episodes can be heard Sunday morning and afternoon starting at 9 AM, and an all-night marathon of Curtain Call episodes can be heard Wednesday nights, beginning at Midnight.

Also on The AIR, Wednesday at 11 PM,  The Comedy Vault brings you a brand-new episode featuring the second of multiple installments of Viv Stanshall’s “Rawlinson’s End.”

In case you missed the news yesterday, this week all of The AIR Musical Specialty programs will be brand-new. That means that…Tuesday is once again “New Show Day” on The AIR.  As such, we have new episodes of  Radio Free Charleston and The Swing Shift for you. 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.

This week RFC is loaded with local, independent and whatever else music I feel like playing, and it’s filled with gems.

We open with a new track from Saycouth. A Nashville band that comes to us via the Chicago pipeline. “Phantom Love” is their next single, and it will be released Friday.

Speaking of Friday, I mention repeatedly in this week’s show that Bandcamp Friday happens this week. It does not. I didn’t realize that they no longer do Bandcamp Friday the first Friday of every month. The next one is May 2. When you get to the many points in this week’s show where I start going on about how great Bandcamp Friday is, just put your fingers in your ears and go “Lah, Lah, Lah” for a few seconds. It’ll be like it never happened.

We also have a great new song from Ron Sowell (who was in the room when I met Mel) and new tunes from Novelty Island, Sirius Blueray and David Synn, Bryan Ferry with Amelia Barratt, The Darkness, The Heavy Editors, Novo Combo, Jethro Tull, Kinky Friedman and more.

We also mix in a set of live tunes, a set of retro-sounding New Wave-ish music, some Americana and my favorite 22 minute song about driving in Germany.

The links in the playlist will take you to the pages for the artists in this week’s show where possible

RFC V5 220

hour one
Saycouth “Phantom Love”
Ron Sowell “Everything That Goes Round Comes Round”
Novelty Island “I’m Glad It’s Not Sunny”
Sirius Blueray & David Synn “Your Nirvana”
Bryan Ferry-Amelia Barratt “Big Things”
Dinosaur Burps “Sandwich (Instrumental)”
The Darkness “Don’t Need Sunshine”
The Settlement “Eyes of the World (live)”
Hybrid Soul Project “Sweet Thing (live)”
Blondie “In The Flesh (live)”
George Harrison “Isn’t It A Pity (live)”
Todd Burge “These Extremes”

hour two
The Heavy Editors “Get Out of My Way”
Novo Combo “Another Slow Fade”
Orville Rex“Half a Cup”
The Surfrajettes “Clam Chowder”
The Wipeouters “Ravin’ Surf”
Can “I Want More”
Red Audio “Edger”
Emmalea Deal “The Light”
Shriekback “Nympholept”
Duran Duran “Blame The Machines”
Ollie Wride “Victoria”
Heartworms “Mad Catch”
Buni Muni  “Soup Girl”
Bane Star “Perfectly Designed”

hour three
Tucker Riggleman & The Cheap Dates “Virtue”
Matt Mullins and The Bringdowns “Aurelian”
Kinky Friedman “Kacey Needs A Song”
Sierra Ferrell “Why Haven’t You Loved Me Yet”
Massing “Cam’s Ham”
Union Station “Granite Mills”
Jethro Tull “Curious Ruminant”
Kraftwerk “Autobahn”
Tony Levin “Me and my Axe”

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 offer up a new episode of The Swing Shift that celebrates the music of Louis Jordan, half a century after he boogied off this mortal coil. He was one of the most successful songwriters of the Big Band era, and he pioneered smaller combos that directly inspired the creation of Rock and Roll.  We bring you an hour of some of his greatest hits.

Check out the playlist…

The Swing Shift 169

Louis Jordan

“Caldonia Boogie”
“Is You Is Is Or Is You Ain’t My Baby”
“GI Jive”
“Choo Choo Ch’Boogie”
“Buzz Me”
“Open The Door, Richard”
“Saturday Night Fish Fry”
“Happy Birthday Boogie”
“Blue Light Boogie”
“It’s a Great Great Pleasure”
“I Want You to Be My Baby”
“Your Socks Don’t Match”
“It’s So Easy”
“Barnyard Boogie”
“Heed My Warning”
“Push-Ka-Pee She Pie”
“School Days”
“Love You ‘Til Your Money’s Gone Blues”
“Let The Good Times Roll”

 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.

This week’s art is a small acrylic painting that’s more of a rescued doodle than it is a study or anything.

I was just doodle painting a sky, a red sky at morning time to be exact (hence the title), and I was so happy with the end result that I decided to throw in some detail around it: a few buildings, a road, some mountains, all painted in a semi-Hopperesque dawn sheen.

I wasn’t consciously thinking of any place in particular, but Mel says it reminds her of a summer visit to Snowshoe we took over a decade ago.  She may be right. I tend to retain images, but suck with names and timeframes.

Anyway, I figured it was good enough to share here. It doesn’t really symbolize anything. It’s okay sometimes if art just looks purty.

To see it bigger try clicking HERE.

Over in radioland,  the plan is to have new shows all week long to make up for my computer issues causing us to not have so many in March.

Monday beginning at 2 PM on The AIR, we bring new episodes of Nigel Pye’s Psychedelic Shack, and Herman Linte’s weekly showcase of the Progressive Rock of the past half-century, Prognosis.  You can listen to The AIR at the website, or on the embedded radio player elsewhere on this page.

As you can see in the playlists below, Herman and Nigel have delivered two excellent shows.  Nigel brings us his usual expertly-curated capsule of pure psychedelic glee, while Herman presents a mixtape collection of the post-YES music of their original guitarist, Peter Banks.

Check out the playlists…

Psychedelic Shack 099 (2 PM EDT)

Circus Maximus “Neverland & Revisited”
Spped, Glue & Shinki “Stoned Out Of My Mind”
Pentangle “Bruton Town”
Love Sculpture “Why (How-Now)”
Tomorrow “Revolution”
Incredible String Band “Painting Box”
Kaleidoscope “Dive Into Yesterday”
Our Plasic Dream “A Little Bit Of Shangri-La”
Lisa and Francesca “Silver Man”
David Bowie “Silly Boy Blue”
Dudley Moore “Bedazzled”
Big Jim Sullivan “Ltts”
Gentle Influence “Easy To Know”

Prognosis 126 (3 PM EDT)

Peter Banks Solo

“Knights a. The Falcon b. The Bear”
“Battles”
“Knights (Reprise)”
“Stop That”
“All Points South”
“Shortcomings”
“Dominating Factor”
“Massive Trouser Clearance”
“Away Days”
“Self Contained”
“Less Talk”

with David Cross

“Rock To A Hard Place”
“Laughing Strange”

with Harmony In Diversity

“The Number Of The Beat”
“Dregs Addiction”
“Each To Their Own Devices”
“Swayed By Nothing”
“Some Things Are Best Left Upside Down”
“Floating World”
“Do It Now”
“Boing”

Psychedelic Shack can be heard every Monday at 2 PM, with replays Tuesday at 9 AM, Wednesday at 10 PM, Friday at 1 PM,  and Saturday at 9 AM. You can hear Prognosis on The AIR Monday at 3 PM, with replays Tuesday at 7 AM, Wednesday at 8 PM, Thursday at Noon, and Saturday at 10 AM.

At 8 PM you can hear an hour of brilliant stand-up from George Carlin on a classic episode of The Comedy Vault.

Tonight at 9 PM for the Monday Marathon we bring you ten hours of Beatles Blast, presenting the music of The Fab Four, performed by the band, the solo members and boatloads of other people.

This week we bring you a lyric music video for a new song by two first-time collaborators. “Your Nirvana” features vocals and lyrics by Sirius Blueray of Stratification Music  and music and instruments by Radio Free Charleston mainstay (and a personal friend and occasional collaborator), David Synn.

This is a cool, moody neo-prog trip-hoppish piece, landing in the musical Venn diagram somewhere in between Enya, Ultravox, Renaissance and Steve Hackett. In other words, it’s right in my wheelhouse.

This is hot off the presses, in a word, and I wanted to share it here. You’re also pretty likely to hear this in Tuesday’s RFC radio show.