The AIR’s eighth anniversary week continues, on Wednesday afternoon, and The AIR brings you great new episodes of Curtain Call and Beatles Blast that are both filled with great new cool stuff.  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. You might’ve heard the sneak previews a couple of days ago, but now you can see what’s in the shows.

At 2 PM (EDT) Beatles Blast brings you an hour of Beatles without words.  Inspired by Herman Linte’s Prognosis episode that debuted on Monday, I decided to collect The Beatles group and solo tracks that either have the vocals mixed out, or never had them in the first place. We threw in one ringer from the soundtrack of Help, but this is just a fun collection of songs without words.

Check out the playlist…

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The Beatles “She’s Leaving Home”
Paul McCartney “The Squid”
George Harrison ” Dream Scene”
John Lennon “Beef Jerky”
Ringo Starr “Nashville Jam”
The Beatles “Flying” “Within You Without You”
Paul McCartney “Frozen J”
Ken Thorne “A Hard Day’s Night”
The Travelling Wilburys “New Blue Moon”
The Beatles “Now And Then”

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 wraps up her trio of shows devoted to this year’s Tony Award Winners.  This week we bring you highlights from the winner of Best Revival of a Musical, Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along.

This smash hit revival of one of Sondheim’s rare flops stars Jonathan Groff as Frank, Daniel Radcliffe as Charley and Lindsay Mendez as Mary. Directed by Sondheim devotee, Maria Friedman, this revival will soon end its extended limited run on Broadway, but it was recorded for eventual video release, either streaming on theatrically.

This revival was nominated for seven Tony Awards, and took home four of them. The musical tells the story of how three friends’ lives and friendship change over the course of 20 years. With one of the three being a talented composer of musicals who, over those 20 years, abandons his friends and songwriting career to become a producer of Hollywood movies.

Like the play 1934 George S. Kaufman play on which it’s based, the show’s story moves in reverse chronology, beginning in 1976 at the friends’ lowest moment and ending in 1957, at their youthful best.

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 and Monday at 9 AM. 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 stand-up comedy of Gabriel Inglesias.

Despite last night’s sneak preview, 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.

Radio Free Charleston opens with “Heads On Fire,” by Clownhole. This was one of the most-requested local tunes on the original broadcast incarnation of RFC back in 1989. However, the song was never properly recorded…until now.

The entire new Clownhole album is out now on all major streaming services and can also be found on vinyl at Sullivan’s Records in Charleston. I even play a second track from it to open our second hour.

Our show is also loaded with new music from Golden, Ricky Fitness, Mediogres, Frenchy & The Punk, The Aquabats, Masser Chups and more. Via our Chicago pipeline, we have great new indie tracks from Red Spot Rhythm Section, Carey Ott featuring The Freaks of Nashville and Joe DiZillo. We also do a dive into the archives and bring you some classic local tracks going back up to thirty-five years.

Our third hour is an encore of an episode of RFC Volume 4, from back when the show was one hour long and all-local. It’s a nifty time-capsule of a time when the music scene was thriving.

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

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hour one
Clownhole “Heads On Fire”
Golden  “Impossible”
The Wombles “Wombling USA”
Ricky Fitness “Stormy Weather”
RSRS (Red Spot Rhythm Section) “Look Up”
Mediogres “River Day”
Frenchy & The Punk “Skip Boom”
Carey Ott featuring The Freaks of Nashville “No Front”
The Aquabats “Sun Blocker”
Messer Chups “The Girl With The Sun In Her Hair”
Unmanned “Arrested”
The Dollyrots “Holding Out For A Hero”
The Dread Crew of Oddwood “The Apple”
The Settlement “Sweetness”

hour two
Clownhole “Dig It”
Joe DiZillo “Lotta Love”
Farnsworth “Erased”
Crazy Jane “Amazing”
Joe Vallina “The Year of the Wicked”
Hawthorne Heights “We Were Never Lost”
Emmalea Deal & The Hot Mess “Chasing You”
Chuck Biel “In A Russian Cathedral”
Brian Diller “And We Said”
Stark Raven  “He Loves To Limbo”
Three Bodies “The Trax”
Under The Radar “Dog Day Dallas Doo Dah Demons”
Feast of Stephen “Urge To Care”
Madness “The Law According to Dr. Kippah”

hour three
John Radcliff “Come Back Down”
Spencer Elliott “The Last Two People On Earth”
Todd Burge “Ask Them To”
Cast of Paradise Park “What Do You Think About”
Fletcher’s Grove “The Thugger”
Beneath “Poultice”
Beggars Clan “Divide and Conquer”
Mediogres “The Ballad of Marla Singer”
The Heavy Editors “On TV”
Emmalea Deal “Sacred”
Gypsy Rhythm “Missing (live)”
Rasta Rafiki “Apathy of the World”
Under The Radar “All Along The Watchtower”

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,  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 special  episode of The Swing Shift that plays off of a recent compilation album by Ella Fitzgerald, and brings you, in mixtape fashion, songs about places all over the world.

Check out the playlist…

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Ella Fitzgerald “A Night In Tunisia”
Les & Larry Elgart “Harlem Nocturne”
Stephane Grappelii “Chicaco”
Dean Martin “An Evening in Roma”
Joe Jackson’s Jumpin’ Jive “San Francisco Fan”
Pasadena Roof Orchrestra “Home In Pasedena”
Stan Kenton “April In Paris”
Frank Sinatra “I Love Paris”
Benny Goodman “Mission To Moscow”
Count Basie “London Bridge Is Falling Down”
Brian Setzer Orchestra “Hawaii 5-0”
Woody Herman “Broadway’s Gone Hawaii”
Don Redman “Shakin’ The African”
Louis Prima Jr. “New Orleans”
Cherry Poppin’ Daddies “42nd Street”
Glenn Miller “Kalamazoo”
Royal Crown Revue “Hollywood Tale”
Jive Bunny “My Kind of Town (Chicago)”
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy “Basin Street Blues”

 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.

July 1, 2016 was the day that The AIR officially became “The AIR” and was also the day that it became the internet radio arm of the PopCult blog. You know, the thing that you’re reading right now.

Our history predates that a little, though. This internet radio station started life as “Voices of Appalachia,” occasionally called “New Appalachian Radio.” It was a product of the WVSU EDC, back when we called their West Side HQ “DigiSo.” VOA was the brainchild of Eric Meadows, who launched the station almost ten years ago.

However, after a couple of years Eric got distracted by his other duties. Technical issues made the station go dark for a couple of months and many of our shows departed for WTSQ, so Eric was ready to throw in the towel.  Before he did that, he gave the folks behind three of the remaining shows the chance to take over. I was one of those three, and was the only one who was really committed to keeping it going. We had changed the name of the station to the rather unwieldy moniker “OnTheAIRadio” at the beginning of 2016, but as soon as I became the sole owner, I decided to shorten it to my original suggestion, and The AIR happily became the not-quite red-headed stepchild of PopCult.

On the day we launched I managed to pull off a programming stunt where we debuted the premiere episodes of all of our shows (except for Radio Free Charleston) which were to air over the next week in their regular timeslots. You can see the post about that HERE.

Many of these shows are still going, and a couple of the ones that aren’t have open invitations for their hosts to return,  but today I decided that the best way to observe eight years of The AIR at PopCult was to recreate that programming stunt. Today on The AIR, you will get a chance to hear this week’s new episodes of every one of our music specialty and comedy shows.

Monday at 2 PM on The AIR, we bring you a new episode of Psychedelic Shack, and then at 3 PM a new 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. These shows will debut in their normal weekly spots, and here’s the playlists for both of them.

First at 2 PM Eastern time, Nigel Pye offers up yet another phantasmagorical sampling of mind-expanding rock music, largely from the era back when even the bad drugs were pretty good for music. Check out the playlist…

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Golden Earring “She Flies On Strange Wings”
Grand Funk Railroad “The Railroad”
The James Gang “Lost Woman”
Jefferson Airplane “Eskimo Blue Day”
Jimi Hendrix “Voodoo Chile”
Janis Joplin “I Need A Man To Love”
The Electric Prunes “I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night)”
The Blues Magoos “Tobacco Road”
Gonn “Blackout of Gretely”

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.

At 3 PM Herman Linte has cooked up a mixtape of instrumental Prog-rock epics. Some of these tracks are new mixes that have the vocals omitted, while other were always meant to be sans vox. I have to admit that I thought this was such a cool idea that I swiped it for this week’s episode of Beatles Blast.

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YES “Heart of the Sunrise”
Mel Collins, Chris Poland, Ian Paice “21st Century Schizoid Man”
Peter Gabriel “Digging In The Dirt”
Alan Parsons Project “Where’s The Walrus”
Pallas “Stranger On The Edge of Time”
Frank Zappa “Uncle Remus”
Nightwish “Ghost Love Score”
Edison’s Children “A Million Miles Away”
Steve Hackett “Hammer In The Sand”
Dream Theater “Learning To Live”
Porcupine Tree “Harridan”
Gentle Giant “Aspirations”
Genesis “Do The Neurotic”
King Crimson “In The Court of the Crimson King”
David Bowie “Some Are”
Emerson Lake & Palmer “Toccata”

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.  All times listed are Eastern, so if you’re in another timezone, adjust accordingly.

At 8 PM you can hear Neil’s Heavy Concept Album on a recent episode of The Comedy Vault. This one’s a treat for fans of The Young Ones. Yes, it’s that Neil.

Tonight at 9 PM for the Monday Marathon we sort of go nuts. For those of you who are loyal enough listeners (or simply self-destructive), you can tune in and hear a sneak preview of BRAND NEW episodes of all of this week’s music specialty shows (plus a new Comedy Vault). You will hear, in order: MIRRORBALL; Curtain Call; Radio Free Charleston; Sydney’s Big Electric Cat; The Swing Shift; The Comedy Vault and Beatles Blast. The masochists and completists among you can stick around right after and listen to the new episodes of Prognosis and Psychedelic Shack in their regular encore timeslots.

I’m not going to go into any more details here. As these shows air in their regular timeslots through the week, I’ll have the production notes and playlists here for you as though this sneak preview never happened. If you want to get a head start on the week, stay up all night and listen!

It doesn’t seem like eight years. Time flies when you’re having fun.

This week I’m back to using the trusty Blackwing Palomino pencil and attempting to draw the female form.

With the nasty heat affecting me over the last couple of weeks, this took several short drawing sessions to complete. I took the pose from an online model page, changed it around a bit and tried to draw an original face and hair on the figure.

Inadvertantly, I think I drew Kate Bush’s face. Had I been trying to do that, I doubt I would’ve gotten this close.

Anyway, this is pencil on regular copy paper. I was using a plastic clipboard to hold it, and with my afflicted fingers, this changed the amount of pressure I could apply. So it’s not really my normal style. I did a lot of erasing to get the white areas on her arms. The only post-scanning changes were to white-balance it to make the scan look more like the original drawing and cropping out my sloppy borders. As with much of my physical art of late, this is just me trying to get my fingers working again.

To see it bigger try clicking HERE.

Instead of telling you about our sister internet radio station, The AIR, in this space like I normally do, I will simply let you know that today is a very big day for The AIR, and I will tell you all about that in a PopCult post that will go live sometime after this post on Monday morning.

PopCult brings you all the raw footage that Mel Larch shot in the dealer’s rooms a few weeks ago at The 2024 Marx Toy & Train Show, which is a great collector’s convention held every year at the The Kruger Street Toy & Train Museum in Wheeling, West Virginia. This was the 25th Marx Toy & Train Show, and it caps off the 25th anniversary year of Kruger Street.  You can see a shorter version with YouTube-approved music as well as footage of the group photo and a snippet of the guest speaker HERE.

This week’s video is a little over twenty-one minutes of people and toys as seen at the show by Mel. Since this video is posted to a private, non-monetized, server, you’ll hear instrumental versions of New Wave classics, simply because it needed some music, and that’s what I was in the mood to use. The music is there because we don’t want to accidentally share anybody’s background conversations. This video is for the die-hard collectors who want a chance to see everything possible, with no editing, color-correction or cropping.

We have a few bonus photos in last week’s post, and you can see more photos from this year’s show HERE.

Our chronological presentation of the Radio Free Charleston video show has fallen just two days shy of letting us milk the cliché, “Christmas in July.”  But we’ll have to settle for June, as we go back to December, 2009, for a Holiday episode of Radio Free Charleston packed with music from Molly Means, Joseph Hale, Todd Burge, and Melanie Larch with The Diablo Blues Band. There’s also some classic animation from the British studio Halas and Batchelor, plus a news flash about a visit from Saint Sputnik.

It’s all Christmas-y and stuff. Seriously, this show has some of our most fun holiday songs in it, and listening to it might help you forget that it’s a hundred-and-forty degrees outside.

Original production notes can be found HERE.

The PopCulteer
June 28, 2024

We’re done with the first half of the year of internet radio programming this Friday as we offer up a classic episode of MIRRORBALL and a BRAND NEW edition of Sydney’s Big Electric Cat.  The AIR is PopCult‘s sister radio station. You can hear these shows on The AIR website, or just click on the embedded player found on this very page.

At 2 PM, Mel Larch goes back to October, 2022 for a classic episode of MIRRORBALL! The AIR’s showcase of classic Disco music presents a salute to the late OSCAR-winner, Paul Jabara.

Jabara won his OSCAR for the song “Last Dance,” performed in the movie, Thank God It’s Friday, by his friend, Donna Summer. Jabara is also in the movie as Carl, the nearsighted schlub looking for love. Later Jabara co-wrote “It’s Raining Men” with Paul Shaffer for The Weather Girls. and also had a string of club hits as a solo artist. Whitney Houston made her first recorded appearance on one of Jabara’s solo records when she was just 19 years old.

Mel decided to put together a collection to shine the Disco spotlight on this overlooked musical genius, who left us too soon, and we’re glad to present it again this week.

Check out the playlist…

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Paul Jabara/Donna Summer “Shut Out”
Paul Jabara “Heaven Is A Disco”
The Weather Girls “It’s Raining Men”
Paul Jabara “Trapped In A Stairway”
Paul Jabara “Disco Queen”
Paul Jabara “One Man Ain’t Enough”
Paul Jabara with Donna Summer “Something’s Missing In My Life”
Paul Jabara “Dance”
Paul Jabara “Dancin’”
Paul Jabara “Pleasure Island”
Donna Summer “Last Dance”

You can hear MIRRORBALL every Friday at 2 PM, with replays Saturday at  9 PM (kicking off a mini-marathon), Sunday at 11 PM, Monday at 9 AM, and Tuesday at 1 PM  exclusively on The AIR.

At 3 PM, it’s Big Electric Cat time as Sydney Fileen delivers a special mixtape edition of her show that pays tribute to New Zealand’s greatest musical export, Split Enz.

Sydney focuses on the New Wave career of the band, which was formed in the early 1970s, originally as a progressive rock/art rock band. In 1977 after three semi-successful albums but no major hit, there were several line-up changes. That year Phil Judd departed the band and was replaced by Tim Finn’s brother, Neil, who was only sixteen years old at the tme.

With a newly-energized line-up and the addition of Neil’s vocals and songwriting, the band headed into a new direction and became a worldwide New Wave phenomenon. Sydney brings you a msitape of the music Split Enz made from 1978 to 1984, before continuing line-up changes led to the band morphing into Crowded House. For the bulk of this show’s songs, Split Enz consisted of Time and Neil, the Finn Brothers, plus Eddie Raynor, Nigel Griggs and Noel Crombie & Phil Hester.  It’s the best of Split Enz from 1978’s Frenzy album to 1984’s Conflicting Emotions.

Check out this killer playlist…

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Split Enz
“I See Red”
“Mind Over Matter”
“I Got You”
“Shark Attack”
“What’s The Matter With You”
“Missing Person”
“Poor Boy”
“How Can I Resist Her”
“Things”
“Hard Act To Follow”
“One Step Ahead”
“Walking Through The Ruins”
“History Never Repeats”
“I Don’t Want To Dance”
“Clumsy”
“Iris”
“Six Months In A Leaky Boat”
“Dirty Creatures”
“Hello Sandy Allen”
“Never Ceases To Amaze Me”
“Small World”
“Lost For Words”
“Make Sense of It”
“Bullet Brain and Cactus Head”
“I Wake Up Every Night”
“Message To My Girl”
“No Mischief”
“Conflicting Emotions”
“Breakin’ My Back”
“One Mouth Is Fed”
“The Lost Cat”
“Ninnie Knees Up”
“Double Happy”

Sydney’s Big Electric Cat is produced at Haversham Recording Institute in London, and can be heard every Friday at 3 PM, with replays Saturday afternoon, Monday at 7 AM, Tuesday at 8 PM, Wednesday at Noon and Thursday at 10 AM, exclusively on The AIR.

That’s what’s on The AIR Friday, and that is this week’s PopCulteer.

Check PopCult for all our regular features, with fresh content every day.

It’s oppresively hot and there’s still a lot of  STUFF TO DO this week. Please remember, if you are attending an outdoor event, stay hydrated and if somebody says the floor is made of lava, they probably aren’t just playing a game. Still, when in the course of hooman events the heat and humidity and misery rise to try to keep you down, you must stand defiant and venture forth (unless like me, you prefer to stay in where there’s air conditioning).  What I’m saying is, there’s still plenty of STUFF TO DO in Charleston and all over the Mountain State and beyond as we get hit in the face with the reality that the scientists who warned us about man-made climate change were all right, and the ones paid by oil and gas companies were lying.

As I have been copying and pasting of late, this a good time to remind you 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. There’s like, a helluva lotta stuff happening.

This week Mel Larch shines her Curtain Call spotlight on the winner of the Tony Award for Best Play, instead of Best Musical, because this play, Stereophonic, has songs…and they’re by the guy from Arcade Fire!

Wednesday afternoon’s Curtain Call on The AIR follows an encore of the first two episodes of Beatles Blast (which airs at 2PM).

Last week Mel devoted her show to highlights from this year’s Best Musical, The Outsiders, and next week she’ll devote her show to 2024’s Tony winner for Best Revival of a Musical, Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along, but this week we’re doing something we’ve never had the chance to do on Curtain Call before.

This week we bring you highlights from the score of Stereophonic, which won the Tony Award for Best Play. Despite being a play, Sterophonic boasts a collection of songs written by Will Butler from the indie, critic’s darlings band, Arcade Fire. The play tells the story of a fictional rock band in the 1970s as they are in the studio, about to make it big.

As with any drama about romantic misadventures involving a rock band in the 1970s, comparisons to Fleetwood Mac are plentiful. Stereophonic set the record for most Tony nominations for a play, with 13 nods, and took home five Tonys, including one for Best Play.

Following the songs from the show, Mel presents excerpts from Richard Ridge’s Broadway World interview with Stereophonic cast member, Eli Gelb. He pulls back the curtain a bit and talks about the transition of Stereophonic from off-Broadway to Broadway, and the adjustments made along the way.

But this Wednesday at 3 PM, Curtain Call will let you sample Stereophonic.  You can tune in at the website, or you could just stay right here and  listen to the convenient embedded radio player lurking elsewhere on this page.

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 and Monday at 9 AM. A marathon of classic episodes can be heard Sunday evening starting at 6 PM, and an all-night marathon of Curtain Call episodes can be heard Wednesday nights, beginning at Midnight.

Tuesday brings a hybrid new/archive episode of RFC on The AIR.   Radio Free Charleston, is three hours of great local, independent free-form radio.  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 tons of replays throughout the week.

Our first hour is all-new, with tons of newly-released tracks from Skyflake, William Matheny, Mediogres, Mark Knopfler,  David Synn, John Frusciante, Lindsey Sterling, Andy Summers, John Cale and more.

Our second and third hours revive a couple of episodes of Radio Free Charleston Volume 4 from March, 2019. These were back when RFC was mostly-local and just an hour long. These shows are gems that capture a snapshot of the local music scene, and this is the first time they’ve been heard in over five years.

Links in the artist’s names below will take you to a website (where available) where you can find our more about them and maybe buy their music. Check out the playlist.

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hour one
SkyFlake “Firmament”
William Matheny “I Hardly Ever Think About You”
Mediogres “In The Waste”
Duran Duran “Like An Angel”
The Paranoid Style “The Interrogator”
Unmanned “Aliens”
Mark Knopfler “Song For Sonny Liston”
David Synn “Purple Eclipse”
John Frusciante “Shelf”
Lindsey Sterling “Kintsugi”
Andy Summers “Into the Blue”
The Settlement “Do It For You (live)”
U2 “Atomic City”
John Cale “Davies and Wales”

hour two
Beneath “Asunder”
Todd Tamenend Clark “Birthright Blues”
Of The Dell “Good Time All of the Time”
Bad Keys of the Mountain “Fell To Pieces”
Todd Burge “Comic Book Sleeve”
The Big Bad “Ghoul Girl”
The Jasons “I Don wanna Be A Mongoloid”
The Stars Revolt “All For Show”
Emmalea Deal “Everything I’m Not”
Foz Rotten “FDA”
Bon Air “So Fashy/Distance1”
Hellblinki“Wiff On Me”
Farnsworth “20 Days”
Stark Raven “Always Come Home”
Under The Radar “Love Sunrise”

hour three
Emmalea Deal “Queen”
Todd Burge “Of The Birds” (For Bill Thompson III)
Half Batch “Long Time Traveller”
William Matheny “Living Half To Death”
The Big Bad “Nobody Makes It Out Of Here Alive”
Neostra  “Obscurity and Release”
Todd Tamenend Clark  “Talons of The Raptor”
Poor Man’s Gravy “Disappoint You”
Beneath “Visage”
Kathy Mattea and Tim “O’Brien “Gentle On My Mind”
Flare Baroshi  “Vampire Mafia”

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,  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 the first two episodes of The Swing Shift. Monday marks eight years of The AIR, and we have a special programming stunt planned to mark that, but this week we wanted to go back to the first first episodes of The Swing Shift, and tomorrow we’ll bring you the first two episodes of Beatles Blast (which was originally a half-hour show), so you can get the feel of our music speciality shows from day one.

 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.