Valentine’s Day is in the rear-view mirror and some folks have a long weekend coming up, so how about we smack you upside the head with a new batch of STUFF TO DO in and around the Charleston/Huntington WV area (and beyond) this weekend?

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.

Live Music is back at Taylor Books. There is no cover charge, and shows start at 7:30 PM.  Friday it’s Sandy Sowell & Gerry Collyard. Saturday Swingstein & Robin take the stage at the beloved bookstore/cafe/art gallery.

Sunday at 4 PM Lady D brings her tribute show to Bessie Smith, The Lady and The Empress, to The West Edge Factory, at 1040 Vernon St, in Huntington. This is the 20th year that Lady D has been doing this show, and it’s one of our state’s artistic treasures.  Admission is free, but it’s suggested that you reserve a spot via Eventbrite.

The Lady and the Empress is a stage play; a one-woman show written and performed by Doris Fields (Lady D). It is based on the life and music of blues legend, Bessie Smith who was also known as the Empress of the Blues. The performance runs approximately 90 – 100 minutes including a 15-minute intermission and features many of Smith’s most popular songs such as “T’ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do” and “Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out.”

The World Famous Empty Glass Cafe has some great stuff this week  to tell you about. Thursday at 5:30 PM it’s the Helping Hour with Swingstein & Robin.   At 9 PM, Thursday, Evie Schaffer takes over with more live music.  Friday Tim Courts plays during happy hour.    Sunday at 9 PM, Andrew Pauley strolls to the other end of town to play at The Glass. You can check below for the graphics for other cool weekend shows at The Empty Glass.

Please remember that the pandemic is not over yet. It’s still a going concern with the ‘rona surging again. And now there are seasonal allergies, the flu, flash floods caused by flowing MAGA tears, Tony Romo still blathering about a play that happened in the third quarter, more Orweilian bills being introduced in the legislature and other damned good reasons to be careful. 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.

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

If you’re up for going out, here are a few suggestions for the weekend, roughly in order…

Wednesday we dip into The AIR archives to bring you some Valentine’s Day treats. You can tune into on our sister internet radio station The AIR, as Beatles Blast and Curtain Call fill the air with love with love-themed encores, and later we have special airings of romantic episodes of MIRRORBALL, Prognosis and Sydney’s Big Electric Cat. You can listen at the website, or just stay right here and  listen to the convenient embedded radio player lurking elsewhere on this page.

Wednesday at 2 PM on Beatles Blast yours truly presents a love-themed mixtape, as we bring you nearly an hour of loves songs by The Beatles as a group and solo, along with some terrific covers of the Fab Four’s romantic classics.

Beatles Blast can be heard every Wednesday at 2 PM, with replays Thursdays at 9 PM, Saturday afternoons, and Sunday at 5 PM, exclusively on The AIR.

Then at 3 PM, we bring you a classic show where Mel Larch rounds up an hour of love songs from the stage for a special romantic edition of Curtain Call.  You’ll hear loves ongs from shows like The Lion King, Fun Home, Aspects of Love, Fiddler on The Roof, Anything Goes and more, and peformances by Linda Rondstadt, Michael Ball, The Beatles, Art Garfunkel, Betty Buckley and Ella Fitzgerald, among many others.  Mel’s introductions explain why these tunes are among her favorite love songs.

Curtain Call can be heard Wednesday at 3 PM, with replays Thursday at 7 AM and 8 PM and Saturday at 6 PM. An all-night marathon of Curtain Call episodes can be heard Wednesday nights, beginning at Midnight.

At 4 PM, we bring you an episode of Mel’s show, MIRRORBALL that features the music of Barry White and The Love Unlimited Orchestra.

At 8 PM Herman Linte’s Prognosis will bring us two hours of romantic progressive rock, Assembled, relunctantly I might add, by Herman as a Valentine’s Day mixtape two years ago.

At 10 PM, Sydney Fileen graces us with a love-themed episode of her own, as Sydney’s Big Electric Cat delivers a Valentine to us from the lockdown in the UK, recorded in 2021.

And, in case you’re one of those folks who hates Valentine’s Day, get out to the Empty Glass tonight at 9 PM for the Un-Valentine’s Day Party…

Tuesday finds yet another partly-new Radio Free Charleston on The AIR.  Our first hour of  Radio Free Charleston is accompanied by a classic two-hour episode of Radio Free Charleston Volume Four, that dates back to April, 2016.

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 a collection of cool new, and newly-acquired music, and as a change of pace, we only feature a handful of local tracks, and a wealth of great indie music from Chicago, Nashville, London, North Carolina and all over the world. We do have new local music from Brian Diller and Jim Lange, though.

Opening our show is Chicago’s Cosmic Bull. “Once the Dust Settles” will appear on the album Band Substances to be released on Friday, March 8 and Cosmic Bull will be celebrating the release with a show that night at Chicago’s Gallery Cabaret. We also have a new song from Brian Diller, who is performing twice in Charleston this weekend: Friday Brian returns to Bridge Road Bistro, while Saturday he opens for Chris Smither (whose name I totally blanked on) at the Clay Center’s Walker Theater as part of the Woody Hawley Concert Series.

Our second and third hours are an early episode of Radio Free Charleston Volume Four, where I play a selection of local music by some of our top bands, along with a deep dive into the video archives of RFC.  I’m hoping my voice recovers enough to do a three-hour show next week. I’ve been scheduling reruns of The Swing Shift lately, too, and I’ve got a three-part series on Boogie Woogie laid out as soon as I feel like recording it.

The links in the first hour of the playlist will take you to the pages where you can learn more about each artist and buy their music or find out where to see them.

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hour one
Cosmic Bull “Once The Dust Settles”
Brian Diller “Fill My Eyes”
The Paranoid Style “The Ballad of Pertinent Information”
The Broken Relics “Here’s To You Kid”
Skafish “Executive Exhibitionist”
Wall of Voodoo “Room With A View (live)”
The Tom McGees “FCJ”
Carey Ott/Freaks of Nashville “World Gone Crazy”
Novelty Island “Hotspur”
Jim Lange“The Golden Arrows of the Morning”
Chuck Biel “The Morning With You”
Ann Magnuson “L.A. Donut Day”
63 Eyes“Ninth Grade Child”
Velez Manifesto “Just One Touch”

hour two
QIET “Kiss of the Universe”
Blue Million “Next Year”
Diablo Blues Band “Price of a Broken Heart”
Underdog Blues Revue “Back Door Blues”
The Horse Traders “Nothing At All”
The Ruins “Used To Be Friends”
Jordan Andrew Jefferson “One Step At A Time”
Jack Grifftith “With A Girl Like You”
The Buttonflies “Lil’ Birdie”
Go Van Gogh “I Can’t Sleep At Night”
Hellblinki “Bella Ciao”
Joe Vallina “Suzy Said So”
Linnfinity “Seeswa Love”

hour three
Ann Manguson “I Met an Astronaut”
Carpenter Ants “Blessing”
Bob Clay “Fuel For The Fire”
Todd Burge “Hey, Little Christian Girl”
Paul Calicoat “Soul of Stone”
The Pretenders “The Wait”
Casi Null “Blue Haze”
Punk Jazz “Little Star”
Option 22 “Soul Song”
Radio Cult “Saturday Midnight Double Feature”
Stephen Beckner “Come On (We Gotta Get On Home)”
Feast of Stephen “No Vaccination”
Deron Baker “Gravel”
Douglas Imbrogno with Melanie Larch “Bring Sunshine When You Come”

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 classic episode 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’s art is a detailed pastel crayon drawing on a very large piece of white paper.

Inspired by my recent Amtrak trip, and created using over a dozen photos from said trip for reference, this is a bit of an update of the “Trax” series of digital pieces of artwork I created for this blog over fifteen years ago. This one is a real world piece, and for a change of pace from the small studies I’ve been sharing here lately, this is sort of gigantic. I had to scan it in six parts and then composite them all together digitally. The actual piece is rolled up and tucked away in a large mailing tube for safe-keeping now.

As you might be able to tell, the level of detail varies, as I spent a couple of weeks on this and with MG, some days I had more control than others. This was mainly an excercise in stamina, working on a larger piece and attempting to maintain a consistent style.

To see it bigger try clicking HERE.

Over in radioland, Monday at 2 PM on The AIR, we bring you encores of a classic episode of Psychedelic Shack, and then at 3 PM a 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. You can hear two classic episodes of the show Sunday at 2 PM.

At 8 PM you can hear an hour of standup from Steven Wright, by popular demand, on a recent episode of The Comedy Vault.

Tonight at 9 PM the Monday Marathon presents ten hours of Mel Larche’s salute to the classic Disco era, MIRRORBALL.

Once in a lifetime, you see a work of choreography that is simply so amazing, astounding and astonishing that you simply can’t believe what you’re seeing.

Above, you see such an incredible act of terpischoric virtuosity.

Heather Parisi, a California native who became a major Italian TV star in the 1980s, delivers her version of Michael Sembello’s, song from Flashdance, “Maniac.”  The uncredited choreographer has clearly attained a new level of dance velocity with footwork that clearly lives up to the title of this song. This epic dance number was featured on a Italian variety show in 1984.

Okay…it’s also goofy as freaking hell. I mean, this looks like the kind of choreography that would ensue if you poured half a pound of chocoate-covered espresso beans down the throat of a hyperactive toddler.

This clip has resurfaced and gone viral every few years since it was rediscovered and put on YouTube about a decade ago. Rae Alexandra at KQED even tracked down more videos by the excitable Ms. Parisi, and you can see them HERE. Be warned, if you decide to follow the link in that piece to Ms. Parisi’s website, she’s seems a tad conspiracy and anti-vax minded, so proceed with caution.

But the main point is that this choreography is just hilariously bizarre.  I hadn’t posted it yet, so here’s a forty-year-old nightmare of hyperactivity, presented for your amusement, enlightenment and enjoyment.

After skipping one of our “lost” episodes, from April, 2009, comes “Earth To Eros Shirt,” a show named after John Lancaster’s old band. We never managed to get E2E on the show, but we have had John on a few times. Our host segments were shot at The Convenience Store on Summer’s Street, which is not there anymore.  This show contains our comedy interview with the store’s owner, Scott Shapiro, which illustrates why I hardly ever do interviews on Radio Free Charleston.

Music from Go Van Gogh and A Place Of Solace highlight this episode. We also featured a trailer for the movie “The Bride and Grooms” and the phenomenal young Bradley Wilkerson Sings! Bradley had been on the previous episode, which as I mentioned, is lost, but we re-ran Bradley’s segment from Episode 66 in our latest video episode a few weeks ago.

Actually, a deal to record The West Virginia Symphony Orchestra fell through at the last minute, so I did the first-ever “rerun” of a segment and reused the animated video “Requiem For Pepperland” that I created–in just a couple of days–for a then-twenty-year-old demo by Go Van Gogh. You can consider this our Beatles thing to observe the 60th annivesary of their first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show, because I didn’t have time to do a new Beatles Blast this week.

Our other musical guest, A Place of Solace, finally appeared fifty episodes after I wore one of their shirts on the show. It all comes around.  It is great to see Bradley Wilkerson at his peak and in his prime. This is how he should be remembered, not his eventual decline and sad end.

Full production notes can be found here.

The PopCulteer
February 9, 2024

To be clear here, the headline above refers to a truly remarkably awful action figure.

In fact, it’s so bad that it’s entertaining.  It’s sort of the “Manos: The Hands of Fate” of action figures.

It’s not a knockoff (at least not of anything I recognize). It doesn’t appear to have any company of manufacture, although it is distributed by a company in Henderson, North Carolina, that I suspect may be a subsidiary of Rose’s Discount Stores, where I found this thing.

While I try not to write negative reviews (preferring instead to simply ignore crap), sometimes something comes along that awakens the Leonard Pinth-Garnell in me, and I have to rhapsodize about the beautiful awfulness of it.

This is such a case.

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On the way back from our trip to Winterfest (you should have seen the photo essays and video by now), we stopped at Rose’s Discount Store in Lexington. Rose’s is one of my guilty pleasure stores because they usually have a wild assortment of bizarre and amusing knockoff toys. I’ve visted their stores in Virginia, Maryland, Ohio and Kentucky, and may someday venture to the one in Hinton, which is just up the river. The stores themselves seem like some sort of post-apocalyptic Hill’s, arisen from the dead…and that only adds to the charm.

As soon as I saw this wonderful monstrosity, I knew I had to have it…if it was cheap enough.  It was the last one in the store, and it appears to have been marked down to $7.99 from what would have been a higher price that would have made me pass on it. It just squeaked under my limit. There is no indication of when this figure was made, so it might have been sitting in this store for decades.

This is a huge, ugly action figure, with five points of clunky articulation, one under-sized accessory, no more than three paint ops on any individual piece (with four pieces having no paint at all), and a delightfully skewed series of slogans on the package, which are obviously the work of someone for whom English is not their first (or possibly second or third) language.

This is a fifteen-inch tall action figure, supposedly of a police officer, and at this point, I need to let the pictures tell the story…

As you can see, this is an “IMPI COMBAT SET,” which does seem a bit extreme for a Police figure.

You get the impression that whomever wrote the box copy, just maybe, didn’t know what all the words meant. However, that disclaimer is very important.

Like I said, that box copy just ain’t right. On the back of the box, this is a “Power Deluxe” figure.

And yes, they claim that this action figure that bends at the hips, shoulders and neck, is “fully articulated.” Also, this little illustration might explain the need for the disclaimer you saw above.

There’s that disclaimer again.

The side panel of the box identifies this as a “Power Combat Force” figure that has “Power Of The Fighter.” It also says that, no matter how tempted you are, you CAN NOT THROW AWAY this figure. I couldn’t get that one sticker peeled up to see what was under it.

I had to let you see this guy out of the box. He looks a bit like Jim Shooter, done up in scale to 12″ GI Joes. Like Lenny says about Screwball Squirrel, he don’t move much.

Check out the precision fit of that seam! I haven’t seen a seam like that since the last time I parked next to a Kia. Also, the hands are molded out of the same rigid styrene as the rest of the figure, so don’t expect him to have much of a grip.

The back view. Except for the arms, no paint on the back. Three screws hold this guy together.

This is pretty much the extent of his range of motion…and every joint felt like it was going to snap.

I can’t leave out his weapon. This photo does not do justice to how thin it is. If it were any more thin, it’d be a drawing.

We leave you with a look at the man with his gun, which he can’t hold, and which is way too tiny for him anyway. When he says, “Say ‘Hello’ to my little friend,” he ain’t kidding.

That brings us to the end of this week’s PopCulteer. This poor guy was just so gloriously awful that I had to salute him here in the blog. He gets the last laugh…I have him in the collection now.

Check back every day for fresh content and news and reviews about much better toys than this, along with all of the other cool stuff we cover.

With Valentine’s Day happening next Tuesday, a lot of folks who celebrate holidays when it’s convenient for them are going to romantic events this weekend.  And so we have a pre-Valentine’s heavy new batch of STUFF TO DO in and around the Charleston/Huntington WV area (and beyond) this weekend. Not only is there love in the air, but it’s also Super Bowl weekend, so we know everybody is going to tune into Nickelodeon to watch The Bikini Bottom Bowl!

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.

Live Music is back at Taylor Books. There is no cover charge, and shows start at 7:30 PM.  Friday it’s Andrew Pauley (who will also be at The Empty Glass this weekend). Saturday Sean Richardson & David McGuire, plus Brooke Brown and Sean Knisely take the stage at the beloved bookstore/cafe/art gallery, possibly all at once.

Friday from 8 PM to Midnight, Golden will be at Louie’s Lounge at the Mardi Gras Casino and Resort.

The World Famous Empty Glass Cafe has some great stuff this week  to tell you about. Thursday at 5:30 PM it’s the Helping Hour with Swingstein & Robin.     Friday Tim Courts plays during happy hour.  Later on Friday it’s live music w/ Makenna Hope, Nolan Collins, James Townsend, and Schaefer Ball at 10 PM.  Sunday at 9 PM, Andrew Pauley strolls to the other end of town to play at The Glass. You can check below for the graphics for other cool weekend shows at The Empty Glass.

The Two Tinkers will have their final sale at 717 Lee St E, room 307 on Saturday, starting at 11 AM.  That’s The People’s Building, by the way. Going forward they will sell their cool and eccentric wares at local fairs and shows.

Please remember that the pandemic is not over yet. It’s still a going concern with the ‘rona surging again. And now there are seasonal allergies, the flu, seasonal felonies, people who don’t realize that Necco Wafers and Conversation Hearts are the same candy, sportsball fanatics and other damned good reasons to be careful. 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.

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

If you’re up for going out, here are a few suggestions for the weekend, roughly in order…

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The mid-week finds us at Wednesday afternoon, and The AIR still manages to bring you a new episode of Curtain Call and a recent edition of Beatles Blast to put the hump in your hump day.  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 brings you a Halloween-season compilation of “Dark Beatles,” with forboding songs by the group and solo, and covers and contributions by Harry Nilsson and Sonic Youth.

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 pays tribute to one of her heroes who recently passed away, Chita Rivera.

Rivera, who passed away on January 30, 2024 at the age of 91 had an amazing career. Over her seven decades on stage, she created a number of iconic Broadway roles, including Rose in Bye, Bye Birdie, Velma Kelly in Chicago, Aurora in Kiss of the Spider Woman, and Claire in The Visit, just to name a few. She was a barrier breaking trailblazer who stood out as a Latina performer in a time when the vast majority of her colleagues were white.

A ten time Tony nominee, (and three time Tony recipient), she was also the first Latino performer to receive the Kennedy Center Honors in 2002. And in 2009, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

In this episode you will hear just a few of Chita Rivera’s many memorable stage moments:

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From West Side Story: “America” and “Tonight”
From Bye Bye Birdie: “What Did I Ever See In Him?” and “Spanish Rose”
From Bajour “Love Line”
From Chicago: “All That Jazz” and “Cell Block Tango”
From the movie soundtrack of Sweet Charity: “Hey, Big Spender” and “There’s Gotta Be Something Better Than This”
From The Rink: “Chief Cook and Bottle Washer” and “The Apple Doesn’t Fall”
From The Visit: “I Walk Away” and “Love and Love Alone”
From Chicago: “Nowadays” and “When Velma Takes The Stand”

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 six-hour 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.

Also on The AIR, Wednesday at 11 PM,  The Comedy Vault brings you an hour of stand-up comedy from newly-minted author, Steven Wright.

Tuesday finds a partly-new Radio Free Charleston on The AIR.  Our first hour of  Radio Free Charleston is accompanied by a classic two-hour episode of RFC International, that dates back to April, 2016.

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 a collection of cool new, and newly-acquired music, leading off with the Ohio-based band, The Broken Relics. They’re looking to expand their touring and will likely wind up playing in the Huntington/Charleston area real soon. I’ll keep you posted when that happens here in PopCult.

We also have new tunes from The Paranoid Style, Novelty Island, Jim Lange, The Anchoress, The Dread Crew of Oddwood, plus some classic local tracks from folks like Strawfyssh, Astrodot, Brian Diller, Velez Manifesto and Tilting at Windmills. And we also bring you the tune we promised last Sunday from Sgt. Van and the Highway Dogs.

Our second and third hours are an early episode of RFC International, where I play a selection of music that defies all logic and laws of nature. Just check out the playlist below and try to figure out how The Residents and Captain Beefheart fit into a show with Neil Young and Cheap Trick, and flow into Emerson Lake and Palmer and Iron Maiden.

The links in the first hour of the playlist will take you to the pages where you can learn more about each artist and buy their music or find out where to see them.

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hour one
The Broken Relics “Rodeo”
Sgt. Van and the Highway Dogs “Nothing Can Hold Me Down”
Novelty Island “Sage Guitars”
Jim Lange “I’m A Weed”
The Paranoid Style “The Drop Is Steep”
Velez Manifesto “Dream of Life”
Strawfyssh “Mr. Biggs (live)”
Corduroy Brown “Bright Lives (live)”
The Anchoress “Asleep”
Tilting at Windmills “Sic Toons”
The Dread Crew of Oddwood  “Lawful Evil”
Astrodot “Stormy Blue”
Brian Diller “Loneliest Day”

hour two
Cheap Trick “Roll Me”
Neil Young “Sample and Hold”
Dubioza Kolectiv “Alarm Song”
Marc Ribot y Los cubanos postizos “Los Teenagers Bailan Changui”
Weezer “Thank God for Girls”
Red Vox “There She Goes”
The High Violets “Bells”
The Enid “Someone Shall Rise”
The Foreign Films “Sweet Sorrow”
The Hillbilly Moon Explosion “Heartbreak Boogie”
Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band “Run Paint Run”
Mike & The Melvins “Dead Canaries”
The Residents “Japanese Watercolor”
St. Vincent “Krokodil”

hour three
The Dandy Warhols “Pope Reverend Jim”
Killing Joke “The Big Buzz”
Brian Eno “The Hour Is Thin”
Escapism “Ship To Shore”
The Range “Superimpose”
Filter “Pride Flag”
Dread Crew of Oddwood “Siren’s Song”
Atomic Rooster “Friday The 13th”
Black Stone Cherry “War”
Emerson Lake and Palmer “Toccata”
Hooverphonic “I Like The Way I Dance”
Danielle DeCosmo “Don’t Know What It Means”
The Buzzcocks “ESP”
Operators “Bring Me The Head”
Iron Maiden “The Trooper”

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 classic episode 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.