For the first time since 1989, there is a NEW, full-length episode of Radio Free Charleston debuting on Christmas Eve!

Tuesday is always “New Show Day” on The AIR.  As such, we have a new episode of  Radio Free Charleston for you, buried among all of our special Christmas programming. 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 kicks off with a brand-new song from Emmalea Deal & The Hot Mess, and in the rest of our three-hour show we’ll treat you to new tracks from Shining Glass, Dinosaur Burps (with a Charlie Brown Superstar remix), Mikey Jupp, William Matheny, Brian Diller, Garbage, SPACE FREQ, The Polkamaniacs, Tony Levin, The Surfrajettes, Heavy Hitters Band, The Slamdanistas and Tucker Riggleman & The Cheap Dates.

We’re all over the map this week, jumping from Rock to Hip Hop to Glam Rock to country, Prog Rock, Alternative, Jam, Surf, Soul, Avante-Garde and more. We mix local artists with indie artists, musical legends and obscure cult musicians, and the result is…typical Radio Free Charleston. There’s even a really nice mystery bonus track at the end of the show.

Think of it as a novel way to spend your Christmas Eve.

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

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hour one
Emmalea Deal & The Hot Mess “Invisible”
Shining Glass “Two Birds”
Dinosaur Burps  “Driftwood (CBS Mix)”
Wizzard “Rock ‘N’ Roll Winter”
Mickey Jupp “Honky Tonic”
William Matheny “Bird of Youth”
Brian Diller “Elegy For William”
Matt Berry featuring Kitty Luv “I Gotta Limit”
Steve Harley “2000 Years From Now”
Poppy “The Cave”
Teddy Kumpel and Nome Sane “Material Girl”
Ann Magnuson “Ghost Cat”
Garbage “Because The Night”

hour two
SPACE FREQ “Strut”
The Polkamaniacs “Southside Pittsburgh, PA”
Tony Levin “Bungie Bass”
The Surfrajettes “Toasted Western”
The Heavy Hitters Band “Tequila In A To-Go Box Part 3”
Chuck Biel “First One Out”
The Cure “A Fragile Thing (RS24 Remix)”
John Cale “Adalucia”
Ginger Wixx  “The Girl and the Bear”
The Residents “ENOugh”
Frenchy & The Punk “Mr. Scorpion”

hour three
The Slamdanistas “Santa’s In A Punk Band Now”
Tucker Riggleman & The Cheap Dates “Curtain”
Steve Hillage “Frame by Frame”
Astrodot“The Victor”
David Friesen “One Last Time”
The Settlement “The Lift”
Jon Anderson “Still A Friend”
Clownhole “Old Man Jumping A Fence”
No Doubt “Tragic Kingdom”
City Boy “The Blind Leading The Blind”
Save Ferris “Goodbye”

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, even during out holiday programming blitz.

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.

 

Elsewhere on The AIR, we are bringing you a few days of holiday programming.  You can listen to The AIR at the website, or on the embedded radio player elsewhere on this page.

Aside from special holiday editions of our music specialty shows, we also have three-hour blocks of random Christmas songs as well as some audio drama, with classics like “A Christmas Carol” and “Dragnet.”

Trust me, it’s Christmassy.

This holiday bonanza will be interrupted by our regularly-scheduled NEW episode of Radio Free Charleston, which will air at its regular time all week long. Our Christmas shows will run until midnight, Thursday.