The long weekend has ended, and  Tuesday is once again “New Show Day” on The AIR.  As such, we have a sort of new episode of  Radio Free Charleston 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.

The week we bring you an hour of patented mixture of local, independent and any other kind of music, and then for our second and third hours we resurrect an episode of Radio Free Charleston International that hasn’t been heard in over six years. I don’t really have a playlist for our presentation of Radio Cult and friends, so I’ll tell you about that part of the show below.

Our first hour opens with a new live track from The Settlement, who are gearing up for a summer filled with live shows, and then we bring you new music from Nashville’s Saycouth, who will make their first live stop at the Virgin Hotel in Nashville this Friday. The rest of hour one is filled with exquisite musical gems, guaranteed to satiate the most sophisticated tastes.

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

RFC V5 214

hour one
The Settlement “Blindman”
Saycouth “Magic”
The Heavy Hitters Band“Come Dance With Me”
Madeline Peyroux “Dance Me To The End Of Love”
Massing with Shelem “Shabby”
Gyasi  “23”
Dinosaur Burpss “Eat My Hat”
Novo Combo“Sorry For The Delay”
Andy Summers & Robert Fripp “I Advance Masked”
Chuck Biel “Genvieve Is Bob”
Galen and Paul “The Lighthouse Waltz”
Brian Diller “Some Miles Back”

hour two and three

Radio Cult, recorded in Atlanta!

The rest of the show brings you a special episode of Radio Free Charleston International. This is a bootleg recording of Radio Cult at ToyLanta, recorded March 10, 2018. Radio Cult was the house band for ToyLanta and they put on a heck of a show in one of the conference rooms at the Marriott Century Center in Atlanta.

The cool part is that they had convention-goers join them onstage. In this show you will hear Mike Gardner and Alex Massey guest on guitar, JD Luck on bass, a couple of guys whose name I didn’t catch on drums and Jas Ingram on Theremin. You’ll also get to hear guest vocals by Dan Cioffi, David Lane, Jas Ingram and Mel Larch, among others.

It was a real kick to see Mrs. PopCulteer join the band late in the show on “Country Roads” and “Smells Like Teen Spirit, ” since she wasn’t really feeling up to singing at the beginning of the show.

This recording is bootleg-quality, so don’t expect a lossless 5.1 audio mix or anything. I asked steven Wilson if he’d do a special remix and he threw stuff at me. I do think it conveys the pure fun of Radio Cult’s performance. You’ll hear a few Radio Cult originals and covers of everything from AC/DC to KISS, to Skynyrd to Nena and Madonna. There’s even a snippet of Queen in there.

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.