Your humble blogger is back from vacation and that means we are back to what passes for normal. 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 kicks off with two hours of our usual mix of local, independent and free-format music, and then our third hour presents a mixtape of Surf Rock.

We open with a new tune from Sgt. Van, who I just got to see about ten days ago at JoeLanta, and we continue with new music from Brian Diller, Matt Mullins & The Bringdowns, Emmaline, The Cure, Mega Ran, Tucker Riggleman & The Cheap Dates and more.

We also have a track from Maxx McGathey, in advance of his upcoming album release show at The Constellation Chicago on October 11. His new album, Imaginary Eyes, is out now from Nudie Records. 

Our third hour is something I’ve been planning to do for some time, but just did get around to doing. It’s a mixtape of Surf Rock. We feature new Surf bands, classic bands and a few ringers who are surfing in disguise.

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

RFC V5 197

hour one
Sgt. Van and The Highway Dogs “Flies On Mars”
Brian Diller “Heroes Aren’t Hard To Find”
Matt Mullins and The Bringdowns “Rust”
Emmaline ‘Indiana Skies”
Corduroy Brown “Watercolors”
The Cure “Alone”
Maxx McGathey “The Veil Is Thinnest”
Mega Ran “They Don’t Make Em Like They Used To”
Rat Ship “Heads & Houses”
Kanga  “Rehab”
David Synn “Purple Eclipse”
Brian Tyler “More Than Meets The Eye”
Pallas “The Executioner (rough mix)”

hour two
Tucker Riggleman & The Cheap Dates “Manic (live)”
Alison Moyet “Such Small Ale”
Billy Strings “Stratosphere Blues/I Believe In You”
John Radcliff “We All Want To Shout”
John Lennon “Out The Blue (outtake)”
Ginger Wixx “Arcade”
Andy Prieboy“Anyone But You”
Mediogres “Diet of Worms”
Government Cheese “Just The Beginning of the Day”
Jordan Andrew Jefferson “Love You”
Bottle and Bride “Brighter”
Nixon Black “The Devil (live)”
The Settlement “Midnight Train”

hour three
Surf Rock Mixtape
The Surfrajettes “Easy As Pie”
Guitarmy of One “Sea Legs Diamond”
Test Subject 17 “Operation x5000”
The Wipeouters “Ravin’ Surf”
The Tentakills “Dog-Days”
The Shadows “Apache”
Gary Hoey “Shake & Stomp Pt II”
The Marketts “Out of Limits”
The Madeira “Witch Doctor”
The Routes  “Tour De France”
The Ventures “Walk, Don’t Run”
The Fellows “Riding Cossack”
The Humans “Pipeline”
The Esquires “Black Night”
The Challengers “K-39”
The Lively Ones “Surf Rider”
Dick Dale “Miserlou”
Duane Eddy & Ravi Shankar “The Trembler”
The Chantays “Crystal T”

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 pays tribute to Count Basie in what would have been his 120th birthday year. Tune in and listen to the genius of the keyboard at the top of his game.

Check out the playlist…

The Swing Shift 163

Count Basie 120th birthday salute
“One O’Clock Jump”
“Boogie Woogie”
“Swingin’ At The Daisy Chain”
“Topsy”
“Honeysuckle Rose”
“Roseland Shuffle”
“Boo Hoo”
“You Know It All, Smarty”
“The Glory of Love”
“Listen My Children and you Shall Hear”
“Basie Land”
“Singin’ In The Rain”
“Stompin’ And Jivin'”
“Volare”
“Oh Lonesome Me”
“Sassy”
“Blues For The Count and Oscar”
“Blee Blop Blues”
“I Got It Bad and that Ain’t Good”
“I Wanna Be Around (With Sinatra)”
“Fly Me To The Moon (With Sinatra)”

 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.