Well, the first hour of the show is new, anyway.

We start 2025 by doing one new show in in a row!  Tuesday is once again “New Show Day” on The AIR.  As such, we have a newish 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.

This week RFC kicks off with one new hour of our regular RFC local/indie/alternative coolness, followed by a classic, mostly local, episode of Radio Free Charleston Volume Four, from April, 2016. It’s a gem that hasn’t been heard by anyone in over eight years. Admittedly, this is a compromise because I’m racing the clock producing this show. The power and/or internet could go out at any second due to the massive winter storm, so I revived an old show to make production go quicker.

The show kicks off with a brand-new punkish/New Wave tune by Kate Fagan.  Kate is a legend of the Chicago Punk/New Wave scene, but since she relocated to New Orleans a few years ago, she’s broadend her musical scope to include Swing and Pop. “Go Faster” is a return to her roots and what a return it is! It’s a great high energy start to the show. This single will be officially released January 17.

We also have new tunes from Novo Combo, Shining Glass, Sierra Ferrell, Dinosaur Burps, Emmaline, The Polkamaniacs, SPACE FREQ and more.  Plus we dig into the archives and welcome The Bible Beaters back to RFC for the first time since they were on our video show almost sixteen years ago.

Our second and third hours revive a long-unheard episode of RFC from the early days of The AIR. This mosty-local showcase is a pretty cool time-capsule of the Charleston music scene circa a decade ago, with a couple of regional touring bands thrown in just for the hell of it.

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

RFC V5 209

hour one
Kate Fagan “Go Faster”
Novo Combo “E-Train Revisited”
Shining Glass “Three Died”
The Polkamaniacs “Dream Water Wheel (Death Deluxe Remix)”
Hellaphant “In Between Days”
SPACE FREQ  “Open Your Mind”
Lene Lovich “Cats Away”
Sierra Ferrell “The Garden (remix)”
Dinosaur Burps  “Mess a Wildcats”
The Heavy Hitters Band “Voicemail”
Emmaline  “Wrong Side of Midnight”
Believe “Shine”
Robert Ellis Orrall“Big Hook”
The Bible Beaters “Praise Jesus”

hour two
Trielement “Lemonade”
Possum Kingdom Ramblers “Land of the Lost”
Uncle Eddie and Robin “All Naked Women”
Stephen Beckner “Olive or Twist”
Pepper Fandango “Bad Scene”
The Silvers “Running Away”
Under Surveillance “Broken Lullaby”
The Jims “Masquerade”
Time And Distance “War”
From The Future “Hot Taco”
Doctor Curmudgeon “Lucabration”
Billy Matheny “Christless Streets”
The Big Bad “Out of the Morgue”
Wolfgang Parker “Among The Ash Heaps (and Millionaires)”
Ann Magnuson “Some Kind of Swinger”

hour three
A Place of Solace “Breakdown”
John Lancaster “Something To Fade Into”
Science of the Mind “Suffer”
Frauenfeld “Growing Up”
Bobaflex “School For Young Ladies”
Karma To Burn “Waltz of the Playboy Pallbearers”
Jordan Andrew Jefferson “Ghost By The Water”
Mark Wolfe “A Kinda Blues”
Superfetch “Sport’n A Chub”
Department of Crooks “New York City”
Linnfinity “Morning Heights”
Garagecow Ensemble “Rosie’s Lullaby”

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.