RFC Offers Up A Last-Minute Halloween Blitz

Radio Free Charleston is ALL-NEW as we try to revive everybody’s sagging Halloween Spirit this Tuesday on The AIR!  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 we jump headfirst into Halloween and Halloween-adjacent musics to get everybody back in the mood for the spookiest holiday of the year.

With Halloween hype starting in June, and people looking past the fun of Halloween to the potential horrors that might be unleased on Election Day, it’s easy to lose sight of the fun part of being really scared.

This week we have three full hours of scary-ish music, with brand-new tunes from The Pistol Whippers (just in time for Saturday’s Halloween Hootenanny at The Empty Glass), I. Jeziak & The Surfers, Sgt. Van’s Bionic Marines, Tony Iommi, and more.  Plus we dig into our archives for more spooky stuff, and bring you songs from some Halloween All-Stars.

Check out this playlist, with links to all, of the artist’s pages…

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hour one
The Pistol Whippers “Siren Baby”
I.Jeziak & The Surfers “Moonlight”
Hannah Gill “Moon Ray”
Sgt. Van’s Bionic Marines “From the Dark Side of the Moon”
John Lancaster “Phantom Moon”
HARRAH “Blood Moon”
The Irreplaceables “Bad Moon Rising”
The Big Bad “Seeking Souls”
Tony Iommi “Over The Violent Sun”
Payback’s A Bitch “Searching For Eden”
The Stranglers “Long Black Veil”
best dressed ghost “Dread and Breakfast”

hour two
Frenchy & The Punk “Bringin’ Out The Dead (Edward Gorey Seance)”
The Renfields “Transylvania High”
Emmalea Deal “Bite”
GRPPLING “Hellbound”
Cricketman w/Quilt Monsters “Get Me Out”
The Aquabats “Fashion Zombies”
The Dollyrots “Rather Be A Zombie”
Flare Baroshi “Vampire Mafia”
The Phantom Surfers “Highway To Hell (The Pina Colada Song)”
Canoe Speed “Stick The Knife In Now”
Custard Flux “Les Mâchoires de la Mort”
The Settlement “Extinction”
Ghoulbox “Necrokiss”
Lost Decades “Nosedive”

hour three
Puddles Pity Party “Toxic”
Pallas “Monster (Swing Version)”
Frank Zappa “The Return of the Son of Monster Magnet”
David Bowie “Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)”
Oingo Boingo “Change”
Lene Lovich “The Night”
Morglbl “The Monster Within Me”

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. 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. I’m fighting some kind of technical issue, so it’s going to take the form of an embedded video this week…

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 get ready for two classic episodes of The Swing Shift, featuring the some slightly spooky Swing tunes.

 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.

Our Halloween programming will continue all week on The AIR, not only in our musical specialty programs, but also at 5 PM every weeknight, and all day Saturday and for good measure, Sunday, too.