RFC Previews The Gift Guide with The Big Bad and Buddy Holly

Radio Free Charleston is ALL-NEW as we welcome back Jon Raider, our guest programmer, for a Buddy Holly in our third hour 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 bring you two new hours of our famous recipe mix of local, independent and cult music, and we welcome back Jon Raider for the Westside at Midnight Buddy Holly Mixtape! Jon is an old friend who many folks may know as the drummer for Strawfyssh back in the day, and also as the creator and curator of The Scene group at Facebook.

When Jon’s schedule opens up, we hope to welcome him to The AIR to host his own show, but for now he’s going to pop up every few weeks by programming our third hour.

That third hour is the inspiration for one of our entries in The 2026 PopCult Gift Guide today, but it’s not the only one.

We open the show AND our second hour with tracks from Hexed, the long-awaited new album, currently available only on vinyl, by The Big Bad. I’ll tell you about it in a bit when it gets its own Gift Guide post in this blog later today.

Our first two hours also feature brand-new music from Massing featuring Buni Muni, Electric Pets, Long Dark Moon, Johnny Marr, Temp Wishes, Protomartyr, Pallas, Stick Men and more.

We have a little bit of everything, and you can hear my voice evaporate as the show progresses, which is one reason that our third hour is a mixtape.

Right now the plan is to turn over hour three of RFC to Jon every three or four weeks.  When the timing works out, Jon will likely be spinning off to host his own show on The AIR.

Check out this playlist, with links to most of the artist’s page for the first two hours of the show…

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hour one
The Big Bad “Hexed”
Massing featuring Buni Muni “Go Away”
Electric Pets “Glam”
Payback’s A Bitch “Get Up, Go”
Long Dark Moon “System”
Johnny Marr “In and Out of Love”
Temp Wishes “Mist In The Morning”
Frenchy and the Punk “Lunar Frenzy”
Jim Lange “Ride The Bus”
I. Jeziak and The Surfers “Deja Vu”
The Rutles “Evolution Number 10”
Protomartyr “The Knife Dream”
Canoe Speed “Breech Babies”
Bongwater “Folk Song”

hour two
The Big Bad “The Storm”
Pallas “Inside Outside”
Stick Men “Swimming In Tea”
Custard Flux “The Floating Chamber”
Moron Police “Pachinko

hour three

Westside At Midnight Buddy Holly Mixtape

“Rock Me My Baby”
“Bo Diddley”
“Rave On”
“Little Baby”
“Mona”
“Holly Hop”
“Early In The Morning”
“Modern Don Juan”
“Midnight Shift”
“Baby, Won’t You Come Out Tonight”
“Girl On My Mind”
“Rock Around With Ollie Vee”
“I’m Gonna Put My Foot Down”
“Love’s Made A Fool Out Of You”
“Smokey Joe’s Cafe”
“Now We’re One”
“You’re The One”
“Slippin’ And Slidin’ (Fast Version)”
“Untitled Instrumental”
“Brown Eyed Handsome Man”
“Well All Right”
“Ready Teddy”
“Rock-A-Bye-Rock”
“Good Rockin’ Tonight”
“Peggy Sue”
“I’m Changing All Those Changes”
“Blue Suede Shoes”
“Look At 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.

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 best Swing Music from the last century!

 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.