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.

UPDATE: A due to a technical glitch, the 10 AM airing did not happen. You can listen to the show below, or at 10 PM or the additional scheduled airings throughout the week.

We have a special RFC for you this week.  We have two hours of our usual free-format blend of local, independent, alternative and progressive music, and in our third hour I attempt to recreate a very cool music sampler cassette from forty years ago.

We open the show with brand-new music from The The, which was quite a shock to me because, for some reason, I was under the impression that Matt Thompson, who essentially IS The The, had passed away a few years ago. Happily, I was very much mistaken and his new music is great.

We also have new tunes from David Synn, Tony Levin, The Queen’s Cartoonists (who also open this week’s new episode of The Swing Shift), Corduroy Brown,  Mercury Rev, The Anchoress, and more. We also dig into our archives again and bring you some music that was new ten years ago, when we first started presenting local music at 10 AM and 10 PM every Tuesday.

Our third hour recreates Warner Brothers’ Survival Sampler cassette from 1984. Identified as “SR-1 Sound Rations” and packaged in a tin can, made to look like a military MRE food can, this package was cool enough to persuade a vinyl snob like yours truly to buy a pre-recorded cassette tape. As you’ll see in the playlist below, and hear in the show, it was a pretty amazing collection of musical artists.

In order to fit the whole thing into our third hour,  I had to replace a couple of 12″ mixes with regular album cuts, but essentially this is the cassette that I paid just under four bucks for forty years ago. The can and accompanying pamphlet are long gone, lost to the tumultuous first marriage, but I do still have the cassette. I was able to swipe the accompanying images from various places on the internet. Rather than dub it over, I replaced every track with a higher-quality digital copy.

I’m still a snob that way, I guess.

The links in the playlist will take you to the pages for the local and independent artists in the first two hours of this week’s show where possible…

RFC V5 193

hour one
The The “Cognitive Dissident”
David Synn “Swollen Head”
Tony Levin “Bringing Down The Bass”
The Queen’s Cartoonists “Kyrie/Dies Irae” from Mozart’s Jazz Requiem
Chuck Biel “Sun, Wind, Bicycle”
Corduroy Brown“Lookin’ Over My Shoulder”
John Radcliff “Chase The Sun”
Mercury Rev “Born Horses”
The Anchoress “Further Down The Line”
The Boatmen “Heartbreak Hangover”
Mediogres w/B.Rude “Evening Essentials”
The Settlement “Serotonin”
Frenchy & The Punk “Immortal”

hour two
Dina Hornbaker “Black Coffee”
The Nanker Phelge “The Killer Took A Holiday”
The Company Stores “Rise”
Miniature Giant “Wendigo”
Renaissance “Trip To The Fair”
Jordan Rudess “Embers”
Mapped By A Forest “Things You Want To Hear”
The Aquabats “Don’t Make Me Run”
Clownhole “Old Man Jumping Over A Fence”
Golden “I Want To Run”
The Defectors “Easy Target”
Velez Manifesto “Blue Air”
Emmalea Deal & The Hot Mess “Ignorant”
Novelty Island “1102”
Buni Muni “Battle Pass”

hour three
Novo Combo “Sorry (For The Delay)”
The Smiths “What Difference Does It Make”
The Church “Electric Lash”
China Crisis “Wishful Thinking”
Scritti Politti “Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin)”
Carmel “More, More, More”
King Crimson “Sleepless”
Aztec Camera “Pillar To Post”
The Cure “The Caterpillar”
The Bluebells “I’m Falling”
Modern English “Rainbow’s End”
The Assembly “Never Never”
Depeche Mode “Everything Counts”

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’s loaded with new Swing, classic Swing and everything in between.

Check out the playlist…

The Swing Shift 163

The Queen’s Cartoonists “Sanctus from Mozart’s Jazz Requiem”
Cherry Poppin’ Daddies “Royal Street Swing”
Lester’s Blues “I Want A Little Girl”
Maria Muldaur with Tuba Skinny “Let’s Get Happy Together”
Sassy Swingers “All The Whores”
Squirrel Nut Zippers “Axman Jazz”
Swing Ninjas “Mummy’s Finger”
David Campbell “Beyond The Sea”
Tyler Pedersen “Lap Four 53”
Passepartout ‘Menilmontant’
Megan & Her Goody Goodies “It Had To Be You”
Louis Prima Jr. & The Witnesses “Fame and Glory”
Brian Setzer Orchestra “Kiss Me Deadly”
The Wolverines Big Bad “String of Pearls”
Royal Crown Revue “Sparky’s In The Kitchen”
Wolfgang Parker “It Don’t Mean A Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)”

 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.