In case you missed the news yesterday, this week all of The AIR Musical Specialty programs will have some sort of Valentine’s Day-ish theme.  Love is on The AIR this week, and today is no exception.

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 we indulge in the love bug with a third hour “Mystery Bonus Track” mixtape devoted to weird love. As such, there is no playlist with links for you to click. This is to preserve the integrity of the Mystery Bonus Track, and is in no way simply a way to cut down my workload.

To be honest, the original plan was to tie in every AIR program this week with the love theme except for RFC. However, at the last minute I thought of a gimmick that worked with theme and was a labor-saving device, so it was a no-brainer.

The links in the playlist will take you to the pages for the artists in this week’s show where possible, except in the third hour because I’m lazy…

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hour one
Massing “Over Now”
David Synn “Odyssey”
Dream Theater “Midnight Messiah”
The Settlement“Recognize-Enter Mission”
Dark Entities “March of the Skulls”
SPACE FREQ “Tonight”
Tony Levin “Give The Cello Some”
Dinosaur Burpss “Resonator Test (Instrumental)”
Los Grainders “Storm Surf”

hour two
Corduroy Brown with Kindred Valley “Cross Your Mind”
Gyasi “Baby Blue”
The Subjunctives “Believe (Rehashed)”
The Teardrop Explodes “Ha Ha I’m Drowning”
Kate Fagan “Go Faster”
Golden “Impossible”
Rachel Tucker “All Right Now”
The Paranoid Style“I Love The Sound of Structured Class”
Emmalea Deal & The Hot Mess “Does She Have You”
69 Fingers “Pocket Full of Change”
The Sweet “Hell Raiser”
LameAssDads “Your Love”
Government Cheese “Oh Yeah”
Franz Ferdinand “The Doctor”
Lene Lovich “Be Stiff”
The Blasters “Long White Cadillac”

hour three

The Mystery Bonus Weird Love Mixtape

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 fits into our romantic theme by including songs that all have the word, “kiss” in the title. We kick it off with a rare B-side by Joe Jackson’s Jumpin’ Jive that I’ve been wanting to bring you since I started doing this show nine years ago.

This week’s show is a big old sloppy Swing Kiss.

Check out the playlist…

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Joe Jackson’s Jumpin’ Jive “Knock Me A Kiss”
Brian Setzer Orchestra “Kiss Me Deadly”
Woody Herman “A Kiss Goodnight”
Lester Young “This Year’s Kiss”
Ella Fitzgerald “This Year’s Kisses”
Kathy & The Kilowatts “Each Kiss”
Dean Martin “I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now”
Earl “You Kissed Me”
Louis Armstrong “A Kiss To Build A Dream On”
Krystal Jyl & The Jacks “Machine Gun Kisses”
Stan Kenton with Julie Christy “We Kiss In A Shadow”
Benny Goodman & His Orchestra “A Little Kiss At Twilight”
Teddy Hill “The Lady Who Couldn’t Be Kissed”
Duke Ellington “The Kissing Bug”
Louis Prima “I Kiss Your Hand Madame”
Amos Milburn “Kiss Me Again”
Django Reinhardt & The Hot Club of France “A Little Love, A Little Kiss”
Chick Webb “Love And Kisses”
Louis Jordan “Knock Me A Kiss”

 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.