Get ready for three hours of largely brand-new music and a mostly-recovered announcer on a new Radio Free Charleston  that you can hear today 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, (all times EDT) with boatloads of replays throughout the week.

This week it’s all free-format local, independent and whatever music, with loads of fantastic new tracks.  Our third hour is dedicated to presenting a mixtape of artists brought to my attention by August Forte, of NoVo Management & Publicity. August has been feeding me great independent music from Chicago, Nashville and other points since I got on his radar when I featured the Chicago band, Tautologic, on a video edition of Radio Free Charleston back in 2020. Chances are, I’ll do this again in a few weeks, with a completely different line-up of artists.

On the way to that third hour, we have a killer line-up of amazing artists.  There’s new music from Emmalea Deal & The Hot Mess, Chuck Biel with Scott Milam, Byzantine, Brain Eno & Beatie Wolfe, The Settlement, Project Gemini, Buni Muni, Brian Diller, The M.F.B. and more.

We also mix in some goodies from the RFC Archives, and a few ringers from BIG NAME artists.

Check out this playlist, and follow the links to the artist’s pages (where possible).

RFC V5 230

hour one
Emmalea Deal & The Hot Mess “I Wanna Live”
Chuck Biel with Scott Milam “RipsTaVer”
Byzantine “Irene”
Brian Eno & Beatie Wolfe “Play On”
June Swoon “Passover”
The Settlement “Do It For You”
Matt Berry & Project Gemini “Stay On The Ground (Woodland Carnival Version)”
Buni Muni “Last Call”
Falling Stars“Do Your Thing”
Novelty Island “Weird Fields”
Dukes of Stratosphear “Tin Toy Clockwork Train”
Adrian Belew “Beauty”
Brian Diller “Holiday”

hour two
The M.F.B. “Plastic Nimbus”
The Heavy Hitters Band“Watch Yo Mouth (live)”
Frank Zappa “How Could I Be Such A Fool”
P.P. Arnold “Am I Still Dreaming”
Mediogres “How Long Do We Have To Stick Around This Hen House”
Novo Combo“Don’t Throw Your Love Away”
Sean Richardson “Let Me Sleep”
Hello June “Honey I Promise”
Broken Relics “Rodeo”
Tucker Riggleman & The Cheap Dates “Restless Spirit”
William Matheny “Stranger’s Voice”
Massing “Stay Inside (Rejuiced)”
Katie and the Honky Tonks “Mind Your Business”
Frankie and the Witch Fingers “T.V. Baby”

hour three
Tautologic“Wheels Fall Off”
Saycouth “Phantom Love”
Well Tempered Madness “ “No Sticks”
Carey Ott featuring The Freaks of Nashville“World Gone Crazy”
Cosmic Bull  “Once The Dust Settles”
TAFKAVinceBand “Magazine Pages”
Love Interest  “Motherwound”
KirkbyKiss“Standards and Practices”
Wrong War “The Call”
OmenBringer “Tungs”
Catherine Grace Campbell “Orion”
Radio Free Honduras “Bellos Momentos”
Maxx McGathey“The Staircase”
Brett Ratner “Carribbean Street Fair”
Scott Collins “Killer Crush”

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 the most recent episodes of  MIRRORBALL at 1 PM and Curtain Call at 2 PM.

At 3 PM we give you an encore of two recent 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.