Stitch Jones, Gary Myrick, Robyn Hitchcock and MORE on RFC!

Almost every Tuesday is NEW RFC DAY on The AIR  and today is epic and legendary because once again we bring you a brand-new, three-hour episode of Radio Free Charleston to tickle even the finest of your fancies. 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.

Radio Free Charleston brings you a new show with THREE FULL HOURS of newly-assembled free-format radio.  We have a bumper crop of new music by local, independent and cult artists, with some nice material from the archives as well as a few mini-themes sprinkled throughout the show. .

We open with the title track from the new album by Stitch Jones & His Bionic Marines, and this week’s show also features brand-new tunes from  Gary Myrick, Robyn Hitchock, The Strokes, Minor Swing, Hardy Mums, and a pre-release sneak peek at the newest single by Saycouth, which is also slated to open next week’s show.

I go on a bit about how cool the Stitch Jones album is, packaged on a USB doohickey that I purchased from him at The Kentuckiana GI Joe Toy Expo.

It’s really cool to have new tunes from Gary Myrick and Robyn Hitchcock, both of whom I’ve been a fan of for more than four decades. I also tell the story of how Mel frightened Robyn at a bar in Charleston in this episode of the show. We also have an extra long bit of aural surrealism from Ann Magnuson, and lots of yours truly just having fun programming music on the fly. We even preview a cool touring band that will be performing at The Empty Glass in about three weeks.

We also bring you some great local and indie archive tunes, plus mini themes featuring Waltzes, female vocals and a horror/sci fi film festival.

Check out this playlist, with links to the artist’s page where possible…

RFC V5 279

hour one
Stitch Jones & His Bionic Marines “Semper Fi”
Gary Myrick “Fame Is Dangerous”
Hardy Mums “Good Day For A Bad Tattoo”
Robyn Hitchcock “I Am This Thing”
Fabulous Head “Dopamine Phone”
Tilting At Windmills “What You do”
Spark of Life “No One Hates Me More Than Me”
Minor Swing “St. Dogmael’s Waltz”
The Stranglers “Golden Brown (live)
Galen & Paul “The Lighthouse Waltz”
Daniel Glass Trio “The Crippled Waltz”
Mark Davis “Banyon Tree Waltz”
Sierra Ferrell “Whispering Waltz”

hour two
Saycouth “Where Do We Go”
Superfetch “Simple Mathematics (live)”
Decomposing in Paris “Big Things Start Small”
Jeff Ellis “Smiling Depression”
Jim Bob “Belinda’s Racist Hips”
Lenny Kaye “Goin’ Local”
Guy Parker, Dirt Reynolds, Mark Shambles, Sea Monster, Steve Sleaze “Roller Derby (live)”
Blue Twisted Steel “Eternal Fire”
Stark Raven “Moments”
The Company Stores  “So Good”
Wren Allen Band “Nothing Ever Happens Here”
Radio Cult  “Walk Like An Egyptian”
Emmalea Deal & The Hot Mess “Thankful”
The Strokes “Lonely In The Future”

hour three
Tunesmiths “The Incredible Shrinking Man”
The Renfields  “The Last Man On Earth”
The Big Bad “Maniac Mansion”
HARRAH  “Blood Moon”
Possum Kingdom Ramblers “Godzilla”
Deni Bonet “Frankenstein”
Ann Magnuson “AyahuascatheMovie”
The Settlement “Bandit”

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 get ready for two classic episodes of The Swing Shift.

 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.