Okay, this is a combo post. 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.  

However, this post is also today’s first enty in The 2024 PopCult Gift Guide.  In fact, today’s episode of RFC is part of The Gift Guide.

You can hear Radio Free Charleston Tuesdays at 10 AM and 10 PM, with boatloads of replays throughout the week. You can also hear it embedded below. This time, we will have links for every song in the playlist, but the idea is…you will follow those links to buy music to give to the person on your holiday shopping list who likes to support local and independent music.

Where possible, I will link to where you can buy physical media. But if this music is only available as a download, I suggest you buy it, download it, and either burn it to a CD, or compile a nifty USB drive filled with these musical treasures.

Also in this episode, the first set of tunes are all new this week, but the rest of this week’s show will present some of the best chunks of this year’s episodes of the show, so you can go back and experience some of the best local and independent music possible! That way I can be sure to point you to some of the coolest tunes possible.

The links in the playlist will take you to the pages for the artists in this week’s show…

RFC V5 203

hour one
William Matheny “Living Half To Death”
Living Room “Vicarious”
SPACE FREQ “Gypsy Sprockett”
The Heavy Hitters Band “Liquid Crunchy (live)”
Tucker Riggleman & The Cheap Dates “Shotgun”
The Surfrajettes “Priss and Vinegar”
Sierra Ferrell “Lighthouse (alternate version)”
Jim Lange “Everything’s Alright (The WV Water Crisis of 2014 Edition)”
Jared Rabin “Remind Myself to Breathe”
Hello June “No Easy Answer”
Sleater-Kinney “Don’t Feel Right”
Soul Trash “The Last Word”
Novelty Island “Johnny’s”
Astrodot “Can’t Hide It When You’re Fried”

hour two
Clownhole “Aqua”
Ginger Wixx “Super Mean”
Brett Ratner “Caribbean Street Fest”
John Bunkley “I’m Just A Fugitive”
Massing “Stay Inside (Rejuiced)”
Messer Chups “Dark Side of Paradise”
The Settlement “Be Yourself”
Sgt. Van and The Highway Dogs “Flies On Mars”
Brian Diller “Heroes Aren’t Hard To Find”
Matt Mullins and The Bringdowns “Rust”
Emmaline ‘Indiana Skies”
Corduroy Brown “Watercolors”
The Cure “Alone”
Maxx McGathey “The Veil Is Thinnest”

hour three
John Radcliff “We All Want to Shout”
Novo Combo “We Need Love”
Mediogres “Sleep Fizz Sleep”
Unmanned “Edge of Night/Light The Beacons”
The Dread Crew of Oddwood  “Lost Comrades”
Velez Manifesto “Heart of Steel”
Frenchy & The Punk“Lighting Up The Sky”
Emmalea Deal & The Hot Mess “Kira”
Gardenn “Mt. Mama”
William Orbit “A Hazy Shade of Random”
Chvrches “Good Girls (John Carpenter Remix)”
David Synn “Hypomania”
The Residents “The Weatherman (Demo)”

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 concentrates on the first fifty years of “the best Swing Music from the last century.” Think of it as our way of paying tribute to the old masters.

Check out the playlist…

The Swing Shift 165

Louis Prima & The Witnesses “Night Train”
Neal Hefti “One and Two O’Clock Jump”
Kay Kyser “Pushin Sand”
Jack Teagarden “Jazz Me Blues”
Harry James “Back Beat Boogie”
Jo Stafford “Ain’t Misbehavin'”
Jelly Roll Morton “Beale Street Blues”
Peggy Lee With Dave Barbour & His Orchestra “It Takes A Long Long Train With A Red Caboose (To Carry My Blues Away)”
Count Basie “Rent Party”
Benny Carter “June Is Bustin’ Out All Over”
Billy Eckstine “Lonesome Lover Blues”
Charlie Parker “Cherokee (live)”
Artie Shaw “St. James Infirmary Blues”
Benny Goodman “All The Cats Join In”
Fats Waller “I’ve Got Fingers Crossed”

 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.