Okay, this is a combo post. Tuesday is once again “New Show Day” on The AIR.  As such, we have a brand-new episode of  Radio Free Charleston 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 2025 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.

This year we are doing double-shots…two songs in a row by some of RFC‘s favorite local and independent artists who have released new music this year.

This gives me two chances to link to the artist’s pages.  First I will link to where you can buy the music, and then,  if possible,  I will link to where you can buy physical media or merchandise from the artist.   Since we don’t have a mystery bonus track this week, you may still find a bonus or two, as maybe some of the artists have a mystery third track.

The links in the playlist will take you to the pages for the artists in this week’s show because these are great gifts for the music lover or RFC fan on your shopping list. And keep in mind that the first Friday of December is the next Bandcamp Friday, where the artist’s get the full cut of the money spent on their work.

Radio Free Charleston V5 248

hour one
Brian Diller “In Every Heart”
Brian Diller “All Right Tonight”
Emmalea Deal & The Hot Mess “Thankful”
Emmalea Deal & The Hot Mess “The Ghost of You”
John Radcliff “Me & You”
John Radcliff “Look Smart
The Carpenter Ants (with Ann Magnuson) “Let’s Break Up Before Christmas”
The Carpenter Ants (with Larry Groce, Don Dixon and Randy Gilkey) “Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin'”
The Paranoid Style “Tearing The Ticket”
The Paranoid Style “It’s A Dog’s Breakfast (for LR)”
Novelty Island “Jigsaw Causeway”
Novelty Island “An Orange Goodbye”
Aliza Hava “Into The Light”
Aliza Hava “Fix My Fate”

hour two
Byzantine “Riddance”
Byzantine “Dam That River”
The Settlement “Days Go By”
The Settlement “Rainbow”
Custard Flux “The Floating Chamber”
Custard Flux “Icy Tranquility”
Guitarmy of One “Lone Werewolf of the Baskervilles”
Guitarmy of One “Awaken The Sleeper Agent”
The Surfrajettes “Hockey Night In Canada”
The Surfrajettes “Sugar Town”

hour three
The 4D Man “Il Fantasmi Dello Spazio”
The 4D Man “The Earth Dies Screaming”
Ron Sowell “Dance ‘Til the Music Stops”
Ron Sowell “Everything That Goes Round Comes Round”
The M.F.B. “Funkle Sam Needs You”
The M.F.B. “Funky Bunz”
Vinto Van Go “After Hours”
Vinto Van Go “Skyscraper Birds”
J Marinelli “Hillbilly Effigy”
J Marinelli “So Much For The Tolerant Left”
Erik Woods “Liberated”
Erik Woods “Tigers”
A Tale of Two “Renegade”
A Tale of Two “By The Light of the Moon”

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  The Swing Shift is an encore of two recent episodes.

 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.