On this election day, we have an all-new three-hour show. You’d be surprised how much you can cram into a three-hour show, when you’re hoping for the best, but also hiding in your home bunker because you voted early and just wish it was all over (and the good guys win).

Tuesday means a new RFC on The AIR.  And this week  Radio Free Charleston presents three fresh hours of listenting enjoyment 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 we offer up two hours of new local, independent and alternative music for you, and then we bring you a special mixtape third hour devoted to some unorthodox covers.

The show opens with a brand-new song from Emmalea Deal & The Hot Mess, one of the Mountain States most exciting artists.  We follow that up with new music from Huntington’s Living Room, as well as The Fleshtones, The Cure and Tears for Fears (for those of you stuck in the 80s) and also new releases from Corduroy Brown, Beth Hart, Rat Ship, Rhoda Dakar, The Surfrajettes, Matt Berry and Lin Manuel Miranda. We spice that up with some more cool local music and some great indie stuff.

Our third hour is a mixtape collection of cover songs that may very well leave you scratching your heads. We open with a new Willie Nelson track, where he covers a song by The Flaming Lips. After that it gets really weird. I’m not even going to warn you about it. Just listen and enjoy the alternate realities.

Check out the playlist below. Where possible in the first two hours, live links will take you to the artist’s pages.

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hour one
Emmalea Deal & The Hot Mess “Lie To Me”
Living Room “Chasing Ghosts”
The Brogues “I Ain’t No Miracle Worker”
The Fleshtones “Empty Sky”
Orville Rex “Silvertone Jaguar”
Rat Ship “Coffin Meringue”
Devon Townsend “PowerNerd”
Corduroy Brown “Doin’ My Best (live at Blenko)”
Famous Groupies “The Traveller”
Rosalie Cunningham “To Shoot Another Day”
John Radcliff “It’s Not A Dream”
Beth Hart “Machine Gun Vibrato”
Novo Combo “Don’t Throw Your Love Away”
Rhoda Dakar “Private Eye”

hour two
The Surfrajettes “Double Reverb”
Matt Berry “I Gotta Limit (featuring Kitty Luv)”
Bad Keys of the Mountain “Free Ride”
Wolfgang Parker “The Father/The Son”
Ann Magnuson “Man With No Face”
Ryan Hardiman & Moonage Daydream “Ashes To Ashes”
The Cure “Endsong”
Tears For Fears “Goodbye Mum And Dad”
Unmanned “Aliens”
Lin Manuel Mirandas Warriors “Going Down”
Chuck Biel “Mach Turtle”
The Dollyrots “The Vow”
Nu Mutants “Undertaker”
Lords of Atlantis “Temple of Poseidon/Sands of Mauritania”

hour three
Willie Nelson “Do You Realize”
Paramore “Burning Down The House”
Government Cheese “The KKK Took My Baby Away”
The Anchoress “Bizarre Love Triangle”
The Feelies “I’m Waiting For The Man”
Daniel Glass “Smoke On The Water”
St. Vincent “Funkytown”
Frankie Goes To Hollywood “Born To Run”
Max Tundra “This Woman’s Work”
Puddles Pity Party “Paranoid/Driven To Tears”
No Doubt “It’s My Life”
Triggerfinger “Need You Tonight”
Erasure “Heart of Glass”
The Dickies “Sounds of Silence”
Waxx & Pénélope Bagieu “Just Can’t Get Enough”
Gene “Town Called Malice”

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 bring you an encore of a special episode of The Swing Shift devoted to Quincy Jones’ Big Band, in honor of his passing.

 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.