The fates have conspired to give you only a partially-new edition of Radio Free Charleston Tuedsday 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, with boatloads of replays throughout the week.

The week we bring you one brand-new hour of free-format radio, mixing local, independent and whatever music,  then for our second and third hours, we revive a long-dormant episode of Radio Free Charleston International that hasn’t been heard since 2017.

We open our new hour with a semi-title-track from the upcoming new album by The Heavy Editors. They’ve just released a new single, which you will hear next week, but we abused our friendship to grab an as-yet-unreleased album track to play for you this week. You’ll have to wait until Undertow is unleashed on the general public to hear this song anywhere else.

We also pepper the first hour with new tracks from The MFB, The Settlement, Five Finger Death Punch, Tori Amos and Manic Street Preachers.  Add in some local and regional classic tracks and a bunch of fun weirdness, and you have a strong opening hour.

The rest of the show brings back the first episode of Radio Free Charleston International that I did after I had eye surgery.  Here’s what I wrote about this show at the time:

Listeners will get to hear brand-new music by Chuck Berry, The Foo Fighters, Ray Davies, Todd Rundgren and Donald Fagan, Erasure and more. It’s another of our trademark hodge-podge episodes that should not work, but on RFC International, we somehow find a way to make it all flow into a cohesive musical experience. Even when we segue from Frank Sinatra to The Stranglers.

It’s the kind of wild mix of music that runs through my head most of the time.

The links in the playlist for hour one will take you to the pages for the artists where possible.

RFC V5 216

hour one
The Heavy Editors “Movie FX-Undertow”
The M.F.B “PH Steve”
Massing “Kickball”
Five Finger Death Punch w/Brian May, Kenny Wayne Shepherd & Brantley Gilbert “Blue On Black”
The Subjunctives “I Don’t Have The Time”
Emmalea Deal & The Hot Mess “Ignorant”
Kate On Crack “Keep Me Hanging On”
Wolfgang Parker “The Father/The Son”
Manic Street Preachers “Critical Thinking”
Tori Amos “Spike’s Lament”
M “Moonlight and Muzak”
The Settlement“The One That Got Away”
Small Faces “Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake”

hour two
Desmond Dekker “It Mek”
Chuck Berry “Jamaica Moon”
Paul McCartney and Elvis Costello “My Brave Face (demo)”
Hank Marvin “Peter Gunn/Baby Elephant Walk”
Foo Fighters “Detroit Rock City”
Steven Universe “We Are The Crystal Gems”
James McCartney “Peyote Coyote”
Todd Rundgren and Donald Fagan “Tin Foil Hat”
Andy James “From The Dark”
Mainhorse “Such A Beautiful Day”
Duncan McKay and George Voros “Let Go”
Frank Sinatra “She Says”
The Stranglers “European Female”
Thunderclap Newman “Something In The AIR”
Gentle Giant “Dog’s Life”

hour three
Rancid “Telegraph Avenue”
Marillion “Man Of A Thousand Faces (live)”
Imagine Dragons “Blank Space/Stand By Me”
George Harrison “Got My Mind Set On You (extended mix)”
Julian Lennon “Lucy”
Cheap Trick “Everything Works (If You Let It)”
Erasure “Love You To The Sky”
The Paladins “New World”
The New Triumvirat “Party Life”
Ray Davies “Wings of Fantasy”
Blondie “Fragments”

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 give you an encore of two classic 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.