We are back from our third trip in three weeks, and returning home to a fried computer (due to power outages) means that you fine folks get a hybrid new/rehashed Frankensteined-up Radio Free Charleston  that you can hear today 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.

It’s a free-format extravaganza as we open this week’s first hour with a tribute to Brian Wilson. We close the first hour with a tribute to Sly Stone, since we lost both of those legends last week.  In between the tributations, we bring you some new tunes from Brian Diller, The Settlement, Vinto Van Go, and The M.F.B. The music is great. Yours truly is a bit off his game and rambly.

After the first hour we jump all the way back to an episode of Radio Free Charleston Volume Three from 2015. This was one of a handful of episodes that I produced during a time when Voices of Appalachia was beset by technical problems and wasn’t broadcasting. This show was briefly hosted on their website, but then evaporated into the ethernet, never to be heard again until now.

And it’s a fun show. The first half was our usual mix of local and regional music, while the second half (now our third hour) is devoted to Horror Punk bands, including three local favorites, The Jasons, The Big Bad and The Renfields.

Your somewhat frazzled blogger/radio host was able to put this together after bringing back this PC from the dead. However, I’m running late, so we’re only going to give you links to select local and regional artists in the first hour of the playlist this week. You can Google the rest.

RFC V5 228

hour one
Brian Wilson “Love and Mercy”
Catherine Campbell “In My Room”
Wall of Voodoo “Do It Again”
Nick Punti “Hang On To Your Ego”
Johansson “Good Vibrations”
She and Him “Wouldn’t It Be Nice”
Dukes of Stratosphere “Pale and Precious”
Brian Diller “Big Ground, Big Sky”
Paul McCartney & Elvis Costello “So Like Candy (demo)”
The Settlement“Days Go By”
The M.F.B . “Bro Embryo”
Gloria Gaynor “Every Breath You Take”
Vinto Van Go “Hot Pants Boots”
Sly & The Family Stone “Thank You (Falettenme Be Mice Self Agin)” “Every Day People”

hour two
Mark Wolfe “Promise”
No Rain “Don’t Come Around”
Jack Griffith “Everything It Takes”
Dina “Pies”
Todd Rundgren “Rise”
The Heydays “Shady Grove”
Bud Carroll “Mistaken Identity”
Out of Nowhere “Rise Above”
Tape Age “Worst Night Of My Life”
Superfetch “Level 1”
The Laser Beams “Eden By The Fire Escape”
Shedlon Vance “Don’t Walk Away”
Miss Mousie and The Rigamarole “Dumpsters and Divebars”
Neil Zaza “Take On Me”

hour three (Horror Punk)
The Cryptoids “Mysteria”
The Cyptoids “Amityville”
Argyle Goolsby “Kristen”
The Voodoo Organist “Vampire Empire”

The Jasons
“Another song about Saturday”
“Stalk and Slash Summer”
“Welcome home (Camp Crystal Lake)”
“Camp Arawak ”

Big Bad
“Luna Rage”
“Fright Night”
“Prom Night 1957”
“Cabal”

The Renfields
“Night of the Creeps”
“Transylvania Fight Song”
“Machete A Go Go”

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 the most recent episodes of  MIRRORBALL at 1 PM and Curtain Call at 2 PM.

At 3 PM we give you an encore of two recent 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.