In case you missed the news yesterday, this week all of The AIR Musical Specialty programs will be brand-new. That means that…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.  

You can hear Radio Free Charleston Tuesdays at 10 AM and 10 PM, with boatloads of replays throughout the week.

Now, this week your humble blogger/radio host had a ton of work pop up that had to be dealt with immediately, so I had to cut corners to get a new show to you this week.

And I didn’t want to skip this week because we have a special programming event next week that will preclude us doing a new RFC then. So things will be back to normal the week after next.

Back to this week’s show, we open with new music from Sparks, and then our first hour is a mixtape that includes new music from Corduroy Brown, Skunk Anansie, Messer Chups, Monsoon, The Heavy Editors, Morcheeba and more.

Our second and third hours go back to an episode of Radio Free Charleston Volume Three, from May, 2015, back when we were on Voices of Appalachia/New Appalachian Radio. I picked this ten-year-old edition of the show because the first hour is just loaded with great local music, while the next hour brings you an assortment of music from Pere Ubu, the band fronted by Dave Thomas…who just passed away a few weeks ago.

So it’s sort of timely and respectful, in addition to being just a wee bit slapdash.

We don’t have links this week. They will return in two weeks so you can track down the artists. In the meantime, feel free to Google them.

RFC V5 226

hour one
Sparks “Hit Me, Baby”
Corduroy Brown “Doin’ My Best (Rodburn Hollow Sessions)”
Skunk Anansie “An Artist Is An Artist”
Rupesh Cartell “Hands of Glass”
Ghoulbox “Necrokiss”
Messer Chups “Souvenir of the Witch”
The Settlement “Riff Destroyer (live)”
Monsoon “Crack Our Codes”
The Heavy Editors “Human Nature”
Dinosaur Burps “Sophisticated Robe”
Morcheeba “Bleeding Out”
Marc Ribot “Death of a Narcissist”
Dark Entities “Undertow”

hour two
J Marinelli “Stop Paying Attention”
J Marinelli “Saturn of Clarksburg”
Dina Hornbaker “At Bay”
Brian Young “Swingin’ Man”
Whistlepunk “Spy Song”
Close The Hatch “Skull and Bird”
Trielement “Noodle Soup”
Timothy Price “Kashmir”

Charlie West All Stars-Veteran’s Benefit CD Band

“Walk This Way”
“Champagne and Reefer”
“Runnin’ Down A Dream”
“Barracuda”

John Lancaster “Jeruselum Syndrome”

hour three
Pere Ubu

“Waiting For Mary”
“49 Guitars and One Girl”
“Dark”
“Ubu Dance Party”
“Breath (Don’t Let’s Talk About Tomorrow”
“Rhapsody In Pink”
“Sentimental Journey”
“The Waltz”
“My Theory of Spontaneous Simultude”
“Love, Love, Love”

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 collects some of the greatest hits of Artie Shaw, the thinking man’s bandleader. This show was assembled so quickly that I didn’t not have time to prepare a playlist. Thanks to the same sudden workload, all I can say is that it’s all Artie Shaw, and all the hits are here.

And it Swings, big time.

 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.