On The AIR With Mel

11/10/2024

This week's PopCulteer has notes on a brand-new episode of Mel Larch's MIRRORBALL, and a classic episode of Sydney's Big Electric Cat, featuring The Jam. You can hear them this afternoon on The AIR...

The PopCulteer October 11, 2024 Okay, so I said I was going to have more photos from JoeLanta this week, but real world intrusions, combined with ongoing technical issues with the graphics here at …

09/10/2024

PopCult has notes on today's Pulitzer Prize Winning 150th Episode of Mel Larch's Curtain Call, debuting this afternoon on The AIR...

This week Mel Larch celebrates 150 episodes of Curtain Call with a show devoted to the ten musicals that were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Best Drama. At 3 PM, Wednesday afternoon’s Curtain Call …

27/09/2024

PopCult has notes on today's NEW episodes of MIRRORBALL and Sydney's Big Electric Cat on The AIR...

The PopCulteer September 27, 2024 The clarion call to dance has gone out, so Mel Larch returns with a brand-new MIRRORBALL! You can hear this and more cool music Friday on The AIR. The AIR is PopC…

06/09/2024

PopCult has notes on today's NEW episode of Mel Larch's Disco showcase, MIRRORBALL, on The AIR...

The PopCulteer September 6, 2024 The clarion call to dance has gone out, so Mel Larch returns with a brand-new MIRRORBALL! You can hear this and more cool music Friday on The AIR. The AIR is PopCu…

24/08/2024

PopCult's RFC Flashback goes to April Fool's Day, 2010, for the strangest-ever episode of Radio Free Charleston...

[HTML1] This week we celebrate April Fool’s Day in August. Both months begin with the letter “A,” so it’s good enough for gubmint work. From April, 2010, this was the Radio …

23/08/2024

The PopCulteer has notes on today's NEW episode of MIRRORBALL and more ...

The PopCulteer August 23, 2024 It’s the first episode after a seven-week hiatus, as Mel Larch returns with a brand-new MIRRORBALL! You can hear this and more cool music Friday on The AIR. The…

09/08/2024

PopCult returns to a SpongeBob-themed bar in Chicago in today's PopCulteer...

The PopCulteer August 9, 2024 A little more than five years ago, your PopCulteer and his wife, Mel Larch, made our way to Chicago for a Summer soiree, and while there we stopped at a charming littl…

24/07/2024

This afternoon on The AIR Curtain Call looks at four Broadway shows that recently closed. Also, tonight we have a NEW Comedy Vault with the best of Bob Newhart. Details in PopCult...

This week Mel Larch uses Curtain Call to let four shows that closed in the wake of the Tony Awards apocalypse take a final bow. Wednesday afternoon’s Curtain Call on The AIR follows an encore of a …

05/07/2024

PopCult has notes on today's new episodes of MIRRORBALL and Sydney's Big Electric Cat on The AIR. Tune in this afternoon and learn about Salsoul Records and The Pretenders...

The PopCulteer July 05, 2024 We finish up our eighth anniversary of fresh programs for The AIR Friday as we offer up new episodes of MIRRORBALL and Sydney’s Big Electric Cat. The AIR is PopC…

03/07/2024

Continuing with The AIR's Eighth Anniversary week, PopCult has notes on this afternoon's new episodes of Beatles Blast and Curtain Call...

The AIR’s eighth anniversary week continues, on Wednesday afternoon, and The AIR brings you great new episodes of Curtain Call and Beatles Blast that are both filled with great new cool stuff…

01/07/2024

PopCult celebrates eight years of The AIR with a sneak preview marathon of all of this week's new shows...

July 1, 2016 was the day that The AIR officially became “The AIR” and was also the day that it became the internet radio arm of the PopCult blog. You know, the thing that you’re r…

29/06/2024

PopCult's RFC Flashback brings you the 2009 Christmas episode, with music from Molly Means, Joseph Hale, Todd Burger and Mel Larch with The Diablo Blues Band...

[HTML1] Our chronological presentation of the Radio Free Charleston video show has fallen just two days shy of letting us milk the cliché, “Christmas in July.” But we’ll have to …

28/06/2024

PopCult has notes on this afternoon's NEW episode of Sydney's Big Electric Cat, starring Split Enz, plus an encore of a classic MIRRORBALL...

The PopCulteer June 28, 2024 We’re done with the first half of the year of internet radio programming this Friday as we offer up a classic episode of MIRRORBALL and a BRAND NEW edition of Syd…

26/06/2024

PopCult has notes on today's new episode of Mel Larch's Curtain Call, featuring music from the Tony Award winning best play, "Stereophonic"...

This week Mel Larch shines her Curtain Call spotlight on the winner of the Tony Award for Best Play, instead of Best Musical, because this play, Stereophonic, has songs…and they’re by t…

21/06/2024

This week's PopCulteer has the first batch of photos from last weekend's Marx Toy Show in Wheeling, plus notes for this afternoon's new episode of MIRRORBALL...

The PopCulteer June 21, 2024 Last weekend saw your humble blogger head to Wheeling for The 2024 Marx Toy Show at The Kruger Street Toy & Train Museum. A wonderful time was had by all, and toda…

19/06/2024

This afternoon on The AIR, Mel Larch devotes Curtain Call to the Tony Winner for Best Musical, The Outsiders. Details in PopCult...

As has become custom, this week Mel Larch shines her Curtain Call spotlight on the winner of the Tony Award for best musical, and this year it’s The Outsiders. Wednesday afternoon’s Curtain C…

18/06/2024

STAY GOLD WITH A NEW CURTAIN CALL
The 77th Annual Tony Awards are in the books and, as has been our tradition since 2017, this week's new episode shines the spotlight on this year's winner for Best Musical--The Outsiders.

This musical adaptation of S.E. Hinton's classic novel & Francis Ford Coppola's iconic film received 12 Tony nominations & won 4 awards, including Best Direction of a Musical (Danya Taymor) & the coveted Best Musical award. Join us at 3PM EST tomorrow (6-19-24) on The AIR as our Tony Awards tradition continues!

29/05/2024

The AIR's afternoon music specialty shows are NEW today with covers of Beatles tunes and cool and funny stuff from Musical Theatre. Details in PopCult...

As we zoom perilously close to the end of May, on Wednesday afternoon, and The AIR still manages to bring you great new episodes of Curtain Call and Beatles Blast that are both filled with great ne…

29/05/2024

NEW CURTAIN CALL!
Tune in to The AIR tomorrow (5/29/24) at 3PM for a brand new episode of Curtain Call. I unofficially call this one "What We Did On Our Winter Vacation," as it features music from the recently released original cast recordings of two shows we saw on our January visit to NYC: Gutenberg! (Tony nominee for Best Revival of a Musical) and Here We Are Musical, the final show of Stephen Sondheim. You'll also hear a selection from "Stereophonic," one of this year's Tony nominees for Best Play. Give it a listen!

17/05/2024

The PopCulteer has details on today's new episode of Mel Larch's MIRRORBALL, premiering this afternoon on The AIR...

The PopCulteer May 17, 2024 It’s the first episode after the big milestone, as Mel Larch returns with a brand-new MIRRORBALL! You can hear this and more cool music Friday on The AIR. The AIR …

08/05/2024

It's time for Mel Larch's annual Tony Nominations episode of Curtain Call, debuting this afternoon on The AIR. Details in PopCult...

Every May Mel Larch brings her listeners a special episode of Curtain Call devoted to the Tony Award Nominees for Best Musical. Since they were just announced last week, it’s time for the tra…

01/05/2024

PopCult has details on this afternoon's DISCO programming on The AIR. To celebrate four years and 100 episodes of Mel Larch's MIRRORBALL, we have Disco-themed new episodes of Beatles Blast and Curtain Call, which lead into MIRRORBALL 100 at 4 PM, and that's followed by FOUR DAYS of a MIRRORBALL Marathon...

It’s a big day for fans of Disco Music today on The AIR. Mel Larch’s MIRRORBALL marks four years of flying her freak flag high while shaking her groove thing with her 100th episode, airing on a sp…

01/05/2024

WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE--CURTAIN CALL GOES DISCO!
Join me tomorrow at 3PM on The AIR for the Curtain Call/MIRRORBALL crossover in celebration of MIRRORBALL's 4th anniversary AND 100th episode! You'll hear some classic Broadway songs get the disco treatment, including selections from "Evita," "Cats," "Follies," newly minted Tony nominee (for Best Score) "Here Lies Love" and more! There's even a track from the infamous Ethel Merman Disco Album! Tune in, won't you?

26/04/2024

The PopCulteer has notes on today's historically significant new episode of Mel Larch's MIRRORBALL and more...

The PopCulteer April 26, 2024 Your PopCulteer is hitting the road for a quick trip this weekend, and if you behave yourselves I may come back with some news and photos and stuff. In the meantime, w…

25/04/2024

Tune in to The AIR tomorrow for a brand new MIRRORBALL! Our 99th episode (yes, you read that right!) will feature music inspired by the New York Magazine article, which led to the movie Saturday Night Fever!

And what will we do for our 100th episode/4th anniversary? Keep watching this space to find out.