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Rudy of Radio Free Charleston

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RFC 75
Radio Free Charleston celebrates three years of terrorizing the internet with local music, film and animation with our 75th episode! "Unknown Hinson Shirt," our third-anniversary Rock And Roll Extravaganza, is online now !
This landmark edition of RFC features music by The Pistol Whippers and Unknown Hinson , both legends of honky-tonk psycho-billy stage. We also have a snippet of Princeton's Option 22 over the end credits.
With this being our third anniversary, we took it upon ourselves to corner a few really cool people with our camera to get them to say nice things about us. Among those who weren't quick enough to escape are Ann Magnusun , Necrobutcher (featured in the OSCAR-nominated movie "The Wrestler"), wrestling legend Gypsy Joe and GWAR's front-man, Oderous Urungus. Many thanks to the kindness extended by these fine folks.
RFC is the legendary Charleston, West Virginia radio show, transformed into a new videocast, hosted at The Gazz.com.
Rudy Panucci is the producer and host of RFC, and he's also the author of the PopCult blog at The Gazz. You should read PopCult regularly, as it will eventually reveal all the secrets of the universe. Also, you can read about comic books, movies, Radio Free Charleston, music, toys and whatever the hell else He feels like writing about. Rudy gots him some carte blanche.
Rudy is a freelance writer who has been published in Non Sport Update, The Charleston Gazette, Toy Trader Magazine, Baby Boomer Collectibles, Record Collector, The Gazz, United Airlines in-flight magazine, Anything But Monday, The New England Journal Of Medicine, Cracked Magazine, and at Mastercollector.com. He was the editor and contributing writer/artist for Coda, West Virginia's first nationally-published comic book. Rudy has also been a disc jockey, program director, photographer, speechwriter, painter, record producer, concert promoter, cartoonist, television producer, shaman, caregiver, musician, and astronaut . He is older than he looks, so don't be fooled. If you see him in the wild, do not approach him as his nature is unpredictable, and he may lash out with his fearsome claws. No wait, that's the badger we were thinking of. It's okay to go up and talk to Rudy.
Radio Free Charleston is interested in contacting and showcasing cool independent musicians, animators, and filmmakers based in, or at least aware of West Virginia. Our show presents an eclectic range of musical talent, from punk to pop to Celtic to blues and beyond. Nobody will get rich from being on Radio Free Charleston, but it will give you a warm and fuzzy glow that some people may mistake for radiation poisoning.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Musicians, actors or filmmakers who want their work on our show. We can guarantee that there's NO MONEY INVOLVED!
About the no money thing. Remember, we're a non-budgeted show. Have you ever tried squeezing money out of the freaking Gazette? It's easier to squeeze cooking oil out of your farts.
Also, we'd love to meet anybody who wants to buy the overpriced crap at my Cafepress stores. You can buy RFC and related merchandise at the following Cafepress stores You'll have to follow a couple of extra links, because MySpace is being a total bastard and disabled all links to Cafepress stores and didn't bother telling me, so I hope they all get itchy privates and have to sit uncomfortably for a very long time.
You can find links to all three stores right here. I'm leaving the descriptions below, but due to the Soviet-era information kontrols implemented by Czar Tom, you'll have to go to this old PopCult post. to find working links.
Radio Free Charleston (featuring merchandise from our show)
The PopCult Store (featuring art and images from the PopCult blog and
The Monday Morning Art Store (featuring a wide variety of shirts and other crap featuring the image of that week's Monday Morning Art from PopCult. These are available for ONE WEEK ONLY, then they're taken out behind the barn and shot.
Sorry for making you jump through extra hoops to order my cool, overpriced crap (now at record-low prices!) but I didn't realize what pricks MySpace had become.
Check my Videos for more music from RFC! and visit The RFC TV Archives for our older shows. Even more detailed production notes and more personal observations can be found right here at the MySpace blog. Click your way there up in the corner of the profile page.

My Blog

RFC is THREE YEARS OLD! Celebrate with Unknown Hinson and The Pistol Whippers!

Radio Free Charleston celebrates three years of terrorizing the internet with local music, film and animation with our 75th episode! "Unknown Hinson Shirt," our third-anniversary...
Posted by on Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:51:00 GMT

RFC 74 with J. Marinelli and Slate Dump, plus much more!

Radio Free Charleston's seventy-fourth episode, "RFC Trax shirt" is online now! This show features music from Morgantown's own, J Marinelli and Slate Dump, plus special announcements from Mad Man ...
Posted by on Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:24:00 GMT

RFC 73: OVADA The Limbs The First Great Guitar Giveaway and more!

Radio Free Charleston's 73rd episode, "Aqua Teen Hunger Force: The Movie Shirt" is online now. This episode, shot around downtown Charleston with street art in the background, features music from OVAD...
Posted by on Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:22:00 GMT

Whitechapel District Scrap Iron Pickers Chemical Valley Rollergirls---RFC 72

Radio Free Charleston's seventy-second episode, "Sulu Nation Shirt," is online now! Watch it quick, they don't seem to have much of a shelf life these days. This episode features music from The Sc...
Posted by on Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:30:00 GMT

RFC 71 with WATT4, Hitchcock Circus, Oderus Urungus of GWAR

Radio Free Charleston number 71, "Golden age Batman Shirt" is online now! This episode of your local music, film, animation and weirdness program includes new music from WATT4, vintage music from...
Posted by on Wed, 27 May 2009 07:39:00 GMT

RFC 70: Barebones, Beckner, Burn The Hairy Man, Art, Dance and more!

The seventieth episode of Radio Free Charleston,"Holy Hand Grenade Of Antioch Shirt" is online now! This edition of your local music, film, animation and art webcast is jam-packed with musi...
Posted by on Wed, 20 May 2009 12:53:00 GMT

RFC 69: The Big Go Van Gogh Extravaganza!

Radio Free Charleston's very special sixty-ninth episode is online now! This is a departure episode for us, as we present an edited version of Timothy Rock's 1992 documentary, "Go Van Gogh: The Sad Tr...
Posted by on Wed, 13 May 2009 13:56:00 GMT

RFC 68, with Jeff Ellis, Marcie Bullock, much cuteness!

Radio Free Charleston 68, "Axiom Starliner Shirt," is online now! This episode of your favorite local music, animation and film show features music from Jeff Ellis and Marcie Bullock. We also have...
Posted by on Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:03:00 GMT

A Place Of Solace, Go Van Gogh, The Bride & The Grooms and Young Bradley Wilkerson sings:RFC 67

Radio Free Charleston Episode 67, "Earth To Eros Shirt," is online now! This edition of our show features our first "rerun" musical segment, plus new music from A Place Of Solace, A new trailer for...
Posted by on Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:22:00 GMT

American Paradise and Elecro Biscuit on RFC 66!

Radio Free Charleston's sixty-sixth episode, "Yankees Jersey," is online now.  This installment of the longest-running local music and animation show at TheGazz.com features a song from the CYAC music...
Posted by on Thu, 16 Apr 2009 07:18:00 GMT