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#068: WITCHES & COWBOYS

Jim Sullivan UFO

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We’re hanging on to Halloween like a gila monster, with our spooky broadcast from Friday night. What exactly happened to Jim Sullivan, the now-beloved singer-songwriter who was barely known in the 1970s and then disappeared in the New Mexico desert? Music writer Jason P. Woodbury joins us to talk about the re-release of Sullivan’s self-titled 1972 album; Jason wrote the liner notes for this Light In the Attic Records release.

Then we are joined by L.A. witch/journalist Laura Bolt, to talk about the magic of autumn and the spooky scene in Los Angeles and Joshua Tree.

If you want to come to our events, take a look at our Events Calendar, and maybe come to November 7 Campfire Stories at the Ace Hotel & Swim Club in Palm Springs, 7 p.m. this coming Thursday at the Commune firepit. (Use the code DESERTORACLE to get a room discount.) And yes we have a Patreon now, which means we are humbly seeking your membership to support Desert Oracle Radio, our Desert Oracle field guide, and all the curious events & performances we do up here in the desert.

Don’t forget our Halloween bonus episode, recorded at the campfire one year ago. It is Episode #069. Nice.

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And remember to listen Fridays at 10 p.m. on Z107.7 FM in Joshua Tree, Yucca Valley, Twentynine Palms & across the High Desert, “from Amboy to Zzyzx.”

#066: COYOTE REX

KEN LAYNE DESERT ORACLE RADIO

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Here’s our broadcast from Furstwurld in Joshua Tree. What a weird & pleasant scene. If you want to come to our events, take a look at our Events Calendar, and maybe come to our Halloween Campfire Stories at the Ace Hotel & Swim Club in Palm Springs, 7 p.m. sharp at the Commune firepit, Thursday, October 31. (Use the code DESERTORACLE to get a room discount.) And yes we have a Patreon now, which means we are humbly seeking your membership to support Desert Oracle Radio, our Desert Oracle field guide, and all the curious events & performances we do up here in the desert.

Get the podcast on Spotify, Pandora, iTunes, TuneIn and the rest of the gang.

This live show featurs an intriguing assortment of RedBlueBlackSilver soundscapes! (The Band Kokomo performed on this show, too, and we will be including some of those performances in our next broadcasts.)And remember to listen Fridays at 10 p.m. on Z107.7 FM in Joshua Tree, Yucca Valley, Twentynine Palms & across the High Desert, “from Amboy to Zzyzx.”

#067 WHEN GOBLINS GO QUIET


Our Friday night broadcast is now gussied up and available as a podcast. Weird calls, haunting music from our guests The Band Kokomo, and strange desert tales of coyotes and flying saucers. Plus an intriguing assortment of RedBlueBlackSilver soundscapes!

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Take a look at our new Events Calendar, packed with October live shows and Halloween Campfire Stories and all sorts of stuff. Get the podcast on Spotify, Pandora, iTunes, TuneIn and the rest of the gang.

Thanks to everybody who attended our live performance at FurstWurld. We will have that show ready for you next week, broadcasting this coming Friday at 10 p.m. on Z107.7 FM in Joshua Tree.

ADVERTISERS: You can now sponsor Desert Oracle Radio. Write to radio@desertoracle.com for information.

FRIDAY THE 13TH: D.O.R. RETURNS, LIVE ON KCDZ 107.7 FM

Tune in Friday, September 13th, at 10 p.m. for the all-new, all-live Desert Oracle Radio on Z107.7 FM “from Amboy to Zzyzx” and across the Great Mojave Wilderness. Yes it’s still a podcast but you will want to listen as it happens, and now you can call in with your weird tales and odd questions.

Listen on your FM radio in Joshua Tree, Twentynine Palms, Wonder Valley, Pioneertown, Landers, Flamingo Heights, Morongo Valley, Pipes Canyon, Burns Canyon, Sunfair, and all across the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center & Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command. If you’re out of range, stream the broadcast 10-11 PM Pacific Time on the KCDZ website, the Z107.7 FM app, or through the free TuneIn radio app.

Don’t forget to check out our new Events Calendar, packed with live shows and Halloween Campfire Stories and all sorts of stuff. Get the podcast on Spotify, Pandora, or any other podcast provider.

ADVERTISERS: You can now sponsor Desert Oracle Radio. Write to radio@desertoracle.com for information.

And here’s your Season 3 promo / trailer / whatevr-you-wish-to-call-it:

#061: THE HAUNTED PETROGLYPH

Night has fallen on the Mojave and it’s time to turn on the FM, 107.7 in Joshua Tree and the whole High Desert, 10 p.m. with an all-new episode. We’ve got the strange tale of this petroglyph, stolen from the desert outside Ridgecrest days before the monster quakes.

We’ve got seismic conspiracies and we’ve got Brendan Maze, we’ve got it all. All you need on a hot desert night. Watch the skies and hang on to the ground. Also, our host’s mom remembers Apollo 11. Subscribe! It’s all we ask, right now. Subscribe and rate and review and do the whole thing, if you’ve got five minutes. It’s a form of psychic currency and we appreciate you spending some of it on our High Desert jamboree.

And here’s the KLAS I-Team segment we did with George Knapp in the mountains around Area 51:

#060: PRAYING TO THE ALIENS

On a lovely spring evening in 2019 we had a little UFO festival here in the High Desert, with a screening of Bob Lazar: Area 51 and Flying Saucers, a Q&A with director Jeremy Corbell, plus your Desert Oracle Radio host preaching to the choir, as it were. RedBlueBlackSilver hosted the event and performed live. It was spooky and beautiful. Tonight’s show will serve as a fine introduction if you want to watch the Lazar movie on Netflix.

Natalie Bahl (@natalie.terese.bahl) was there and snapped some pictures. The one up top has something the others lack: two unidentified flying objects. Your host did attempt to invoke some UFOs, so maybe it worked?

No UFOs here, but that’s RedBlueBlackSilver on the left.

Beautiful sky, no UFOs.

Listen on the radio tonight in Joshua Tree, KCDZ 107.7 FM. Or subscribe to the podcast. Or listen right here on this website, if you don’t mind:

#058: HIGH WEIRDNESS

"high weirdness" erik davis10PM tonight on KCDZ 107.7 FM Joshua Tree, High Weirdness author @erik_davis joins us for the whole program, about that time when An Unknown Intelligence was in mystic dialogue with Philip K. Dick, Robert A. Wilson & Terence McKenna.

New soundscapes by @RedBluBlkSilver. You can get “High Weirdness” at @skylightbooks, where Erik Davis is doing his thing Saturday 6/8 @ 5PM. Or if you lack a good local bookstore, order it online.

#057: NOT THE DAY NOR THE HOUR


Our favorite magazine writer (and now book author) Rachel Monroe joins us to talk about some weird stuff she’s got going on, back in the sheds, in Marfa. ALSO: What is the situation with the Pentagon and the New York Times and the UFOs? Are we trusting spies and brass now? What a bunch of suckers we are. But there’s something going on, and it’s not just the dicey Pentagon stuff. New sounds from RedBueBlackSilver, everything you want in a single episode of Desert Oracle Radio, right here in the very episode we’re talking about.

Here the broadcast on KCDZ FM 107.7 FM in the High Desert, “From Amboy To Zzyzx,” it’s the Voice of the Desert on your Friday night radio. Get the podcast by throwing your phone about twenty feet while yelling “Subscribe to Desert Oracle Radio.” PS—Our new issue is out and it’s a good one! Click here to subscribe or pick up a copy at your favorite cool place in Joshua Tree, Pioneertown, Yucca Valley, Morongo Valley, 29 Palms and Wonder Valley. Or in Moab, at Back of Beyond Books. Or in a whole bunch of interesting city shops.