Are the mystery drones back? Did they ever leave? We travel from the desert to the sea and back again, chasing those odd manifestations that have lately been surrounding Navy destroyers. And what does any of this have to do with L. Ron Hubbard? It’s Episode #123: MYSTERY SWARM, with new sounds from RedBlueBlackSilver.
Tonight at 10 p.m. on Joshua Tree’s own Z107.7 FM, from Amboy to Zzyzx, or streaming from Z1077FM.com and Tune In.
Where there are mountains, there are mysteries. Tonight we visit with some old friends who’ve long haunted the Indians, the Spaniards, the Americans and apparently anybody else who ever wandered by. They are called the Dark Watchers, and as usual their world is part of ours, tied up in our own recent history of desert mystics such as Aldous Huxley and the ancient culture of the Esselen. It’s Episode #122 of Desert Oracle Radio, written & hosted by Ken Layne, with new desert soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. (And here’s the article in question.)
Tonight at 10 p.m. on Joshua Tree’s own Z107.7 FM, from Amboy to Zzyzx, or streaming from Z1077FM.com and Tune In.
Some people like it, some people don’t. We are talking about the desert. And this week—challenged by a listener to stop romanticizing the desert southwest—we are joined by Phoenix writer & music man Jason P. Woodbury, to help us give a couple places a real hard time. Let’s give Sedona the business, etc. New soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver.
Tonight at 10 p.m. on Joshua Tree’s own Z107.7 FM, from Amboy to Zzyzx, or streaming from Z1077FM.com and Tune In.
The middle of the country might be frozen solid all the way over to the Gulf of Mexico, but here in the Great Mojave Wilderness the weather is fine, the skies are blue, and the first hints of so many little green something-or-others are now apparent on the desert sands.
Will we finally come out of our holes? Let’s figure it out together, to new soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. It’s EPISODE #120: OUT OF OUR HOLES.
Tonight at 10 p.m. on Joshua Tree’s own Z107.7 FM, from Amboy to Zzyzx, or streaming from Z1077FM.com or Tune In.
Or listen on your phone, if you’re out of FM range:
You ever drive the “Loneliest Road In America”? That’s what they call U.S. 50, across the Great Basin Desert through the middle of Nevada. Not many people out there, not a lot going on. Just as we like it. The mystery visitors like it, too. They like the quiet. They need the wild mountains and desert valleys of the Basin and Range. We hope em like this: Episode #119: “Alien Corpses of the Great Basin,” with all-new spacey soundscapes by our own RedBlueBlackSilver. (And we’re on Spotify, too.)
And way back in 1952, so the story goes, 16 little alien friends were found dead in the wreckage of a glowing oval craft that smashed into the side of a copper mine near Ely, Nevada. Find out more, if you dare, tonight at 10 p.m. on Joshua Tree’s own Z107.7 FM, or streaming from Z1077FM.com or Tune In.
Or listen here, if you’re out of FM range:
There’s a leak in the studio roof and the only way we know is because an atmospheric river is bearing down upon the American Southwest. So get a bucket or a cereal bowl or something and we’ll all paddle to Hell together . . . . with new soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver to keep us company.
It’s Episode #118: Atmospheric River, don’t run dry, on a cold & rainy kinda weekend in the High Desert.
Tonight at 10 p.m., from Amboy to Zzyzx on Z 107.7 FM, or streaming from Z1077FM.com or Tune In or get the free podcast. Did you know our new hardcover book is on sale now? It’s called Desert Oracle Vol. I.
PHOTO CREDIT: Reconstruction of life on a Hohokam platform mound in the Sonoran Desert in 1300 CE, courtesy of Pueblo Grande Museum, City of Phoenix.
Do you know about the mysterious Dragoon Mountains of Cochise County? Well get in the truck, we’re taking a night drive to Arizona. Now is the time for Episode #117, so get ready for the weird times. New soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver as we cover some difficult terrain with the Apache leader Cochise, the strange granite of his stronghold, and the mystery craft seen on many nights around these mysterious 78-million-year-old mountain spires to this day.
Tonight at 10 p.m., from Amboy to Zzyzx on Z 107.7 FM, or streaming from Z1077FM.com or streaming via Tune In or get the free podcast. Did you know we’ve got a new hardcover book?
Might be a nutty new year on the national news, but here in the desert we are just trying to get along and not got crushed. What happened at the Yucca Valley protest on Friday? Well good luck getting the straight story on that. With guest Brendan Maze and new sounds by RedBlueBlackSilver.
Tonight at 10 p.m., from Amboy to Zzyzx on Z 107.7 FM, or streaming from Z1077FM.com or streaming via Tune In or get the free podcast.
From a skeletal homesteader cabin on a cold Mojave night, it’s the annual Desert Oracle Christmas Special. New Mexico writer Anna Merlan joins us to talk about the winter holidays in Santa Fe. New solstice sounds by RedBlueBlackSilver.
Tonight at 10 p.m., from Amboy to Zzyzx on Z 107.7 FM, or streaming from Z1077FM.com or streaming via Tune In or get the free podcast.
Merry Christmas, pigs.
It’s our show before Christmas
And all through the cabin
Not a creature is breathin’
Because of the stabbin’
We pay a visit to Amboy, and to the burnt forest of Joshua trees at Cima Dome, Mojave National Preserve. That’s right, it’s Episode #114. Get in.
DESERT ORACLE, VOL. 1: Our new book is available everywhere, please enjoy responsibly. (SORRY IT’S BACKORDERED AT BOOKSHOP.ORG, WE’VE ALERTED THE AUTHORITIES.)
New soundscapes from RedBlueBlackSilver. Listen on the FM radio, from Amboy to Zzyzx (Fridays at 10 p.m. on Z 107.7 FM), or streaming from Z1077FM.com or streaming via Tune In or get the free podcast.
