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#080: NO FACE MASKS ON MARS

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NEW EPISODE on this strange night: “No Coughing on the Spaceship.”

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New soundscapes tonight by RedBlueBlackSilver. Thanks especially to our patrons.

Listen to the podcast or listen at 10 p.m. Friday nights on the radio: KCDZ 107.7 FM in the High Desert. We’re on Spotify, too. And Pandora and Stitcher and iHeart & all the rest. May Saint Minerva bless and keep you, always. ❇️

#079: THESE ENCHANTED LANDS

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Tonight on the radio in the High Desert at 10 P.M., hear our new episode: “These Enchanted Lands.”

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New musical atmospheres tonight by RedBlueBlackSilver. Thanks especially to our patrons. And that’s all we’ve got to say about it. The podcast went out a little early (?!). Sedona is a character in this episode.

Listen to the podcast or listen at 10 p.m. Friday nights on the radio: KCDZ 107.7 FM in the High Desert. We’re on Spotify, too. And Pandora and Stitcher and iHeart & all the rest.

#076: ODE TO THE OLD GODS

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Here’s a weird new episode for our weird new decade, featuring some real talk (real strange talk) from George Van Tassel out at Giant Rock, 62 years ago.

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Support Desert Oracle Radio by making a $2-or-more pledge on our Desert Oracle Patreon page. We encourage you to become a patron of Desert Oracle and we much appreciate the 97 Friends of Desert Oracle who’ve already signed up! We’ve been sending issues of the field guide and weird postcards and secret radio scripts to our patrons, and your host is wrapping up some double-custom recordings for a handful of you, so thanks for the support and keep an eye on your various mailboxes and media receptacles.

You can hear a lot more from RedBlueBlackSilver right here, an ever-growing discography of High Desert Soundscapes. (PS—We said last week’s interval music was “by RedBlueBlackSilver and Ben Rovell, and it’s good stuff.” Well it’s still good stuff but that’s RedBlueBlackSilver on the guitar, too.)

Listen to the podcast or listen at 10 p.m. Friday nights on the radio: KCDZ 107.7 FM in the High Desert. We’re on Spotify, too. And Pandora and Stitcher and iHeart & all the rest. And don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube, in case we ever post anything over there!

#072 THE FIDDLER KING OF WILLOW SPRINGS

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Happy Thanksgiving to all our desert friends. We’ve got an all-new hourlong episode ready for your feast-digesting ears—as long as you’re in the mood for alleged Roy Rogers’ sex cults, a savage desert murder, Ronald Reagan, and 11,000 people in urban-cowboy outfits, all stomping and dancing on the Santa Monica Pier in the 1940s. With strange archival audio and wondrous new soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. ALERT: We now have a Patreon page, and encourage you to become a patron of Desert Oracle for as little as two bucks a month! We are THANKFUL for the 68 Friends of Desert Oracle who’ve already signed up!

Listen to the podcast or listen at 10 p.m. tonight on the radio, KCDZ 107.7 FM in the High Desert, every Fridays at 10 p.m. Strange new sounds by RedBlueBlackSilver.
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Desert Oracle Campfire Stories

PS—See & hear Desert Oracle tales in Palm Springs this holiday season. At 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 26 & Tuesday Jan. 2, join our host Ken Layne around a real campfire outside under the stars. Free to attend; there’s a bar if you desire a drink. Use discount code DESERTORACLE when reserving your room at the Ace Hotel & Swim Club.

#068: WITCHES & COWBOYS

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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

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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:

#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.