EPISODE #039: LOST CITIES OF THE DESERT GIANTS

We are back with strange & unusual tales from Death Valley, where the Mojave meets the Great Basin and mysterious subterranean cities of gold were supposedly found by various explorers. Did giant beings travel the skies over our deserts in sky-ships? Some Shoshone legends say Yes.

Subscribe at iTunes or wherever you choose to get your podcasts. Or better yet: Listen live at 10 p.m. on KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree, Yucca Valley, Pioneertown, Landers, Morongo Valley, Flamingo Heights, Wonder Valley—”from Amboy to Zzyzx,” and across the Great Mojave Wilderness!

New soundscapes tonight by Joshua Tree’s own RedBlueBlackSilver.

EVENT NOTICE: Our host & editor Ken Layne will be presenting Halloween Campfire Stories at the Ace Hotel in Palm Springs, 7 p.m. on Wednesday, October 31.

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You can get Desert Oracle Radio on your community radio station. We’re distributed through Public Radio Exchange (PRX). Write to us at radio@desertoracle.com for details.

EPISODE #038: HORRORS OF THE SOLAR LODGE

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What if Crowleyan magick is bad? The Solar Lodge outpost in the California Desert is what we’re talking about. Also: Brendan Maze calling in from Arizona on a bad line. And: A very short desert-noir collaboration via Twitter with John Lurie.

Subscribe at iTunes or wherever you choose to get your podcasts. Or better yet: Listen live at 10 p.m. on KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree, Yucca Valley, Pioneertown, Landers, Morongo Valley, Flamingo Heights, Wonder Valley—”from Amboy to Zzyzx,” and across the Great Mojave Wilderness!

Deep new soundscapes tonight by Joshua Tree’s own RedBlueBlackSilver. (Have you heard his moody soundtrack to Hunt for the Skinwalker?

EPISODE #037: LYCANTHROPES OF THE WEST

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Now is the time for DESERT ORACLE RADIO, and this time we’re all going to Skinwalker Ranch. And we’re going with Jeremy Corbell, director of the new documentary Hunt for the Skinwalker. Listen live on KCDZ 107.7 FM in the High Desert, or subscribe to the podcast and get new episodes on Friday nights.

The strange sounds you hear tonight are by RedBlueBlackSilver, including sounds from his moody soundtrack to Hunt for the Skinwalker.

PS—You can get Desert Oracle Radio on your community radio station. We’re distributed through Public Radio Exchange (PRX) or write to us at radio@desertoracle.com.

And speaking of Halloween (?), we will be presenting Halloween Campfire Stories at the Ace Hotel in Palm Springs, 7 p.m. on Wednesday, October 31.

EPISODE #036: MYSTERY OF THE DESERT

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Season 2 premiere, 10 p.m. tonight in the California desert. Listen live on KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree and across the Mojave High Desert—from Amboy to Zzyzx and everywhere via podcast. Subscribe at iTunes or wherever you choose to get your podcasts.


New soundscapes tonight by Joshua Tree’s own RedBlueBlackSilver.

What is DESERT ORACLE? You might find out from this article in Palm Springs Life magazine.

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And don’t forget: Desert Oracle Campfire Stories with Ken Layne at the Ace Hotel & Swim Club on Halloween Night, starting at 7 p.m, Wednesday October 31 around the campfire.

EPISODE #035: A VOICE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS

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Our final show of the yearlong first season will broadcast tonight at 10 p.m. Joshua Tree Time, across the Mojave Wilderness on Z107.7 FM and everywhere on your podcast device. The desert may be popular with elaborately costumed visitors and weekenders these days, but in time it will go back to the desert of the Bible: a place of banishment and horror, where ostriches and demons dance in the abandoned cabins.

Three new tracks by RedBlueBlackSilver tonight, and do visit his website for news on his Hunt For the Skinwalker soundtrack.

And do not forget: Friday, July 13, 7 p.m. at Valley Bar Phoenix, it’s DESERT ORACLE RADIO live on stage!

Live on the radio, KCDZ in the High Desert, or subscribe to the podcast, or listen right here on our Art19 audio player:

EPISODE #034: DEATH VALLEY DAYS

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Two weird trips to Death Valley: 1849 and 1949. It’s an all-new episode of DESERT ORACLE RADIO.

Three new tracks by RedBlueBlackSilver tonight, and do visit his website for news on his Hunt For the Skinwalker soundtrack. We’ve got to keep this short, got to see a man about a dog, so why not go ahead and listen!

Live on the radio, KCDZ 107.7 FM in the High Desert, or subscribe to the podcast.

And do not forget: Friday, July 13, 7 p.m. at Valley Bar Phoenix, it’s DESERT ORACLE RADIO live on stage!

EPISODE #033: AN ESTIMATE OF THE SITUATION

Now is the time for Episode #033 of DESERT ORACLE RADIO. Listen live on the radio, KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree, every Friday night at 10 p.m. Or get the podcast via your preferred podcast service provider.

Several new soundscapes from RedBlueBlackSilver tonight, alongside tales of blood spilt upon the sand and the rapid deterioration of the situation.

EPISODE #032: STRANGE CIRCLES & MYSTERIOUS TRACKS

DESERT ORACLE RADIOPhotos by Tanene Allison.

Mysteries of the Great Basin and the Mojave tonight, as we follow the discovery of hundreds of strange ground circles north of Benton on Highway 6 and the bizarre three-clawed tracks of an alleged monster in a nature preserve just outside of the town of Joshua Tree—the latter discovered by Tanene Allison of Joshua Tree. She joins us tonight to discuss these oddball three-clawed footprints that were twice the size of her 70-lb. dog’s paw prints.

And thanks to Patrick Donnelly in Pahrump, we got looped in on a terrific mystery involving bizarre satellite imagery and last-minute scientific field studies.

It’s Episode #032 of DESERT ORACLE RADIO. Listen live on the radio, KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree, every Friday night at 10 p.m. Or get the podcast via your preferred podcast service provider.
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