Joshua Tree

EPISODE #008: THE GHOST WORLD OF DEATH VALLEY JCT & OTHER TALES

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DESERT ORACLE
IN THIS EPISODE, we take a weird road trip to Death Valley Junction, meeting astronauts, film crews, Czech composers, so-called comedians and other odd characters along the way.

Listen live on KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree and the High Desert on Friday nights, and subscribe to the podcast for free, full episodes. And don’t forget to subscribe to our quarterly pocket-sized print magazine, DESERT ORACLE.

Music and sounds heard in this episode include:

EPISODE #007: CHARLES MANSON AT BARKER RANCH & OTHER RAVEN STORIES

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PINE CITY

Have you heard the one about Charles Manson “growing up in Amboy”? Or maybe the one about Charles Manson “killing a lot of his victims at Amboy Crater.” We’ve heard these stories, and they’re nonsense. But the true story of the Manson Family in the California Desert is as strange and threatening as the world can get.

We also talk to some ravens, because somebody has got to do it.

Get the episode on iTunes & other such podcast-delivery systems, or listen live on the radio in Joshua Tree and the Mojave High Desert, 10 o’clock Friday nights.

Sounds and music heard on this broadcast include:

EPISODE #006: CAMPFIRE STORIES & ELVIS IN THE MOJAVE

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DESERT ORACLE RADIO
Tonight: A new episode of DESERT ORACLE RADIO with campfire stories recorded at the Ace Hotel and a phone call from Brendan Maze regarding his “UFO experience” plans for the High Desert.

You can subscribe for free at iTunes, TuneIn, Google Play and Stitcher——or listen live at (or around) 10 p.m. Fridays on KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree. For a subscription to our pocket-sized field guide, DESERT ORACLE, click here. We are currently finishing up our Autumn 2017 issue, #7, which will be mailed out next month.

Ambient tracks on tonight’s broadcast include:

EPISODE #004: GHOST LIGHTS & THE GRASSHOPPER MOUSE

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Tonight at (or around?) 10 p.m. on KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree and the High Desert: Spook lights on Amboy Road, the conversion of Saul by blinding desert lights over the highway, and recordings of the pilots and tower staff from the night of October 7, 1965, when a dozen UFOs bedeviled Edwards Air Force Base for nearly five hours. (You can hear the entire recording at the Internet Archive, as provided by the U.S. Air Force.)

Subscribe to our program on iTunes, Stitcher, the Google Play app and other such podcast-delivery systems. It’s easy, it’s free, and you’ll get each new episode delivered to your device as if by magic.

Our theme music was composed by Pierre Gerwig Langer, and musical ambience in this episode included the following recordings:

EPISODE #003: PHOENIX LIGHTS, CACTUS MART, GRAM PARSONS!

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Tonight we visit the great mystery of the Phoenix Lights, which was 20 years ago! Why did the governor of Arizona hide his own “otherworldly” sighting? Also on the show: We answer your letters and tell why Gram Parsons and Joshua Tree are forever connected. There’s a night-time hike with the Former Ranger, too. And you will enjoy an inspiring talk with Nicole Holland, owner of the beloved Cactus Mart in Morongo Valley. Subscribe to the podcast free of charge at iTunes, and listen live on KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree and across the High Desert, 10 p.m. on Fridays!

Our theme music was composed by Pierre Gerwig Langer, and you’ll hear some of the following tracks and ambience on tonight’s broadcast:

Nicole Holland of Cactus Mart

Nicole Holland of Cactus Mart.

TUNE IN TONIGHT: DESERT ORACLE RADIO #002

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DESERT ORACLE RADIO

Hot enough for ya? Well yes. But is it weird enough? Forecasts suggest it will be weird with a high probability of strange tales from the desert: the Mormon pioneers and their sinister Joshua trees, how the American desert gave birth to the atomic bomb, the enigma of Desert Plants National Monument, plus Part II of our illuminating visit with ExtraordinaryBeliefs.com documentary filmmaker Jeremy Corbell at his Pioneertown ranch.

Subscribe at iTunes and get every episode free of charge, or in the High Desert tune in from your cabin or car at 10 p.m. Fridays, 107.7 on your FM radio dial. You can also stream the program live at KCDZ 107.7 FM

DESERT ORACLE RADIO: EPISODE #001

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PHOTO: Ken Layne (Desert Oracle) and Jeremy Corbell (ExtraordinaryBeliefs.com) at Cultus Camp, Pioneertown, Calif.

Now is the time for DESERT ORACLE RADIO, premiering at 10 p.m. Friday, June 23, on KCDZ Z107.7 FM in Joshua Tree and broadcasting throughout the Mojave Hi-Desert.

Hosted by the magazine’s editor and publisher, Ken Layne, DESERT ORACLE RADIO is the perfect Friday night soundtrack, whether driving across the lonesome Mojave or at home with the coyotes howling outside. Expect evocative tales of lost mines, UFOs, missing tourists, secret military projects, local legends, weird animals and weirder people.

Listen on your radio or stream the program live at Z1077fm.com, and download full episodes each week from iTunes.

EPISODE #001: Tales of Yucca Man, a baffling phone call from Brendan Maze, UFO legends, the Desert Oracle Mailbag, and an illuminating visit with Pioneertown filmmaker Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell of ExtraordinaryBeliefs.com.

DESERT ORACLE RADIO

DESERT ORACLE RADIO PREMIERES JUNE 23 ON Z107.7 FM JOSHUA TREE

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JOSHUA TREE, Calif. — Mojave Desert radio becomes more mysterious on Friday nights as DESERT ORACLE RADIO premieres at 10 p.m. Friday, June 23, on Z107.7 FM. The half-hour program brings the strange world of DESERT ORACLE—the pocket-sized quarterly published in Joshua Tree—to High Desert radio.

Hosted by the magazine’s editor and publisher, Ken Layne, DESERT ORACLE RADIO is the perfect Friday night soundtrack, whether driving across the lonesome Mojave or at home with the coyotes howling outside. Expect evocative tales of lost mines, UFOs, missing tourists, secret military projects, local legends, weird animals and weirder people. Listen on your radio or at z1077fm.com, and download full episodes each week from iTunes.

DESERT ORACLE is the pocket-sized field guide to the mysterious American desert, available at local retailers or by subscription at DesertOracle.com. It has been featured by many media outlets including the Los Angeles Times, the San Diego Reader, KCET, and NBC Los Angeles. Ken Layne has presented DESERT ORACLE tales at venues and events including Desert Stories in Joshua Tree and Los Angeles, Valley Bar’s “Bar Flies” in Phoenix, “Desert & Denim” in Pioneertown, and for Red Bull Music Academy Radio.

For more information, contact KCDZ Z107.7FM Program Director Gary Daigneault at (760) 366-8471 or DESERT ORACLE RADIO host Ken Layne at editor@desertoracle.com.

DOWNLOADS:

Press Release, Desert Oracle Radio

Press Photo, Desert Oracle Radio

30-second promo spot

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