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EPISODE #037: LYCANTHROPES OF THE WEST

SKINWALKER RANCH

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 #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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EPISODE #030: HAPPY SNAKESGIVING

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Recorded live at the Palm Springs Art Museum, it’s Episode #030, here to help you celebrate this Snakesgiving Day Weekend. (We did two episodes at the PS Art Museum; the other will be broadcast next Friday night, May 4. Listen live on the radio, KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree, every Friday night at 10 p.m.)

DESERT ORACLE #7 is out now, by the way. Find it all around the High Desert or order a subscription and back issues from our website.

A selection of interesting atmospheric sounds and tracks tonight, including these soundscapes from RedBlueBlackSilver: Highway 247 Hypnosis, Telescope Peak, Amber, Yucca Mesa and Ursa Major. You’ll also hear The Transcendent Tipi by Martijn de Boer (NiGiD) (Copyright 2016, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial [3.0] license. Ft: Javolenus).

EPISODE #028: COYOTES IN SPRINGTIME

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It’s springtime and the High Desert is very busy—not just with visitors taking Instagram pictures, but with the creatures, the creatures waking up and crawling out and feeling frisky, as they say.

Listen to the show right here on Art19, subscribe on your favorite podcast system, or tune in tonight in the High Desert, 10 p.m. on KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree, every Friday night. And you’ll hear some new tracks tonight from RedBlueBlackSilver: Echo Canyon and Badwater, along with some of Telescope Peak because that one always goes nice with DESERT ORACLE RADIO.

EPISODE #027: IN THE NIGHT ON AMBOY ROAD

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Sure is nice to get on the road and get out of town. So we’ve heard, anyway. Let’s get in one of these cars and head out to the Mojave Wilderness, a night drive. Never know what’ll happen out here.

In this second episode from the little desert trailer, we have RedBlueBlackSilver on the scene, in the Outpost Project JT yeller trailer, during the recent Curate Joshua Tree’s “FOUND!” show. You’re going to hear some friendly desert conversation with Aili Schmeltz and Emily Silver from the aforementioned ventures, along with strange tales from the Salton Sea with Steven Biller, who is the author of this new piece in Palm Springs Life magazine about the curious phenomenon of DESERT ORACLE.

Listen to the show right here on Art19, subscribe on your favorite podcast system, or tune in tonight in the High Desert, 10 p.m. on KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree, every Friday night.

EPISODE #026: FROM A DESERT TRAILER

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Photo by Laura Crane.

Cold and windy on the High Desert. Maybe some rain out there. Broadcasting from a little old yellow trailer parked over by the cactus garden at Outpost Projects’ & Curate Joshua Tree’s FOUND! art show on March 17, 2018. It was a good way to evade the St. Patrick’s Troubles. Not only did our old friend (?) Brendan Maze drop by, but Joshua Tree’s own RedBlueBlackSilver was there with a pile of weird contraptions making weird sounds. They even put us on their artists’ website & gave us some wine, it was fantastic.

Cooked up live and served to you a week later: a real desert sack lunch. Enjoy in moderation.

Listen to the show right here on Art19, subscribe on your favorite podcast system, or tune in tonight in the High Desert, 10 p.m. on KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree, every Friday night.

EPISODE #023: WINDBLOWN TRASH, BEAUTIFUL BILLBOARDS & OLD CAMP CADY

DESERT ORACLE RADIOOur 23rd episode on the 23rd day of the month, what could be finer? We’re taking a trip out to Camp Cady on the Mojave River, whether we’re welcome or not, and regardless of what happened with Mr. Pantages. And what about those beautiful California Desert National Monuments billboards on the 62? Breanne Dusastre from the 29 Palms Inn tells us why wild desert is good for the critters and good for the High Desert economy.

Enjoy a cold wintry night with us, tonight at 10 p.m. on KCDZ 107.7 FM, or right now on your podcast-enabled machinery.

New soundscapes from RedBlueBlackSilver tonight: Highway 247 Hypnosis and Cooper’s Hawk, along with our usual sparse crowd of coyotes and ravens and riff-raff and this interesting track: The Inner Eye by rocavaco (c) copyright 2014 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. Ft: Kirkoid, Javolenus, Rob Walker, Hector Thillet.