Mid-Valley Mutations

Dimestore Radio Theater’s Memorial Day Special! (2026)! WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat (The Digital Salon) It’s another one of our patented “Holi-Day & Date” presentations, just in time for the Memorial Day sales that all seem a bit in poor taste, in some way. Regardless, we take to the air, and re-enact the Revolution … Continue reading Dimestore Radio...

Cascading Dissonance: Conversations w/ Shin Chida, Scot Jenerik and Mike Meanstreetz WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat This week we are lucky to have a panel discussion with Shin Chida, Scot Jenerik and Mike Meanstreetz, who are collectively touring at the end of May / and through June, on the “Cascading Dissonance” Tour. Scot is … Continue reading Cascading Dissonance: C...

Dimestore Radio Theater #165 WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat (The Digital Salon) Wrestling is still on the menu this week, as Richard Diamond  gets wrapped up in a case with his wrestling friend Seymour, after a mysterious dead man shows up on Diamond’s doorstep, with an ice pick in him. They work their way … Continue reading Dimestore Radio Theater #165

Word Jazz VII w/ Ken Nordine (A “Cheek-In-Tongues,” “Fill-In-Shows,” Installment) WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat (The Digital Salon) Barno was unavailable again this week, and as it the case whenever he is out, we continue to work our way through the Word Jazz series of radio shows, so we can catch up with Mr. … Continue reading Word Jazz VII w/ Ken Nordine...

Spring Jukebox WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat As Spring rages on, and as there continues to be less and less free time available to work on new shows, we help clear a little runway, by offering another “Jukebox” show, featuring a playlist of music, with almost no collage elements to speak of. It’s three … Continue reading Spring Jukebox

Dimestore Radio Theater #164 WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat (The Digital Salon) This week, Richard Diamond  is hired by a local wrestler, who is convinced that a so-called “hit-and-run” death of his truck driving friend, Mike Burton, is more than just an accident. It doesn’t take long before Diamond is immersed in a smuggling … Continue reading Dimestore Radio Th...

The Point Line Plane Story WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat The clock rewinds, and suddenly, now is then, and vice versa. Science and geometry are no longer playing by the rules of the game. The universe has decided to re-align, and in this iteration, we get another chance to see Point Line Plane, return … Continue reading The Point Line Plane Story

Dimestore Radio Theater’s May the Fourth Special! WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat (The Digital Salon) For those of you who live in past – maybe it was long, long ago? – then this holiday might evoke certain kinds of nostalgia that you might have mixed feeling about. So it is our pleasure to zig … Continue reading Dimestore Radio Theater’s May The Fourth&#160...

Unexpected Hitchhiker’s (A “Cheek-In-Tongues,” “Fill-In-Shows,” Installment) WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat (The Digital Salon) (This show was a last-minute fill-in.) Reaching for the nearest thing in the Lava Lamp Lounge, as we discovered at the last minute that Cheek In Tongues was not happening tonight, we popped in the first disc of the Hitchhiker&#8217...

Fumblin’ With The Blues (Part 2) WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat We continue our exploration of Blues music, in a variety of forms and styles, genres, and from different periods, in an effort to soak in the wisdom that others have already gleaned from this kind of music. We move through time and through … Continue reading Fumblin’ With The Blues (Part 2)

Dimestore Radio Theater #163 WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat (The Digital Salon) Richard Diamond,  is hired to be a patsy in a murder, and when a couple of crooks use this to their advantage, Diamond must convince Walt and Otis he’s innocent, and plan an elaborate sting operation to coax out the real killer. … Continue reading Dimestore Radio Theater #163

uBradio Salon 954: Silver Sailer – uB Tales from Beyond… 26 April 2026 on DFM.nu Now part of the crew of The Silver Sailer, univac and Austin must get used to life on a ship like this, and more important, get used to the various jobs and chores that everyone has to perform, sooner or … Continue reading uBradio Salon 954: Silver Sailer – uB Tales from Beyond… 26 April...

Fumblin’ With The Blues (Part 1) WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat I’m not sure if I could be more unhappy as of late, and nothing really seems as fun or as important as it once was. There’s no doubt about it: I’ve been fumblin’ with the blues quite a bit lately, and it seemed … Continue reading Fumblin’ With The Blues (Part 1)

Dimestore Radio Theater: A Mid-Century Pot Party WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat (The Digital Salon) We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to bring you this special news bulletin: Police have confiscated a number of “Mary Jane” related radio broadcasts, posing as a regular installment of Dimestore Radio Theater. Tune in for stories that are as … Continue read...

By The Seat of Our Pants II (28th Anniversary Show) WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat Still in full recovery mode from our recent tour, we continue to fly by the seat of our pants, and offer more Feynman / Holmes mash-ups, as a way of celebrating the 28th Anniversary of my first radio broadcast. … Continue reading By The Seat of Our Pants II (28th Anniversary Show)

Dimestore Radio Theater #162 WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat (The Digital Salon) In a four-wall breaking episode of Richard Diamond, the mysterious Mrs. X – played by the one and only June Allyson – is trying to find her husband, and seems to think that Richard looks a little like him. Maybe he can … Continue reading Dimestore Radio Theater #162

Word Jazz VI w/ Ken Nordine (A “Cheek-In-Tongues,” “Fill-In-Shows,” Installment) WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat (The Digital Salon) (This show was a last-minute fill-in. As such, our “chat” started at another location, and edited at the Playlist / Chat link above. We started over here: WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat (The Digital Salon, &#82...

By The Seat of Our Pants WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat Fresh off of a few weeks away from home, we present a “catch-up” episode of our program, as we fly by the seat of our pants, and grab “whatever was lying around” to offer a “Feynman vs. Holmes” mash-up that is both fun … Continue reading By The Seat of Our Pants

Dimestore Radio Theater #161 WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat (The Digital Salon) In another largely unintelligible installment of Richard Diamond, lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo … Continue readi...

Mid-Valley Mutations vs. Radio TroUBle / Radio TroUBle vs. Mid-Valley Mutations! (Part II) WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat Radio TroUBle Archives Radio TroUBle Playlist Not only is this the second time that our shows have joined forces – see our previous six our epic – but this time we have new rules that keeps … Continue reading Mid-Valley Mutations vs. Radio TroUBle /...

Dimestore Radio Theater: Big City Orchestra Takes Over! WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat (The Digital Salon) In a turn of events that everyone expected, Dimestore Radio Theater has their first-ever guests, as the members of Big City Orchestra take over the show, pick their favorite Sci-Fi broadcasts, and prepare themselves for a live script reading, … Continue reading Dimestore Radi...

UBradio Salon 950 – SquircUBe Chronicles: “Yose-Mite”… 29 Mar 2026 on DFM.nu Through some mysterious force powered by revenge and the power of will, the occupants of the SquircUBe are transported to the forrest moon of Yose-Mite – along with their ground crew – and they have to survive a villainous plot from an old … Continue reading UBradio Salon 950 &#82...

Stranger Than Fiction w/ Mr. B on Freeform, Portland (29 March 2026) (Edited Aircheck) Playlist Mr. B. used two more excerpts from one of my Mini-Mutations on his show again, which means I can make one last push for you to see the Willamette River Basin tour, coming near you, soon!   https://ia600806.us.archive.org/13/items/stranger-thank-fiction-29-march-2026-edited/Stranger%20Thank%20Fictio...

In Conversation (Willamette River Basin Tour w/ Scot Jenerik, Don Haugen, Aurora Josephson & Free Static) WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat A broadcast that went well beyond expectations, and intentions, as it quickly evolved into something more than we had planned. In hour one, we offer a wide range of music from artists that … Continue reading In Conversation (Willamette River...

Missed Connections w/ CG+E on Freeform, Portland (24 March 2026) Playlist The wonderful hosts at “Missed Connections” on Freeform Portland were kind enough to interview a panel of people, all of whom are performing at the Portland Arts Collective on 4 April 2026, as part of the Willamette River Basin tour. The first hour of this show … Continue reading Missed Connections w/ CG+E...