Mid-Valley Mutations

Eila Star, LIVE! (w/ Brad Anderson & Mac Dawg Interviews!) WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat. (The Digital Salon) In what was a somewhat chaotic, but otherwise memorable and fun broadcast from the Lava Lamp Lounge Annex (my garage), we had the lovely and talented Eila Star join me for three hours of DJing, conversating, … Continue reading Eila Star, LIVE! (w/ Brad Anderson &...

Dimestore Radio Theater’s Movies On The Radio Double Feature: Dick Powell Part 3 WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat (The Digital Salon) Summer’s ready when you are, and during this time of year, we like to give the staff a break, and air some longer stories that you don’t get to hear during the rest … Continue reading Dimestore Radio Theater’s Movies On The Rad...

Xeronian ZigZag #1 (x/ Xeres of Xeron!) WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat Our long-time friend and colleague, Xeres of Xeron, returns to the show, to offer his own take on the “jukebox” theme, by offering a wide ranging mix of music and tunes that are near and dear to his heart. Aside from some … Continue reading Xeronian ZigZag #1 (x/ Xeres of Xeron!)

Dimestore Radio Theater #170 WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat (The Digital Salon) Taking a simple case is never simple for Richard Diamond, especially when he’s hired by someone who turns up dead before he can even get to know what he’ll be doing trying to suss out The Evans Farmer Case. Before long Diamond is … Continue reading Dimestore Radio Theater #170

uBradio Salon 963 – uB Tales From Beyond: The Sextant & The Windrose Line 28 June 2026 on DFM.nu Our dynamic duo have been separated from each other, as they each continue their work as crew members on The Silver Sailer. Both univac and Austin meet The Captain. Torrent and Napster each work to find … Continue reading uBradio Salon 963 – uB Tales From Beyond: The Sextant &...

Jukebox Jams 3: By The Seat of Our Pants WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat We offer another Jukebox Show this week, where Austin is looking through his archive of different things that he hasn’t played on the show in a while, and… plays them on the show. Music new, old, connecting to current events, … Continue reading Jukebox Jams 3: By The Seat of Our Pants

Dimestore Radio Theater #169 WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat (The Digital Salon) Two Helens are better than one this week, as we have two stories with characters named Helen! First up, we seen Richard Diamond & his girlfriend, Helen, out on a date at a Carnival. However, it doesn’t take long before murder, clowns, wrestlers and … Continue reading Dimestore Radio Theater&#...

Charred Limbo Erroneous w/ Arvo Zylo WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat “Arvo Zylo returns for a three hour tour of prime experimental music and choice vintage populism from a wide array of bygone eras. Arvo Zylo was a freeform radio DJ at WZRD and WLUW in Chicago for several years, runs his own NO … Continue reading Charred Limbo Erroneous w/ Arvo Zylo

Dimestore Radio Theater #168 WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat (The Digital Salon) In one of the more stereotypical cases for Richard Diamond this week, Edna Wolfe hires him to investigate a cheating husband, but as Diamond continues to investigate, the case gets murkier and murkier. Meanwhile, Rocky Jordan accidentally witnesses a woman commit a murder, … Continue reading Dimestore...

Word Jazz VIII w/ Ken Nordine (A “Cheek-In-Tongues,” “Fill-In-Shows,” Installment) WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat (The Digital Salon) Our continuing journey through Ken Nordine’s Word Jazz radio show seems just as daunting and ineffable as it did when we started, but now that we’ve made it through a number of these, a bit of a formula … Continue...

The Outside Agitators & Coronation Wound Interview WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat We spend three hours with Coronation Wound – a new hardcore band that is playing their first show on Thursday! During that three hours we interview the members of the other act on the bill – The Outside Agitators – and then … Continue reading The Outside Agitators & Coronati...

Dimestore Radio Theater #167 WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat (The Digital Salon) It seems as if Richard Diamond …. Meanwhile, Rocky Jordan… In hour 2, we offer another installment of “The Century” as part of Dimestore Revelations. Then, Blackstone …  And finally, on X-Minus One, …. https://ia601909.us.archive.org/32/items/dimestore-167/Dimestore167.mp3...

Jukebox Jams 2: Live From “What’s This Called?” WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat It’s another one of our patented, “Jukebox” shows, where we play a lot of music, and we have less of the collage / cut-ups that usually occur. This week, we focus all on music performed live, by artists who appeared on … Continue reading Jukebox Jams 2: Live From &#82...

Dimestore Radio Theater #166 WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat (The Digital Salon) It seems as if Richard Diamond is in over his head this week, as he is hired to chaperone a kidnapping / ransom trade off, only to get knocked out, to find the money stolen, and the kidnappee has been murdered. It’s going … Continue reading Dimestore Radio Theater #166

uBradio Salon 959: Making Connections – uB Tales From Beyond: … 31 May 2026 on DFM.nu univac and Austin continue to get to know the crew-  and to a degree, the ship itself – as they continue to get used to life on The Silver Sailer interstellar sailing ship. univac becomes a useful (and in … Continue reading uBradio Salon 959: Making Connections – uB Tales From Beyond...

Jukebox Jams 1: Inspired by “What’s This Called?” WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat Our patented “Jukebox” shows are meant to offer you something a little less than the sample collage barrage that is our bread-and-butter. You still get all the flavor of a Mid-Valley Mutations program, but it’s more stripped down, and focused. And this … Continue re...

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...