Mid-Valley Mutations

Another UFO: Supplemental (Document #MVM03) WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat New Year, New Mutations, and to kick things off, we will be exploring UFOs again, picking up where Don Joyce left off, and adding our own spin to the proceedings. We pulled hours and hours of material for this presentation, so we will not … Continue reading Another UFO: Supplemental (Document #MVM03)

Dimestore Radio Theater #152 WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat (The Digital Salon) After a long holiday break, we return to our regularly scheduled programs. It is nice to get back to the stories of Richard Diamond, Rocky Jordan, and Blackstone The Magic Detective, as well as see what is happening in our Vaudeville Documentary, … Continue reading Dimestore Radio Theater #152

In Search of The Christmas Ghosts of The Mid-Valley! (Ghosts III) WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat We complete our trilogy – started in October with In Search of The Ghost Hunters of The Mid-Valley, continued last week with In Search of The Christmas Ghosts of The Mid-Valley, and completed here, now, with two more … Continue reading In Search of The Christmas Ghosts of The Mid...

Holi-Day & Date New Year’s Fun! (Week 5) WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat (The Digital Salon) We forego our regular shows this time of year, and for this program, offer you a variety of holiday tidbits, all originally aired on this same date, but many decades before. First, we offer you the comedic stylings … Continue reading Holi-Day & Date New Year’s Fun! (Week...

In Search of The Christmas Ghosts of The Mid-Valley! (Ghosts II) WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat It’s another journey deep into the lore and experiences of those who have seen or are haunted by apparitions, this time with a slight holiday component to the show. After debuting two new tracks by The Giant Worm … Continue reading In Search of The Christmas Ghosts of The Mid-Vall...

Holi-Day & Date Christmas Fun! (Week 4) WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat (The Digital Salon) We forego our regular shows during the holidays, and for this program, we offer you a variety of holiday fare, all originally aired on this same date, but many decades before. This week our theme is: Jack Benny? First, … Continue reading Holi-Day & Date Christmas Fun! (Week 4)

UBradio Salon 936 – SquircUBe Chronicles: “Hey Kids, Do You Know What Time It Is?”… 21 Dec 2025 on DFM.nu This time, Austin & univac are joined by Aurora Josephson & Mike Dringenberg, to offer the first installment of, “Captain Amazing,” and to continue discussing the fallout from their time at the Yoga Yurt. This … Continue reading UBradio Salon 9...

It’s Alive w/ Ghosts of Ghosts & Scot Jenerik! WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat We’ve got a live split LP of a show for you this week, as we bring you post punk and experimental music – and interviews – with artists here in the Mid-Valley, that I think you are going to love. … Continue reading It’s Alive w/ Ghosts of Ghosts & Scot Jenerik!

Holi-Day & Date Christmas Fun! (Week 3) WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat (The Digital Salon) We forego our regular shows during the holidays, and for this program, we offer you a variety of holiday fare, all originally aired on this same date, but many decades before. This week, we air an episode of The Good … Continue reading Holi-Day & Date Christmas Fun! (Week 3)

Word Jazz IV w/ Ken Nordine (A “Cheek-In-Tongues,” “Fill-In-Shows,” Installment) WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat (The Digital Salon) We make another nod to Nordine, as we continue to explore the classic Word Jazz series of broadcasts. This week, Barno was out again, so it made sense to grab two more installments of this program, and … Continue reading Word J...

The Melinda Snodgrass Interview WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat Join us for a casual conversation with legendary Science Fiction author, Melinda Snodgrass. We get a nice overview of her career, stories about how she got involved in Hollywood, and lots of tips on writing, and what makes a dedicated writer. Melinda has two series … Continue reading The Melinda Snodgrass Intervie...

Holi-Day & Date Christmas Fun! (Week 2) WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat Continuing our Holiday Anniversary trend, we bring you two more episodes of the CBS Radio Mystery Theater, and a short holiday installment of The Gift of The Magi, which apparently makes everyone else in the world cry, but makes me laugh. https://ia801704.us.archive.org/2/items/dimestore-christmas-two-2025/Dimest...

Thanksgiving Leftovers, 2025! WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat I had to miss my regular Tuesday show this week, so I picked up a shift to cover for Don-O, and offering three house of Thanksgiving Leftovers: all albums and records that I’ve been meaning to get to this year, but hadn’t appeared on the show … Continue reading Thanksgiving Leftovers, 2025!

Holi-Day & Date Christmas Fun! (Week 1) WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat Our Holiday Season this year is filled with anniversary retrocasts: shows that originally appeared on the same date, but many decades previous. We start this year off with two installments of CBS Radio Mystery Theater, and a short holiday installment of The Victory Front. … Continue reading Holi-Day & D...

UBradio Salon 933 – SquircUBe Chronicles: WinterDrone V… 30 Nov 2025 on DFM.nu Aurora Josephson visits the UB Kitchens for an in-person drone session, and univac and myself call in to offer scripts, japes, and drones to help flesh this show out. This story is part of, “The SquircUBe Chronicles,” series of episodes on UB … Continue reading UBradio Salon 933 – Squ...

Smoke Two Joints In The Morning: 420, Too (A Danksgiving Special!) WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat Since many of us are stuck visiting with family that we don’t particularly want to see this time of year, we decide to take a radio “walk” out behind the garage, and huff down a couple j’s, soaking in … Continue reading Smoke Two Joints In The Morning: 420, Too...

Dimestore Radio Theater Thanksgiving Special 2025 WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat Presenting in its entirety, The Elgin Watch 7th Annual Thanksgiving Show, which features music, comedy, and other solemn radio moments from the 25 of November, 1948. https://ia803402.us.archive.org/10/items/dimestore-thanksgiving-show-2025/DimestoreThanksgivingShow2025.mp3   Rough Playlist: Ken Carpent...

Howlin At The Doom Part 6: Partch-Meants Triad WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat Number six in our “Howlin’ At The Doom”  series of biographical mix shows where we ruminate on how it was that well known artists from he past handed the horrors of their world and their lives. This is the third covering … Continue reading Howlin’ At The Doom Part 6: Partch-Meants...

The People Who Died 2025 Edition Part II WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat Picking up where we left off with Part I (and in a larger sense, with are ongoing “People Who Died” series), we continue with more Tom Lehrer and David Lynch cut-ups, mixed in with other audio tributes to Wink Martindale, Hulk … Continue reading The People Who Died 2025 Edition Part II

It’s Alive! Performances in The Mid-Valley (w/ Brad Anderson & Four Dimensional Nightmare… LIVE!) WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat Four Dimensional Nightmare has been a friend to the show, and a guest, for well over 10 years now, and the news of their (possibly last?) show in December has been very exciting to hear. … Continue reading It’s Alive! Performances i...

Another UFO: Another Supplemental (Document #MVM02) (A Hellraiser Installment) WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat On the anniversary of the Roswell Incident this year, we broke open the UFO file here in the Lava Lamp Lounge, and offered a long meditation on that particular corner of UFO-logy. However, I uncovered a treasure trove of vintage … Continue reading Another UFO: Another Supp...

Dimestore Radio Theater Halloween Spook-tacular 2025! (Part 4) WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat Closing our our annual Spook-tacular this year, we continue with Four presentations that are perfect for the spooky in your family. More installments of The Weird Circle, The Price of Fear and Quiet, Please are all on the docket, but we also have a very … Continue reading Dimestore Radio...

UBradio Salon 928 – SquircUBe Chronicles: Exit?… 26 Oct 2025 on DFM.nu It’s another installment of “The SquircUBe Chronicles,” a show that I co-write with univac, and is hosted most months, on UB Radio Salon. For this show, we discover that Austin has trouble finding the exit to his facsimile of The Mid-Valley. It’s up … Continue reading UBradio Salon 928...

The People Who Died 2025 Edition (A Hellraiser “Singles Going Deady” Installment) WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat Digging into the archives again, to look for more music and recordings by The People Who Died, trying to keep it focused to 2025 deaths, for the Halloween Spook-tacular this year. Actual deaths are a lot scarier than … Continue reading The People Who Died 20...

Dimestore Radio Theater Halloween Spook-tacular 2025! (Part 3) WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat Our annual Halloween Spook-tacular continues, and with it, our tour through mid-century horror radio wends through the dusty corridors, to find new aural treats that have not yet scared us before. More installments of our four regular October Shows are available … Continue reading Dimesto...