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Welcome to Click Vortex from WASTOIDS. Each episode, Sam Means (Hello Merch/The Format) and Jason Woodbury (Aquarium Drunkard) stumble down a rabbit hole of hyperlinks, following trails of interconnection between wildly varied topics. In episode one, Sam takes us on a music video journey—touching on Blur, Weezer, Sparks, Pete Yorn and Scarlett Johansson, Robbie Robertson of The Band, and Alice Coo...

Has the spirit of Harry Nilsson ever visited you in a dream? This week on Clairaudience, your host Ersa Lowly examines a few Nilsson in the night encounters from Ruben Zarate of Dante Elephante and Sam Means of The Format. Plus, tunes from Mellotron Variations (members of Wilco/Medeski Martin & Wood), ambient country band SUSS, George Tipton, Dick Shory’s New Percussion Ensemble, and more. Do...

Love is a funny thing. We don't control it. It's more like it controls us. Tonight on Clairaudience, your host Ersa Lowly hears from a 1-877-WASTOIDS caller who shares a message about their time at church camp...sharing the feeling of falling in young love and much more. Plus, far out synth sounds from Don Muro, electronic bliss from Mort Garson, and space ambiance from Troyka. 

A damned wind is howling and we're all glued to our phones, fearing for the worst. How do you know when to plug in and when it's time to log off for a spell? Tonight your WASTOIDS guide Ersa Lowly is talking about doomscrolling , and offering you a chance to chill out for a minute with some far out recordings and insights from the 1-877-WASTOIDS hotline.  What strange wonders await? Pres...

Do you feel yourself becoming lighter, listener? Hovering ever so slightly? Don't be alarmed, it’s only the effect of listening to Clairaudience on WASTOIDS... Tonight on our weekly blend of far out sounds and strange insights, your host Ersa Lowly is exploring the notion of astral projection, or spirit walking, or "out of body experiences." We'll hear from pioneering figure Ro...

CALL US: 1-877-WASTOIDS  Do you see repeating numbers? Tend to notice the same color everywhere you go? Ever received a phone call from a friend just as you were thinking about them?  The ultra-rational among us might call these occurrences “mere coincidence.” Those a little farther out might label them “serendipity.” And then there are those who go even deeper with possibility and note these mome...

How is your imagination doing tonight listener? Have you indulged it lately? We get so caught up in our day to day existence, in the errands we need to run, the appointments we must keep, and the notifications our phones feed us, that we forget the endless depths of our own minds. It can easily start to feel like there’s simply no time for the infinite. We forget so easily that, at any moment, we...

“If you think this universe is bad, you should see some of the others.” It was the late author and science fiction prophet Philip K Dick who said that, and tonight on Clairaudience we're choosing to read it as an optimistic statement. Tonight on the show, Ersa Lowly takes a call from Portland, Oregon’s own Reptaliens who ring up to share tales from the road, discuss science fiction, and the i...

We’re on the edge of things tonight, in that space between worlds, between waking and sleeping, between what we know and what we don’t. It’s a special place full of marvelous sounds. It’s called many things in many languages. Limbo, the nether world, the twilight zone. But tonight, you can just call Clairaudience, on WASTOIDS. We’ve got a strange call to share with you tonight, about beings that m...

It’s late at night. You’re on the way home from a punk rock show. Your ears are still ringing. There’s little illumination beyond the headlights and the moon overhead, but the display of the radio glows too, frequency numbers backlit softly by the dashboard’s neon green glow. You scan the dial, through the static, Top 40, and commercial jingles. Then, you stumble upon them, the spiraling sounds of...

It’s Tuesday night and Ersa Lowly is thinking about dreaming. At the start of the pandemic, there were widespread reports of a surge in stress dreams. Did you suffer through that wave? Are you still going through it? Sleep journeys can be mundane. What’s worse than a dream where you dream about going to work or a routine appointment? Or they can be exhilarating, like when you’re soaring high in th...

What’s that ringing on the wind? The chimes of a new year are ringing, echoing with possibility. Have you got your resolutions handy? Are you prepared to discuss adjusting your habits and renouncing your vices?  No?  Well don’t worry, you don’t need to worry about any of that for the next quarter hour. No pressures, self-imposed or otherwise, no commands, just…Ersa Lowly with a quarter-hour of mel...

Winter has arrived in all her splendor. A new year beckons and a fresh night, the longest of the whole year, is all ours. Join Ersa Lowly on Clairaudience for an evening of strange and soothing music, UFO stories, and Solstice reflections. Have you own far out story to share? Dial 1-877-WASTOIDS and leave a message and we'll play it on the show. 

The winter brings many things: Familial obligations, awkward holiday parties, stores crammed with shoppers. But the winter brings something else: a sense of deep quiet, a time to slow down, bundle up and ease into the long nights as we await brighter mornings. We’re passing through the frosty crucible, listener. And on the other side? Why, it’s Clairaudience on WASTOIDS with your host Ersa Lowly....

Each Tuesday night, Ersa Lowly brings you Clairaudience, a selection of mellow compositions to lull you to sleep and strange, far out stories from the WASTOIDS hotline. This week, we've got a special guest calling in: John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats , a reliable source of literate folk rock for decades (and a big sensation on TikTok ). He’s also a writer, the author of Wolf in White Van,...

Somewhere in the expanse of space there is a place of quiet. A place of reprieve. Despite its faraway location, you can go there, listener. Simply close your eyes. Allow yourself a deep breath. Sink lower and lower, as if into cosmic waters. Listen closely and you can hear it bubbling...the sound of Clairaudience on WASTOIDS. Shall we ride the cosmic waves? 

Do you believe in ghosts, listener? There are rumors that the studio at Hello Lincoln is haunted. When a building is very old, these sorts of stories tend to develop. And ours is indeed an old one: it was built in 1927 for the Arizona Sash, Door & Glass Company. More than once, the crew here as heard odd noises or caught sight of an apparition from the corner of their eye. Is something hauntin...

What’s more important, listener: the answer? Or the question? The right answer might solve everything, be the missing puzzle piece. But if your question is off, too short sighted, or too myopic—if it doesn’t take into account the thousands of random elements that influence and inform everything going on around us, both seen and the unseen—then what good is it? An answer can satisfy, but the right...

The darkness comes earlier and earlier this time of year, but there’s no need to fear the inky blackness. After all, under the cover of night, we can explore the strangeness of our world freely, shielded from the prying eyes of squares and the uptight masses. Nighttime is our time, when our obligations recede and mystery abounds. The nighttime belongs to Ersa Lowly, and she belongs to it. Welcome...

It's Tuesday night and Ersa Lowly is back to guide you to the sweet spot between waking and sleeping, between drifting away and drifting beyond. Here in this liminal holy space, a land of lost continents and ancient technologies—located between the real and the imagined—we've got a set of songs and calls from the WASTOIDS hotline. 

Welcome to another installment of Strange Gear, our biweekly series of conversations about items in artists' sonic toolkits that help them create distinct sounds. Today on the show, Ben Greenberg and Mike Berdan of Uniform join us to discuss the way the Roland EF-303 Groove Effects box and synths brings depth and color to the band's industrial/punk/metal fervor. The band's latest is...

Allhallowtide is upon us, and Ersa Lowly has raised her blade and gathered up a selection of spooky tunes to soundtrack your nights of carving and feasting on candy. Wander into the night with this episode of Clairaudience, and mark your calendar for Friday, October 29, when the first-ever WASTOIDS Halloween Special, featuring creepy cool videos from Cosmic Hour, Dirt Dyed, Skin Ticket, and Ersa h...

Maybe there’s no difference between what we dream and what we become? So how about we dream some miraculous dreams? It's Clairaudience with Ersa Lowly on WASTOIDS. The evening breezes carry all sorts of forbidden notions. Let's get carried away. 

Hey, this is Strange Gear, a WASTOIDS presentation, a talk show about the unique gear artists use to create their sound. Our guest today is Oliver Ackerman of A Place to Bury Strangers and Death By Audio, a world renowned effects company he runs from New York. Ahead of the release of a new remix EP, Hologram: Destroyed and Disassembled , available November 26th on Dedstrange records, Oliver joined...

The shadows have gathered, encircling us as we wander through the static and the haze. Just kidding! The shadows are your friends. And so is Ersa Lowly, your eventide guide on the WASTOID wavelength.   This week on the show, a quarter hour of great mood music and a dire call from the hotline. Tune in.