Mid-Valley Mutations

Dimestore Radio Theater Halloween Spook-tacular 2026! (Part 4) WFMU Playlist & Listener Comments With only one more week left in our annual Spook-tacular, we pull out all the stops, and bring you four horror stories that you are guaranteed to love this time of year! We begin with another tale from The Weird Circle, and their … Continue reading Dimestore Radio Theater Halloween Spook-tacu...

The People Who Died 2026 Edition! (A Hellraiser “Singles Going Deady” Installment) WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat. (The Digital Salon) It’s our annual review of musicians, artists, and performers who have passed recently, as we play music and audio clips of these people, to get a sense of what they were like in the … Continue reading The People Who Died 2026 Edit...

Dimestore Radio Theater Halloween Spook-tacular 2026! (Part 3) WFMU Playlist & Listener Comments It’s another holiday installment of Dimestore Radio Theater, as we start with The Weird Circle, and the story, “What Was It?,” where a mysterious invisible creature begins to plague a simple household. Continuing with the theme of not seeing things, The Price … Continue read...

Idiomagic: The Blathering (A Hellraiser Special!) WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat. (The Digital Salon) It has become a bit of a tradition on this show that Xeres of Xeron would offer a new tale, in an on-going series of ghostly (and unusual) tales set in the Mid-Valley, and offering a different perspective of what … Continue reading Idiomagic: The Blathering (A Hellraiser Spec...

Dimestore Radio Theater Halloween Spook-tacular 2026! (Part 2) WFMU Playlist & Listener Comments It’s another holiday installment of Dimestore Radio Theater, as we start with The Weird Circle, and the story, “A Terribly Strange Bed,” with a story about one of the worst sleeping arrangements you can imagine. Then, we offer a tale from The Price … Continue reading Dimesto...

Welcome To October (A Hellraiser DJ Party) WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat. (The Digital Salon) With the Hellraiser in full swing, I pull out a DJ set from a live Gig I did last month, and combine it with a couple Day-And-Date Retrocasts, to bring you three hours of Mid-Valley Mutations that is the … Continue reading Welcome To October (A Hellraiser DJ Party)

Dimestore Radio Theater Halloween Spook-tacular 2026! (Part 1) WFMU Playlist & Listener Comments When the calendar flips to October, Dimestore Radio Theater flips to “Holiday Programming Mode,” where we feature a variety of horror radio presentations that are guaranteed to get you in the mood. We start with an installment of The Weird Circle offering “Declared Insane,”,...

The Guitar Shop (30 September 2026) KPSU Playlist  In a very special, anniversary broadcast of “The Guitar Shop,” I sit in with DJ Victrola to help celebrate KPSU’s 32nd Anniversary. It is also, most likely, the LAST broadcast I will ever do out of the Sub-Basement studios on the PSU campus. The station is moving … Continue reading The Guitar Shop (30 September 2026)

“My Baby Wrote Me…” WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat. (The Digital Salon) Waiting for a letter to come is like waiting for a good song to come on the radio: it can take time and patience, and sometimes, the stuff you do while you wait becomes wrapped up in the experience of waiting for … Continue reading “My Baby Wrote Me…”

Dimestore Radio Theater #179 WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat (The Digital Salon) It’s trouble for Richard Diamond from the top of the show this week, as a dead man shows up in his office, and gives him a letter that cases Diamond to become the target of some gang members looking for a treasure in gold. … Continue reading Dimestore Radio Theater #179

uB Radio Salon 976 – R&R live from the Alabaster Turnpike Club/Hotel/Casino Asteroid… 27 September 2026 on DFM.nu Austin & univac find themselves at a bar that is hosting someone by the name of Blackstar!, a David Bowie impersonator. They decide to sit down and have a few drinks and meals, as they take in … Continue reading uB Radio Salon 976 – R&R live from the...

Jukebox Jam 5: Descending… WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat. (The Digital Salon) We’ve been very busy in the Lava Lamp Lounge, trying to keep up with everything that has been (and will be) happening, regarding various things happening on our show. As my mind is solidly fixed on The Blast Off show happening this … Continue reading Jukebox Jam 5: Descending…

Dimestore Radio Theater #178 WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat (The Digital Salon) It’s a celebration of both the voice actor Jay Novello – who appears in our first two features – and THE LAST EPISODE of “X-Minus One,” as we listen to the only 70’s episode that was produced. It’s another great day spent … Continue reading Dimestore Radio Thea...

Pithy or Paltry? w/ Arvo Zylo WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat. (The Digital Salon) Arvo Zylo returns to the show, with three hours of music and sound art that you will not want to miss. Arvo has been a feature of this show since the beginning, occasionally delivering a DJ mix that is guaranteed … Continue reading Pithy or Paltry? w/ Arvo Zylo

Dimestore Radio Theater #177 WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat (The Digital Salon) After 177 episodes of our program, we finally bid farewell to the creative team that brought us Dimension X and X-Minus One. Today we air the final episode of that run – “Gray Flannel Armor” – as we explore exactly how much control we give … Continue reading Dimestore Radio Thea...

The Coronation Wound & Mike Watt Show! WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat. (The Digital Salon) It’s Two Weeks of “Mike Check, One Two, One Two” on Mid-Valley Mutations. All Part of Our End Of Summer Non-Bummer! Last week, we were able to treat you to a fabulous show, which culminated in an interview with … Continue reading The Coronation Wound & Mike Watt&#16...

Dimestore Radio Theater Presents: Movies On the Radio! (Labor Day Special, 2026) WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat (The Digital Salon) It’s Labor Day here in the Lava Lamp Lounge, and that means that the Dimestore Staff are enjoying the day off, while we listen to some “Movies On The Radio,” in our “Day-And-Date” style. … Continue reading Dimestore Radio...

The King Dot & Mike Baggetta Show! WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat. (The Digital Salon) It’s Two Weeks of “Mike Check, One Two, One Two” on Mid-Valley Mutations. All Part of Our End Of Summer Non-Bummer! First off, we have an in-studio visit from Sam of The King Dot, a local musician who books … Continue reading The King Dot & Mike Baggetta Show!

Dimestore Radio Theater #176 WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat (The Digital Salon) It’s the last show of the summer, and almost as if we planned it this way, we bring you, “Poor Sound Quality Theater,” to wrap things up this time. Four stories with less than stellar sound. Four chances to misunderstand the dialog! … Continue reading Dimestore Radio Theater #176

Howlin’ At The Doom Part 8: Another Round For Woody & Harry WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat. (The Digital Salon) We pick up where we left off, as we buy another round of drinks for both Woody Guthrie and Harry Dean Stanton, to men both born on July 14th, and both men who seem … Continue reading Howlin’ At The Doom Part 8: Another Round For Woody & Harry

Dimestore Radio Theater #175 WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat (The Digital Salon) It’s another four stories for us to enjoy, as we delve straight into the heart of Mid-Century radio. First, Richard Diamond finds himself back out on a dude ranch, as he is set to find out is a victim died accidentally… or by murder! … Continue reading Dimestore Radio Theater #175

That’s Where The Fictional Quality of Music Money Comes From! (Retrocast) WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat. (The Digital Salon) We review two different and complementary episodes of our show from the first couple of years, first with a vinyl / electronic mash-up, and then, with two long performances by the old house band for … Continue reading That’s Where The Fictional...

The Val & Tom Show WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat. (The Digital Salon) We are getting very excited about Mike Watt’s return to the Mid-Valley, and getting asked to open for him yet again. This time, I have assembled a trio to perform with: Tom of Ghosts of Ghosts, and Valerie of Eila Star, … Continue reading The Val & Tom Show

Dimestore Radio Theater #174 WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat (The Digital Salon) As we settle into our new time here, earlier on Mondays, we continue to offer what we do best: four stories, each week, from our ongoing series. First up, we have Richard Diamond, who is helping the police investigate a murder that … Continue reading Dimestore Radio Theater #174

On Vacation (Retrocast) WFMU Playlist & Interactive Live Chat. (The Digital Salon) We find ourselves unexpectedly On Vacation this week, as we attempt to have some form of Summer Break before it’s too late. With that in mind, we dug out this show from 2020, where we revisit some Tiki Records, and try to find … Continue reading On Vacation (Retrocast)