Ether Transmissions

Host(s): 
Jenn Libby
Timeslot: 
Tuesday, July 8, 2025 - 9:00am
Length: 
1 hour
Type of Show: 
Music

Theme-based radio show featuring music from various genres: 80s, goth, new wave, punk, classic country, Americana, experimental, oddities, etc . . .
 

Past Episodes

  • Ether Transmissions – Psychedelia – 2024-04-16 (Ep. 118) Aired: Tuesday, April 16, 2024

    April 16, 1943 was the day that Albert Hofmann accidentally discovered the effects of LSD.

    Book: The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell, originally published in 1954 and 1956, Penguin paperback edition, 1971. Cover shows a detail from Max Ernst's Cocktail Drinker.

    "If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern." - William Blake

  • Ether Transmissions – Guest DJ Greg Stroud – 2024-04-09 (Ep. 117) Aired: Tuesday, April 9, 2024

    Greg Stroud, one of my oldest and dearest friends, is my Special Guest DJ for episode #117. He brought a great playlist and during mic breaks he talks about living in Russia in the mid-nineties, adapting and producing a Chekhov play, and starting the CT Examiner in Old Lyme, CT.

  • Ether Transmissions – Eclipse – 2024-04-02 (Ep. 116) Aired: Tuesday, April 2, 2024

    Playlist to celebrate the upcoming eclipse on Monday, April 8, 2024.

    Postcard: Himmelsscheibe von Nebra (Nebra sky disc) - a bronze disc inlaid with gold symbols of sun, moon, and stars, 1800-1600 BCE

  • Ether Transmissions – Emotions – 2024-03-26 (Ep. 115) Aired: Tuesday, March 26, 2024

    Emotions and feelings explored through songs. Happy Birthday to Leonard Nimoy (March 26, 1931 - February 27, 2015) an actor best known for playing Mr. Spock, a television character on Star Trek, who lacked emotions.

    Postcard: Miss Maude Fealy from the "Celebrities of the Stage" series

  • Ether Transmissions – 2024-03-19 (Ep. 114) Aired: Tuesday, March 19, 2024

    Just a bunch of working women who kill it. Musically.

    Postcard: Wonder Woman by Ellen Shub taken in New Words Bookstore, Cambridge, MA, 1976

  • Ether Transmissions – Guest DJ Sabra Wood – 2024-03-12 (Ep. 113) Aired: Tuesday, March 12, 2024

    My friend and fellow WAYO programmer, Sabra Wood (aka Clifton Wood), joins me for a mash-up episode of Ether Transmissions + Graphic Ear (on WAYO every Thursday from 5:30p - 7p). Lots of talk and some groovy tunes! Love this cat!

    Photo: Sabra outside of the WAYO studios sporting her custom kitty hat knitted by the amazing Alyssa of Fuzzy Details

  • Ether Transmissions – 2025-02-27 (Ep. 112) Aired: Tuesday, February 27, 2024

    This week's show features a mini theme of Super Heroes and I came across this cool song by The Traits called "Nobody Loves the Hulk".

    Image: Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman/Diana Prince and Debra Winger as Wonder Girl/Drusilla

  • Ether Transmissions – 2025-02-20 (Ep. 111) Aired: Tuesday, February 20, 2024

    Hits and obscurities from the 1930s to the present.

    Postcard: Billie Holiday, New York City, 1949 by Herman Leonard

  • Ether Transmissions – Sugar Town – 2024-02-13 (Ep. 110) Aired: Tuesday, February 13, 2024

    My Valentine to you is a trip to Sugar Town.

    Postcard: Burning Sugar Cane

  • Ether Transmissions – Chinese Zodiac – 2024-02-06 (Ep. 109) Aired: Tuesday, February 6, 2024

    Year of the Dragon begins on Saturday, February 10, 2024. In honor of the onset of the Lunar New Year, this playlist celebrates the animals in the Chinese zodiac. Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, and Pig!

    Postcard: Dragon Plate End Board, Korean

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