Ether Transmissions

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

Past Episodes

  • Ether Transmissions – Episode 125 – Gardens Aired: Tuesday, June 18, 2024

    Songs for budding gardeners!

    Postcard: "Party Vegetables" Swiss fantasy postcard, c. 1917 from the Ken Brown Collection

  • Ether Transmissions – Episode 124 Aired: Tuesday, May 28, 2024

    Starting with Sun Records, ending with Suuns. (mostly)70s and 80s in between.

    Photo: WAYO Studio on East Main St. in Rochester, NY during Ether Transmissions episode #124, May 28, 2024

  • Ether Transmissions – Episode 123 – Blood Aired: Tuesday, May 21, 2024

    I had a bloody good time with this playlist. I forgot to mention Kurosawa's Throne of Blood.

    Card by my friend Ernie, 1993

  • Ether Transmissions – Episode 122 Aired: Tuesday, May 14, 2024

    No theme. Aurora borealis. Stories. Lists. Happy Birthday Sofia Coppola, David Byrne, and George Lucas. A few goodbyes.

    Postcard: Rene Magritte, La Clef Des Songes / The Interpretation of Dreams, 1935

  • Ether Transmissions – Godzilla – 2024-05-07 (Ep. 121) Aired: Tuesday, May 7, 2024

    Godzilla playlist in honor of the filmmaker Ishiro Honda (7 May 1911 – 28 February 1993), who co-wrote and directed Gojira in 1954.

  • Ether Transmissions – World of Tomorrow – 2024-04-30 (Ep. 120) Aired: Tuesday, April 30, 2024

    The New York World's Fair opened on Sunday, April 30, 1939 in Queens. It's theme was the World of Tomorrow. This episode starts with some hits from 1939 and moves on to songs about the future.

  • Ether Transmissions – 80s Vinyl – 2024-04-23 (Ep. 119) Aired: Tuesday, April 23, 2024

    An (incomplete) alphabetic journey through my (mostly) 1980s vinyl.

    Postcard: Water Alphabet, 1998 by Abelardo Morell

  • 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

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