Best Desert Oracle Podcasts (2025)

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All Hallows Tales, Live In New York 1:06:03

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Recorded live in New York before an audience of DOR Patrons & assorted Manhattanites, this is Desert Oracle’s special Halloween Ghost Stories. Thanks to our special guests Matt Welch from The Fifth Column and Nicholas Lowry from Antique Roadshows & the new Czech graphic-design documentary Identity. Special thanks to our listeners who told ghost sto…

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Madison True of Vinyl Bitch 39:29

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Vinyl enthusiast Madison True is a DJ, music producer and the founder of Vinyl Bitch, which organizes vinyl events and workshops that focus on FLINTA (Female, Lesbian, Intersex, Non-binary, Trans and Agender) turntablists and vinyl record enthusiasts. Vinyl Bitch has quickly become an important part of the vinyl record community in London, England.…

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Spin Cycle October with Dave Thompson 56:04

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Dave Thompson tells us what releases are worthy enough to spin on the Spin Cycle edition of the Goldmine Podcast. The latest John Lennon and Wings box sets, and the best of the last Rhino Records' Rocktober releases are discussed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Goldmine Magazine

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The Dollar Bin with filmmaker Josh Roush as the guest 45:03

14d ago45:03

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Josh Roush has surrounded himself with music in his filmmaking career, from his collaborations with noted director Kevin Smith (Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy and Jersey Girl) to producing his latest feature film, Wrong Reasons, described as a "punk rock thriller," which features Ralph Garman, Teresa Ruiz, David Koechner (The Office), Liv Roush (Jos…

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The Eldritch Republic: Thomas Jefferson's UFO 28:00

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From Desert Oracle Radio, this is The Eldritch Republic, our new series that’s all about America’s strange history & uncanny folklore. Tonight we meet William Dunbar, frontier scientist on the Lower Mississippi, and hear his weird report to longtime friend Thomas Jefferson, regarding a large, low-flying mystery object that stunned the people of Bat…

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Chris Hillman on Gram Parsons, David Crosby, and the release of a live Desert Rose Band album 37:30

22d ago37:30

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Chris Hillman, the original bassist of The Byrds, comes on the Goldmine Podcast to talk to staff contributor Lee Zimmerman. As a frequent collaborator with guitarist Gram Parsons and the Flying Burrito Brothers, Hillman became a key figure in the development of country rock. His work with not only The Byrds and the Flying Burrito Brothers, but also…

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The Eldritch Republic: Year of the Assassins! 28:00

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There were two attempted assassinations of President Gerald Ford in September 1975. Both in California, both by women, and both with strange connections to Charles Manson. And then there was third incident six months later, involving not the president, but First Lady Betty Ford. A very strange third incident. This is The Eldritch Republic, a new co…

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The Dollar Bin w/ Dr. Daryl Wilson of The Bollweevils 52:16

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The Dollar Bin hosts Alan Brostoff (Dr. Disc of Record Store Recon) and Rev (singer of The Drowns) invite huge record collector, The Bollweevils' frontman Dr. Daryl Wilson, on the podcast. Wilson talks about how record collecting (and collecting in general) influenced his own passion for music and life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megap…

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Colin Blunstone on Zombies LP 'Odessey and Oracle,' more 27:31

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Listen to an interview with vocalist Colin Blunstone on The Zombies' LP Odessey and Oracle (its latest mono reissue) and more. The interview was conducted by Goldmine contributor Lee Zimmerman on this year's rock cruise, On The Blue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Goldmine Magazine

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Resurrecting a long lost post-punk album 44:49

1M ago44:49

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The Goldmine Podcast features members of the early '80s post-punk band New Math, who come on to discuss the official CD/vinyl release of their long-lost album, Gardens. If you haven't heard New Math, and like the dark melodic sounds of Psychedelic Furs and The Gun Club, you will want to listen in. We will sample music from Gardens, too. Learn more …

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The Autumn Equinox 28:00

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September 22 is the day & 11:19 a.m. is the hour when Fall finally arrives in the Mojave Desert. Add an hour for Nevada and Utah, which both share a little of the Mojave with California and Arizona. While it's still hot on the desert floor, the mountains are cool and the aspens are changing color. Too far from the aspen groves? If you're in the des…

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The Dollar Bin w/ guest Adam Bomb Segal 43:26

2M ago43:26

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Adam "Bomb" Segal is the guest on the Dollar Bin, a new monthly theme episode of the Goldmine Podcast, hosted by Alan Brostoff (Dr. Disc of Record Store Recon) and Rev, frontman for the band The Drowns. Segal is a punk rock guitarist, attorney and music publisher known for his work with the band The Faction and as the lead guitarist for Suburban Re…

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The Top 20 artists most Rush fans will like 35:01

2M ago35:01

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Taken from author Martin Popoff's Top 20 Rush list ("The Top 20 other bands Rush fans like") that was posted on the GoldmineMag.com site, a lively discussion takes hold on this Goldmine Podcast episode. Editor Patrick Prince and Popoff go over the picks and, of course, the most likely band that Rush fans will almost certainly like. For Rush fans, P…

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Spin Cycle September 2025 with Dave Thompson 1:00:44

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For the September edition of Spin Cycle's Goldmine Podcast, editor Patrick Prince and Dave Thompson dive deep into the 18-LP David Bowie box set titled I Can't Give Everything Away (2002-2016) and the upcoming super deluxe version of The Who's Who Are You. Fun, indeed! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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Monsoon Mood 28:00

2M ago28:00

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On a monsoon evening, the sky streaked with golden bands, tropical clouds drawn up from the Sea of Cortez, everything is vibrant, delirious light. No sound but the crunch of boots and dog paws in the sandy wash lined with desert willow and Mormon tea, before we climb up to the mesa and through a high-desert forest of Joshua trees and Juniper. We si…

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The Dollar Bin (Premiere) 49:05

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Goldmine Podcast contributor Dr. Disc (Record Store Recon) and regular podcast guest Rev (frontman from The Drowns) premiere "The Dollar Bin." It's the beginning of a regular Goldmine podcast episode where the two discuss fulfilling a record collector's vinyl checklist among the many crates in a record store. Lots of collecting tidbits and revelati…

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Spin Cycle August 2025 with Dave Thompson 37:05

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Time for another Spin Cycle edition of the Goldmine Podcast with author and longtime contributor Dave Thompson, as he recommends three releases for Goldmine readers — Marianne Faithfull's early album reissues, Deep Purple's mondo edition of Live in Japan and a new one by psychedelic rock/trancers Sky Cries Mary. See why these releases are great for…

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Walking the Wild Lands with Henry David Thoreau 28:00

3M ago28:00

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A centuries-old conspiracy regarding Soothsayers' Oaks in the Bible, plus a walk in the woods with good old Henry David Thoreau. Soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracle See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Ken Layne

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56th Anniversary of Woodstock 26:14

3M ago26:14

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On the 56th Anniversary of Woodstock, we speak to author Mike Greenblatt about his book Back to Yasgur's Farm (a memoir of sorts) and why the original festival (NOT subsequent festivals) is so significant in music history, and what it means to understand the vibes of the original Woodstock in 2025. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.…

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Record Store Recon: Nashville-area stores 33:49

3M ago33:49

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On the Record Store Recon edition of the Goldmine Podcast, we discuss worthwhile record stores in the Nashville area: Vinyl Tap, Grimey’s and a few others. Most of them get high marks for their changes and upgrades over the years. Learn why. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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Unique and diverse Americana albums you ought to know 25:11

3M ago25:11

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Celebrated Americana Music author Lee Zimmerman (Americana Music: Voices, Visionaries & Pioneers of an Honest Sound) is a guest on the Podcast to talk about his 20 picks for albums he feels have slipped below the radar, but typify the current trends in Americana. Go to GoldmineMag.com to read his 20-album list as well. Learn more about your ad choi…

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Spin Cycle July 2025 with Dave Thompson 41:05

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Author and longtime contributor Dave Thompson recommends three box sets for Goldmine readers — Sisters of Mercy's deluxe edition of First and Last and Always (Rhino), Spandau Ballet's Everything Is Now : Vol 1: 1978-1982 (Rhino), and David Bowie's I Can't Give Everything Away 2002 - 2016 — for his monthly Spin Cycle podcast episode. See why these s…

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Mapping the Mojave with Col. Henry Washington 28:00

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Out here in the Great Mojave Wilderness, we’re always talking about Section 6 or Section 33 or whatever it is, but how did we get that system, that public-lands overlay? Who did the work? Tonight we tell you about . . . well, not the father of our country, but his nephew: Col. Henry Washington, the man who made the baseline and the meridian back in…

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Black Sabbath Ozzy-era songs: The popular and the obscure 32:59

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Editor Patrick Prince and longtime contributor (and Black Sabbath diehard) Martin Popoff discuss the popular and the obscure songs from Sabbath's first eight studio albums (1970-1978) with Ozzy Osbourne as the frontman. The four-song setlist from Sabbath's Back to the Beginning show and Popoff's Goldmine piece "The Top 20 Ozzy-Era Black Sabbath dee…

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Highway 247 Revisited 28:00

4M ago28:00

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People will come to the Mojave on purpose, in summertime, and then they get sad because they can't go outside without bursting into flames. A couple of summers ago, a guy died in Death Valley just from riding his motorcycle outside. Overheated. The 120° heat no less lethal just because it was blowing all over him at cruising speed. He just dehydrat…

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Record Store Recon: Vinyl Threat 1:02:14

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Guest “LiverpoolNeil," co-host of the Punk Till I Die Podcast, comes on the Record Store Recon episode of the Goldmine Podcast to talk to Dr. Disc (Alan Brostoff) and editor Patrick Prince about Vinyl Threat (record store owned by NOFX’s Fat Mike) in the Punk Rock Museum, Las Vegas, Nevada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adcho…

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Spin Cycle June 2025 with Dave Thompson 34:16

4M ago34:16

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Goldmine's Spin Cycle columnist Dave Thompson discusses this month's picks for music lovers and collectors. Two hot releases are discussed — Motörhead's The Manticore Tapes and Hawkwind's Hall of the Mountain Grill — two new gems connected by Lemmy and Space Rock. Of course, other aspects of record collecting are discussed as well. Listen and enjoy…

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Don't Let Them Take Our Western Public Lands 28:00

4M ago28:00

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"God bless America, let's save some of it." — Edward Abbey One of the senators Utah sent to Washington has slipped in some very dangerous legal language into the big federal budgeting bill, language that’s vague enough to allow the beginning of the sell-off of our Western Public Lands. Including National Forests. Not including national parks, monum…

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Deployment From Twentynine Palms 28:00

5M ago28:00

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The Mojave gets slow in the summertime, not much going on. So there was much excitement when the word spread on that early summer night: The Marines were shipping out to Los Angeles. Rumors of troop carriers and white buses, full of Marines with full kit, ready to go, and deeply annoyed to be called back early on a Saturday night. But, it was somet…

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Rick Derringer’s greatness explained in 20 songs 28:12

5M ago28:12

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Listen and learn the Top 20 songs by rock and roll gunslinger Rick Derringer, who passed away in May 2025. After making beautiful (hit-single) noise with the likes of The McCoys ("Hang On Sloopy") and Edgar Winter ("Frankenstein" and "Free Ride"), Derringer went on to gain success with his own band. Of course you've heard the song "Rock and Roll, H…

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Who Got Eaten By the Old Gopher Snake? 28:00

5M ago28:00

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The reality of knowing the wild animals on your land is knowing that they generally live on an accelerated timeline. The new crop of Mojave cottontails and rock squirrels each spring will shrink to one or two lucky buddies by late summer, with the rest succumbing to reckless road crossings and red-tail hawks and rattlesnakes . . . the local ravens …

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Spin Cycle May 2025 with Dave Thompson 53:30

6M ago53:30

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Goldmine's Spin Cycle columnist Dave Thompson discusses this month's picks for music lovers and collectors. Two hot releases are discussed — Pink Floyd's Pink Floyd at Pompeii: MCMLXXII and Steve Hackett's The Lamb Stands Up Live at The Royal Albert Hall — then two new gems from lesser-known artists, Hausfrauen Experiment (2000s synthipop) and Sexa…

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The Mad Bomber of Twentynine Palms 28:00

6M ago28:00

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The maniac who blew himself up outside a Palm Springs fertility clinic is our latest High Desert dingbat to make the national news. Luckily, the four (or five?) injured in the Palm Springs terror attack have been treated and released from the hospital. But who bombs fertility clinics? Meet America's worst new subculture, the violent anti-natalists.…

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Father Crowley: Desert Padre of the Owens Valley 28:00

6M ago28:00

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If you’ve run around the breathtaking Eastern Sierra, you know Crowley Lake, and Crowley Point, and maybe even the rare Crowley Lupine of the Sierra’s Eastern slope. All three are named in honor of Father John J. Crowley, the Padre of the Desert. His heroic life and tragic death are remembered on this very Catholic episode of Desert Oracle Radio, w…

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Guests Bill Payne and Scott Sharrard of Little Feat 46:21

6M ago46:21

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Little Feat keyboardist Bill Payne and guitarist Scott Sharrard come on the Goldmine Podcast to talk to Goldmine's Chris M. Junior about the new album, "Strike Up the Band," among other things. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Goldmine Magazine

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Spin Cycle April 2025 with Dave Thompson 46:19

6M ago46:19

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Goldmine's Spin Cycle columnist Dave Thompson discusses this month's picks for music collectors. Two compilations are recommended — one on Mike McCartney's Scaffold and the other centered around the 1960s British psych club Middle Earth — and Record Store Day 2025 vinyl that you should still pick up (if you can). Learn more about your ad choices. V…

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The Vanishing Boy of Yavapai County 28:00

7M ago28:00

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Here’s how the Channel 12 news in Phoenix began the story, Thursday night on the 10 o’clock news: “God sent that dog to rescue my son.” These words were spoken by the toddler’s father, Corey Allen, outside the family’s home on the west side of rural Seligman, Arizona. Corey Allen says he was working on the roof, Sarah Allen was inside with their yo…