Ongoing History Daily: Weird CD alert
If you’ve ever fooled around with a shortwave radio–and this is admittedly something of a lost pastime–you’ll know that you can hear weird interference noises that are almost musical. You may have also
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Numbers Stations
Random music news for Thursday, July 16, 2020
It’s to the point where I want to stand on the border and yell into the US “GET IT TOGETHER, YOU IDIOTS!” You know what I’m sayin’? Now here’s music news for July
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Random Music News for Tuesday, August 15, 2017
On this day in 1965, the Beatles played Shea Stadium in New York. This was pretty much the birth of era of rock shows in stadiums. No one had ever headlined a gig
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Random Music News for Saturday, August 5, 2017
We’re spending the weekend at my parents’ place, sleeping in my old bedroom. Mom’s happy. And now, the music news for August 5. Billy McFarland, the promoter behind the spectacular fail that was
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The Mysteries of Numbers Stations
A package showed up in the mailbox the other day: it was a five-disc set of The Conet Project, recordings of “numbers stations” and spy broadcasts that can be heard on shortwave radio.
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Geeks&Beats Episode 89: We’re Back! Hello, 2015.
After taking the last half of December off to investigate new and exotic forms of vodka (you’ll hear about it in this week’s podcast) and another week so that Michael could go to
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The Mystery of Radio Station UVB-76
I’m fascinated by the mysterious broadcasts made by numbers stations (you can read more about them here and here). They come and go, but UVB-76–also known as The Buzzer–has been operating for more
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A Great Story on the Awesome Weirdness of Numbers Stations
This comes from High Brow Magazine: Many nights, Spooks turn on their shortwave radios and drift through the frequencies. On any given night, one can hear amateur radio stations broadcasting church sermons, utility
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What the Hell is Webdriver Torso? A Weird YouTube Video, for Starters
Watch this. The first of these sequences was uploaded on September 23 of last year. The uploads continued unabated, sometimes every two minutes and up to 400 videos a day until–well, they just
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