OPAQUE MELODIES

A Special Halloween episode! Aired 10/31/2026 on 97.3/107.9 The Rock in Morro Bay, CA.

Xiu Xiu ~ Veneficium
Alien Sex Fiend ~ I’m Her Frankenstein
Subtonix ~ Black Nails in My Coffin
Kommunity FK ~ The Vision and The Voice
45 Grave ~ Evil
The Cramps ~ Rockin' Bones
The Circus ~ Burn Witch Burn
Chance Halliday ~ Bury Me Deep
Salty Holmes ~ The Ghost Song

Joy Division ~ Shadowplay
Middle Class ~ A Skeleton At The Feast
Screaming For Emily ~ The Love
Vita Noctis ~ Hade
The Move ~ Casa Domani
Ads ~ Waiting For The War
Skeletal Family ~ Promised Land
 
Blood Incantation ~ Io- Second Movement
Fred Myrow & Malcolm Seagrave ~ Main Title (Phantasm)
Ayami Suzuki ~ Mada
Julee Cruise ~ I Float Alone
Korla Pandit ~ Tale Of The Underwater Worshippers
John Carpenter ~ Show Me (Christine)
 
Beth Orton ~ Devil Song
Cowboy Junkies ~ Me and the Devil
Skip James ~ Devil Got My Woman
Ike Gordon ~ Don't Let the Devil Ride
Reverend Horton Heat ~ The Devil's Chasing Me
The Vettes ~ Devil's Driver Theme
The Kansas City Six ~ Pagin' The Devil
Ella Hanshaw ~ Open Season on The Devil

The Creatures ~ Thumb
Tones on Tail ~ Burning Skies
Black Heart Procession ~ The Waiter #5
Tyondai Braxton ~ Unfurling
Senyawa ~ Goodness Grows Off Soil
Ufomammut ~ Soulost
Vincent Price ~ My Soul Is an Enchanted Boat (ft. Tim Krog)

Swans ~ God Loves America
Scott Walker ~ The Escape
The Cure ~ Prayers for Rain
Cocteau Twins ~ The Hollow Men
Suicide ~ Be My Dream
The Damned ~ Feel the Pain

Magnolia Electric Co. ~ Talk to Me Devil, Again

Aired 10/6/2026 on 97.3/107.9 The Rock in Morro Bay, CA.

Angine de Poitrine ~ Angor
Khun Narin's Electric Phin Band ~ Poet Wong pt. 1
Ferries ~ Leaves Behind
The Durutti Column ~ Agonistes
Panda Bear & Sonic Boom ~ Pray to You
 
Nirgal Vallis ~ El Tiempero
Tuulikki Bartosik ~ Robertsfors
Gwenno ~ Y Gath
Akusmi ~ Drongo's Flute
Phillip Golub ~ Utopian Micronatien
 
Joni Mitchell ~ A Case of You (live 1972)
Wayne Shorter ~ Infant Eyes
Urszula Dudziak ~ Quiet Afternoon
Matana Roberts ~ Nomra
Black Duck ~ Second Guess
 
Curlew ~ Moonlake
The Messthetics & James Brandon Lewis ~ 30 Years of Knowing
Pat Metheny ~ P.C. of Belgium
Arthur Russell ~ Very Reason
Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions ~ For the Rest of Your Life
Kelela ~ retaliation lullaby
 
Lina Tullgren ~ Shadding / Shredding
Birdie ~ Lazy Day
Yume Bitsu ~ Song Two
Brian Eno & John Cale ~ In the Backroom
David Sylvian ~ Riverman
Tara Clerkin Trio ~ There Was a Nice Sunset
 
Boards of Canada ~ Into the Magic Land
Caterina Barbieri & Bendik Giske ~ Persistence, Buds
Remy Solar ~ Heavy Terrain (Pt.2)
Delphine Dora ~ Manquer le Temps
Bono / Burattini ~ Fragili Danze
 
Sun Ra ~ We Travel the Spaceways (live 1970)

Aired 9/1/2026 on 97.3/107.9 The Rock in Morro Bay, CA.

Florence Reece / Almanac Singers ~ Which side are you on?
The Eighteenth Day Of May ~ 'Deed I do
Sam Amidon ~ I'm On My Journey Home
Ginger Baker ~ Dust To Dust
Basic ~ Brutalist With Filigree
The Durutti Column ~ Your Shadow at Evening
 
Mark Lanegan Band ~ Methamphetamine Blues
Loop ~ Breathe Into Me
Kinski ~ Gang of 3
Swervedriver ~ Good Ships
Tiger Bear Wolf ~ Silver Heart
Captain Beyond ~ Mesmerization Eclipse
 
Tyshawn Sorey ~ Libra
The Claudia Quintet ~ Sphinx
Barre Phillips ~ IV
Art Tatum - Ben Webster - Red Callender - Bill Douglass ~ My One And Only Love
Andrew Hill ~ McNeil Island
 
Cleveland Eaton ~ Moe, Let's Have A Party
The Jimmy Castor Bunch ~ E-Man Boogie
Vicki Anderson ~ Home Is Where The Hatred Is
Gil Scott-Heron ~ Delta Man (Where I'm Comin From)
T. Dyson ~ It's All Over
Rexy ~ Nervoso
 
Killing Joke ~ Darkness Before Dawn
Nico ~ Henry Hudson
Circle X ~ Prehistory (Part II)
Thinking Fellers Union Local #282 ~ It Wasn't Me
World Domination Enterprises ~ Asbestos Lead Asbestos
Hüsker Dü ~ Whatever
 
Material ~ Secret Life
Fred Frith & Henry Kaiser ~ The Golden Eighties
The Horse Flies ~ I Live Where It’s Gray
Mick Karn ~ Language Of Ritual
Peter Gabriel ~ This Is the Picture (Excellent Birds)
 
Jeff Phelps ~ Excerpts From Autumn

Aired 8/18/2026 on 97.3/107.9 The Rock in Morro Bay, CA.

Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band ~ Nowadays a Woman's Gotta Hit a Man
The Last ~ She Don't Know Why I'm Here
John's Children ~ Midsummer Night’s Scene
The Squires ~ Going All the Way
The Kinks ~ 20th Century Man
The Byrds ~ Everybody's Been Burned
Acetone ~ York Blvd. (rehearsal tape)
 
Lamin Fofana ~ Blues
Ramsey Lewis ~ Eternal Journey
Magic Carpet ~ Rumba Gnawa
Nubya Garcia ~ Odyssey
Roser Monforte/Jordi Pallares/Pau Mainé ~ Baraka
 
Royal Trux ~ Turn of the Century
James Blood Ulmer ~ Devil's Got To Burn
Bill Orcutt & Mabe Fratti ~ The Heaven of our Misery
Marisa Anderson ~ Pair of Duduk
Magic Tuber Stringband ~ Dog-Headed Man
BCMC ~ Melodía Compacta
 
Manual ~ Neon Reverie
A.R. Kane ~ Baby Milk Snatcher
Spiritualized ~ Ladies And Gentlemen (Moles Studio Mix 7), (Original Oratone Ideas), (A Cappella w/ Lead Vocal)
Anna von Hausswolff ~ Consensual Neglect
 
Manu Dibango ~ Echos Beti
Shango ~ Thank You
Deadline ~ Baliphone Dub
Mandigo ~ Muso
Toure Kunda ~ Babacady
 
Ashra ~ Morgana da capo
Setting ~ Gum Bump
Horse Lords ~ Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!
gamut inc ~ 5 Counting

Mary Lou Williams & Her Orchestra ~ Rag of Rags

Aired 7/7/2026 on 97.3/107.9 The Rock in Morro Bay, CA.

Yawning Balch ~ Dreaming With Eyes Open
Ava Mendoza ~ Pink River Dolphins
 
Chris Forsyth ~ 7-11 Red Eye
Acetone ~ Louise
 
Chick Corea ~ Sometime Ago-La Fiesta
Charles Stepney ~ Roadtrip
 
Archie Shepp ~ Epitaph Of A Small Winner
Big Bill Broonzy ~ In the Evening (When the Sun Goes Down)
 
Günter Schickert ~ Wald
Jah Wobble, Jaki Liebezeit & Holger Czukay ~ Twilight World
 
David Sylvian & Holger Czukay ~ Mutability (A New Beginning Is in the Offing)
Sunday All Over the World ~ Freedom

Buckethead - live

Aired 6/16/2026 on 97.3/107.9 The Rock in Morro Bay, CA

The Teenage Radio Stars ~ Wanna Be Your Baby
The Riptides ~ Tomorrows Tears
The Surfside Six ~ Cant You See The Sign
The Dropbears ~ Fun Loving
The Particles ~ The Trumpet Song
Sacred Cowboys ~ Nothing Grows In Texas
The Scientists ~ Solid Gold Hell
 
Thundercat ~ Walking on the Moon
Squarepusher ~ K2 Central
Hedvig Mollestad Weejuns ~ Limite
Joy Harjo ~ Insomnia and Seven Steps to Grace
Laurie Anderson & Sexmob ~ Let X=X (Live)
Tacoma Park ~ Cats
 
Elkhorn ~ South
Dead Meadow ~ Voyager to Voyager
Abronia ~ Caught Between Hives
 
Mary Lou Williams ~ Libra
Louise Landes Levi ~ Part IV
Ariel Kalma ~ Asalam Yamarek
Horse Lords & Arnold Dreyblatt ~ Impulse Array
 
Tashi Dorji ~ murmur
Robert Fripp ~ Evensong Tallin
Laurie Spiegel ~ Pentachrome
Weston Olencki ~ Omie Wise // Coda (How Great Thou Art)
Hildegard von Bingen ~ O Viridissima Virga, Ave
 
Bowery Electric ~ Fear of Flying
DJ Shadow ~ Napalm Brain / Scatter Brain
Seefeel ~ Hive
Stars of the Lid ~ Be Little With Me
Swans ~ Minus Something
 
Rain Tree Crow ~ Boats For Burning

Aired 6/2/2026 on 97.3/107.9 The Rock in Morro Bay, CA.

The English Beat  ~ Mirror In The Bathroom
X-Ray Spex ~ Identity
The Ramones ~ Commando
Bratmobile ~ Cherry Bomb
The Gossip ~ Where the Girls Are
The Fall ~ The Joke
Eddy Current Supression Ring ~ Which Way to Go
Stiff Little Fingers ~ Roots, Radicals, Rockers and Reggae
The Saints ~ (I'm) Stranded
 
Talk Talk ~ Happiness Is Easy
Hysteric Narcotics ~ Wild As Soul
Things ~ You Can't Deliver
Pretenders ~ Porcelain
Brian Eno ~ Fever
Thee Oh Sees ~ Said The Shovel
 
Hen Ogledd ~ Scales Will Fall
Silver Scrolls ~ Walk One (II: Q Scrolls)
Prairiewolf ~ The Cold Curve
MEMORIALS ~ Mediocre Demon
 
Roland Brival ~ Chaj Mile-A
Charles Tyler Ensemble ~ Return To the East
Irreversible Entanglements ~ The Spirit Moves
Jacob Garchik ~ Bricolage
 
Bill Frisell ~ Small Hands (live)
Wendy Eisenberg ~ Two Times Water
The Notwist ~ Teeth
Hand Habits ~ Jasmine Blossoms
Cass McCombs ~ Who Removed The Cellar Door?
 
Joshua Chuquimia Crampton ~ Taqini (Juntxs)
Body Meπa ~ Deborah
Die Spitz ~ Punishers
Seablite ~ Pot of Boiling Water
Cindy Lee ~ Darling of the Diskoteque
50 Foot Wave ~ Broken Sugar
Sister Double Happiness ~ Cry Like a Baby

The Fall ~ Shoulder Pads 2

Aired 5/5/26 on 97.3/107.9 The Rock in Morro Bay, CA

Chad Taylor Quintet ~ Avian Shadow
The Messthetics & James Brandon Lewis ~ Rules Of The Game
Laddio Bolocko ~ Laddio's Money (Death of a Pop Song)
Witch ~ Nasauka
Tony Allen ~ When One Road Close (Another One Go Open)
 
Donald Byrd ~ The Little Rasti
Akofa Akoussah ~ Kimumbu
Alabaster DePlume ~ Give Me Away
Aksak Maboul ~ Proto-Kef
 
Shaking Hands ~ Mantras
Index For Working Musik ~ Sister
Peel Dream Magazine ~ Emotional Devotion Creator
Anika ~ Abyss
Peter Gabriel ~ Exposure
King Crimson ~ Grace Jones
 
Midori Hirano ~ Blue Horizon
Colleen ~ Les parenthèses enchantées - Movement III
Suzan Peeters ~ Skin
Maria BC ~ Daydrinker
Windy & Carl ~ Recon
 
Shackleton ~ When Memory Ceases
Ibukun Sunday ~ The Chariot
Susumu Yokota ~ Grass, Tree and Stone
Ex-Easter Island Head ~ Golden Bridges
Olivia Block ~ f2754
 
Puscifer ~ Seven One
New Age Doom ~ Amaseganalo Pt 2 (ft. H.R.)
Morte Macabre ~ The Photosession
Rafael Toral ~ You Don't Know What Love Is
 
Robert Pete Williams ~ Blues Leave Me Alone

Aired 4/7/26 on 97.3/107.9 The Rock in Morro Bay, CA.

Devo  ~ Freedom of Choice
The Stranglers ~ (Get a) Grip (on Yourself)
XTC ~ Millions
Michael Brook & Pieter Nooten ~ Searching
Wall of Voodoo ~ Me and My Dad
Allez Allez ~ Turn Up the Meter
Devo ~ Triumph Of The Will
 
Gap Band ~ Early In The Morning (12' Version)
Motherfuckers JMB & Co ~ Breakers Part 1
Joni Mithchell ~ The Hissing of Summer Lawns
Ginger Wizard ~ Styrax
DirtMusic ~ Black Gravity
 
Ava Mendoza, Gabby Fluke-Mogul, Carolina Perez ~ Trichocereus Pachanoi
Setting ~ II
Craig Taborn ~ Mumbo Jumbo
The Soft Pink Truth ~ And By and By A Cloud Takes All Away
Susumu Yokota ~ Black Sea
 
Grupo Um ~ Cortejo Dos Reis Negros (Version 2)
Electric Chairs ~ So Many Ways
Michael Hampton ~ Savanna
Funkadelic ~ Smokey
War ~ The World Is a Ghetto (rehearsal take)
 
Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore ~ The Four Sleeping Princesses
The World on Higher Downs ~ Euclid
Telebossa ~ Samba Do Budista
Eiko Ishibashi ~ Mona Lisa
 
Actors Artificial ~ Insentient Vacancy Mapping Apperceptive Container
Winged Wheel ~ The Suite Goes Quiet
Akron/Family ~ Creator
Om ~ Cremation Ghat II

Mrs. McGrath ~ My Love is Like a Red Red Rose ft. Acid King

Aired 3/3/2026 on 97.3/107.9 The Rock in Morro Bay, CA.

D'Angelo ~ Brown Sugar (Instrumental)
Mona Lisa ~ Can't Be Wasting My Time
Janet Jackson ~ Alright
Nabihah Iqbal ~ This World Couldn't See Us
Dry Cleaning ~ Hit My Head All Day
Linda Smith ~ Afternoon Tea
 
Prince ~ Automatic (live)
Frank Zappa ~ Cosmik Debris (live)
Motörhead ~ Iron Horse / Born To Lose (instrumental)
Patti Smith ~ Distant Fingers
 
Sirom ~ Tiny Dewdrop Explosions Crackling Delightfully
Moundabout ~ Murmuration
Trabant ~ Kánaán
Daniel O’Sullivan & Richard Youngs ~ Long Joyful Dream
Flip & The Dateliners ~ My Johnny Doesn't Come Around Anymore
 
Mary Halvorson ~ Amaranthine
Algernon ~ Everybody Stay Calm
Tortoise ~ Along The Bank Of Rivers
Aux Meadows ~ Rooms Without End
Jane Weaver ~ Hud A Llefrith
 
Susumu Yokota ~ Tobiume
Pan American x Michael Grigoni ~ Dream of Someone
Thomas Fehlmann ~ Wunschwechsler
Pullman ~ Weightless
Thomas Morgan ~ In the Dark
Vanessa Wagner ~ Etude no. 6
 
Minni Piperton ~ Our Lives (extended version)
Shiggie Otis ~ Freedom Flight
Al-Dos Band ~ Don't Come Smiling Back
 
Venus Hum ~ St. Mary's Lake