On the workbench: daily recommendations Dead Wax Radio / Pollock Pines / Bay Area frequency drift
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Dead
Wax
Radio

Daily recommended listens from the edge of the runout groove: records, streams, podcasts, YouTube rabbit holes, Qobuz finds, and whatever else is lighting up the room.

College radio Record-store bins Mixtape logic
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The first transmission is being cued up

A daily pick will live here

This space is for the record-bin card: what it is, why it hit today, where it sits in the larger map, and the one detail that makes it worth stopping for.

Daily listen Deep cut friendly No algorithm required

Coming next: real picks, listening links, longer reviews, and a way to trace recommendations back through the collection.

Signal notes On deck

  • Build the daily recommendation format: release details, short context, and one reason to listen today.

  • Add longer reviews once the archive has a pulse and the voice of the site is clearer.

  • Pull from the collection and listening trails: Discogs shelves, Qobuz discoveries, podcasts, and YouTube tunnels.

Part listening log. Part record-store recommendation. Part pirate radio note shoved into a cassette case.

About the station Why this exists

Dead Wax Radio is a place to post music worth spending time with: daily recommendations first, then reviews, release notes, playlists, and live listening sessions.

The first version is intentionally simple: one good recommendation, a little context, and enough atmosphere to feel like someone handed you a record over the counter and said, “you need to hear this.”