Midnight Radio
Inspired by the Electrifying Mojo, Midnight Radio is a short burst of late-night reverberations, inspirations, and a mixtape delivered ’round midnight on the 1st and 15th of each month.
Some episodes will be available in partial form as a podcast. Many will not. But every episode of Midnight Radio is available in its full Technicolor glory at jamesreeves.co.
Episodes
31 episodes
Dream Theory
Read the full post. Dreams are about presence. It’s the only time we’re released from ego and intention. Dreams dredge up our baggage and drop us into the here and now of...
Star Demon
My first memory is sitting in a high chair in front of a small Zenith television. The opening credits for a sitcom played, maybe Happy Days or Laverne & Shirley, and there was a shenanigan that involved kissing a mannequin...
The Studio of Gratifying Discourse
C. says it’s better to make tacos at home because we know what’s in them. But I think it’s the not-knowing that makes Taco Bell the spiritual choice. Read the full epis...
Noon Radio
Read the full post here. For tonight's episode, Steve sent me a file with selections from some of his favorite songs. He wanted to put together something that would be idea...
Neglected Utopian Energy
Read the entire post here. In its common form, nostalgia is a taunt because it fetishes a time that can never be reclaimed. But when dealing with mid-1990s el...
Return of the Gods
Read the full post.I often think about Leonard Cohen's observation that religion is the greatest form of art. When I'm moved by a painting, I am not thinking about its v...
Conversations With the Drum
Read the full post.I’ll admit, I flew too close to the sun on this one. First off, the Concept series has become such a personal landmark that it’s hard to approach...
Bodies Without Organs
A very special episode with Candy Chang—read the full post here.Do you believe in god or any spiritual dimension to the universe?“Yes. Watching Carl S...
Night Flight to Vienna
Read the full post with notes on the lectio divina.I'm writing this on a Vienna-bound airplane. A full moon shines over the Atlantic, which is roilin...
Darkly Euphoric
Mike Doyle is here with us tonight to inaugurate the First Very Special Guest Episode of Midnight Radio.“Hi, I’m Mike. I’ve been a culture enthusiast my whole life. Obsessed with learning and sharing, my dream job was to be a magazine ed...
First Things
Three songs that possess the righteously serene energy I fantasize about cultivating in the first minutes of a new year. Then the actual year starts happening. But playing this mix each morning should keep the dream alive.
Holiday Lullaby
Here in the Middle West, we’ve already enjoyed two excellent snowstorms, which augurs well for a proper winter. Although the year is winding down, the future is still coming fast and dumb. The people in charge are hellbent on giving us artifici...
Slow Gold
Like my thoughts on egg foo young and tornados, tonight’s broadcast is all over the map—but I’m increasingly fond of intensely personal playlists that ratfuck the algorithm. We kick off with a...
Absorb the Poison
An ode to Michael Clayton and the giddy renewal before death. Read the full post."I took a deep, cleansing breath and I put that notion aside. I tabled it. I said to myself,...
The Heart Keeps Time
The clocks roll back an hour tonight, and it’s my favorite moment of the year. Not only does it bring the night closer, it reminds me that if we can rearrange time, we can do anything we want. Invent new colors. Remove days from the week. Reset...
Hallucination Soundtrack
I spent my high school nights making cassette loops, hunched over the guts of a disemboweled Maxell, splicing bits of brown magnetic tape and piecing everything back together with a jeweler’s screwdriver. I remember the purple-black energies th...
Autumn Chrome
It’s the first of October but the weather is all wrong. Here in the Middle West, it’s been endless sunshine with temperatures twenty degrees above normal. Meanwhile, our government shut down last night because we’re ruled by bullies and cowards...
The Stellar Sphere
Five favorite songs released in 2025. Also includes bits of Rebekah Del Rio and David Bowie, along with the optimal dosage of static and reverb.Biosphere - The Way of TimeThe Way of Time | 2025 |
Six Broken Dreams
Tonight's episode compresses two and a half hours of dream chatter into twenty-three minutes that drift in and out of focus like dreams tend to do.Abul Mogard - Staring at the Sweeps of the DesertWorks | Ecstatic, 2016 | ...
Untitled Heat
A quick and knotty mixtape I made for tomorrow morning’s run, built from my favorite songs for lumbering along the river this summer—and lumber is the operative word. Laced with static and fried chatter, these tracks move like I do: si...
Desire Is a Demon
When I moved to Ohio last year, I didn’t expect to become fascinated by death drives, desire, and demonology. There are several reasons for this trajectory—such as living in the Year of Our Lord 2025—but a primary force is my friend
Dreamland
Some of tonight’s songs are about heaven, some are about hell, and perhaps this is what all dreams are ultimately about. Listen to Charlie Megira’s guitar, more alive and determined than his voice, grasping for something we know but cannot defi...
Destroyer of Obstacles
I began to feel pleasantly haunted, finding information in the static, a hymnal in the hiss as I carved two hours down to the eighteen minutes we have before us now. Here are the ingredients:A drum loop from Woob’s “Odonna” (Woo...
