Mac drops by the studio & we proceed to have a meaningful conversations about death, the afterlife, and spiritual mentorship. Also, a top-tier playlist.

The Kinks - Village Green Preservation Society
The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset
Harry Neilson - You’re Breaking my Heart
Boosty Collins - I’d Rather Be With You
The Pixies - Wave of Mutilation
Mission of Burma - That’s When I Reach for My Revolver
The Kinks - Phenomenal Cat

We send-off our Big Chief John Sinclair with love, and broken hearts. We Love Our Big Chief! The world is darker & colder without you. We miss you.


John Sinclair - Still Kickin’
John Sinclair - Ain’t Nobody’s Business
John Sinclair & His Blues Scholars - The Delta Sound
John Sinclair - Cross Road Blues
John Sinclair - We Love Big Chief pt. 1
John Sinclair - We Love Big Chief (Harvard Divinity School recording)

Stella has departed for the holy road, and sent me a few audio recordings detailing the cats that have joined her, as well as the best parts/worst parts of traveling alone on the Camino. In the studio, Mac and J0j0 goof around.

The Monochrome Set - The Mating Game
T Rex - Cosmic Dancer
PLW - Beat Zen rant
The Clean - Thumbs Off
Os Mutantes - Panis et Circenses
Dee Dee King - 2 Much 2 Drink
EMF - Unbelievable
The Modern Lovers - Pablo Picasso

A thunderbolt of an episode in which Stella and j0j0 explore the OSGH regimes of mental training prescribed for walking the Camino. The discussion is soaring, compelx, and illuminated.

John Lennon- I’m only sleeping
Raffaele Ciavolino - Do You Love me
The Cramps - Goo Goo Muck
The Specials - Rat Race (live)
The Detroit Cobras - He Did It
the Detroit Cobras - Bad Girl
Duran Duran - Ordinary World
John Denver - Leaving on a Jet Plane
The Bangles - Eternal Flame
Roxy Music - More Than this

This slightly longer show opens with a careening conversation with Ricky, one of the Grand Masters of the OSGH, about our last two pilgrimages. The conversation goes off the rails, which was precisely the point. Following Ricky's appearance, we play host to RevDev, who ventured to the studio to talk about raves, Paracelsian anthropology, and the out-of-body feeling that comes with dancing.


Flaming Lips- She Dont Use Jelly
Roxy Music - Love is the Drug
The Cramps - Teenage Werewolf
Faithless _ god is a DJ
KLF - What time is love

The Goon joins us in the studio. Stella recounts her recent adventures in Singapore. Hilarity ensues.



Midnight Star - Midas Touch
Utah Saints - What Can You Do for Me
Beatsbyhand - Gypsy Woman
Marvin Gaye - I Heard it Through the Grape Vine
The Meters - CIssy Strut
Zapp - more Bounce to the Ounce
R Plus - Love Will Tear Us Apart (remix)
Faithless - Insomnia

It is just Jojo in the studio rambling and playing choice tunes. His verbal acrobatics pivot around a discussion of episode 25 of Neon Genesis Evangeligion, though his reflections touch on anarchist squats, Amsterdam's cinematic underground, and travel.


Basement Jaxx - Where’s your head at?
The Chemical Brothers - Galvanize
Daft Punk - Prime Time of your Life
Round Shaped Triangles - Forever Young
AVISION - Big Shot
Igor Gonya - Woz

A classic episode of Neon Shrines.
Totally classic.

Basement Jaxx - Where’s your Head At?
The Bloody Beat Roots - Warp 1.9
The Chemical Brothers - Block Rockin’ Beats
Kylie Minogue - Can’t Get You Out of My Head
Dee-Lite - Groove is in the heart
Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Murder on the Dancefloor

wild discussion. big laffs



Alaska y Los Pegamoides - Bailando
Eiffel 65 - Blue
The Undertones - Teenage Kicks

After thinking about the question for more than a year, we have finally hit upon a new way to define the difference between a "tourist," "traveler," and a "pilgrim." We are full of beans in this episode~ enjoy!


Tom Tom Club - Wordy Rappinghood
Jacob Miller - Each One Teach one
Alaska y Los Pegamoides - La Rebelion de Los Electrodomestiscos
Alaska y Los Pegamoides - Bailando
Patti Smith - Dancing Barefoot
Art of Noise - Moments in Love
Daft Punk Musique
Lourie Anderson - O Superman
John Sinclair & His Blues Scholars - Ain’t Nobody’s Bizness
John Sinclair - Monk in Orbit
John Sinclair - History 101

The Order celebrates each new year with a ritual peregrination, and this year was no different. We discuss our ritual walk around SF, before transitioning into a discussion with Gigi, our guest. The topic of our conversation was pilgrimage, forgiveness, and the seeming inscrutability of mercy.


T Rex - Born to Boogie
The Chicks - I Feel Fine
Sly & The Family Stone - Underdog
Moondog - Do Your Thing

This is our long overdue cat appreciation show, as this episode is dedicated to all things feline. We discuss the history of cats, the celebration of cats with Egyptian religion, Islam, and Catholicism and we even have a very special guest, Dr. Copa, who calls into the show to share the story of her cat's 74 day odyssey out on the streets (dont worry, it ends with their tearful reunion). Lots of cat-themed music, too.


The Kinks - Phenomenal Cat
Ugly Kid Joe - Cats in the Cradle
David Bowie - Cat People
Tom Jones - What’s New Pussycat?
Andrew Lloyd Webber - Mr. Mistoffelees
The Coasters - Three cool cats

The long-awaited christmas special! We have a hilarious and illuminating conversation about the xmas songs of Mariah Carey and Celine Dion, the nature of doing a radio show, and the need to go further underground. We fought our way through the "nog of war."


Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Christmas / Sarajevo 12/24
Muppets Christmas Soundtrack - Marley & Marley
Kermit - One More Sleep ’til Christmas
Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You
The Ronettes - Sleigh Ride
Celine Dion - O Holy Night
Tatsuro Yamashita - Christmas Eve
Spinal Tap - Christmas with the Devil
Patti Smith - Dancing Barefoot
Sioxsie & The Banshees - The Passenger
The Undertones - Teenage Kicks
Squeeze - Up the Junction
James - Laid
Piss Ma - Christmas timeloop Silent Night
Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen in Love
Blink 182 - Josie
Julian Casablancas - Christmas Treat

The show begins with a serious discussion of the ways in which the history of the Camino de Santiago has been written, and re-written to suit the times. We then stage our own intervention into this history, championing pagan merriment and not christology. Jojo leaves early due to some mysterious illness, leaving Stella to steer the ship into celestial riverways of the mind.


The Darkness - Christmas Time
The Shins - Wonderful Christmas
Robbie Williams - Winter Wonderland
Chris Rea - Driving Home for Christmas
Phoenix & Bill Murray - Alone on Christmas Day
Wilco - Jesus
Bright Eyes - First Day of My Life
Rilo Kiley - portions for Foxes
Electric Six - Danger! High Voltage!

Jojo + Stella dive right into the perils and pleasures of mac & cheese and dinner parties more broadly. Our guest Sunshine chats with us about Radical Faerie gatherings and how to cultivate and protect utopian spaces of exploration. Then we dive into the 1914 musings of a SF gourmand.



Julian Casablancas - Christmas Treat
James Brown - Let’s Make Christmas Mean Something this Year
James Brown - Go Power at Christmas Time
Chuck Berry - Run Rudolph Run
Ace - How Long
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Cities in Dust
Siouxsie & The Banshees - The Passenger
The Ronettes - Sleigh Ride
Steely Dan - Do It Again
Michael McDonald - I Keep Forgettin

We talk about folk creatures, coffee anxiety, & Joseph Campbell's book Hero With A Thousand Faces. Though we had no intention of entertaining Campbell's monomyth, we took it for a spin and were really impressed by its interpretive power. The heart of the show, though, is Caroline's field report from the fontana de Saint-Jacques. A decorated master in the OSGH, Caroline reflects on the nature of powerspots, sacred space, and sonic zones. Selah!


Tino Gs Dumpster Machine - Witness to Some Funky Business
Tennis - Marathon

We scoured the internet for, um, internet music. You know, music that was made popular on account of their role in meme culture. There is some Neon Shrine chat at the beginning and the end, but the middle of the show was given over to the grooves.


Monogatari Series - Renai Circulation
Englewood - Crystal Dolphin
Max Coveri - Running in the 90’s
Bag Raiders - Shooting Stars
Caramella Girls - Caramelldansen
Pokemon - Pokemon Theme
O-Zone - Dragostea Din Tei
Exsire - You Ballin in the Wrong Neighborhood
Edward Maya & Vika Jigulina - Stereo Love
Aaron Smith - Dancin
Mark Morrison - Return of the Mac
Groupo Sonador - El Gigante de Hierro
JR Serpent - Epic Sax
Noisestorm - Crab Rave
Frizk - All my Fellas
Gunther & The Sunshine Girls - Ding Dong Song

Yes it's the first week of November, and yes Stella & Jojo are already in Xmas mode. In this extended episode, we start with Godzilla day and then make our way through some great Xmas songs as we plan the newest OSGH tradition: the Feast of the Winter Star.



Band Aid - Do They Know Its Christmas
Paul McCartney - Wonderful Christmas Time
Wham! - Last Christmas
Wizzard - I Wish it Could be Christmas Everyday
The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations ]
The Beach Boys - Little Saint Nick
The Pogues - Fairytale of New York
The Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping
Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Christmas / Sarajevo 12/24
Pretenders - 2000 Miles
Jona Lewie - Stop the Cavalry
Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas is you
R Kelly - A Love letter Christmas
Elvis Presley - Blue Christmas
Bruce Springsteen - Stanta Claus is Comin’ to town
The Kinks - Father Christmas

This episode is a celebration of the good feeling of goofing off with friends. Stella and Jojo try a new drinking vessel and do a depe dive into the mythos of the punk art/music project Hank & Dad with its creator Jeb. All are joined later by Mac and Crom for more musings on the nature of youth and aging.

Hall & Oates- I can’t go for that [pomo remix]
Justice - Genesis
DEVO - Jocko Homo
Cheap Trick - Dream Police
T Rex- 20th Century Boy
69 boyz - Tootsie Roll
John Sinclair - Ain’t Nobody’s Business

For our 40th (!) episode, Jojo is finally back in the studio with Stella. After some good old fashioned travel-themed goofing, we are joined by the author of Grate Scapes, a psychogeographic photobook of sewer grates and their mysteries.

Pretenders - Brass in Pocket
Pretenders- Don’t get Me Wrong
Sandy Lam - Take my Breath away
Plastic Bertrand - Ca Plane Pour Moi