The Curated Catastrophe

Malderor’s show had been around awhile, and it only got better when Shey joined as his sidekick these 7 years. Their time together produced both surprisingly terrific and occasionally subpar results, as evidenced here:

26 Oct 2025 Green Episode (THNKS to GRNHS Gallery for the FNDRSR)
5 Oct 2025 The Educational Episode or Tsundoku (積ん読)
14 Sept 2025 Place Names and Locations
7 Sept 2025 Sports As A Metaphor. Or Not.
17 Aug 2025 This is a Low
10 Aug 2025 Quinceaneras: Cucumber, Eggplant, Whatever
3 Aug 2025 Johnny What’s Your Name, Boy?
27 July 2025 Two Roads Diverged
20 July 2025  The Sound of The Streets
13 July 2025 Themes? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Themes
15 June 2025 Kings, Queens, Royalty, and Chitchat
8 June 2025 Slapdashery Abounds
1 June 2025 Chaos, Marimbas, and Songs That Sound Like Other Songs
18 May 2025 Moving and Relocating
4 May 2025 Protest Music from Here and There (Shey on Assignment)
20 April 2025 Put Your Hands Together
13 April 2025 The Sickness
23 March 2025 Still Running With the Snake Theme (Shey on Assignment)
16 March 2025 Uh…Snakes? (St. Patrick’s Day)
9 March 2025 Temporal Dislocation
2 March 2025 The Noisepop Festival Is In Town
29 December 2024 The Best Of, Or The Best We Could Do
22 December 2024 Letters, Messages, and Correspondence
15 December 2024 Weather the Storm
20 October 2024 Biblical Bullshit
13 October 2024 Drive-Ins, Blacksploitation, and P*rn Music (THEY’RE RELATED)
6 October 2024 Hot, Hot, Sexy, Hotness
29 September 2024 More Music From Summer Festivals
1 September 2024 Beautiful Days and Small-Font Festival Bands
18 August 2024 Vast Oceans Of Psych Rock
11 August 2024 A Farewell to DJ Deathwish
7 July 2024 An American Theme (Malderor solo, and ruined it again)
16 June 2024 Bay Area Artists and Self Sabotage
9 June 2024 Things Don’t Go As Planned
19 May 2024 Desire, For Some Reason (feat. DJ Marco Middlesex & undisclosed playlist)
12 May 2024 DJ MJ Is Back
5 May 2024 Stuff Happens. (Good playlist though)
21 April 2024 Fake Casey Kasem and the Pre-Rock Era
7 April 2024 A Visit From Mom-deror and Some Space Funk!
24 March 2024 All Vinyl Sunday with Guest Rocker Smooth
17 March 2024 An Inadvertent St. Patrick’s Day Show
10 March 2024 Violet Crumble And Bulbous Salutations
3 March 2024 A Guest Appearance from DJ MJ
4 February 2024 A Tribute Show For Mama B
28 January 2024 Odds and Sods and Loss
7 January 2024 A Return, of Sorts
3 December 2023 Not A Holiday Episode
26 November 2023 You Got Some Gratitude
19 November 2023 Our Future Robot Overlords
12 November 2023 The Musical Theatre!
5 November 2023 For all the fake IDs and Photo Booth pics we saw at Bender’s
3 September 2023 At Least We’re Not Camping
20 August 2023 Malderor Is Unsupervised
13 August 2023 Things Happened
16 July 2023 The Passage of Time (Shey’s Birthday)
9 July 2023 Lots of New Releases, No Clear Through-Line
18 June 2023 New Music and Dubstep Before It Sucked
4 June 2023 An Episode Full Of Stuff (Check Playlist)
21 May 2023 In Support of Drag
7 May 2023 True to our Name, The Curated Catastrophe (aka What the Hell Was That??)
23 April 2023 Statement T-Shirts, and Rick and Ruby Drop By! (feat. Randomness)
16 April 2023 What’s a ‘Format?’
9 April 2023 A Sunny Easter and A Visit from NR
26 March 2023 A Boom and A Rush
5 February 2023 A “Fun” Episode and Memories of a Lost Friend
22 January 2023 A Ska Episode In Memory of Terry Hall
15 January 2023 A Solo Malderor Episode. Sad. In The Rain.
18 December 2022 A “Travel” Episode Doesn’t Quite Come Together/World Cup
4 December 2022 Last Minute Electricity Show
20 November 2022 The Drug Episode
13 November 2022 Britpop, Terrible Music, and Wolf Songs
30 October 2022 The Alter-Ego Episode
2 October 2022 New-To-The-Show Tunes
28 August 2022 A Slapdash Vinyl Episode–No Pre-Prep!
21 August 2022 New Music and Songs About…Whaling?
7 August 2022 Shey and Malderor make some (good) radio. Check it out.
31 July 2022 Sometimes It Works, Sometimes It Doesn’t. (A Good Show)
10 July 2022 Sunday Streets, Community, and Travel Worries
3 July 2022 Independence Day, Independent of Malderor: Shey Flies Solo
26 June 2022  Pride Weekend, Prince, and Some New Stuff
5 June 2022 A Funky Appetizer Plus KatDelic
29 May 2022 Some New Releases and a Bob Dylan Birthday Overtime Episode
22 May 2022 An 80’s B-Side Rabbit Hole
24 April 2022 We Go All International For Some Reason (Reggaeton & Reggae)
17 April 2022 Easter Sunday and Newly Imported Vinyl
10 April 2022 A Recovery Episode: Malderor Is Weary, Shey is Good
3 April 2022 The Less Than Triumphant Return of Dr. Junk
13 March 2022 More In-Studio Madness
6 March 2022 Some of Us Return to the Studio and Proper Preparation
27 February 2022 The Return of Shey from the Bay
(Beginning of radio sabbatical)
4 April 2021 Breathy Vocalists, and Other Stuff
7 March 2021 Women’s History Month
13 December 2020 No Shey? No Way?
22 November 2020 Songs About Walls, For Some Reason
15 November 2020 Shey Songs and The Stages of Grief
27 September 2020 Slapdash as Fuck!
1 November 2020 Pre-Election Anxiety
20 September 2020 A Bunch of Hip-Hop, RBG, and Gram Parsons. And An Apology!
13 September 2020 New Songs, and Farewell, Toots
6 September 2020 Lord Willing and The Router Don’t Melt
30 August 2020 Nihilism Has Its Ups and Downs
23 August 2020 The World Is Going Up In Flames
24 May 2020 Listen to Joe Strummer
26 July 2020 Struggles Continue
19 July 2020 Portland Protests, Freedom Rock, and Church Music
12 July 2020 Calmness and Demystification
28 June 2020 Songs Of Stupidity and Revolution
21 June 2020 Talk Minus Action = Zero
14 June 2020 Anarchy, Oppression, and A Smidgen of Humor
7 June 2020 Hard Times
31 May 2020 Reflections On The Present Moment
24 May 2020 The Los Angeles Episode
17 May 2020 Back To The Known
10 May 2020 An Attempt At An All-Vinyl Episode Goes Horribly Awry
3 May 2020 A Live Music Episode
19 April 2020 Cover Songs, and Songs You (Maybe) Didn’t Know Were Covers
12 April 2020 The “Sad Songs” Episode
5 April 2020 Live Remote, Exquisite Corpse Episode Two
29 March 2020 The First Exquisite Corpse Episode





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