One of the things I love most about putting together Off the Beaten Track is that I usually do not know exactly where the show is going when I start. That might sound strange for someone building a radio show, but honestly, that uncertainty is part of the fun. A lot of the time, I begin by simply looking through my music collection. I open a folder. Scroll through some artists. Spot a song I have not played in a while. Then suddenly I remember another song that would sound gr

Saturday, October 17, 2026 There's something exciting about waking up with ideas bouncing around in your head. Sometimes those ideas involve music. Sometimes they're about something entirely different. And sometimes, if you're anything like me, there are about seventeen different creative projects fighting for attention at once! Welcome to another Saturday edition of Behind the Frequency, where I get to share a little of what's happening in my world beyond the DJ booth. Latel

One of the things I’ve been realizing lately is that Off the Beaten Track really does live up to its name. A lot of the time, I don’t sit down with some giant master plan for the show. I start with the music. I open up part of my collection, start looking through songs and artists, and eventually I find something that makes me stop and think, I haven’t played that in a while. Then that song reminds me of another one. Then another. And before I know it, I’m building a whole sh

Another week of music is rolling along, and the frequency has been busy. Between the early-morning beach sets, Jedi Council Radio broadcasting around the clock, Off the Beaten Track, and all the creative work happening behind the scenes, there always seems to be something playing, building, changing, or waiting to be discovered. And now the blog has a name too: Behind the Frequency — a place for the stories behind the shows,

Music, radio, creativity, and life on the other side of the speakers. For a while now, this part of my website has simply been called Blog. And technically, I suppose that was accurate. I wrote posts here. I talked about my radio shows. I shared what was happening with Off the Beaten Track. I mentioned whatever I had been working on behind the scenes. It did what a blog is supposed to do. But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that simply calling it “Blog” did n

There has been a lot going on behind the scenes lately. If you only know me from Off the Beaten Track on Tuesday nights, you might not realize just how much has been growing around the show, the station, and all of the creative projects I’ve been working on. One of the biggest things happening right now is Staticworks. Staticworks is the creative company I’ve been putting together to bring a lot of what I already do under one roof. Music, radio production, audio, visual work,

There has been a lot going on behind the scenes lately. Some of it is visible. Some of it definitely is not. One of the biggest things I have been working on is getting Staticworks ready for launch. It is not ready yet, and I do not want to pretend that it is. There are still pieces that need to come together, details that need to be worked out, and plenty of things that need to be finished before I can really say, “Okay, this is ready to go.” But progress is being made. A lo

It’s Tuesday again, and that means another edition of Off the Beaten Track tonight at 6 PM ET on Jedi Council Radio. I’ve been spending the last several shows digging into favorite songs and favorite artists, and I’m finding that I really like where that has taken the show. Calling something a “favorite” sounds simple until you actually start looking through years and years of music. There are the songs that immediately come to mind—the ones you’ve heard hundreds of times and

There are weeks when Tuesday rolls around and I’m thinking mostly about one thing: What am I going to play tonight? Then there are weeks like this one, when I look around and realize just how many things have started growing out of this little world I’ve been building. Off the Beaten Track. Jedi Council Radio. Staticworks. DV8R. The website. The original music. They started as separate ideas in a lot of ways, but more and more they’re beginning to connect. And I really like w

Hello, my Padawans! It’s Tuesday again, which means it is almost time to fire up the studio, turn on the microphones, load up the music, and head Off the Beaten Track. I’ll be live tonight at 6 PM Eastern on Jedi Council Radio, and lately I’ve been having a ridiculous amount of fun building these shows around one very simple idea: Songs I love. That sounds almost too easy, doesn’t it? But the more I think about it, the more I realize that some of the best radio shows don’t ne

Hello again, my Padawans! It’s Tuesday, which means it’s almost time to turn on the microphones, fire up the decks, and head Off the Beaten Track once again. Tonight’s show begins at 6 PM Eastern on Jedi Council Radio, and I’m continuing a theme that I’ve discovered I really don’t want to give up yet: Favorite songs. That sounds incredibly simple, but the more shows I build around the idea, the more I realize how enormous the subject really is. There are favorite songs you’ve

Hello, my Padawans! It is Tuesday, and you know what that means. At 6:00 PM Eastern tonight, I'll be firing everything up for another edition of Off the Beaten Track with DJ Jedi, and tonight we're doing something that I have really been enjoying lately: Playing favorites. Not necessarily the biggest hits. Not necessarily the songs somebody somewhere decided were supposed to be the important tracks. Just great songs that I love hearing. Sometimes that means one of my absolute

Greetings, my Padawans! It is Tuesday once again, which means that tonight at 6 PM Eastern, I will be settling into the DJ chair, firing up the equipment, opening the microphone, and heading off in whatever musical direction feels right for another edition of Off the Beaten Track. And this week I decided not to make things unnecessarily complicated. Tonight, I'm playing favorites. Some of them are simply favorite songs of mine. Some are favorite songs from bands and artists t

Greetings, my Padawans! It is Tuesday once again, which means the speakers are warming up, the musical archives are being raided, and Off the Beaten Track returns tonight at 6PM Eastern on Jedi Council Radio. And tonight I’m doing something I really enjoy. Instead of locking myself into one decade, one genre, one artist, or one particular musical theme, I’m putting together a collection of favorites that I think deserve a place on everybody's playlist. You know those songs. T

Greetings, my Padawans! It is Tuesday once again, which means it is nearly time to turn up the volume, leave the ordinary playlists behind, and take another trip Off the Beaten Track! Join me, DJ Jedi, tonight at 6 PM Eastern for a new edition of the show where musical boundaries are merely suggestions and you never know exactly what might come through the speakers next. Tonight’s show is shaping up to be a great one. I have been gathering songs from across the musical galaxy

Greetings, my Padawans! It is almost time to turn up the volume, leave the predictable playlists behind, and join me for another musical journey through the wonderfully unpredictable world of Off the Beaten Track! The show begins tonight at 6 PM Eastern, and I hope you will tune in, spend some time with me, and enjoy everything I have lined up. I am putting together a show that is sure to be a hit, filled with great music, unexpected choices, familiar favorites, deeper cuts,

Hello, my Padawans! It is Tuesday once again, which means it is almost time for another journey through the musical universe with Off the Beaten Track on Jedi Council Radio. The show begins tonight at 6 PM Eastern, and I have a wonderful collection of music ready for you. As always, the path may twist, turn, wander, double back, and occasionally fly straight through an asteroid field—but that is exactly what makes this show so much fun. Off the Beaten Track has never been abo

Hey there, my Padawans! Tonight at 6 PM Eastern, we are heading once again Off the Beaten Track on Jedi Council Radio, and this one is shaping up to be a wonderfully strange little journey through the musical side roads, back alleys, forgotten highways, and neon-lit exits that most playlists are too afraid to take. This is not one of those neat, tidy, algorithm-approved shows where everything stays in its assigned little box. Oh no. That is not how we do things around here. T

Hey there, my Padawans, Tonight at 6 PM Eastern, I’ll be back behind the decks for another edition of Off the Beaten Track on Jedi Council Radio. This show has really become one of my favorite things to put together. There is something special about digging past the obvious songs, wandering around in the deeper cuts, and finding those tracks that still have plenty of magic left in them. Sometimes it is nostalgia. Sometimes it is a song you forgot you loved. Sometimes it is so

Hey there, my Padawans! Now that another edition of Off the Beaten Track is in the books, I wanted to take a moment to thank everyone who tuned in and spent part of their Tuesday evening with me. One of the greatest joys of doing this show is knowing that people are listening not just for the music, but for the adventure that comes with it. Every week we leave the well-traveled roads behind and explore songs that deserve another spin, artists who deserve another listen, and m