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A psychedelic noir audio drama podcast set in 1940s Los Angeles. Recently radio broadcasts in the city have been reduced to static, leaving a popular radio serial as the only remaining show on the air. Even then the show finds itself continuously interrupted by a mysterious broadcast. A lone distorted voice reaching out for help. Follow Walter “Troubles” Mix and his partner Whitney as they search for a missing writer and navigate through a city quickly falling into madness. Could the mysterious voice be the culprit? Will anyone be able to stop the madness from spreading? And… What’s The Frequency? What’s the Frequency is created and written by James Oliva. Produced by Alexander Danner With m…
A catatonic man becomes a radio, and your mystery-solving brain is expected to keep up.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A thoughtful craft conversation about strange vocal choices, tactile sound design, and the uncanny logic of a person turned into a radio.
A director's commentary turns into a focused look at how What's the Frequency? creates its uneasy sonic world. The host and Williams spend time on Danny's forced mini-devil growl, the impulse behind it, and the sense that the character is trying to make his father proud.
A bloody doorstep opens into a strange experiment with a catatonic man, a radio signal, and rising menace.
Blood at the door gives this single episode its first sharp kick, though its real motor is stranger: a homemade bid to answer a voice on the K-POW frequency.
Dice, divine mysteries, and the trouble with good intentions.
What's The Frequency?
Joseph is wired into a microphone so Archie and Lil can answer the voice interrupting Love, Honor and Decay.
A psychedelic noir audio drama set in 1940s Los Angeles, where a radio serial is interrupted by a mysterious broadcast, and a detective searches for a missing writer.
A detective investigates a missing writer in a 1940s Los Angeles where radio broadcasts are being replaced by a mysterious static signal.
What’s The Frequency?