DJ b is out! So we wanna say thanks 😊
We want to say thank you. In lieu of DJ b being out this morning (rest up comrade), we’re taking a moment to look back and appreciate what this community has created together over the last 8 months.
Since we launched, we have produced over 130 hours of shows. Weekly broadcasts featuring underground artists, horoscopes, weird and wacky instruments, juicy gossip, and an independent spirit that thrives- after we’ve restarted the stream a few times 😅
Beyond the radio, the writing and creativity pouring into bottlerag.org has blown us away.
Some highlights from our favorite posts include:
Life, Death, and Micro Wrestling by tj – A firsthand dive into the wild world of Micro Wrestling, capturing the noise, the theatrics, and the strange thrill of this underground spectacle
A Week of Poetry by Billie Lyle – My mans takes two weeks to write one weeks of seven poems capturing struggle, solitude, and raw moments of life in vivid, unfiltered verse. fucking bars
Strange Things, Small Towns Ep 1 – We co-produced a sci-fi spooky fantasy podcast, stayed tuned for more upcoming episodes hosted both here and on Spotify!
We went on a Play Date with The Moot Point Project – An inside look at The Moot Point Project’s experimental Play Dates blending theater and community in Denver’s underground scene. Their next Play Date is September 1st, 2025 at 5 PM at Hooked On Colfax, featuring the play The Association of Strong Spirited Humans Against Tyranny… And Stuff: Or An Idiot’s Guide to Making a Militia.
If you want to hear some of the shows you might have missed, check out the show archive on the site—always available for late-night listening and discovery.
If bottlerag has given you something- whether a spark of inspiration, a new perspective, or just a place to come back to, you can help keep it going. Donations can be made right on the site near the bottom of the page on mobile or in the side bar if you are on desktop. Additionally, we accept donations via our Venmo @bottlerag-org. These contributions help us pay contributors who submit work to the site and maintain the platform without any corporate strings attached. Remember, the revolution will be streamed, not monetized. No gift is too small or too strange.
And if money isn’t your thing right now, there are other ways to support. We love hearing from readers and listeners alike—send us your stories, poems, rants, artwork, or playlists at staff@bottlerag.org. Your voice is what makes this place run, and we want to uplift all kinds of creative expression.
If donating or sending work isn’t your thing right now either no worries! There are plenty of other ways to help keep bottlerag beating. Engage with the posts! Comment, like, share and get the word out. Each email opened, each article spanned opens new doors for this community and helps bring fresh ears and eyes to the website. And if that still feels like too much, just use your voice and your presence-tell your friends, your neighbors, your barista, anyone who’ll listen—about bottlerag. Every little action pushes this unruly project forward.
Big thanks for being the pulse of this messy, vital project. Your energy drives the chaos and creation. Let’s keep raising hell, making noise, and building community well into the future.
Stay strong, stay persistent, stay… bottlerag?
— Staff ❤️
This rerun of Weird and Wacky Instruments is playing 9a-11a the day this is posted in DJ b’s absence. Didgeridoo give it a listen.
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