Bandcamp Friday Bonanza, and we've been working at it since late late late last night, just to pull in all the most important releases, to bring them to your ears. From the latest albums by Wynona Bleach and Letting Up Despite Great Faults (pictured above), to the fresh and surprising sounds from Mo Dotti, Lightfoils, Spotlight Kid, Laveda, Cloudwalk, Sound Discard, re-lapse, STEREOSKOP and more, we're brimming with fresh colors […]
On this, the final Bandcamp Friday of the year (allegedly), we were tasked to comb through hundreds of pitches and release notifications, to bring you the best and the brightest the day has to offer. And we're here for it. Amongst our weaponry, the newest releases from Warper (pictured above), Lemondaze, Spotlight Kid, Whimsical, Seaside, Presents for Sally, Tapeworms and more. But that's just the surface sparkle. Dig a little […]
Bandcamp Friday, and we're unsurprisingly overbooked. And headliners are plentiful. We lead with a sneak peek of the upcoming album from Wollongong, Australia's Miners. We've been spinning talented this squad since 2015, and they're ready for their close-up. We celebrate two Bandcamp Friday releases: Field Mouse's covers/reimaginings album Memory Card has more deep charm than you can shake a stick at, and why would you want to shake a stick […]
Original program airing December 31 2020 9 p.m. central/3 a.m. GMT, repeating 12 hours later, on DKFM. By Marky Anderson After a wonderful trip to hear the shoegaze and dream pop sounds of bonnie Scotland last month, we are back on the road with The Velvet Hum Radio Show Goes to England. I and my travelling companion Deborah Sexton have travelled, virtually of course, south to explore all the best […]
There is so much to recommend in this, the second hour of our DreamGaze Worldwide III presentation. A world premiere song and video from New Age Healers, featuring guest appearances from Katie Haley (Soft Science), Jim Biggs (Black Nite Crash), and My Young (Jupe Jupe), with proceeds to benefit Seattle's Creative Justice nonprofit. And it's a dreamy gem. But wait, there's more! Get a new work in progress from Star […]
There aren't enough column inches to describe what we've put together for this weekend's DreamGaze Worldwide presentation. Superlatives like "new", "rare", "never-before-seen" fail to do justice to just what's been put together for our live virtual festival this weekend. We'll just enumerate a few highlights for you. New Age Healers (pictured above): The Seattle post-psychedelic shoegaze quartet unleash a world premiere with a little help from Katie Haley (Soft Science), […]
You'd be late too, if you got as many new releases as we got today. We thought we had a wheelbarrow full by Wednesday of this week, but then today's album releases from NIIGHTS, Piroshka, Star Horse, Strawberry Licor, Youngest of Elders , SPC ECO and Cellar Doors drove the programming department into overdrive. New sounds and new discoveries abound, and we've got them all for you: Lazy Pilgrims (pictured […]
The venerable Saint Marie Records once brings out the crown jewels of their roster: the second in the series of Static Waves compilations lands on November 26th. With 32 tracks from the SMR stable of artists, 23 of them previously unreleased, the Static Waves series has proven to be the best compilation series since 4AD's This Mortal Coil project. Last year's compilation had two previously unreleased tracks that ended up […]
New Tracks Weekend breaks through the NSA jamming to bring you the newest from Spotlight Kid, Makaras Pen, Holland, Soft Shadows, Drifterswift, Tripwires, Space Waves, Synthesize Her, Syd Lane and SO much more. We'll try to send coded messages during transmission to our agents in the field as well. Do not be alarmed. Off and running at 5 pm PDT Friday night, and the new continues all weekend. Live365 listeners, […]
