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    The Lunar Orbit

    The Lunar Orbit is a weekly(ish) exploration of all things post-rock, shoegaze, ambient, instrumental, esoteric, and beyond. We explore music which helps you feel like you’re being taken out into space and invite you to tune in and relax to as much as you want. Show is hosted first on WRIR 97.3 Richmond (wrir.org) Friday's at 1am, then published on all podcast feeds the next day. For a full collection of every song ever played on the show visit: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/48TS78dqDrfTsgctqA84s2?si=81fc5f94f1ab4774 The rights to all songs played on this show belong to the respective bands or artists. If you like something you hear, please go support them! This show is meant to share the music I love with a wider audience.
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    March 9, 2024 – The Albums of February!

    March 9, 2024 – The Albums of February!

    This episode, we are back live with brand new music! Highlighting some awesome post/math rock releases from February! Come tune into hear bands like @nightverses, @aburialatseaband @ifthesetreescouldtalk @redpinemushroomofficial and many more! Really big month of new music so this will be fun!

    Playlist:  

    • Night Verses "Glitching Prisms (feat. Brandon Boyd)" from Glitching Prisms (feat. Brandon Boyd) - Single
    • A Burial At Sea "DALL" from Close to Home
    • Erin Malone "Worth More" from Florescence - EP
    • The Lightsenders "Root" from The Burning of Llangernyw Yew
    • My Unknown Friend "Elbrus Climbing" from Journey of a Lifetime
    • Yakhchal "Alex Dalgarno" from Beggars and Comets - Single
    • Goodbye Meteor "This Is Not Here" from We Could Have Been Radiant
    • If These Trees Could Talk "Trail of Whispering Giants" from Trail of Whispering Giants - Single
    • From Beyond These Walls "The Dawn" from The Dawn - Single
    • Only Ever "Diatom Bloom" from Diatom Bloom - Single
    • goader "Soothsayer" from Soothsayer - Single
    • Mason van Kraayenburg "Corona Borealis (feat. Zealand the North)" from Corona Borealis (feat. Zealand the North) - Single
    • Schubmodul "Renegade One" from Lost In Kelp Forest
    • Red Pine Mushroom "I. Ur" from Enki
    • Halfway Line "Tide Pools" from Halfway Line - Single
    • Hans Zimmer "Lisan al Gaib" from Dune: Part Two (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

     

    February 24, 2024 – All Hail Odie, the New Moon King!

    February 24, 2024 – All Hail Odie, the New Moon King!

    For the first time in 50 years a US spacecraft has made it back to the moon! We’re back baby, Apollo be proud, Artemis here we come, all hail Odie the new Moon King! To celebrate let’s go play some fun, upbeat, fast paced post rock. I’m sure that’s what the probe had in its headphones as it was flying up there. Come party!

    Playlist:  

    • Hippie Love Party "Dim" from Hlp
    • t1tanic "Oppenheimer" from Oppenheimer - Single
    • Kaschalot "Distant Light" from Distant Light - Single
    • Johnnytwentythree "Exorcism" from Thirty Pieces of Silver
    • Ocean Districts "Lemuria" from Phantom Islands
    • Degree of Arc "Raptures" from Raptures
    • Sloth & Turtle "The Toys Are Back in Town" from Sloth & Turtle - EP
    • Methadone Skies "The Velvet Suit" from The Velvet Suit - Single
    • rega "VIP" from Million
    • Moonlit Sailor "A Century Under the Influence" from We Come from Exploding Stars
    • Kitsugaki "Quanta Regis" from Los Que Bailan En Las Sombras
    • LOW-PASS "Reconstruct" from Trimurti
    • Clean of Core "A Sad Look" from Spectacle
    • Ill Considered "First Light (feat. Theon Cross, Kaidi Akinnibi, Robin Hopcraft & Ralph Wyld)" from Liminal Space
    • Satellites "A Glorious Death" from Familiar Shorelines
    • Kaizo Kids "Snowfall" from Kaizo Kids
    • Colin Phils "Trust/Fall" from Trust/Fall

    February 17, 2024 – Psychic Space Jams Vol. 1

    February 17, 2024 – Psychic Space Jams Vol. 1

    Hello! This episode we’re doing a whole show of psychedelic space rock guaranteed to calm your mind and ease your nerves on that loooong booster flight through the stratosphere. I've done these shows sporadically in the past whenever I felt the psychic pull, but decided to name this one volume one, and start counting from here - why not sounds fun, right!

    Playlist:  

    • Polyrhythmics "Roller" from Filter System
    • The Budos Band "Frontier's Edge" from Frontier's Edge - EP
    • Spaceslug "Proton Lander" from Lemanis
    • Colour Haze "Turns" from All
    • Death Yak "For the Blood" from Bos Mutus - EP
    • Pharaoh Overload "Mystery Shopper" from #1
    • Mirovia "Enter Rodinia" from Welcome to Rodinia
    • Wooden Shjips "These Shadows" from Back to Land (Deluxe Version)
    • Gypsy Sun Revival "Pisces, Pt. 2" from Journey Outside of Time
    • Frozen Planet 1969 "Sunset Variations" from Meltdown on the Horizon
    • Mothership "High Strangeness" from High Strangeness
    • Wild Fuzz Trip "Kill the False Being Within" from Kill the False Being Within - Single
    • Mount Hush "Black Moon" from Mount Hush
    • Familiars "Bonanza" from All in Good Time
    • Korolev "Pygmalion's Revenge" from One
    • Planet Sun "The Light" from Desert Dream
    • Domboshawa "Mariposa" from Efterglans

    February 3, 2024 – A Loooong Waaaaay Around The Moon

    February 3, 2024 – A Loooong Waaaaay Around The Moon

    It’s a loooooong waaaaay to the moon! Inspired by our Challenger Pt 1 ending from last episode I’ve got a show full of long extended tracks – orchestra like movements of post-rock meant for the ultimate escapist listening session.

    Playlist:  

    • The Protomen "Battle Theme" from Present: A Night of Queen
    • We Lost the Sea "Towers" from Triumph & Disaster
    • Outlander "Plans" from Downtime
    • Red Room Cinema "...At Long Last the Sun Has Set, and the Earth Driftsts Into a Much Needed Slumber" from Red Room Cinema
    • Equus "Epona" from Eutheria
    • Yndi Halda "Golden Threads from the Sun" from Under Summer
    • Alcôve "She Was Buried With Paper Wings" from As We Know It
    • Set and Setting "Fear of Obtainment" from Equanimity

    January 27, 2024 – The Albums of Winter! Pt. 2

    January 27, 2024 – The Albums of Winter! Pt. 2

    Look out, it’s The Lunar Orbit! Bringing you part 2 of new music from December and January. There was way too much awesome music put out to fit into one show, so tune in to hear even more!

    Playlist:  

    • Absence of Field "The Ghost Ship" from The Ghost Ship - Single
    • goader "Mimesis" from Mimesis - Single
    • Mieresch "Driving Song" from Obîrșii
    • Myriad Drone "Forlorn Hope" from Forlorn Hope - Single
    • Infinity Shred "Mapper 2023" from Shadow Jeweler 2023 - Single
    • Hereafter "Requiem" from Requiem - Single
    • Golden Wreath "I Am Thinking of You" from Guide to the Night Sky - EP
    • Cannon Jay "Do You Think We Could Ever Turn This Around?" from Overcast Demos
    • uppergaff "Progeny of This Universe" from Quiescent Yet Violent - EP
    • into the sun "We, Disciples" from Into the Sun
    • Kinder "Winnie Looper" from Desastres naturales para niños
    • something in the lake "Listener" from Daylight - Single
    • Ov Yore "Loner" from Kalopsia - EP
    • Athletics "When to Run" from When To Run - Single
    • sleepmakeswaves "Super Realm Park" from Super Realm Park - Single
    • We Lost the Sea "Challenger Part 1 - Flight" from Departure Songs

    January 20, 2024 – The Albums of Winter! (Dec/Jan Releases) Pt. 1

    January 20, 2024 – The Albums of Winter! (Dec/Jan Releases) Pt. 1

    This episode we’re catching up on a ton of new music missed during the holiday season! A lot of awesome releases slipped under my radar while I was focused on winter vibes last month, so many in fact that I didn't even get to all of them on my list. So, join me for part one of our winter releases review and look out for part two next week with even more! 

    Playlist:  

    • The Mantra Discord "Reach" from Reach - Single
    • Ranges "II. Pillar of Mercy / Pillar of Severity" from 33
    • Fall Of Leviathan "Spermwhale" from Spermwhale - Single
    • Tuber "Eau Rouge" from Joyful Science
    • Vaudlow "In Loving Memory" from A Language Unspoken
    • SLIFT "Nimh" from ILION
    • PARDALS "IV" from S/T II
    • Hourglass and Space "Her Calling" from Her Calling - Single
    • Fury & Solace "Endswell" from For Our Sons
    • Kitsugaki "Riron" from Farravalini - EP
    • Sound Collider "The Air Battle of Stralsund" from Anomalies
    • Suspension Bridge Workshop "It Ends Where It Begins" from 001
    • circle&wind "Colors" from Metamorphosis - EP
    • Volkan "Océanos" from Lo que no se puede evitar
    • Neolithic "The Younger Dryas" from The Younger Dryas - Single

    January 13, 2024 – Lunar Orbiters Celebrate Post-Festivus

    January 13, 2024 – Lunar Orbiters Celebrate Post-Festivus

    To commemorate the first 2024 artist announcements from The Post Festival I’m bringing you our Post-Fest Highlights show from last year! Tons of awesome artists were at the Fest last year including Old Solar, Tiny Moving Parts, Whale Fall, Sunlight Ascending, and way more! Tune into this episode to hear them all!

    Playlist:  

    • Cloakroom "Gone but Not Entirely" from Time Well
    • Shipwreck Karpathos "Golden Axe" from Return to Silence
    • Tiny Moving Parts "Common Cold" from Celebrate
    • Old Solar "Spring Equinox: The Mountains Break Forth in Song" from See
    • Facs "Teenage Hive" from Void Moments
    • The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die "Heartbeat in the Brain" from Whenever, If Ever
    • Lehnen "Mute" from Negative Space
    • Pit "RETURN TRIP (Electric Wizard)" from Cynical - Single
    • Kowloon Walled City "Wrong Side of History" from Container Ships
    • hubris. "Apollo" from Emersion
    • Antlerhead "Seen It All" from Seen It All - Single
    • The Appleseed Cast "Fishing the Sky" from Mare Vitalis
    • Whale Fall "The Dawn Thief" from The Madrean
    • SOM "Awake / / Sedate" from Awake - EP
    • Still Motions "An Epiphany" from Mirrors
    • Arms and Sleepers "Kepesh" from The Organ Hearts
    • Sunlight Ascending "(Fall) Old Friends Part Ways" from You Don't Belong Here

    January 6, 2024 – The Best of 2023!

    January 6, 2024 – The Best of 2023!

    Welcome to The Lunar Orbit Best of 2023! Come listen as I struggle to fit all of my favorite post-rock from last year into a 2-hour block – presented in no particular order, and definitely not everything! This episode is a highlight reel, a best off, a sendoff to an awesome year of stellar releases!

    Playlist:  

    • Explosions In the Sky "Moving On" from End
    • Night Verses "Rose Wire" from Every Sound Has A Color In The Valley Of Night: Part 1
    • Tempus "Golden Rule" from Vida Colorida
    • bellweather "Absent" from Bellweather - EP
    • Bear the Mammoth "Unserene" from Purple Haus
    • Din of Celestial Birds "Utopia" from The Night is for Dreamers
    • D. Majestic and the Spectral Band "The Tallest Man on the Moon" from The Tallest Man on the Moon - Single
    • Keep "Everything" from Happy In Here
    • Junko Ueda & Poil "Kujô Shakujô, Pt. 3" from PoiL / Ueda
    • Golden Hymns Sing 'Hurrah' "Tape Reel Burnout" from The Great Dystopian Songbook III: Songs For the Homeland
    • Scaphoid "Gloom" from Echoes of the Rift
    • Wolfredt "The Seer" from IIII
    • Welmoed "Naga" from Ask & Embla
    • The Joy Formidable "Cut Your Face" from Cut Your Face - Single
    • Pulse of Silence "Across the Bridge of Illusion" from Across the Bridge of Illusion
    • XHM "Morgenstern" from Fractalization - EP
    • Often the Thinker "A Mother's Sting" from Sincere Insanity

    December 24, 2023 – The Lost Christmas Show!

    December 24, 2023 – The Lost Christmas Show!

    Alright, this one will take some explaining. As you'll hear at the top of this ep, the archival tool I use to pull episodes off the radio went down, meaning The Lunar Orbit 2023 Christmas Extravaganza has been lost to time....But, I didn't want to leave you with nothing during the holidays, so I've pulled the only previous Christmas episode I have saved, way back from when I first started the show on the radio - this is the 2020 Lunar Orbit Christmas Special.  

    It's a little rougher than my newer shows, but I still love it all the same - lots of Christmas spirt, and holiday energy. The ep is full of ambient music, coupled with some post-ish or out there covers of Christmas classic. I also have included a special broadcast from some of earths favorite astronauts wishing everyone on earth a Merry Christmas.  

    I can't tell you how sad I am to have lost the 2023 episode - but I hope this makes up for it! Hope you have a wonderful holiday season, and I will be back after the New Year with more new episodes!  

    Playlist:  

    • "Apollo 8's Christmas Eve Message" arranged by Matthew Tietje
    • Bill Vencil as Chords of Orion "Lonely as a Cloud"  
    • Bill Vencil as Chords of Orion "Ambient Porch Music"  
    • Michiru Oshima "Amazing Grace" from the "Sora no Woto" Original Soundtrack
    • Low "Little Drummer Boy" from Christmas
    • Explosions In the Sky, Brian Reitzell & Justin Stanley "The Sky Above, The Field Below" from Friday Night Lights (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
    • Lowercase Noises "Stars" from Marshall
    • David Crowder Band "Silent Night" from Oh for Joy
    • Hammock "Mute Angels" from Departure Songs
    • Where the Good Way Lies "Breathe" from The Wonder of It All - Single
    • This Will Destroy You "They Move on Tracks of Never - Ending Light" from This Will Destroy You
    • Kings (MHM) "Come Thou Long Expected Jesus" from Joy Has Dawned - EP
    • Do Make Say Think "107 Reasons Why" from Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn
    • When the Clouds "November Song" from The Longed-For Season
    • David Crowder Band "Go, Tell It On the Mountain" from Oh for Joy
    • Hammock "Winter Light (2015 Remaster)" from Kenotic (10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) [Remastered]
    • Lowercase Noises "A Highway Shall Be There" from Carry Us All Away
    • The Eagle and Child "What Child Is This (feat. Hunter G K Thompson)" from O Christmas, Vol. II - EP
    • Satoshi Ashikawa "Still Sky" from Still Way (Wave Notation 2)
    • Fumio Miyashita "See the Light" from White Morning
    • Phoebe Bridgers "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" from If We Make It Through December - EP
    • Lowercase Noises "Migratory Patterns" from Migratory Patterns
    • Samuel Bath "Auld Lang Syne" from In the Bleak Mid Winter - Single

    December 16, 2023 – A Snowstorm on Mars

    December 16, 2023 – A Snowstorm on Mars

    A winter themed show this week! Lots of chill, cozy, atmospheric vibes perfect for a hazy winter walk or some contemplation by the fire. A lot of music in this genre can evoke a calm, slower atmosphere which, to me at least, feels perfectly suited to winter, but I made sure to get some music with that holiday chime as well. Hope you enjoy listening!  

    Playlist:

    • Old Solar "Your Goodness & Mercy" from Quiet Prayers (Redux) - EP
    • Explosions In the Sky "Climbing Bear" from Big Bend (An Original Soundtrack for Public Television)
    • False Horizon "Walking Barefoot on Grass" from Transition
    • rhubiqs "Motifs in F# Major" from Motifs in F# Major - Single
    • Mesozoic "A Slow Success" from We Create Because All Will End
    • Pillars "Of Salt and Sea" from Of Salt and Sea
    • Codes In the Clouds "Sixes and Seventeens" from Codes in the Clouds
    • Mooncake "Chess Knight" from Zaris
    • .Less.Is.More. "Birds Aren't Real (Chilled)" from This Small, Finite World
    • Winterlight "Memories Are Flotsam" from Gestural Abstractions
    • Caspian "Sea Lawn" from The Four Trees
    • The Glass Pavilion "Signs & Wonders" from When the Blazing Sun is Gone
    • Asleep Within Waves "Middle Cove" from Statera
    • Satellites "Tallest Trees" from Familiar Shorelines
    • Startle the Heavens "Lull" from All that Is Wild & Alive
    • Cats Never Die "Care" from Morphine
    • Slow Meadow "Palemote" from Palemote - Single
    • Ethereal Silence "Creation of Life" from Creation of Life - Single

    December 9, 2023 – Writing Poetry on the Return Trip

    December 9, 2023 – Writing Poetry on the Return Trip

    I've been loving the @mogwaiband album “As The Love Continues” so a lot of the tracks on this episode are inspired by the movements and builds on there! Lots of great stuff tonight including @monoofjapan with a wonderful winter themed track, @juniperridge with some jazz-rock, excellent guitar work from @marcroussel, great orchestral jamming from @fractal_band , and much more!

    Playlist: 

    • Mogwai "To the Bin My Friend, Tonight We Vacate Earth" from As the Love Continues
    • Mono "Scarlet Holliday" from Scarlet Holliday - Single
    • We Lost the Sea "Nuclear City" from The Quietest Place On Earth
    • Marc Roussel "Not Even Light Can Escape" from Not Even Light Can Escape - Single
    • On Your Horizon "Untitled #1" from In, Empty - EP
    • Public Service Broadcasting "Lichtspiel I: Opus" from Bright Magic
    • casual joker "Treasures in a Place of Dread" from The Cave of the Alders - EP
    • Juniper Ridge "Vermilion Cliffs" from Vermilion Cliffs - EP
    • Sunshine Reverberation "Experimental Neurosemantics" from Hive Mind
    • Athletics "III" from Who You Are Is Not Enough
    • Terrestrial "The Merging" from Terrain - Single
    • Fractal "Сила (Syla)" from Missy - Single
    • Zini "Isthmus" from Isthmus - Single
    • Cuberdon "Gizmo Pt. 2" from Cuberdon - EP
    • Pigeons Without Wings "Combo #8" from Combo #8 - Single
    • The Holy Circle "No Twilight, No Dusk" from Don't Disturb My Waking Dream
    • Thousand Yard Stare "Earthanasia" from Earthanasia

    December 2, 2023 - A Shortfall of Gravitas...A Book or a Boat?

    December 2, 2023 - A Shortfall of Gravitas...A Book or a Boat?

    Back from the Thanksgiving break, I'm knee deep in schoolwork this week so I'm bringing you a really stellar episode which aired on WRIR back in July 2021! Hence the timely reference to the SpaceX ship. Something of a contemplative set this week, a lot of down tuning, and melodic rock. Lots of chimey, washy, weird sounds! Think you'll really enjoy it!  

    Playlist:  

    • Black Hill "Night In a Mossy Hut" from Tales of the Night Forest
    • Deer Park Ranger "Counterpart" from Adaptation
    • Dimwind "Blinds Drawn" from Slow Wave Violence
    • Hurry, Eskimo "Ninety Four Degrees Below Zero" from Hurry, Eskimo
    • Deer Park Ranger "Marionette" from Wolf
    • Blueneck "Lilitu" from The Fallen Host
    • Colaris "Maelstrom" from Nexus
    • Hurry Up, Brothers "Wading In" from All is Beautiful. I'm Okay to be Alive. I'm Okay to Die.
    • The End of the Ocean "A Dividing Line" from Pacific•atlantic
    • Pia Fraus "Autumn Winds (feat. Wolfredt)" from Autumn Winds - EP
    • Our Last Hope Lost Hope "Kortege" from Persist
    • Moons Eat Stars "Thus You Shall Go to the Stars" from Voyage EP
    • Legendary Skies "Listen to the Water" from Navigation
    • 417.3 ">" from 2
    • Ephilexia "Sun, Please, Explode" from Sun, Please, Explode
    • Loud Exit "Dream Friend Dream Like a Resting Ship in the Night" from Loud Exit - EP
    • Spoiwo "Yos" from Salute Solitude

    November 18, 2023 – The Post-Moon Mining Operation!

    November 18, 2023 – The Post-Moon Mining Operation!

    A little bit of everything on tonight’s show, post-doomgaze all the way to ambient soundscapes. Wanted to make sure to include the new tracks from last week’s show we couldn’t get to including brand new music from Seeress!

    Playlist:  

    • Have Near "Pervasive" from Facing Forward - Single
    • Rocket Miner "Lotus" from Song for an October Sky (Remixed & Remastered)
    • Seeress "Holograms" from Holograms - Single
    • Arroway "Escape Velocity" from Hover Over - EP
    • All You've Seen "Old Formula" from Translucence
    • Deadhead "U.R.O.K" from Bad Dog
    • The TreeHouse Experience "Timeless Gatherings" from Timeless Gatherings - Single
    • Parker "The Catalyst I" from Departure
    • The Sound of Rescue "Forms (Seven)" from Forms
    • concrete twin "Silent Abyss" from Sound Source #04 "Re:Encounter" - Single
    • City of Satellites "Skeletons (Manual Remix)" from Remixed
    • -Ghost Island- "Your Doubt" from Assimilation
    • Yuzame Radio "Franceska" from Franceska - Single
    • Sky Flying By "Wave Function" from Transformation as a Survival Tactic - EP
    • Archeress "Wild Ocean (Cold)" from Pastel Houses
    • Way Station "Last Launch Part II" from The Ships

    November 11, 2023 – Albums-o-October!

    November 11, 2023 – Albums-o-October!

    We’re back this week with a ton of the new releases that I missed last month! Turns out while we were focused on the heavy stuff tons of bands were throwing out killer new records left and right. This episode has some awesome new stuff from local bands Loxias, and Keep, plus lots of great newly released live performances and some fantastic new ambient records!

    Links to live performances:

    SLIFT – Ilion (Live on KEXP)

    Keep – Everything | Audiotree Live

    distance – live at Ara

    Alex Henry Foster – The Love That Moves (The End Is Beginning) [Live Session]

    Playlist: 

    • Loxias "Stormchaser (feat. June Kambourian & Sun Against Artemis)" from Until We Meet Again - EP
    • SLIFT "Ilion" from ILION
    • Keep "Everything" from Happy In Here
    • distance "Undergrowth" from Over Time - EP
    • Alex Henry Foster "The Love That Moves (The End is Beginning)" from Windows in the Sky
    • The World Is Fake "Energy" from Creation
    • November Might Be Fine "Hope" from All
    • Kolyma "Reverence" from Exit Strategy
    • Pictures on Silence "Soliloquy" from Mental Haze
    • Time. Space. Repeat. "The Other Place" from Consequence
    • Wolfy "Burn Your Soul and Bleed Your Ears" from Sounding to Nothing
    • Landing Cliffs "Falling Through (feat. Joshua Degen)" from More Than Anything - EP
    • Rhone "Hazelcrest" from Hazelcrest - Single

     

    October 27, 2023 - Overdrive October 2023 Mk.4: Happy Halloween!

    October 27, 2023 - Overdrive October 2023 Mk.4: Happy Halloween!

    Happy (almost) Halloween! Tonight is the finale to Overdrive October and our Halloween extravaganza! A show is full of spooky shoegaze, haunting psychedelic, and petrifying post-rock! Muhahaha! Plus, we continue the WRIR Fall Fund Drive!

    Playlist: 

    • Clutch "Nosferatu Madre" from Sunrise on Slaughter Beach
    • Psychonaut "All I Saw as a Huge Monkey" from Unfold the God Man
    • After Nations "Aon" from The Endless Mountain
    • Old Coke "Coffee Eyes" from Coffee Eyes - Single
    • End of Kumari "The Fall of the Lighthouse" from Stories from the Floating World
    • Ancestors "Antler Wings" from Neptune With Fire
    • Somali Yacht Club "Blood Leaves a Trail" from The Sea
    • The Odious "Mono No Aware" from Vesica Piscis
    • Neander "Aas" from neànder
    • October Drift "Airborne Panic Attack" from I Don't Belong Anywhere
    • Pelican "Deny the Absolute" from Forever Becoming
    • Bask "New Dominion" from III
    • Howling Giant "Stone Giant" from The Space Between Worlds
    • MIAVA "Not in My Backyard" from The Fall of Public Man - EP
    • Homecoming "Interlude" from Lp01

     

    October 21, 2023 - Overdrive October 2023 Mk.3: Fall Fund Drive Edition!

    October 21, 2023 - Overdrive October 2023 Mk.3: Fall Fund Drive Edition!

    Week 3!! Just in time for the Fall Fund Drive! Same deal, some awesome overdriven, distorted, heavier than the sun post-rock, AND some chat about how amazing WRIR is.

    Playlist:  

    • Four Stroke Baron "Cyborg, Pt. 2: The City" from Planet Silver Screen
    • Russian Circles "Quartered" from Blood Year
    • Katre "The Run" from Behind the Resilience
    • Toska "Chalk Teeth" from Ode to the Author
    • Petyr "Grease 'em All" from Smolyk
    • Echo Says Echo "Our Toxic Surroundings" from Pause
    • Talons "The Drowning" from We All Know
    • te' "Reika's Purity Loses the Puppet of "Red Flame" and Inscribes a Proclamation to Akurei. (Amendment)" from Kai - EP
    • The Redneck Manifesto "Sweet Pot" from Thirtysixstrings
    • nuito "NeKoMaJiN Vs" from Unutella
    • Oxes "Half Half & Half" from OXXXES
    • And So I Watch You from Afar "Set Guitars to Kill" from And So I Watch You From Afar
    • Poly-Math "Canticum II" from Zenith
    • Astrosaur "Space Mountain" from Fade In // Space Out
    • Le Temps Du Loup "Sihaya" from Leteo
    • Vogons "Improbability Gorilla" from The Ocular Theft of Other Peoples Wonderment - Single
    • Jardín de la Croix "Caronte" from Ocean Cosmonauts
    • Hyedra "Bosch" from Hyedra
    • Mountain Caller "Feast at Half - Light City" from Chronicle I: The Truthseeker

    October 14, 2023 - Overdrive October 2023 Mk.2!

    October 14, 2023 - Overdrive October 2023 Mk.2!

    Week 2 of 💥Overdrive October💥 Bringing you the most distorted overdriven head banging post-rock this side of Halloween 🎃 Ton of awesome music tonight including Night Verses, PILLARS, Mothra, and maaaaany more, tune in if you dare! 👻👻💀

    Playlist:  

    • Aligns & Rubicones "Friday Night Fire Fight" from Cyberpunk 2077: Radio, Vol. 1 (Original Soundtrack)
    • Night Verses "Copper Wasp" from From the Gallery of Sleep
    • A Ghost in Rags "Akarano" from Akarano
    • Shy, Low "The Salix" from Babylonica EP
    • Mothra "The Window" from Decision Process
    • Movement of Static "The Passage" from Naegleria
    • Ingrina "Leeway" from Etter Lys
    • Lvmen "X" from Mondo
    • The Sky Is "Depths" from Télépathie - EP
    • pg.lost "Terrain" from Key
    • Butterfly Explosion "Automatic" from Lost Trails
    • Darkseed "Comptine d'un autre été: L'après midi" from Astral Darkness Awaits
    • Patsy O' Hara "Tyrannis" from Deathinteresse

    October 7, 2023 - Overdrive October 2023 Mk.1!

    October 7, 2023 - Overdrive October 2023 Mk.1!

    It’s October! The leaves are changing, spookiness set to max, and its week one of our annual tradition💥OVERDRIVE OCTOBER 💥A month of the heaviest, distorted, pulse pounding post-rock leading straight to Halloween!

    Playlist:  

    • Orsak:Oslo "079 Dutchman's Wake, Pt. I" from In Irons
    • Audiolepsia "Beatrix" from Muses
    • Wolfredt "Assegai" from IIII
    • Hiroe "Doom Moon" from Doom Moon - Single
    • Nazca Plate "Yu Should Be a Ghost" from Nazca Plate
    • Tempus "Nemo" from Daba - EP
    • Pelican "The Creeper (Live)" from Arktika (Live)
    • Black Math Horseman "A Barren Cause" from Wyllt
    • Huntsmen "Kyoto" from The Colonel - Single
    • Lighteater "Summoner" from Autoscopy
    • Fort "It's Dangerous To Go Alone...Take This!" from It's Dangerous To Go Alone... - Single
    • Turpentine Valley "Compromis" from Etch
    • PSOTY "The Yawning Void" from Sunless
    • Lonesome "Be Strong" from To Myself, from Myself - EP

     

    September 30, 2023 - The Albums of September

    September 30, 2023 - The Albums of September

    All new releases from the month, and lots of new to the show bands!

    Playlist:  

    • Parallel Colors "Forlorn" from Forlorn - Single
    • Explosions In the Sky "Ten Billion People" from End
    • Flourish "Neon Rain" from The Body Will Lead You
    • Night Verses "Rose Wire" from Every Sound Has A Color In The Valley Of Night: Part 1
    • Delayed Schedules "F.R.E.E." from F.R.E.E. - Single
    • Ever After "Conduit" from Conduit - Single
    • The Gates of Summer "Helios  Selene" from Beauty in the Fall
    • Reft by Oceans "11'000 Volts" from 11'000 Volts - Single
    • At the Grove "In Search" from Infinity
    • We Shine Every Night "Land's End" from Returnal - Single
    • Vaudlow "Cascade" from Cascade - Single
    • Nirguna "No Tommorow" from Convergence
    • Tempus "Grey Matter" from Vida Colorida
    • *Ancients "Calamity" from Cosmic Ark
    • The Color of Cyan "Sunwounds" from Egress
    • Cosmic Call "Destruction" from Eternal Journey

    September 16, 2023 – NASA Punk Aesthetic

    September 16, 2023 – NASA Punk Aesthetic

    It's all post-punk this episode! Fast guitars, dreamy riffs, overdriven vibes – good stuff! Have been diving into a lot of Midwestern emo stuff over the past week, which is where this episode came out of, a little all over the map between post-punk, shoegaze, emo, and some math rock(?) and whatever Death From Above 1979 is. Enjoy!  

    P.S: Zach from the future here, this ep originally aired live on WRIR last year, still really proud of it! 

    Playlist:  

    • mewithoutYou "In a Sweater Poorly Knit" from Brother, Sister
    • Vattnet "Better Ghost" from Vattnet
    • The Thermals "Here's Your Future" from The Body, the Blood, the Machine
    • All Get Out "The Season" from The Season
    • Dry Cleaning "Scratchcard Lanyard" from New Long Leg
    • Touché Amoré "Limelight (feat. Manchester Orchestra)" from Lament
    • The Beta Machine "The End" from All This Time - EP
    • Pile "Firewood" from Green and Gray
    • Soviet Soviet "Change with the Sun" from Ghost - Single
    • Death from Above 1979 "Free Animal" from Free Animal - Single
    • Shame "Angie" from Songs of Praise
    • IDLES "Never Fight a Man with a Perm" from Joy as an Act of Resistance.
    • Squid "Narrator" from Bright Green Field
    • shame "Snow Day" from Drunk Tank Pink
    • Balance and Composure "Reflection" from The Things We Think We're Missing
    • Saves the Day "UNDRESS ME" from DAYBREAK
    • Naked Pictures "Don't Care" from W I D E
    • Slint "Good Morning, Captain" from Spiderland
    • The Homesick "Male Bonding" from The Big Exercise
    • Kaschalot "Supernova" from Zenith
    • Lotus "Colorado" from Nomad