Beyond the Wall of Beat City

Tune in to KISU on Christmas Eve, 8pm MST and hear a very special selection of wall-of-sound, snowgaze and cold wave Christmas songs for your sneers and cheers. Happy holidays boils and ghouls.

Beat City Radio (Slight Return)

Well, if anyone's still reading I'd like to mention that I'll probably be co-hosting an episode or two of Beat City Radio here in the next month. I'll post more when I know something.

The Last Broadcast

The final show. Thanks to everyone who has tuned in over the last two years. Stream or Download

BtWoS 08-25-10

This one's only an hour long.
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The Notwist - Good Lies (The Devil, You, and Me - 2008)
Ms. John Soda - Unsleeping (No P or D - 2002)
Mum - Now There's That Fear Again (Finally We Are No One - 2002)
Orbit Service - Dark Orange Sunset (Twilight - 2004)

Calla - Monument (Televise - 2003)
Pernice Bros. - There Goes the Sun (Discover A Lovelier You - 2005)
Elbow - The Bones of You (Seldom Seen Kid - 2008)
Secret Shine - Stars in the Sky (All of the Stars - 2008)

The Daysleepers - Release the Kraken (Drowned in a Sea of Sound - 2008)
Engineers - Brighter As We Fall (Three Fact Fader - 2009)
The Sleepover Disaster - Tremble (Hover - 2009)
Low - Silver Rider (The Great Destroyer - 2005)

Highspire - Dagger (Slowdive cover) (Never Lose That Feeling vol. 3 - 2009)

Denmark Darkwave Sensation covers the Beatles

(((S))), the mysterious one-man goth rock/darkwave band Mick Mercer has raved on about, have just released a single covering The Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand" in German and English. He completely makes the song his own. Check it out:
Komm Gib Mir Deine Hand


In other news, podcasts from previous weeks' shows will be posted by Sunday, I promise!

Beyond the Wall of Sleep 08-18-10

Again, only an hour with my apologies. I've been working on time consuming life stuff. Stream or Download


Brian Eno - Third Uncle
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Sea Breezes (Roxy Music Cover)
Ultravox - Dangerous Rhythm
Gary Numan - The Rhythm of the Evening
Station Break - Goblin - Profondo Rosso
Warsaw - Transmission
The Soft Boys - I Got the Hots
Buzzcocks - You Tear Me Up
The Gun Club - She's Like Heroin to Me
The Cramps - Love Me (The Phantom cover)
The Damned - Love Song
Station Break - Ronnie Cell's Continentals - Chicken
The Colourfield - Pushing Up Daisies
The Comsat Angels - Sleep No More
Flesh for Lulu - Postcards from Paradise
All About Eve - Paradise
Depeche Mode - To Have and to Hold

A brighter shade of dark 08-11-10

Sorry for the delay.

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My Bloody Valentine - Feed Me With Your Kiss
Catherine Wheel
Client - Heartland
WIT - Hold Me, Touch Me
Pati Yang - Unquiet
HTRK - Ha
Station Break - Glass Candy - Last Nite I Met A Costume
The Cramps - Fever
The Sisters of Mercy - Body and Soul
The Damned - Drinking About my Baby
The Smiths - Hand in Glove
The Cure - Doing the Unstuck
The Magnetic Fields - I Don't Want to Get Over You
Depeche Mode - I Want You Now
David Bowie - Let Me Sleep Beside You

Beyond the Wall of Sleep 07-21-10

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Buzzcocks - Fiction Romance
The Dancing Did - Charnel Boy
Tubeway Army - Every Day I Die
Ultravox! - The Man Who Dies Every Day
Station Break - Tones on Tail - You, the Night and the Music
The Soft Boys - I Wanna' Destroy You
The Cultural Decay - Song of Joy
Corpus Delicti - Poisoned Dead Flowers
Virgin Prunes - Decline and Fall
Station Break - Bauhaus - Satori
Cinema Strange - 'Ere the Flowers Unfold
Klauds Nomi - You Don't Own Me
Rasputina - If Your Kisses Don't Hold the Man You Love
The Chameleons - The Fan and the Bellows
Station Break - Dead Can Dance - Dedicace Duto
Tones on Tail - Performance
Diva Destruction - Cruelty Games
The Church - Reptile
Clan of Xymox - Craving
Station Break - Faith & Disease - Space Song II
Skeletal Family - She Cries Alone
Cocteau Twins - Bland Dumb Deaf (BBC Session)
Bel Canto - Intravenous
Rhea's Obsession - Mahakala
Station Break - Robin Guthrie - Some Sort of Paradise
Autumn's Grey Solace - Waning Faithful
Lycia - Bare
Cranes - Sixth of May
Love Spirals Downwards - Sound of Waves
Soul Whirling Somewhere - Wish

Beyond the Wall of Sleep 7-14-10 - Happy Bastille Day!

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Bauhaus - In the Flat Field (In the Flat Field 1980)
The Damned - Anything (Anything 1986)
Alien Sex Fiend - Wish I Woz A Dog (Who's Been Sleeping in My Brain 1983)
Death in June - Nothing Changes (The Guilty Have No Past 1983)
Station Break APTBS - Half Awake
Play Dead - Walk Away (Resurrection 1992)
Cinema Strange - Laughing Bloody Murder (S/T 2001)
Strawberry Switchblade - Another Day (S/T 1985)
This Mortal Coil - Not Me (It'll End in Tears 1987 - Colin Newman cover)
Station Break - Death in June - Nation
All About eve - Some Finer Day (Ultraviolet 1992)
Cocteau Twins - Frou-Frou Foxes in Midsummer (Heaven or Las Vegas 1990)
Dead can Dance - Musica Eternal (S/T 1984)
New Order - Doubts Even Here (Movement 1981)
Sisters of Mercy - Something Fast Live (When You Don't See Me Single 1990)
Station break
Crocodiles - Summer of Hate (Summer of Hate 2009)
Einsturzende Neubauten - Ende Neu (Ende Neu 1996)
Skinny Puppy - The Choke (Bites 1984)
Ministry - You Know What You Are (Land of Rape and Honey 1988)
Station Break - Book of Love - Late Show
Coil - Tainted Love (Scatology 1984)
Die Form - Love is Cold II (Duality 1997)
Faith & Disease - Beauty & Bitterness (Beauty & Bitterness 1993)
Claire Voyant - Lustre (Lutre 2009)
Station Break - This Mortal Coil - The Last Ray
Sad Lovers and Giants - Imagination (Epic Garden Music 1988)
Joy Division - the Eternal (Closer 1980)
Morrissey - Margaret on the Guillotine (Viva Hate 1988)

Beyond the Wall of Sleep 07-07-11 Fever Ray Showcase

Yes, I am fully aware that Fever Ray's debut album came out last year. But after finally acquiring the special edition, I thought it was necessary to take a look at this excellent and unique piece of work.
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Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Stranger Than Kindness
Blonde Redhead - The Dress
HTRK - Waltz Real Slow
Ceremony - Our Last Goodbye
Station Break - Goblin - Death Dies
The Cure - Want
Iggy Pop - Baby
Gary Numan - Me! I Disconnect From You Live in London 1979
David Bowie - The Heart's Filthy Lesson
Station Break - Goblin - Phenomena M12
Fever Ray - If I Had A Heart Live
Fever Ray - Triangle Walks Live
Fever ray - Keep the Streets Empty For Me
The Knife - Heartbeats
Station break - Andrew Kazdin and Thomas Z. Shepard - Suite From Carmen
Crystal Castles - Courtship Dating
Depeche Mode - Useless Live
Elbow - Coming Second
PJ Harvey - Send His Love to Me
Station break - Rodrigo y Gabriela - Diablo Rojo
Linda Perry feat. Grace Slick - Knock Me Out
Carissa's Wierd - Farewell to All These Rotten Teeth
Bat For Lashes - Sad Eyes
Magnetic Fields - Better Things
Station Break - Max Richter - H in New England
Son Volt - Slow Hearse
Will Johnson - Sleep A While
Belle & Sebastian - You Made Me forget My Dreams
Codeine - Realize
Fever Ray - Stranger than Kindness

Dark Jazz & Smoky Rooms

This one's a nice, moody mix of dark jazz, trip hop and past classics. Stream or Download

Tom Jones w/ Portishead - Motherless Child
Kilimanjaro Dark Jazz Ensemble - Parallel Corners
Heroin and Your Veins - Full Moon & Dry Humour
The Growlers - Old Cold River
Station Break - Heroin and Your Veins - Romantic Dreams
The Fierce and the Dead - Part I.\
Station Break - Explosions in the Sky - Remember Me As A Time of Day
Mogwai - Hunted by a Freak
Sneaker Pimps - Becoming X
Morcheeba - Who Can You Trust?
The Capris - There's A Moon Out Tonight
This Will Destroy You - Quiet
Portishead - All Mine
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Moon is in the Gutter
Devics - The Man I Love
Gale Storm - Dark Moon
Station Break - David Lynch/Angelo Badalamenti - The Pink Room
Bohren und der Club of Gore - Nightwolf
The Corsairs - Smoky Places
Station Break - Max Richter - Organum
Max Richter - Shadow Journal
Tom Waits - Black Market Baby

BtWoS 06-18-10

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Ladytron - Paco!
Spalding Rockwell - Vicious
CSS - Music Is My Hot Hot Sex
Jamie Summers - Sex Fiend
Marsheaux - Destroy Me
Station Break - Nightmares on Wax - Night's Interlude
New Young Pony Club - Get Lucky
Barcelona - Stuido Hair Gel
Soviet - Candy Girl
The Presets - I Go Hard, I Go Home
WIT - Hold Me, Touch Me
Station Break - Craig Armstrong - Rise
Goldfrapp - Rocket
Client - 6 in the Morning
Felix da Housecat - Silver Screen Shower Scene
Golden Boy feat. Miss Kittin - Rippin' Kittin (Glove Radio Mix)
Station Break - Glass Candy - Last Nite I Met A Costume
ABC - Look of Love
John Foxx - Systems of Romance
Depeche Mode - Photographic
Gary Numan - Observer
Martin Gore - Tiny Girls (Iggy Pop cover)
Station Break - Add (n) to (x) - Anne's Eveready Equestrian
Robots In Disguise - Cycle Song
Handsome Boy Modeling School feat. Julee Cruise & Pharrell - Class System
Pati Yang - Soul For Me
Lovage - Pit Stop (Take Me Home)
Station Break - Massive Attack - Exchange
M83 - Skin of the Night
Cut Copy - Hearts on Fire
Junior Boys - The Equalizer
Crystal Castles - Tell Me What to Swallow
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Down Boy

Superfantastic Bonus Video Time - Goldfrapp - Alive

Finally - 06-09-10

Apologies for the delay. Stream or Download

For Against - Stranded in Greenland
Gary Numan - Remember I Was Vapour
Darker My Love - She Lives
Sky Parade - I Should Be Coming Up (But I Keep Coming Down)
Station Break - Broadcast - Minus One
Screen Vinyl Image - Chaser (Hypefactor "Blood On Your Hands" Remix)
School of Seven Bells - Half Asleep (Alternate Version)
Ms. John Soda - Hiding/Fading
Lali Puna - B-Movie
Station Break - Cluster and Eno - Ho Renomo
Love Culture - Future Halos
Miranda Sex Garden - Cut
Lycia - Drifting
Dead Can Dance - Severance
Love and Rockets - Holiday on the Moon
Bel Canto - Picnic on the Moon
Claire Voyant - Eventide
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Sick Child
Station Break - Kevin Shields - Zither
Jesus and Mary Chain - Happy When It Rains
Cocteau Twins - Perhaps Some Other Aeon
The Smiths - Cemetery Gates
Station Break - Sisters of Mercy - Sandstorm
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - People Ain't No Good
Blue Foundation - Shine
Julee Cruise - I Float Alone
David Bowie - Wild is the Wind
Nina Simone - Lilac Wine

Technical Difficulties Part II

So I've been having difficulty uploading the shows to archive.org again and am looking for a suitable substitute until I can figure things out. Any suggestions are welcome. My sincere apologies to anyone waiting on a new show or three (all two of you, I know you're out there).

In the meantime, Toni Halliday of Curve has a new project called Chatelaine and you can stream the entire album on their website here. It is, predictably, amazing. It's good to hear Toni's voice again.

Beyond the Wall of Sleep 05-12-10

"If your goal of the night was to make anyone who listens to your show depressed as f**k, you succeeded." - Aimee R.

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Low - When I Go Deaf
The Raveonettes - Here Comes the End
Mazzy Star - Wasted
Martin Gore - In My Other World (Julee Cruise cover)
Station Break - Depeche Mode - Esque
Joy Division - Twenty Four Hours
The Damned - I Just Can't Be Happy Today
TSOL - I'm Tired of Life
Love and Rockets - The Dog-End of A Day Gone By
Station Break - This Mortal Coil - Acid, Bitter and Sad
The Psychedelic Furs - Book of Days
Sisters of Mercy - Emma (Hot Chocolate cover)
The Cure - Prayers for Rain
The Smiths - Asleep
Station Break - Gary Numan - Down in the Park (Piano Version)
Lush - Undertow
Placebo - My Sweet Prince
The Magnetic Fields - Meaningless
Junior Boys - When No One Cares (iTunes Session)
Station Break - Gary Numan - Trois Gymnopedies (Erik Satie cover)
Dave Gahan - Down
Depeche Mode - It Doesn't Matter Two
Carissa's Wierd - So You Wanna' Be A Superhero?
Slowdive - So Tired
Garbage - Sleep
Station Break - David Bowie - Warszawa
Iggy Pop - Dum Dum Boys
The Velvet Underground - Candy Says
Nico - You Forgot to Answer
The Witches (featuring Nick Cave) - Shivers

Bonus Video Time

This makes me deliriously happy; Chapterhouse performing "Breather" live:

Beyond the Wall of Sleep 05-05-10

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The Cure - The Figurehead
Bauhaus - God in an Alcove
Christian Death -Burnt Offerings
Station Break - The Cure - The Final Sound
Sonic Youth - Rats
The Stone Roses - Made of Stone
The Sisters of Mercy - When You Don't See Me
Psychic TV - Horror House
Station Break - Plateau - Creeper
Massive Attack - Daydreaming
Tricky - Ponderosa
Baxter - Television
Portishead - Elysium
Client - Drive
Station Break - Kraftwerk - Metal on Metal
Galaxie 500 - It's Getting Late
Slowdive - She Calls
My Bloody Valentine - Blown A Wish
Lilys - It Does Nothing for Me
Station Break - Gary Numan - Bleed
Jesus and Mary Chain - In the Black
Ministry - Revenge
Skinny Puppy - Deepdown Trauma Hounds
16 Volt - Will
Pailhead - Man Should Surrender
Damage Manual - Bagman Damage
Station Break - Coil - Box Theme
Curve - Want More Need Less
Chapterhouse - In My Arms
Cocteau Twins - From the Flagstones
Coil - The First Five Minutes After Death

Bonus Video Time: The Jesus and Mary Chain with Mazzy Star's Hope Sandoval:

Beyond the Wall of Sleep 04-28-10

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Shearwater - Landscape at Speed
School of Seven Bells - White Elephant Coat
Lightning Dust - Never Seen
Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions - Trouble
Station Break - Fleeting Joys - Into Sun & Dark
Jatun - Blanket of Ash
Sunsplit - She Said
The Daysleepers - The Soft Attack
Fleeting Joys - Closer to My World Without Pain
Scarlet Youth - Before the Surface Breaks
Station Break - I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness - The Owl
Dead Leaf Echo - Pale Fire
Pains of Being Pure At Heart - Stay Alive
Crocodiles - Here Comes the Sky
Engineers - The Fear Has Gone
New Ghosts - Sinking Feeling
HTRK - Rent Boy
A Place to Bury Strangers - The Falling Sun
Dorias Baracca - Silence
Station Break - Robin Guthrie - Autochromes
Ceremony - Our Last Goodbye
Screen Vinyl Image - Slipping Away
Ringo Deathstarr - Sweet Girl
SPC ECO - Spotlight
Station Break - Ulrich Schnauss - Gone Forever
Zola Jesus - Clay Bodies
Team Ghost - Sur Nous Les Etincelles Du Soleil
Highspire - Glass in My Mouth
Trespassers William - What of Me?

Beyond the Wall of Sleep 04-14-10

Alt.country, indie and Morrissey covers. Playlist pending.
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04-07-10

Better late than never? Anyway, Stream or Download

The Cramps - Fever
Tom Waits - Gin Soaked Boy
Nick Cave - Rye Whisky
The Growlers - Swallowed Whole
Station Break - Spindrift - The New West
The Church - Ripple
Bauhaus - All We Ever Wanted Was Everything
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Bring Me the Head of the Preacher Man
The Smiths - Still Ill
Station Break - Book of Love - Late Show
The Tear Garden - The Double Spades Effect
Dead Can Dance - Carnival of Light
Julee Cruise - Into the Night
Jesus and Mary Chain - In the Black
HTRK - Fascinator
Placebo - Holocaust (Big Star cover)

Beyond the Wall of Sleep 03-31-10

Mostly crashing walls of sound this episode. To be played at maximum volume. Stream or Download


Black Light/White Light - Higher Than Low
Serena Maneesh - Blow Yr Brains Out in the Morning Rain
Crocodiles - Flash of Light
Love Culture - Karolyne
Station Break - Robin Guthrie - Close My Eyes and Burn
A Place to Bury Strangers - Another Step Away
Ceremony - Clouds
Ringo Deathstarr - Summertime
Station Break - Robin Guthrie - Monument
My Bloody Valentine - Lose My Breath
Fleeting Joys - You Are the Darkness
QueenAdreena - Pull Me Under
Medicine - She Knows Everything
My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult - Mr. & Mrs. Bottomless Pit
Black Tambourine - Drown
Station Break - Ulrich Schnauss - Wherever You Are
The Cure - A Forest (Plati-Stick Mix)
Love and Rockets - Lift (Malibu Mix)
Chapterhouse - We Are the Beautiful (Spooky's Extravaganja Dub)
Station Break - Solvent - Dicontinued Parts
Jatun - Electricity
Inkraktare - Inchin
The Secret Meeting - Beautiful Noise Machine
Recoil - Bloodline
SPC ECO - Another Day
Station Break - Explosions in the Sky - Remember Me As A Time of Day
Come - Half-Life
Cranes - Starblood
(((S))) - Deathtrip
Love Spirals Downwards - Madras

Beyond the Wall of Sleep 03-17-10

An hour of gothic and deathrock music including Christian Death, Clan of Xymox, The Damned, The Cramps and more. The first two weeks this was up it actually linked to the incorrect file. This error has been fixed. Mix yourself a snakebite and black, turn up the volume and turn down the lights; we'll wake the dead and dance tonight.


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Flesh for Lulu - I Go Crazy
Attrition - Haydn (Remix)
Clan of Xymox - Evelyn
Bauhaus - Third Uncle (Brian Eno cover)
Station Break
13th Chime - Dug Up
The Damned - Born to Kill
Cultural Decay - End of the Corridor
Joy Division - Day of the Lords
Christian Death - The Luxury of Tears
Station Break
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Sin in My Heart
Love and Rockets - Holiday on the Moon
Gun Club - Sex Beat
The Cramps - No Club Lone Wolf
Specimen - Tell Tale

Dulce Sky covers Ride

Ride is one of my favorite bands (Nowhere rarely leaves my car) and it's nice to hear a band cover them eloquently and with fidelity. Check out this video from Dulce Sky, performing the "Vapour Trail" b-side "Unfamiliar":

Coffinshakers Video

I'm a late comer to this, but boy am I impressed:

Beyond the Wall of Sleep 03-10-10

This one's a regular musical gumbo. Stream or Download

Brian Eno - Blank Frank
The Velvet Underground - I Can't Stand It
The Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight
Crispin "Hellion" Glover - The New Clean Song
Danielle Dax - The Living and Their Stillborn
Depeche Mode - If You Want
Pet Shop Boys - The Sodom and Gomorrah Show
Station Break - Ladytron - CMYK
Gary Numan - My Dying Machine (Remix)
The 6ths (feat. Gary Numan) - The Sailor in Love With the Sea
Gothic Archies - The Abandoned Castle of My Soul
The Magnetic Fields - No One Will Ever Love You
Station Break - Glass Candy - Last Nite I Met A Costume
The Chameleons UK - Swamp Thing
Colourfield - Castles in the Air
The Field Mice - End of the Affair
Sinead O'Connor - I Am Stretched on Your Grave
Love Spirals Downwards - Promises
Cocteau Twins - The Thinner the Air (Massive Attack Remix)
My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult - Dream Baby
Station Break - DJ Shadow & Automator - Fists of Curry
Lush - Blackout
Tones on Tail - Happiness
The Secret Meeting - Shiver X
Station Break - Kruder & Dorfmeister - Original Bedroom Rockers
Massive Attack (feat. Sinead O'Connor) - What Your Soul Sings
Portishead - Magic Doors
Skinny Puppy - Convulsion
Front 242 - Aggresiva
cEvin Key (feat Edward Ka-Spel) - A Certain Stuuckey

Beyond the Wall of Sleep 03-03-10 Super Slowcore 'Splosion

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Televise - This is Where...
The Radio Dept. - The Worst Taste in Music
Daniel Land and the Modern Painters - Love Lies Bleeding
Halou - Evensong
Station Break - Codeine - W
Codeine - Vacancy
Idaho - Gone
Come - Hurricane
Devics - My Beautiful Sinking Ship
Elbow - The Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver
Station Break - Gregor Samsa - We'll Lean That Way Forever
Red House Painters - Summer Dress
Lambchop - We Never Argue
Lisa Germano - Sexy Little Girl Princess
Britta Phillips & Dean Wareham - Moon Shot
Station Break
Morrissey - Life is A Pigsty
The Meeting Places - Freeze Our Stares
Lali Puna - Crawling By Numbers
Luna - Tiger Lily
Radar Bros. - Hearts of Crows
Station Break - Craig Armstrong - After the Storm
School of Seven Bells - Wired for Light
Sonic Youth - Walkin' Blue
Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions - For the Rest of Your Life
Valleys - Tan Lines
Station Break - Skanfrom - Here She Comes Now (Slowdive cover)
Grand Archives - Sleepdriving
Barzin - Too Long in This Place
Amusement Parks on Fire - At Last the Night

Upload Issues

So, a problem I've encountered over the last month is an inexplicable inability to upload the podcast properly to archive.org, who graciously host each episode. Uploading from the KISU station computer seems to work fine while my work and home computers upload only blank space. The punchline of all this is that the podcasts will probably have to be posted on Sundays rather than Thursdays. I don't know if that actually effects anyone, but I thought I'd mention it.


In the meantime, here's one of my favorite songs, "Mercy Seat" by Ultra Vivid Scene:

New Jatun out March 9

Streaming tracks from Jatun's new album Blanket of Ash at Other Electricities. Harder edged than Ulrich Schnauss or M83 with crashing waves of electronic distortion and reverb. The album will be out next Tuesday.

Beyond the Wall of Sleep 02-24-10

Sorry for the late post, kids. There have been computer gremlins afoot. Stream or Download


The Daysleepers - Summerdreamer
Soundpool - Lush (What Becomes You)
Screen Vinyl Image - Slipping Away
Ceremony - Nothing in the Sun
Station Break - Hammock - Wish
Fleeting Joys - Lights Underground
Tears Run Rings - Beautiful Strangers
A Shoreline Dream - Neverchanger (featuring Ulrich Schnauss)
Highspire - Glass In My Mouth
Station Break - All the Saints - Shadow, Shadow
All the Saints - Outs
Dorias Baracca - Silence
The Vandelles - Lovely Weather
Monster Movie - Waiting
Station Break - Black Tamborines
Ride - Sight of You (Pale Saints cover)
Spiritualized - Electricity
Loop - Straight to Your Heart
Chapterhouse - Breather
Station Break - Kevin Shields - Ikebana
Ultra Vivid Scene - Mercy Seat
The Magnetic Fields - Candy
The Mighty Lemon Drops - Inside Out
Ian Brown - My Star
Station Break - Galaxie 500 - Instrumental
Catherine Wheel - Tumbledown
Swervedriver - Duress
An April March - This Is...


Gorgeous video for "Only Touch", from Denmark's Dorias Baracca's debut EP Handsome Melting Point




Air Formation's new single "Low December Sun" sweeps and soars with the best of them and I cannot wait for the album in March (pre-order it here):

Galaxie 500 covers Joy Divison

Via Drowned in Sound.

New Yeti Lane Single Out Today

Nepalese band Yeti Lane have released a new single (out on Sonic Cathedral) today with a video! In all honesty, the video could use some work, but the song is catchy-fantastic and comes highly recommended by me:



North Atlantic Oscillation Mix (fans of M83 will dig this version):

Beyond the Wall of Sleep 02-03-10

I'll admit, this one was a little bit rushed. I stand by all the songs played, but they may not flow as well as usual. Stream or Download

The Red Crayon Aristocrat Club - Fear
Noctiflora - Pan
Ulrich Schnauss - Monday Paracetamol
Station Break - Venus Mourning Dress - Meine Angst
Play Dead - Sin of Sins
For Against - Clandestine High Holy
Cinema Strange - Tomb Lilies
Mary Onettes - Void
Station Break - Cocteau Twins - Otterley
The Cure - Faith
This Mortal Coil - Waves Become Wings
Skeletal Family - Alive Again
Station Break - Max Richter - Broken Symmetries for Y
Slowdive - Avalyn I
Lush - Light From a Dead Star
Chapterhouse - Autosleeper
Catherine Wheel - Ursa Major Space Station
Station Break - Mogwai - Kids Will Be Skeletons
Claire Voyant - Love the Giver
Collide - Beneath the Skin
Curve - Ice That Melts the Tips
The Secret Meeting - Blacker than Blue
Station Break - Max Richter - Laika's Journey
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Never Understand
A Place to Bury Strangers - Missing You
Ringo Deathstarr - In Love
Halou - It Will All Make Sense in the Morning

Beyond the Wall of Sleep 01-27-10

Featuring re-released out-of-print material from The Cultural Decay and 13th Chime. Also a set showcasing a few songs inspired by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft.
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Ian Dury and the Blockheads - Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
Front 242 - Rerun Time
Attrition - Beast of Burden (Take A Walk)
Clan of Xymox - Obsession
Station Break - Cinema Strange - Finger Broken Branches
The Cultural Decay - Brave New World
13th Chime - Cursed
1919 - Control
Ausgang - Crawling the Walls
Station Break - Joy Division - Incubation
Strawberry Switchblade - Deep Water
Xmal Deutschland - Orient
Dead Can Dance - Ocean
Play Dead - Gaze
Fields of the Nephilim - At the Gates of Silent Memory
Station Break - Swans - (-)
Joy Division - A Means to an End
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Suburban Relapse
Cocteau Twins - Garlands
The Cure - Lament
Station Break - Corpus Delicti - Last Light
Switchblade Symphony - Sweet
Corpus Delicti - Dust and Fire
All About Eve - Outshine the Sun
Station Break - Switchblade Symphony - Sick Mary
Los Carniceros Del Norte - El Gato Negro
Rudimentary Peni - The Evil Clergyman
Les Modules Etranges - In the Mouth of Madness
UK Decay - The Black Cat
The Magnetic Fields - Nothing Matters When We're Dancing

Beyond the Wall of Sleep 01-20-10 (1 Hour)

The show's only an hour this week because, in order to celebrate Poe's birthday (the 19th), I aired the Poe special from 10-18-08.

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Bone Orchard - Jack
The Dancing Did - On the Roofs
Tones on Tail - Real Life
This Mortal Coil - A Single Wish
Station Break - The Cure - Another Journey By Train
Alien Sex Fiend - New Christian Music
Christian Death - Deathwish
Bauhaus - The Man With the X-Ray Eyes
Death in June - Heaven Sent
Station Break - Sisters of Mercy - Sandstorm
Ultra Vivid Scene - Nausea
Primal Scream - We Go Down Slowly Rising
The Mighty Lemon Drops - Fall Down (Like the Rain)
All About Eve - Freeze
Siouxsie and the Banshees - The Last Beat of My Heart

Beyond the Wall of Sleep 01-13-09

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Iggy and the Stooges - Search and Destroy
David Bowie - Saviour Machine
13th Floor Elevators - Fire Engine
Echo and the Bunnymen - Villiers Terrace
Station Break - 45 Grave - Surf Bat
Modern English - Life in the Gladhouse
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Happy House
Alien Sex Fiend - E.S.T. (Trip to the Moon)
Julian Cope - World Shut Your Mouth
Station Break - David Bowie - Subterraneans
Warsaw - The Drawback
Crass - Major General Despair
TSOL - I'm Tired of Life
Depeche Mode - Two Minute Warning
The Soft Boys - Only the Stones Remain
Sisters of Mercy - Gimme Shelter (Rolling Stones cover)
Station Break - Skinny Puppy - Brap
New Order - Cries and Whispers
Comsat Angels - Goat of the West
The Buzzcocks - Nostalgia
Flesh for Lulu - Siamese Twist
Station Break - Brian Eno - Energy Fools the Magician
John Foxx - Blurred Girl
Gary Numan - Stormtrooper in Drag
Clan of Xymox - Imagination
Book of Love - Lost Souls
Yaz - Winter Kills
Station Break - Depeche Mode - Further Excerpts from My Secret Garden
Skinny Puppy - Anger
Christian Death - Spiritual Cramp
Sex Gang Children - The Crack Up
Swans - God Loves America
Danielle Dax - The Id Parade

Happy Birthday David Bowie

The Thin White Duke has made yet another orbit 'round the sun on the spaceship Earth. Yes, he's really made the grade and the people want to know whose shirts he wears. He's a hero to all us young dudes. He's a star, man.

Watch the video for Life on Mars?

Best of 2009

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Fever Ray - If I Had A Heart
Bat for Lashes - Glass
Sonic Youth - Antenna
Station Break - Depeche Mode - Esque
Doves - Kingdom of Rust
Camera Obscura - Careless Love
Engineers - Three Fact Fader
Dead Leaf Echo - Trial
Station Break - Broadcast - Minus One
Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions - Trouble
Fleeting Joys - A Beautiful End
New Ghosts - Here Come the Snakes
Depeche Mode - Oh Well
Station Break - Glass Candy - Last Nite
Scarlet Youth - Gleaming Endless Ocean
Viva Voce - Midnight Sun
Daniel Land and the Modern Painters - Run Silent, Run Deep
SPC-ECO - Another Day
Station Break - I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness - The Owl
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Come Saturday
Radio Dept. - David
The Raveonettes - Breaking Into Cars
The Twilight Sad - I Became A Prostitute
Station Break - Spindrift - New West
Screen Vinyl Image - Cathode Ray
Crocodiles - Soft Skull (In My Room)
A Place to Bury Strangers - In Your Heart