Favorite Stuff from 2011

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Esben and the Witch - Marching Song (Violet Cries)
Austra - Spellwork (Feel It Break)
Zola Jesus - Hikikomori (Conatus)
HTRK - Eat Yr Heart (Work (Work, work))
Station Break - Idaho - The Serpent and the Shadow
Widowspeak - Harsh Realm (Widowspeak)
Mazzy Star - Common Burn (Common Burn Single)
Idaho - A Million Reasons (You Were A Dick)
Low - Nightengale (C'mon)
Station Break - Explosions in the Sky - Be Comfortable, Creature
Cut Copy - Where I'm Going (Zonoscope)
Soft Metals - Voices (Soft Metals)
EMA - Angelo (Marked Single)
Sleepingdog - Polish Love Song (With Our Heads in Clouds and Our Hearts in Fields)
Elbow - Lippy Kids (Build A Rocket Boys!)

Wall of Post Rock

All instrumental post rock and related genres - Stream or Download

Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Moya (Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada - 1999)
Stars of the Lid - Fac 21 (The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid - 2001)
Station Break - Hammock - Glacial
Grails - Black Tar Frequencies (Black Tar Prophecies Vol's 1, 2, & 3 - 2006)
Bohren & Der Club of Gore - Still Am Tresen (Dolores - 2008)
Station Break - My Bloody Valentine - Instrumental B
Ride - Grasshopper (Leave Them All Behind - 1992)
Caspian - Loft (You Are the Conductor - 2005)
Station Break - Redhooker - Twelve Times Goodbye
Explosions in the Sky - Let Me Back In (Take Care, Take Care, Take Care - 2011)

Other bands to check out include Mogwai, Rachel's, and This Will Destroy You. Maybe a bonus video time pending. We'll see.

BtWoS 11-30-11

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Cranes - Jewel (Forever - 1993)
Chapterhouse - Frost (We Are The Beautiful Single - 1993)
Lush - Leaves Me Cold (Gala - 1990)
Adorable - Cool Front 23-6 (My Favourite Fallen Idol Single - 1993)
Curve - Frozen (Public Fruit - 1992)
The Verve - Slide Away (Storm In Heaven - 1993)
Station Break - Love Spirals Downwards - Ipomoea
Dead Can Dance - Severance (Serpent's Egg - 1988)
Love Spirals Downwards - Illusory Me (Idylls - 1992)
Cocteau Twins - Iceblink Luck (Iceblink Luck Single - 1990)
Galaxie 500 - Snowstorm (On Fire - 1989)
Medicine - A Short Happy Life (Shot Forth Self Living - 1992)
Slowdive - Rutti (Pygmalion - 1995)

Synthpop and new wave, mostly focusing on motion, travel and distance. Stream or Download

Visage - Fade to Grey (Visage - 1980)
Duran Duran - The Chauffeur (Rio - 1982)
John Foxx - No One Driving (Metamatic - 1980)
Berlin - The Metro (Pleasure Victim - 1983)
Station Break - Kraftwerk - Metal on Metal
Kraftwerk - Electric Cafe (Electric Cafe - 1986)
Oppenheimer Analysis - Men in White Coats (New Mexico - 1982)
David Bowie - V2 Schneider ("Heroes" - 1977)
Silver Apples - Dust (Silver Apples - 1968)
Station Break - Gary Numan and Tubeway Army - We Have A Technical
Soft Cell - Memorabilia (Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing - 1982)
New Order - Mesh (Movement - 1981)
Tones on Tail - Performance (Pop - 1984)
Brian Eno - Energy Fools the Magician (Before and After Science - 1978)
Gary Numan - Tracks (The Pleasure Principle - 1979)
Pet Shop Boys - Integral (Fundamental - 2006)

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Errors - Earthscore (Have Some Faith in Magic - 2012)
Surfer Blood - Miranda (School of Seven Bells Mix) (Tarot Classics - 2011)
Austra - Energy (Beat and the Pulse single - 2011)
Station Break - Depeche Mode - Introspective
Soft Moon - When It's Over (Soft Moon - 2010)
HTRK - Eat Yr Heart (Work, Work, Work - 2011)
Blonde Redhead - Love or Prison (Penny Sparkle - 2010)
Portishead - The Rip (Third - 2008)
Station Break - Depeche Mode - Slowblow
Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions - For the Rest of Your Life (Through the Devil Softly - 2009)
Widowspeak - In the Pines (Widowspeak - 2011)
Tashaki Miyaki - Nothing Can Change This Love (Sam Cooke Cover)
Hermann und Kleine - Blue Flower (Slapp Happy cover) (Our Noise - 2002)
Cut Copy - Need You Now (Zonoscope - 2011)

Pickman's Model

Tonight's episode is a little different. For the first half of the show I read one of my favorite Lovecraft tales, "Pickman's Model". The show finishes out with Lovecraft and horror related tunes for the chilling of spines. Stream or Download

A reading of H.P. Lovecraft's "Pickman's Model"
Rudimentary Peni - Imps of the Perverse
Rudimentary Peni - Dream City
Lurking Fear - Something in the Basement
Station Break - Dead Can Dance - The Arcane
The Meteors - Corpse Grinder
The Cramps - Creature From the Black Leather Lagoon
The Misfits - London Dungeon
Station Break - 45 Grave - Surfbat
Alien Sex Fiend - Now I'm Feeling Zombified
The Vaselines - Lovecraft

Check out Joshua Hoffine's excellent photographic retelling of Pickman's Model at his blog.

Holy cow, it's a new post! Stream or Download

Zola Jesus - Collapse (Conatus - 2011)
HTRK - Synthetik (Work, work, work - 2011)
Depeche Mode - In Your Room (Zephyr Mix) (In Your Room - 1994)
Recoil - Luscious Apparatus (Unsound Methods - 1997)
David Bowie - Breaking Glass (Low - 1977)
Iggy Pop - Baby (The Idiot - 1977)
Joy Division - No Love Lost (Substance 1977-1980 - 1988)
Rozz Williams/Gitane Demone - In Every Dream Home A Heartache (Roxy Music cover) (Dream Home Heartache - 1995)
Fever Ray - Concrete Walls (Fever Ray - 2009)
Austra - The Villain (Feel It Break - 2011)
Julee Cruise - In My Other World (The Voice of Love - 1993)
M83 - My Tears Are Becoming A Sea (Hurry Up, We're Dreaming - 2011)
M83 - Wait (Hurry Up, We're Dreaming - 2011)

Surfy- Post Punky- Gaze-y Stuff!

My English teacher was awesome enough to postpone the analysis deadline to Monday, so this show is possible largely thanks to her. So give her thanks. Unless you hate it. In which case, why are you even listening? Stream or Download.


Beach Fossils - Daydream
Eternal Summers - Safe at Home
Art Museums - Oh Modern Girls
The Raveonettes - Apparitions
Sunsplit - All I Want
Asobi Seksu - Thursday
Station Break - The Soft Moon - Dead Love
Ringo Deathstarr - Rats Live On No Evil Star
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Sleepover Disaster - Funnel Cloud
Woven Bones - I've Gotta' Get
Screen Vinyl Image - What You Need
Ceremony - Old
Station Break - M83 - Unrecorded
A Shoreline Dream - Seattle
Secret Shine - Stars in the Sky
Frankie Rose and the Outs - Lullabies for Roads and Miles
Dum Dum Girls - Dream Away Life

Beyond the Wall of Sleep 08-17-2011 - Living in the 80s

80s Extravaganza, here. Stream or Download.

The Cure - The Kiss
Comsat Angels - We Were
Psychedelic Furs - Torch
The Field Mice - End of the Affair
Violent Femmes - Good Feeling
Echo and the Bunnymen - The Puppet
Book of Love - Still Angry
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - I Let Love In (live)
Joy Division - Means to an End (live)
Depeche Mode - It's Called A Heart
ABC - Tears Are Not Enough
Tubeway Army - Every Day I Die
Oingo Boingo - Skin
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Rhapsody

Beyond the Wall of Sleep 08-10-2011 You're coming back but not to me.

In the two weeks between school finishing and starting again I managed to make a new show! Stream it or download it.


Smog - Stalled on the Tracks
The Velvet Underground - Who Loves the Sun?
Lavender Diamond - You Broke My Heart
Ryan Adams - Why Do They Leave?
Barzin - When It Falls Apart
Red House Painters - Katy Song
The Smiths - I Know It's Over
The Cure - Boys Don't Cry
Carissa's Wierd - You Should Be Hated Here
Rivulets - You Sail On
Morphine - I Had A Chance
Low - Closer
Idaho - Waited for You
Will Johnson - Nothin' But Godzilla
Codeine - Pea

Beyond the Wall of Sleep 07-20-2011

Indie, alt.country and... goth? You bet! Stream or download.

Devics - Living Behind the Sun
Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions - Sets the Blaze
Will Johnson - Just to Know What You've Been Dreaming
The Decemberists - Red Right Ankle
Whiskeytown - Desperate Ain't Lonely
Band of Annuals - Thought I'd Learned
Caitlin Cary - Withered and Died (Richard & Linda Thompson cover)
The Magnetic Fields - I Don't Want to Get Over You
Joy Division - Twenty Four Hours
The Cure - Apart
The Smiths - Rubber Ring
Fleet Foxes - Someone You'd Admire
Songs:Ohia - Darling
Okkervil River - So Come Back, I'm Waiting

Dreams in the Witch House

Okay, so there's not that many new witch house tracks in this one, but I couldn't resist the correlation. ANYway, stream or download.


K-Holes - Into Black
Eternal Summers - I'll Die Young For Rock n' Roll
Girls - Substance
Chain & the Gang - Youth Is Wasted on the Young

Station Break - M83 - Je Vous Hais Petites Filles

M83 - Graveyard Girl [Parkerlab's Dusted Remix]
ᄼᄽᄾ - Dust
Sun Glitters - Too Much to Lose
///▲▲▲\\\ (or VOID or Horse Macguyver) - How They Kill You

Station Break - ///▲▲▲\\\ - Tetanus Wine

Skinny Puppy - First Aid
Brown Recluse - Wax Fangs
oOoOO - SedSUMTING
Grouper - When We Fall
Tearist - Closest
Fever Ray - Concrete Walls [live]

Bonus Video Time!

The Crocodiles performing "Mirrors" live in studio:

Beyond the Wall of Sleep 06-29-2011 New Idaho Tracks

New tracks from Idaho, Low and Zola Jesus. Stream or Download


Mountain Goats - Damn These Vampires
Young Prisms - In Your Room
Eternal Summers - Salty
The Dunes - Going Under
Station Break - Max Richter - In Louisville at 7
Zola Jesus - Vessel
SPC ECO - Forever Now
Sun Glitters - Too Much to Lose
Ida - Turn Me On
Morphine - The Night
Come - Shoot Me First
Station Break - The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - The Nothing Changes
Esben and the Witch - Chorea
Low - Especially Me
Idaho - Someone to Relate To
Idaho - Waited for You

BtWoS 06-22-11

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DJ Tiesto feat. Kirsty Hawkshaw - Battleship Gray (Meta Message - 2005)
Bitter:Sweet - Don't Forget to Breathe (The Mating Game - 2006)
Curve - Hung Up (Gift - 2001)
Depeche Mode - Wrong [Caspa Remix] (Sounds of the Universe - 2009)
Waldeck - Floater (The Night Garden - 2001)
Massive Attack - Black Milk (Mezzanine - 1998)
Telepopmusik - Ghost Girl (Ghost Girl - 2009)
Tricky - Pumpkin (Maxinquaye - 1995)
Motorcycle - As the Rush Comes [Gabriel & Dresden Chillout Mix] (As the Rush Comes - 2006)
Placebo - Something Rotten (Sleeping With Ghosts - 2003)
Emiliana Torrini - Dead Things (Love in the Time of Science - 2000)
Portishead - Threads (Third - 2008)

BtWoS 06-08-11

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My Bloody Valentine - You Made Me Realise
Medicine - Miss Drugstore
Mogwai - George Square Thatcher Death Party (Session Version)
Arc in Round - Spirit (Pink Skull Remix)
Grinderman - Mickey Mouse and the Goodbye Man
Bat for Lashes - Sleep Alone
Clara Engel - Lick My Fins
Nick Cave - Stranger than Kindness
Morpheme - Stratosphere
School of Seven Bells - Dial
Drowner - Chime
Fever Ray - Keep the Streets Empty for Me (live)

BtWos 06-01-11

Great new material from Sleepingdog, Low, SPC ECO and some older, soft and melancholy tunes. Stream or Download.

I am a winner at posting playlists. Sorry for the near-month delay. Here we are:

Sleepingdog - Untitled Ballad of You and Me
Lightning Dust - Take It Home
Hosannas - Asleep in the Woods
Station Break - Max Richter - The Twins (Prague)
lowercasenoises - Depths
Low - I'm Done
Milton Mapes - Fallen Angel (Neil Young cover)
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - I See A Darkness
Fleet Foxes - Blue Spotted Tail
Robin Pecknold feat. Ed Droste - I'm Losing Myself
Morning Clouds - Wasted Youth Blues
SPC ECO - Feels Like Flying

Bonus Video Time! Great French wall of sound here by the Psychocandies:

Beyond the Wall of Okinawa 05-18-11

My friend Patrick Robison co-hosts and introduces us to a world of Okinawan and Japanese folk music featuring the sanshin, a three-stringed banjo-like instrument native to Okinawa. Patrick even treats us to a live performance at the end of the show. If you think this is a big departure from the regular programming, listen to the show. There's songs about jilted lovers and skeletal hauntings aplenty. stream or Download.


Shakari Eisa Group - Chujun Nagari
Nenes - Tsuki nu Kaisha (The Beauty of the Moon)
Otome Tsubaki - Chindara Bushi
Nenes - Tinsagu nu Hana
Rinsho KadeKaru - Shirakumabushi
Misako Oshiro - Shirakuchibushi
Kosei Miyara - Densabushi
Takehiro Miyagi - Densunabushi
Ryoichi Nago - Jidai nu Nagari
Koei Tsuha - Nmu nu Kaori
Seijin Noborikawa - Kunjyan Jinto Yo
Seijin Noborikawa - Pesuto Pakkin Mama
Nenes - Kogane no Hana
Patrick Robison - Asadoyayunta

BtWoS 05-11-11 Time Warp Oldie But Goodies Show

Found the file! Thankfully not erased, now available to stream or download!

Bobby Vinton - Mr. Lonely
Brenda Lee - All Alone Am I
Lee Andrews and the Hearts - Tear Drops
Little Anthony and the Imperials - Tears on My Pillow
LaVern Baker - I Cried A Tear
Hank Garland - This Cold War With You
Station Break - (Civil Defense spot featuring Connie Francis)
The Everly Brothers - Crying in the Rain
Del Shannon - Runaway
Dee Clark - Raindrops
Roy Orbison - Crying
Skeeter Davis - The End of the World
Station Break
Smoky Robinson and the Miracles - Tracks of my Tears
Skyliners - Since I Don't Have You
Ferlin Husky - Gone
Timi Yuro - Hurt
Roy Orbison - Only the Lonely
Station Break
The Runabouts - The Strangeness in Me
Gale Storm - Dark Moon
Patsy Cline - Walkin' After Midnight
Ricky Nelson - Lonesome Town

Beyond the Wall of Sleep 05-04-11

Apologies for the late post. I had, erm, lost the jump drive with this show and just found it yesterday when Blogger was down. So anyway, here it is in all its dreamy, noisy glory. Stream or Download

The Soft Moon - Breathe the Fire (The Soft Moon - 2010)
Crystal Stilts - Shake the Shackles (In Love With Oblivion - 2011)
Frankie Rose and the Outs - Must Be Nice (Frankie Rose and the Outs - 2010)
Craft Spells - Beauty Above All (Idle Labor - 2011)
The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - Heart in Your Heartbeat (Belong - 2011)
Station Break
Tashaki Miyaki - All I Have to Do Is Dream [Everly Bros. cover] (Tashak It To Me - 2011)
Dum Dum Girls - Wrong Feels Right (He Gets Me High - 2011)
The Raveonettes - Apparitions (Raven in the Grave - 2011)
Ceremony - Dreams Stripped Away (Not Tonight - 2011)
Quiet Lights - Simple Mechanics (The Big Fear - 2011)
Station Break
Vivian Girls - I Heard You Say (Share the Joy - 2011)
The Art Museums - So Your Baby Doesn't Love You Anymore (Rough Frame - 2010)
Weekend - Youth Haunts (Sports - 2010)
Moon Duo - Seer (Mazes - 2011)

BtWoS 04-27-11 New stuff and gothy covers

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Should - Slumberland (Like A Fire Without Sound - 2011)
Crystal Stilts - Flying Into the Sun (In Love With Oblivion - 2011)
Low - Nightengale (C'mon - 2011)
The Morning Clouds - Ends (Wasted Youth Blues - 2011)

Station Break - Should - Always Returning

Cocteau Twins - Throughout the Dark Months of April & May (Victorialand - 1986)
Grouper - Alien Observer (A I A Alien Observer - 2011)
Esben and the Witch - Light Streams (Violet Cries - 2011)
Crocodiles - Outlaw Blues (Outlaw Blues - 2009)

Station Break - lowercasenoises - Evening Wolves

Beach Fossils - Plastic Flowers [The Wake cover] (Gruesome Flowers - 2011)
Galaxie 500 - Ceremony [Joy Division cover] (On Fire - 1990)
A Place to Bury Strangers - The Light [Love and Rockets cover] (New Tales to Tell - 2009)
Dum Dum Girls - There Is A Light that Never Goes Out [The Smiths cover] (He Gets Me High - 2011)

Wanting the World to Pass - BtWoS 04-20-11

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Pale Saints - Sight of You (Mrs. Dolphin - 1989)
This Mortal Coil - Not Me [Colin Newman cover](It'll End in Tears - 1987)
The Damned - Drinking About My Baby (The Black Album - 1980)
The Cramps - All Women Are Bad (Stay Stick! - 1990)
Station Break - This Mortal Coil - The Last Ray
The Magnetic Fields - I Can't Touch You Anymore (69 Love Songs - 1999)
The Smiths - Pretty Girls Make Graves (The Smiths - 1984)
Joy Division - Heart and Soul (Closer - 1980)
The Cure - Disintegration (Disintigration - 1989)
Station Break - Team Ghost - Only You Can Break My Heart
Slowdive - Catch the Breeze (Just for a Day - 1991)
Ride - Vapour Trail (Nowhere - 1990)
Low - Like A Forest (Things We Lost in the Fire - 2001)
Carissa's Wierd - Low Budget Slow Motion Soundtrack for the Leaving Scene (Songs About Leaving - 2002)

BtWoS 04-13-11

Stream or download. And please, if you love anything you hear on the show, support the artists and buy their albums (you'll have cooler record collections than your friends, I guarantee).


93 Million Miles from the Sun - Never Understand [Jesus & Mary Chain cover] (Split EP w/ Falling Spikes - 2010)
Pinkshinyultrablast - Deerland (Happy Songs for Happy Zombies - 2009)
Crystal Stilts - Death is What We Live For - (In Love With Oblivion - 2011)
Liminanas - Funeral Baby (Liminanas - 2010)
The Telewire - This Time I'm Done (The Telewire - 2011)
Station Break - Team Ghost - Alone, Alone, Alone
Asobi Seksu - Coming Up (Fluorescence - 2011)
The Mary Onettes - Dare (Dare EP - 2009)
Craft Spells - Given the Time (Idle Labor - 2011)
Team Ghost - Colors in Time (You Never Did Anything Wrong to Me EP - 2010)
School of Seven Bells - Camarilla (Disconnect From Desire - 2010)
Station Break - Dean & Britta - Silver Factory Theme (13 Most Beautiful - 2010)
Panophonic - Lay Off (Space Age Transmission EP 2011)
Dum Dum Girls - Take Care of My Baby (He Gets Me High, 2011)
The Art Museums - Paris Cafes (The Rough Frame, 2010)
Shimmering Stars - Atmosphere [Joy Division cover] (indie)

Music for Japan

I was in Japan back in 1996. Beautiful country full of wonderful people. Now there's something we can do to help from our computer chairs (no kidding!). PATETICO RECORDINGS will be releasing 7 Rock Back for Japan compilation albums featuring new and established shoegaze and bliss rock bands such as SPC ECO, Bliss.City.East, Ceremony, Resplandor, Plumerai, Screen Vinyl Image, Victorie & Hyde, Stellarscope, The Sky Drops, C'est La Mort and so many more. Proceeds will benefit disaster relief in Japan. Apparently there will be digital and (my favorite) physical copies available. These should be out within a few days. Keep checking patetico-recordings.com for more info. I'll undoubtedly update when they're released as well.

What Dread Sounds Lie Beyond the Wall of Sleep?

We've missed some great music during the show's absence. Let's try and recap, shall we? Stream or Download

Ringo Deathstarr - Do It Every Time (Colour Trip, 2011)
The Telewire - Never Been Alive (The Telewire, 2011)
L'Altra - Winter Loves Summer Sun (Telepathic, 2011)
C'est La Mort - Nothing Ever Lasts (Empty Words Fill Lonely Spaces, 2010)
The Raveonettes - Evil Seeds (Raven in the Grave, 2011)
Station Break - Crocodiles - Neon Autobahn
Autolux - The Bouncing Wall (The Bouncing Wall/Census EP 2011)
SPC ECO - White Light (Out of the Sky EP, 2010)
The Hope Slide - The Westward Pull [Fathoms Remix] (The Hope Side Remixed 2, 2011)
Hosannas - Obsolete People (Thug Life Nicole EP, 2011)
Station Break - Hosannas - Right As Rain
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Anne with an E (Belong, 2011)
Frankie Rose and the Outs - Little Brown Haired Girls (Frankie Rose and the Outs, 2010)
Crocodiles - Sleep Forever (Sleep Forever, 2010)
Best Coast - Honey (Crazy for You, 2010)
Beach House - 10 Mile Stereo (Teen Dream, 2010)

New Hosannas (formerly Church) EP for free!

Check out http://www.hosannasmusic.com and download the latest offering from avant dreamers Hosannas Thug Life Nicole. And for goodness' sake, buy all their other material while you're there.

New Ringo Deathstarr Video

This brand new video features RD bassist/vocalist Alex Gehring being, well, sexy.

Ringo Deathstarr - Two Girls

This Will Never End Because I Want More