Best of 2015 and Happy Birthday Bowie

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Ringo Deathstarr - Stare at the Sun (Pure Mood)
Swervedriver - Setting Sun (I Wasn't Born to Lose You)
Beach House - One Thing (Thank Your Lucky Stars)

Low - Gentle (Ones and Sixes)
Tamaryn - I Won't Be Found (Cranekiss)
SPC ECO - Out of My System (Smile EP)
Rachel Grimes - The Herald (The Clearing)

Gunship - The Mountain (Gunship)
Susanne Sundfør - Fade Away (Ten Love Songs)
Doldrums - Video Hostage (The Air Conditioned Nightmare)
John Carpenter - Night (Zola Jesus and Dean Hurley Mix) (Lost Themes)
Lapalux - U Never Know (Lustmore)

David Bowie - Lazarus (Blackstar - 2016)

Bonus Video Time! David Bowie - Blackstar

Losing Today

For Athena.

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Patti Smith - Elegie (Horses - 1975)
New Order - In a Lonely Place (Movement - 1981)
The Smiths - Asleep (The World Won't Listen - 1987)

Guilford - Wolves (Wolves 7" - 2015)
Julianna Barwick - Waving to You (Nepenthe - 2013)
Chelsea Wolfe - Maw (Abyss - 2015)

Dum Dum Girls - Teardrops On My Pillow (Only In Dreams - 2011)
Blonde Redhead - Penny Sparkle (Penny Sparkle - 2010)
Tropic of Cancer - Stop Suffering (Stop Suffering - 2015)

Slowdive - J's Heaven (Pygmalion - 1995)
A Silver Mt. Zion - For Wanda (He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corners of Our Rooms - 2008)

Low - DJ (Ones and Sixes - 2015)

New tracks for 2014

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Perfume Genius - Grid (Too Bright - 2014)
Absolutely Free - Beneath the Air (Absolutely Free - Out 10/14)
The Raveonettes - Wake Me Up (Pe'Ahi - 2014)
The Twilight Sad - There's A Girl in the Corner (Nobody Wants to Be Here and Nobody Wants to Leave - Out 11/4)

Break - Max Richter - Cathodes (24 Postcards in Full Color)

Vessel - Red Sex (Punish, Honey - 2014)
Driftmachine - Call Mr. Moriba (Noctournes - 2014)
Foxes in Fiction - Ontario Gothic (Ontario Gothic - 2014)
A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Double Dutch (Sea When Absent - 2014)
MONO - Where We Begin (The Last Dawn - Out 10/28)

This Will Destroy You - Memory Loss (Another Language - 2014)
Grouper - Call Across Rooms (Ruins - Out 10/28)
Swans - To Be Kind (To Be Kind - 2014)

Traveling into Uncertain Distances

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Tamaryn - Sandstone (Tender New Signs - Out 10/16)
Bleeding Rainbow - Drift Away (Yeah Right - Out 01/29/2013)
Halls - Reverie (Ark - Out 10/15)
Dark Dark Dark - Who Needs Who (Who Needs Who - 2012)

Mark Eitzel - Oh Mercy (Don't Be A Stranger - 2012)
Sera Cahoone - Naked (Deer Creek Canyon - 2012)
Trespassers William - Far Too Far (Cast - 2012)
The Calm Blue Sea - Mary Ann Nichols (Arrivals and Departures - 2012)

Susanne Sondfør - White Foxes (MAPS remix) (The Silicone Veil - Out 10/16/2012)
Holy Other - Held (Held - 2012)
Hammock - Words You Said... I'll Never Forget You Now (Departure Songs - 2012)

Outro - Rachel's - An Evening of Long Goodbyes (Selenography - 1999)

Ambient Soundscapes

This week's episode is mostly ambient soundscapes and post rock. Stream or Download

HTRK - Slo Glo (Work, work, work - 2011)
Gregor Samsa - Pseudonyms (Rest - 2008)
Stars of the Lid - Mulholland (The Tired Sounds of - 2001)
Grouper - She Loves me That Way (AIA: Alien Observer - 2011)
Miss Moonlight - One of These Days (Drive EP - 2009)
Tim Hecker - Sketch 2 (Dropped Pianos - 2011)
Station Break - Max Richter - Found Song for P (24 Postcards in Full Color - 2008)
Brian Eno - Drift (Apollo - 1983)
Hammock - The Silence (Kenotic - 2005)
Rachel's - All is Calm (The Sea and the Bells - 1996)
Redhooker - Sometimes She Speaks Gently (The Future According to Yesterday - 2006) A Silver Mt. Zion - For Wanda (He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corners of Our Rooms - 2000)

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 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 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)

Beyond the Wall of Sleep 07-25-09

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Tones on Tail - Rain
Comsat Angels - Dark Parade
Colourfield - Windmills of Your Mind
Station Break - Trespassers William - Piano Concert
Devics - Heart and Hands
Centro-Matic - All the Lightning Rods
Carissa's Wierd - Die
Black Heart Procession - A Light So Dim
Station Break - Broadcast - Dead the Long Year
Blonde Redhead - The Dress
Zaza - Sooner or Later
Bethany Curve - Ann Illusion
Film School - A Taste of Dust
Codeine - Vacancy
Low & Dirty Three - I Hear... Goodnight
Gregor Samsa - These Points Balance
Break - Max Richter - Organum
Air Formation - For the Hours
Doves - Darker
PJ Harvey - Long Snake Moan
Break - Gregor Samsa - We'll Lean This Way Forever
The Notwist - Hands on Us
Shearwater - The Snow Leopard
Bat For Lashes - I Saw A Light
Trespassers William - To Be the One (Idaho cover)