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 2015

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Duran Duran - Paper Gods (Paper Gods - 2015)
Son Lux - Lost It to Trying (Lanterns - 2013)
Youth Lagoon - The Knower (Savage Hills Ballroom - Out 9/25)

I Break Horses - You Burn (Chiaroscuro - 2014)
Chromatics - Shadow (Dear Tommy - Out Sometime, we hope)
Tamaryn - Fade Away Slow (Cranekiss - 2015)
Beach House - Sparks (Depression Cherry - 2015)

Low - No Comprende (Ones and Sixes - 2015)
Widowspeak - My Baby's Gonna Carry On (All Yours - 2015)
DIIV - Dopamine (Is the Is Are - Out This Fall)
The Raveonettes - Summer Ends (Pe'Ahi - 2014)

Einsturzende Neubauten - The Garden (Ende Neu - 1996)

From A Whisper to a Roar

Patti Smith - Dancing Barefoot (Wave - 1979)
Siouxsie & the Banshees - You're Lost Little Girl (Doors Cover) (Through the Looking Glass - 1989)
Blonde Redhead - No More Honey (Barragan - 2014)
Childbirth - Nasty Grrls (Women's Rights - out 9/18)

Mazzy Star - I'm Less Here (I'm Less Here RSD Exclusive 7" - 2014)
Widowspeak - Girls (All Yours - out 9/4)
Wye Oak - Civilian (Civilian - 2011)

PJ Harvey - Long Snake Moan (To Bring You My Love - 1995)
Esben & the Witch - No Dog (A New Nature - 2014)
The Breeders - Roi (Last Splash - 1993)

Marissa Nadler - Solitude (Soundcloud Self-Release - 2015)
SPC ECO - What Is Worse? (Zombie EP - 2014)

Kate Tempest - Hot Night, Cold Spaceship (Everybody Down - 2014)

Bonus Video Time! Wye Oak - Mother (Danzig cover - probably the best Danzig cover ever)

Post finals exaltation and inclement weather commiseration

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The Smiths - Sheila Take A Bow (Louder Than Bombs - 1987)
The Cure - Fascination Street (Extended Mix - 12" - 1989)
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Party's Fall (Tinderbox - 1986)
Echo and the Bunnymen - In Bluer Skies (Porcupine - 1983)

Galaxie 500 - Temperature's Rising (Today - 1988)
Jesus and Mary Chain - Nine Million Rainy Days (Darklands - 1987)
Cocteau Twins - Throughout the Dark Months of April & May (Victorialand - 1986)
Cranes - Rainbows (Forever - 1993)
Love and Rockets - Waiting for the Flood (Earth, Sun, Moon - 1987)

Curve - Coming Up Roses (Come Clean - 1998)
Depeche Mode - Heaven (Delta Machine - 2013)
SPC ECO - Hear Me Now (Art of Pop - 2014)
Slowdive - Country Rain (5 EP - 1993)

Outro - Massive Attack - Weather Storm (Protection - 1994)

Sun & Moon

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The Velvet Underground - Who Loves the Sun? (Loaded - 1970)
Magnetic Fields - I Don't Believe in the Sun (69 Love Songs - 1999)
Swans - God Damn the Sun (The Burning World - 1989)

Slowdive - When the Sun Hits (Souvlaki - 1993)
Primal Scream - May the Sun Shine Bright For You (Sonic Flower Groove - 1987)
The Verve - The Sun, The Sea (A Storm in Heaven - 1993)
Swervedriver - Sunset (Raise - 1991)
The Raveonettes - Sinking With the Sun (Observator - 2012)

Break - Ventures - Blue Moon (1961)

Frankie Rose - Moon in My Mind (Interstellar - 2011)
Neko Case - I Wish I Was the Moon (Blacklisted - 2002)
Ian McCulloch - The Killing Moon (Daytrotter Sessions -2010)

Love and Rockets - Holiday on the Moon (Express - 1986)
Young Magic - Drawing Down the Moon (Melt - 2012)

Jim Henson as Ernie - I Don't Want to Live on the Moon (Sesame Street - 1978)

BtWoS 04-17-2015

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Doldrums - Blow Away (Air Conditioned Nightmare - 2015)
Crocodiles - Stoned to Death (Sleep Forever - 2010)
Swervedriver - Autodidact (I Wasn't Born to Lose You - 2015)
Dum Dum Girls - Lost Boys & Girls Club (Too True - 2014)

Still Corners - The Trip (Strange Pleasures - 2013)
m83 - Midnight City (Hurry Up, We're Dreaming - 2011)
Symmetry - Cruise Control (Themes for an Imaginary Film - 2011)
Pastel Ghost - Shadows (Abyss - 2015)
School of Seven Bells - White Wind (Ghostory - 2012)

SPC ECO - Burn It Down (Art of Pop - 2014)
Forest Swords - Anneka's Battle (Engravings - 2013)
Hundred Waters - Xtalk (Moon Rang Like A Bell - 2014)
Purity Ring - Push Pull (Another Eternity - 2015)

Bonus Video Time!
John Carpenter - Night (Lost Themes - 2015)

New Swervedriver Record

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Swervedriver - For Seeking Heat (Mezcal Head - 1993)
Ride - Drive Blind (Ride EP - 1990)
Catherine Wheel - Texture (Ferment - 1992)

The Raveonettes - Killer in the Streets (Pe'Ahi - 2014)
Dum Dum Girls - Girls Intuition (Rimbaud Eyes 7" - 2014)
Thee Oh Sees - Web (Mutilator Defeated at Last - Out 5/18)
Ringo Deathstarr - God's Dream (God's Dream - 2014)

Television - Days (Adventure - 1978)
Mazzy Star - Things (I'm Less Here 7" - 2014)
J. Mascis - Fade Into You (Mazzy Star cover) (Fade Into You 7" - 2014)
Dean Wareham - Happy and Free (Dean Wareham - 2014)

Swervedriver - Setting Sun (I Wasn't Born To Lose You - 2015)
Swervedriver - English Subtitles (I Wasn't Born To Lose You - 2015)
Swervedriver - Days (Television cover) (Setting Sun 7" - 2014)

4AD Retrospective

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Bauhaus - Dark Entries (In the Flat Field - 1980)
The Birthday Party - Zoo Music Girl (Prayers on Fire - 1981)
Xmal Deutschland - Incubus Succubus II (Tocsin - 1984)

Cocteau Twins - Ivo (Treasure - 1984)
Dead Can Dance - Carnival of Light (Garden of the Arcane Delights - 1984)
Modern English - After the Snow (After the Snow - 1982)
Clan of Xymox - Muscoviet Musquito (Subsequent Pleasures - 1983)

This Mortal Coil - Song to the Siren (It'll End in Tears - 1984)
Lush - Sweetness and Light (Sweetness and Light EP - 1990)
Pixies - Wave of Mutilation (UK Surf Mix) (Here Comes Your Man - 1989)
The Breeders - Do You Love Me Jr. (Divine Hammer EP - 1992)

Unrest - Teenage Suicide (Isabell Bihshop EP - 1993)
Pale Saints - Hair Shoes (Demo) (Flesh Balloon EP - 1991)
Swallow - Cherry Stars Collide (Blow - 1992)
Mojave 3 - Mercy (Strings Version) (Shoe Pie - 1997)

Check out Martin Aston's new(ish) book detailing the history of 4AD records, Facing the Other Way.

David Lynch Tribute

Celebrating the return of David Lynch and Mark frost to the world of Twin Peaks, here's a brief look at some of the music that inspired David Lynch, some of the music his work has inspired, and other songs that fit well within that Lynchian milieu.
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The Viscounts - Harlem Nocturne (1959)
Corsairs - Smoky Places (1962)
Jimmy Clanton & His Rockets - Just A Dream (1958)
Tom Waits - Dead and Lovely (Real Gone - 2004)

Dope - Dark Night of the Soul [David Lynch cover] (self released online 2014)
David Lynch - The Big Dream [Moby Reversion feat. Mindy Jones] (The Big Dream Remix EP - 2014)
Widowspeak - Wicked Game [Chris Isaak cover] (Gun Shy 7" - 2011
Chrysta Bell & David Lynch - Real Love (This Train - 2011)

Bohren & der Club of Gore - Prowler (Sunset Mission - 2005)
David Lynch feat. Lykke Li - I'm Waiting Here (I'm Waiting Here 7" - 2013)
Ringo Deathstarr - Just You [Twin Peaks season 2 cover] (Shadow EP - 2012)
Pluramon feat. Julee Cruise (Dreams Top Rock - 2003)
Antony & the Johnsons - Mysteries of Love [Julee Cruise cover] (I Fell in Love With a Dead Boy EP - 2001)

Long time listeners may also remember a past show exploring the musical worlds of David Lynch. For those interested, that episode is archived here.

Bonus Video Time!

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)

Systems and Layers

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The Raveonettes - Young and Cold (Observator - 2012)
The Soft Walls - Black Cat (The Soft Walls - Out 12/03/2012)
Ultraísta - Strange Formula (David Lynch Remix) (Ultraísta - 2012)

oOoOO - No Way Back (feat. Butterclock) (Our Loving Is Hurting Us - 2012)
Chromatics - Looking for Love (After Dark II - 2012)
The Twilight Sad - Nil (Liars Remix) (Remixes No One can Ever Know - Out 11/05/2012)

Melody's Echo Chamber - Crystallized (Melody's Echo Chamber - 2012)
Purity Ring - Saltkin (Shrines - 2012)

Susanne Sundfør - The Silicone Veil (The Silicone Veil - 2012)
iamwhoami - Idle Talk (Kin - 2012)
Holy Other - Held (Tim Hecker Remix) (orig. found on Held - 2012)

Hammock - (Leaving) The House Where We Grew Up (Departure Songs - 2012)
Outro - Hammock - Verse for Forgiveness (Chasing After Shadows... Living With the Ghosts - 2010)

Bonus Video Time!

October 17th, 2012

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The Luyas - Fifty Fifty (Animator - 2012)
Dum Dum Girls - I Got Nothing (End of Daze - 2012)
Echo Lake - Another Day (Wild Peace - 2012)
Lissy Trullie - Madeleine (Lissy Trullie - 2012)
Moon Duo - Sleepwalker (Circles - 2012)

Egyptian Hip Hop - Yoro Diallo (Good Don't Sleep - Out 10/23)
Chairlift - Met Before (Something - 2012)
Ultraísta - Static Light (Ultraísta - 2012)
Melody's Echo Chamber - Quand Vas Tu Rentrer? (Melody's Echo Chamber - 2012)

Station Break - Robin Guthrie - Some Kind of Paradise (Carousel - 2009)

Bat for Lashes - Oh Yeah (The Haunted Man - Out 10/23)
ERAAS - Ghost (ERAAS - 2012)
Errors - Relics (New Relics - Out 11/06)
Crystal Castles - Wrath of God (iii - Out 11/06)

Trust - Dressed for Space (Dressed for Space - 2012)

Bonus Video Time!
Chairlift - Met Before (Girls & Bass version) - Literally just the chorus and the bassist using the acoustics of a gymnasium. Absolutely lovely:

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)

Whorls of Smoke and Pins of Light

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ERAAS - Fang (ERAAS - Out 10/02)
Dracula Lewi$ - Permafrost (Permafrost 12" - Out 11/05)
Black Marble - Static (A Different Arrangement - Out 10/09)
Human Behavior - Wasting Away (Single - 2012)

TRUST - Divine (Dressed for Space EP - 2012)
School of Seven Bells - Low Times (Ghostory - 2012)
Cold Cave - A Little Death to Laugh (A Little Death to Laugh 7" - 2012)
The Raveonettes - Sinking With the Sun (Observator - 2012)

:papercutz - Where Beasts Die (Sun Glitters Remix) (forthcoming digital EP)
Tamaryn - Heavenly Bodies (Tender New Signs - Out 10/16)
Dum Dum Girls - Trees and Flowers (Strawberry Switchblade cover) (End of Daze EP - 2012)

Purity Ring - Obedear (Shrines - 2012)
Grimes - Be A Body (侘寂) (Visions - 2012)
Bat for Lashes - Marilyn (The Haunted Man - Out 10/16)
Woods - Give Your Light Off (Cali in a Cup 7" - 2012)

A forward looking gaze

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Young Prisms - Better Days (In Between - 2012)
Fear of Men - Mosaic (Mosaic - Out 10/15)
Teen Daze (feat. Frankie Rose) - Union (The Inner Mansions - Out 11/06)

GRMLN - Coral (Teen Daze Remix) (Explore - Out 10/23)
Memory Motel - Wasted Days (Wasted Days/Lost Souls - 2012)
Dead Horse One - He Goes Down (Heavenly Choir of Jet Engines - 2012)

Ringo Deathstarr - Shadow (Shadow - 2012)
Mothlite - Something in the Sky (Dark Age - 2012)
School of Seven Bells - When You Sing (Certain Creatures Remix) (Of Art & Artifice: A Ghostly International Exhibition - 2012)

Station Break - Robin Guthrie - Monument

Trespassers William - Never You (Cast - 2012)
Sparkling Wide Pressure - Looking to Remember (Grandfather Harmonic - 2012)
Halls - Roses for the Dead (Ark - Out 10/15)
Slowdive - Here She Comes (Souvlaki - 1993)

Bonus Video Time!
The Raveonettes - Enemy (Observator - 2012)

New Tracks from Forthcoming 2012 Releases

Tons of great music due to come out over the next few months. 2012 has yielded some great material so far. Let's hope it continues through to the end. In the mean time, Stream or Download.

Com Truise - Open (In Decay - 2012)
Black Marble - A Great Design (A Different Arrangement - Out 10/09)
Mode Moderne - Foul Weather Fare (Strange Bruises - 2012)
The Luyas - Fifty Fifty (Animator - Out 10/16)

TEEN - Electric (In Limbo - Out 08/28)
DIIV - Sometime (Oshin - 2012)
Seapony - Prove to Me (Falling - Out 09/11)

A Place to Bury Strangers - Burning Plastic (Split 7" - 2012)
Ceremony - Send Me Your Dreams (Split 7" - 2012)
Ringo Deathstarr - Rip (Mauve - Out 09/24)

Exitmusic - The Night (Passage - 2012)
Ormonde - I Can't Imagine (Machine - Out 08/07)
Halls - White Chalk (Ark - Out 10/15)

Dum Dum Girls - Lord Knows (End of Daze - Out 09/25)
Bat for Lashes - Laura (The Haunted Man - Out 10/15)

Outro - Rachels - Cuts the Metal Cold (Selenography - 1999)

Bonus video time:

New Gothy/Gazy/Indie/Electro Tracks for 2012

All stuff released (or due to be) since May of this year. Stream or download.

Holograms - Monolith (Holograms - 2012)
The Raveonettes - Observations (Observator - Out Sept. 11, 2012)
DIIV - Doused (Oshin - 2012)

Beak> - Deserters (>> - 2012)
DNTEL - Retracer (feat. Nite Jewel) (Aimlessness - 2012)
Purity Ring - Fineshrine (Shrines - Out July 24, 2012)

Station Break - Explosions in the Sky - Human Qualities (Take Care Take Care Take Care - 2011)

Young Prisms - Four Hours (Away) (In Between - 2012)
Eternal Summers - Fall Straight Back (Dawn of the Eternal Summers - 2012)
Slug Guts - Stranglin' You Too (Playin' in Time With the Deadbeat - Out July 24, 2012)

No Joy - Junior (Negaverse - 2012)
A Place to Bury Strangers - Dissolved (Worship - 2012)
Exitmusic - The Sea (Passage - 2012)
Beach House - On the Sea (Bloom - 2012)

Mount Eerie - House Shape (Clear Moon - 2012)

Dark Night Before the Dawn

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School of Seven Bells - Show Me Love (Ghostory - 2012)
Bryan Ferry - Heartache By Numbers (Olympia - 2010)
David Bowie - Wild is the Wind (live June 24, 2000) - (Bowie at the Beeb - 2000)

The Velvet Underground - Oh, Gin (1970 Demo - Peel Slowly & See Boxed Set - 1995)
The Magnetic Fields - Love Is Like A Bottle of Gin (69 Love Songs - 1999)
Tom Waits - Talking at the Same Time (Bad As Me - 2011)
Patti Smith - Tarkovsky (The Second Stop Is Jupiter) - (Banga - 2012)

Depeche Mode - Suffer Well (M83 Mix) - (Remixes 2 81-11 - 2012)
Ringo Deathstarr - Do It Every Time (Colour Trip - 2011)
Grinderman - Worm Tamer (A Place to Bury Strangers Mix) - (Grinderman 2 RMX - 2012)

Spiritualized - Get What You Deserve (Sweet Heart Sweet Light - 2012)
Soulsavers - Bitterman (The Light the Dead See - 2012)
Iggy Pop - Only the Lonely (Frank Sinatra cover) - (Apres - 2012)

Mojave 3 - Got My Sunshine (Excuses for Travellers - 2000)

Exitmusic - The Night (Passage - 2012)

Also, check out this New York Times fashion article featuring Iggy Pop, Bryan Ferry, Nick Cave, Lou Reed, Dave Gahan and more.

Chrome Waves / Concrete Flowers

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Galaxie 500 - Flowers (Today - 1988)
Cocteau Twins - Road, River, and Rail (Heaven or Las Vegas - 1990)
Secret Shine - Spellbound (Untouched - 1992)

The Cure - 2 Late (Love Song 7" - 1989)
Ride - Chrome Waves (Going Blank Again - 1992)
Catherine Wheel - I Want to Touch You (Ferment - 1992)
Curve - Lilies Dying (Doppelganger - 1992)

Station Break - My Bloody Valentine - Instrumental B

Sonic Rising - Solar Eyes
A Place to Bury Strangers - You Are the One (Worship - 2012)
Crocodiles - Sunday (Psychic Conversation 9) (Endless Flowers - 2012)

Eternal Summers - Dye (Silver - 2010)
Fresh and Onlys - Waterfall (Play It Strange - 2010)
Beach House - Myth (Bloom - 2012)
Esben and the Witch - Argyria (Violet Cries - 2011)

Medicine - Time Baby III (Time Baby III - 1993)

Bonus Photograph Time!

The Cure's Robert Smith with Andy Bell and Mark Gardner of Ride.