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.

New Spiritualized Track & More

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Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating In Space (Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating In Space - 1997)
The Modern Lovers - Roadrunner (The Modern Lovers - 1976)
Galaxie 500 - Don't Let Our Youth Go To Waste (The Modern Lovers cover) (Today - 1988)
A Place to Bury Strangers - Tried to Hide (13th Floor Elevators cover) (The Psychedelic Sounds of the Sonic Cathedral - 2010)
The 13th Floor Elevators - Roller Coaster (The Psychedelic Sounds of The 13th Floor Elevators - 1966)
Butthole Surfers - Gary Floyd (Psychic... Powerless... Another Man's Sac - 1984)

Station Break - Ulrich Schnauss - Crazy For You (Slowdive cover)

Medicine - Something Goes Wrong (The Buried Life - 1993)
My Bloody Valentine - Sometimes (Loveless - 1991)
Sonic Youth - Antenna (The Eternal - 2009)
Spacemen 3 - So Hot (Wash Away All My Tears) (Playing With Fire - 1988)
Spiritualized - Broken Heart (Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating In Space - 1997)
Spiritualized - So Long You Pretty Things (Sweet Heart Sweet Light - 2012)

Bonus Video Time!

More than a video, this is a harrowing short film featuring the song "Hey Jane" from Spiritualized's new album, Sweet Heart Sweet Light. Lou Reed would be proud:

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Lush - Kiss Chase (Split - 1996)
Curve - Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus (Cuckoo - 1993)
SPC ECO - Gone (You Tell Me - 2011)
School of Seven Bells - Love From A Stone (Lafaye Single - 2012)
Austra - The Future (Feel It Break - 2011)
Blonde Redhead - Love or Prison [Kastellet Remix] (Remixes - 2011)
Station Break - Explosions in the Sky - Human Qualities
Widowspeak - Wicked Game [Chris Isaak Cover] (Gun Shy 7" - 2011)
Sharon Van Etten - Save Yourself (Epic - 2010)
Caitlin Rose - For the Rabbits (Own Side - 2011)
Carissa's Wierd - Heather Rhodes (Ugly But Honest - 2000)
Fleet Foxes - Someone You'd Admire (Helplessness Blues - 2011)
Low - Especially Me (C'mon - 2011)
The Magnetic Fields - You Must Be Out of Your Mind (Realism - 2010)
Lotte Kestner - True Faith [New Order cover] (Stolen - 2011)

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 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)

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 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 03-10-10

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 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):

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 01-20-10 (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

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

Beyond the Wall of Sleep 12-09-09

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The Boo Radleys - Upon 9th & Fairchild
Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored
Verve - She's A Superstar
Red House Painters - Mistress
Station Break - Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet - Musical Interlude
Mary Onettes - The Laughter
Galaxie 500 - Blue Thunder
The Cure - Chain of Flowers
Tones on Tail - Happiness
Station Break - David Bowie - All Saints
Cocteau Twins - Pandora
Slint - Nosferatu Man
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Slowdive (live)
Slowdive - Dagger
Low - Dark
Station Break - Brian Eno - Energy Fools the Magician
Pale Saints - Sight of You
Comsat Angels - "Baby"
Ultra Vivid Scene - She Screamed
Primal Scream - May the Sun Shine Bright for You
Ultravox - My Sex
Tubeway Army - Every Day I Die
Station Break - Tones on Tail - Instrumental
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Loverman
Recoil - Luscious Apparatus
Depeche Mode - Corrupt
Station Break - Tindersticks - Ventrauen II
Engineers - Clean Coloured Wire
Airiel - Mermaid in a Manhole
A Place to Bury Strangers - Exploding Head
Ride - Paralyzed

Beyond the Wall of Sleep 12-02-09

Here it is, folks, the new episode from our new time slot. It sounds just like an episode from the old time slot. Maybe with a little more Wednesday added in. Let's cut to the chase: Stream or Download

Mogwai - Hunted by a Freak
The Raveonettes - Planes do Crash
The Vandelles - Fever of the Beat
Sunsplit - Running After You
Church - Aquamarine
Station Break - Depeche Mode - Spacewalker
The Notwist - Hands on Us
Lali Puna - B-Movie
Junior Boys - Parallel Lines
Factory Kids - Not Enough
Station Break - Kevin Shields - Are You Awake?
The Morning After Girls - You Need to Die
Film School - A Taste of Dust
An April March - Summer's Gone
Explosions in the Sky - Glittering Blackness
Shearwater - Castaways
Shearwater - The Snow Leopard
Carissa's Wierd - Drunk With the Only Saints I Know
Mum - Green Grass of Tunnel
Station Break - Craig Armstrong - After the Storm
Craig Armstrong feat. Elizabeth Frazer - This Love
School of Seven Bells - Half Awake
Air Formation - Never Far Away
Daniel Land and the Modern Painters - Codeine
Codeine - Washed Up
Low - Violent Past
Hammock - Blankets of Night
Verve - Already There

11-14-09 New Ringo Deathstarr and More!

Great new music from Ringo Deathstarr, Screen Vinyl Image and Fleeing Joys. Stream or Download

Slowdive - So Tired
Catherine Wheel - Crawling Over Me
Swervedriver - Duress
Station Break - Cocteau Twins - Oomingmak
Fleeting Joys - Don't Go
An April March - We Were Never Attached (Detached Mix)
Air Formation - Take It Easy
Guitaro - No. 1 Rock Station
Tearwave - Emotional Cocoon
Station Break - Screen Vinyl Image - Synthetic Apparition
Screen Vinyl Image - Cathode Ray
Ringo Deathstarr - In Love
Ringo Deathstarr - Summertime
Doves - Friday's Dust

Beyond the Wall of Sleep 11-07-09 Chock Full o' New

So many great new tracks for this episode. Stream or Download

Wild Dogs in Winter - The Butcher's Wife
Kinski - Losing Touch With My Mind (Spacemen 3 cover)
Drop Nineteens - My Aquarium (Second Time Around)
Secret Shine - Into the Ether
Station Break - Explosions in the Sky - Look Into the Air
The Meeting Places - Millions
The Horrors - Sea Within A Sea
Spiral 25 - Signals
Dead Leaf Echo - Half-Truth
Station Break - Mogwai - I Know You Are But What Am I
Yeti Lane - Think It's Done
Pas de Printemps Pour Marnie - Lose My Breath (My Bloody Valentine cover)
Britta Phillips & Dean Wareham - Out Walking
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Higher than the Stars (St. Etienne remix)
Station Break - Robin Guthrie - Some Sort of Paradise
The Raveonettes - Breaking Into Cars
Furs - Hair Like Fire
All the Saints - Sheffield
Church - Crab Magic
Station Break - Ride - Grasshopper
Asobi Seksu - Miniature Cities
The Sky Drops - Bourgeois Beat
A Place to Bury Strangers - Strictly Looks
Swervedriver - Just Sometimes
Station Break - Kevin Shields - Are You Awake?
Carissa's Wierd - To Be There Now (Nemo Remix)
Secret Shine - Last Leaves
SPC-ECO - Shine On Down (Overnight Mix feat. Alan Moulder)
M83 - We Own the Sky (Maps Remix)
Maps - Don't Fear