Happy (belated) New Year! Welcome back to the Afterglow Echoplex, a shoegaze, and shoegaze-adjecent collaborative mixtape podcast. Today's episode features Sorry Hurts, Januarius, Spunsugar, American Motors, Skymender, and much more!

Each episode of the Afterglow Echoplex is a virtual 60-minute dubbed cassette tape made in direct collaboration with the underground, independent bands you hear here.

Side One
1. Tomorrow Comes Early "Halfway 'Round the Sun"
2. American Motors "(A Billboard Reading) Dissolve Jefferson"
3. Sorry Hurts & Grimm "Saturn's Devouring"
4. Skymender "Long Shadows"
5. rain cloud nine "Ephemeral"
6. Januarius "A Wishbone In the Rye"
7. Waking Sophia "Fruit On the Tree" (interview link)

Side Two
1. Distance Is A Way Of Life "The Journey (In My Dreams)"
2. Dust Bunny "Dear Bunny, Where Are You?"
3. Spunsugar "A Flicker In My Lights"
4. The Virgina Planes "Kiss In the Morning"
5. Tears Run Rings "Within"
6. Future/Modern "Promising Illness"
7. Machray "Set it Aside"

This podcast would not be possible without the generous contributions of the bands listed above. Please visit their BandCamp pages to purchase their music.

Cover photography by BlueCalypso Photographs.

Please consider contributing what you can afford for Los Angeles fire relief efforts. Here are the links to the relief agencies mentioned in today's show:

The American Red Cross
Pasadena Humane Society
California Fire Foundation
Billboard’s list of fire relief funds for music industry workers

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Please rate and review this podcast. If you're in a band and would like to contribute a song for consideration on a future episode of Afterglow Echoplex, please email a WAV file or BC download code to: afterglowechoplex@gmail.com

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Happy New Year and welcome back to the Afterglow Echoplex, a shoegaze, dreampop, noise-rock, et al. and etc. collaborative mixtape podcast! On this very special episode of the show we invite you to enjoy the unearthed soundz of the one... the only... the Lilys!

Or, more notably, rare, previously unreleased*, compilation appearance, and alternate take Lilys tracks produced by Kurt Heasley and his roving band of variously assembled merry makers.

Side One

1. Any Several Sundays *
2. Salad Bar *
3. Tra-La-La (Live) *
4. Excelsior Plainside
5. Won’t Make You (Sleepy) *

Side Two

1. Touch the Water *
2. More Than That is Deserved
3. Kodiak *
4. Right Thing to Do *
5. The Berated Escape
6. Dreams Never End
7. Well Traveled is Protest
8. Good King Wenceslas

This podcast would not be possible without the contributions, insights and generosity of one Mr. Kurt Heasley. Thanks, Wally!

Links-a-plenty:

• Frontier Records' Lilys Bandcamp page.
• Sundazed Records' Lilys page.
• File 13 Records’ Selected EP Bandcamp page.
• Speakertree Records' "Well Traveled is Protest" SoundCloud page.
• Lilys - Live in Amsterdam at VPRO Studios.
• Colorful Acts, In the Presence of the Lilys tribute compilation on Bandcamp.
• Kestrels' album, Better Wonder, featuring the song "Lilys."
• Everything Wrong Is Imaginary trailer.
• Returns Every Morning Geocities site.

Please rate and review this podcast on the podcast catcher of your choice. If you're in a band and would like to contribute one of your songs for consideration on a future episode of Afterglow Echoplex, please email a WAV file or Bandcamp code to: afterglowechoplex@gmail.com

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Until next time, keep celebrating the scene!

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Seasons Greetings and welcome back to the Afterglow Echoplex, a shoegaze, dreampop, noise-rock, et al. and etc. collaborative mixtape podcast, featuring snow-storms of feedback, blissed-out merriment and Rudolph-guided melodies! Everyone deserves a Christmas bonus, and this episode of the podcast is yours! This episode features Iceblynk, Films On Song, The First Eloi, The Prids, Kallai, Stubai, and much more!

Each episode of the Afterglow Echoplex is a virtual 60-minute dubbed cassette tape made in direct collaboration with the underground, independent bands you hear here.

Side One
1. The Prids "You Drive, I'll Shoot"
2. Stubai "Another Way"
3. Moon Void "Is It True"
4. Iceblynk "Tragic"
5. Pacific Latitudes "Every Bad Beat"
6. Lester O'Shea "Gun Fighting in a Small Enclosed Space"
7. Films On Song "Venus Sickness (Demo)"

Side Two
1. Reviser "Burn it Out"
2. then there were blackbirds "Horizon"
3. Kallai "Always Never"
4. new burglars "Far from Perfect"
5. The First Eloi "Shoe Button Eyes"
6. The Hydrogen Trees "Sylvia"
7. A Reminder "Tonal Wakeup"

This podcast would not be possible without the generous contributions of the bands listed above. Please visit their BandCamp pages to show them some much deserved appreciation in the form of purchasing their music, following their links, and (when possible) seeing them play live.

As mentioned in today's episode, you can find my friend Amy Abshier's Etsy page here. Amy's hubby, Krysztof Nemeth's page can be found here! Their amazing artwork makes for great Christmas gifts (hint, hint!)

If you enjoyed what you've heard here today and want to help the podcast grow, please consider visiting our Patreon page. Any amount you can contribute is greatly appreciated. Tis the season of giving, after all!

Please rate and review this podcast on the podcast catcher of your choice. If you're in a band and would like to contribute one of your songs for consideration on a future episode of Afterglow Echoplex, please email a WAV file or Bandcamp code to: afterglowechoplex@gmail.com

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Look for not one, but TWO very special episode of the Afterglow Echoplex at the end of this month! It's the podcast's first foray into a luminary band's B-Sides and rarities that you will not want to miss.

Until next time, keep celebrating the scene!

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Seasons Greetings and welcome back to the Afterglow Echoplex, a shoegaze, dreampop, noise-rock, and whathaveyou collaborative mixtape podcast, featuring three tremolo-infused sleigh bells, two little drummer boyz drum looping and a partridge in a pedal board! This month's episode of the show contains nary a reindeer game, but it does feature Yndling, Two Fields Over, Kelly Slusher, Duelectrum, Indoor Voices, Wybercron, and much more!

Each episode of the Afterglow Echoplex is a virtual 60-minute dubbed cassette tape made in direct collaboration with the underground, independent bands you hear here.

Side One
1. Pacific Latitudes "Set Yr Eyes Aglow"
2. They Need Machines To Fly? "Party Safari"
3. Two Fields Over "We Have"
4. new burglars "Noom"
5. The Light Dreams "Aspects"
6. Yindling "Mood Booster" (video)
7. then there were black birds "Spiral Song" (link to comp)

Side Two
1. Duelectrum "Eisbär"
2. TideBound "The Outsider"
3. Kelly Slusher "Warm Hearts Don't Break"
4. Indoor Voices "Care Too Much"
5. Great Ghosts "Good Morning, Sunshine"
6. Moon Void "No Sound Remains"
7. Wybercron "Imprint"

This podcast would not be possible without the contributions of the bands listed above. Please visit their BandCamp pages to show them some much deserved fawning praise in the form of purchasing their music, following their links, and (when possible) seeing them play live.

You can find Pips Original, the purveyors of the best donuts and chai in all the Ported Land, online here!

If you enjoyed what you've heard here today and want to help the podcast grow, please consider visiting our Patreon page. Any amount you can contribute is greatly appreciated.

Please rate and review this podcast on the podcast catcher of your choice. If you're in a band and would like to contribute one of your songs for consideration on a future episode of Afterglow Echoplex, please email a WAV (or, if yer all super tech savvy about it, a FLAC) file to: afterglowechoplex@gmail.com

Follow Afterglow Echoplex now on the ol' new socials, Bluesky and Threads, for whatever that's worth...

Look for the "X-Mas Bonus" episode of the Afterglow Echoplex later this month, on the 15th of December! You've definitely earned it. We all have...

Until next time, keep celebrating the scene!

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Welcome back to the Afterglow Echoplex, a shoegaze, dreampop, noise-rock, et al. and etc. collaborative mixtape podcast, featuring walls of squalls, seas of dreams and forests of feedback! This month's episode of the show features Soft No, Paper Shipwrecks, Yearn, Sofa City Sweetheart, The Hydrogen Trees, and much, much, MUCH more!

Each episode of the Afterglow Echoplex is a virtual 60-minute dubbed cassette tape made in direct collaboration with the underground, independent shoegaze and shoegaze-adjacent bands you hear here.

Side One
1. Sofa City Sweetheart "The Thing She Do"
2. Waves Crashing "Wish"
3. Darkswoon "Bloom Decay"
4. A Reminder "Another Day" (video)
5. The Hydrogen Trees "Afternoon Subsidence"
6. The Galaxy Electric & Droog Mulholland "Mystery Song"
7. Paper Shipwrecks "It Comes in Waves"
8. KUZbeats "The Way Back When"
9. Lester O'Shea "The Queen and Her Fool"
10. Vernons Future "Waxwings"

Side Two
1. Zenxith "Oh Hello, It's Me"
2. Bright Islands "Kick the Past"
3. The Silver Doors "Redeemer"
4. Ten Million Lights "Never Let Go" (video)
5. Mannequin Flowers "Heartbeat"
6. Soft No "Faker"
7. Yearn "Blackhole"
8. The First Eloi "Hide & Seek"

This podcast would not be possible without the contributions of the bands listed above. Please visit their BandCamp pages to show them some much deserved fawning praise in the form of purchasing their music, following their links, and (when possible) seeing them play live.

If you enjoyed what you've heard here today and want to help the podcast grow, please consider visiting our Patreon page. Any amount you can contribute is greatly appreciated.

Cover photography for this month's episode by BlueCalypso Photographs.

Please rate and review this podcast on the podcast catcher of your choice. If you're in a band and would like to contribute one of your songs for consideration on a future episode of Afterglow Echoplex, please email a WAV (or, if yer all super tech savvy about it, a FLAC) file to: afterglowechoplex@gmail.com

Until next time, keep celebrating the scene!

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Welcome back to the Afterglow Echoplex, a shoegaze, dreampop, noise-rock, et al. collaborative mixtape podcast, pedal boards of fright, eyeballs in buckets of feedback and static shrieks of ear-shattering bliss! Today's bonus October episode of the show features The Prids, Mersey Skys, Art Block, Corduroy Institute, Snow On Mars, and much, much more!

Each episode of the Afterglow Echoplex is a virtual 60-minute dubbed cassette tape made in direct collaboration with the underground, independent shoegaze and shoegaze-adjacent bands you hear here.

Side One
1. rune puzzles "Meditate While Driving"
2. The Prids "Tell You Nothing"
3. Treasure Coast "Daydreamer"
4. Mersey Skys "Falling Away"
5. INTENTIONS "V"
6. Shattered Porcelain "Running Around"
7. Corduroy Institute "You Always Loved Everything..."

Side Two
1. Goodbye Charlemagne "Blonde Wig On a Broomstick"
2. The Noises Inside feat. Court Lee "Dreams (In Lifeboats)"
3. Dude, Chill "Disproportionate"
4. Pat & Mac "I Like You"
5. Sloen "At the Edge of Reality"
6. Snow On Mars "kaleidoscope"
7. Art Block "Poorer Than Ever"

This podcast would not be possible without the contributions of the bands listed above. Please visit their BandCamp pages to show them some much deserved fawning praise in the form of purchasing their music, following their links, and (when possible) seeing them play live.

SNL theme song performed by the insanely talented Ben "SirNim' Schwartz. Please visit Ben's website here!

While you're at it, check out Phoenix, Arizona's Silias Famosas Recordings here!

If you enjoyed what you've heard here today and want to help the podcast grow, please consider visiting our Patreon page. Any amount you can contribute is greatly appreciated.

Please rate and review this podcast on the podcast catcher of your choice. If you're in a band and would like to contribute one of your songs for consideration on a future episode of Afterglow Echoplex, please email a WAV (or, if yer all super tech savvy about it, a FLAC) file to: afterglowechoplex@gmail.com

Until next time, keep celebrating the scene!

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Welcome back to the Afterglow Echoplex, a shoegaze, dreampop, noise-rock, et al. collaborative mixtape podcast, featuring waves of feedback, thunderclouds of hiss and torrents of tremolo! Today's episode features Goodbye Ranger, Deathlist, Dramamine, Maze Hunters, Head Sound, and much, much more!

Each episode of the Afterglow Echoplex is a virtual 60-minute dubbed cassette tape made in direct collaboration with the underground, independent shoegaze and shoegaze-adjacent bands you hear here.

Side One
1. Trash Panda Go Kart "Diamonds"
2. 8 To Late "Mello"
3. Deathlist "Summer Bleeder"
4. Stubai "Voyager"
5. Abandoned Buildings "Rabbit Holes"
6. Cecelia Eyes "Parenthesis" (video)
7. Dramamine "Echoes of Time" (video)

Side Two
1. Goodbye Ranger "Remember Everything"
2. Kallai "Another World"
3. Head Sound "Like a Painting"
4. For Your Information "Fumar 2"
5. Maze Hunters "Dust"
6. L23 "I Won't Stay Long"
7. The Urnfields "The Alchemist"

This podcast would not be possible without the contributions of the bands listed above. Please visit their BandCamp pages to show them some much deserved fawning praise in the form of purchasing their music, following their links, and (when possible) seeing them play live.

Oh, did someone mention live shows?

While the first day of DreamgazePDX, a two-day shoegazetacular taking place at TheFixin' To in North Portland on Saturday, Sept. 28th, is sold out, you can still get tickets to Sunday's show on Sept. 29th, featuring Kallai, Tears Run Rings, Soft Science, Waves Crashing, and more! Get your tickets here!

If you enjoyed what you've heard here today and want to help the podcast grow, please consider visiting our Patreon page. Any amount you can contribute is greatly appreciated.

Please rate and review this podcast on the podcast catcher of your choice. If you're in a band and would like to contribute one of your songs for consideration on a future episode of Afterglow Echoplex, please email a WAV (or, if yer all fancy about it, a FLAC) file to: afterglowechoplex@gmail.com

Until next time, keep celebrating the scene!

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Welcome back to the Afterglow Echoplex, a shoegaze and shoegaze-adjacent collaborative mixtape podcast featuring shock waves of distortion, sublime chimes and terminal glacial bliss! Today's episode features Shadow Pattern, Lost Space Department, Iceblynk, Blair Miller, Mental Map, and much, much more!

Each episode of the Afterglow Echoplex is a virtual 60-minute dubbed cassette tape made in direct collaboration with the underground, independent shoegaze and shoegaze-adjacent bands you hear here.

Side One
1. Iceblynk "Enter the Sky"
2. Films On Song "Ritual Day"
3. Slow Thrills "Lyra"
4. Maud Anyways "It Won't Last"
5. Lost Space Department "Lost Space Jam #1"
6. Mental Map "Snow In June"
7. Sterile Cuckoo "Coming Up Roses"

Side Two
1. Shadow Pattern "By Day By Night"
2. Blair Miller "Hit the Ground"
3. bloom effect "Year Zero"
4. THE SEA-JAYS "007 and Counting"
5. Shutdown Shipyard "A Great Ship"
6. In the Afterglow "Transform (Extended Distortion Mix)"
7. Waves Of Dread "Twilight"

This podcast would not be possible without the contributions of the bands listed above. Please visit their BandCamp pages to show them some much deserved X's and O's in the form of purchasing their music, following their links, and (when possible) seeing them play live.

Speaking of live shows...

Are you going to be in Portland, Oregon on the weekend of September 28th and the 29th? Well, talk about luck! Swing by the Fixin' To in North Portland for Dreamgaze PDX, a two-day shoegazestravaganza featuring performances by The Veldt, Dead Leaf Echo, Soft Science, Kallai, Waking Sophia, Mint Field, and many more! Get your tickets here!

If you enjoyed what you've heard here today and want to help the podcast grow, please consider visiting our Patreon page. All donations will go directly back into the podcast to upgrade recording equipment and editing software. Any amount you can contribute is greatly appreciated. Thank you so much!

Please rate and review this podcast on the podcast catcher of your choice. If you're in a band and would like to contribute one of your songs for consideration on a future episode of Afterglow Echoplex, please email a WAV or FLAC file to: aftergl

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