Episodes

  • Afterglow Echoplex - Episode Five
    Nov 8 2024

    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"
    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"
    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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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • Afterglow Echoplex - Episode Four
    Oct 13 2024

    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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    (((Afterglow Echoplex: A Shoegaze Mixtape Podcast!)))

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    1 hr and 18 mins
  • Afterglow Echoplex - Episode Three
    Sep 22 2024

    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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    (((Afterglow Echoplex: A Shoegaze Mixtape Podcast!)))

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    1 hr and 18 mins
  • Afterglow Echoplex - Episode Two
    Sep 1 2024

    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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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • Afterglow Echoplex - Episode One
    Aug 11 2024

    Welcome to the debut episode of the Afterglow Echoplex, a mixtape podcast featuring feedback-imbued melodies, gossamer vocals and glorious walls of crumbling distortion. Today's episode features Cherry Heaven, Holy Springs, softlightsymphony, Crimson Whisper, dayflower, 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.

    This inaugural episode of Afterglow Echoplex features:

    Side One
    1. dayflower "Big Blue"
    2. A Deeper Heaven "Let Go"
    3. Cherry Heaven "Sundazed"
    4. Vagrant Daydreams "Blurred Indigo"
    5. CONTRANISTAS "Telenovela"
    6. Memories Fading "Left Behind"
    7. LEAL "Don't Waste Your Summer Away"

    Side Two
    1. Guilt Shop "No Sugar"
    2. Slow Salvation "Call a Friend"
    3. Holy Springs "Surprise"
    4. Crimson Whisper "Joshua's Gaze"
    5. Salzig Noise "Ch'ai"
    6. Reviser "Assassins"
    7. softlightsymphony "Circling"
    8. The Lost Boy "The Morning Sun (Simon Scott Remix)"

    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 love in the form of buying their music, seeing them play live and following their links.

    While you're at it, please rate and review this podcast on the podcast catcher of your choice. If you're in a band and would like to contribute a song of yours for consideration on a future episode of Afterglow Echoplex, please email a WAV or FLAC file to: afterglowechoplex@gmail.com

    Keep celebrating the scene, you scene celebrators, you!

    Support the show

    (((Afterglow Echoplex: A Shoegaze Mixtape Podcast!)))

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    1 hr and 16 mins