Merry Christmas and happy holidaze!

Your boss may have forgotten your Christmas bonus (yet again), but we didn't!

(Timestamps below!)

Side One
1. Mo Dotti "All Dressed Up in Dreams" (3:10) 2. Oopsy Dazey "Long Way Home" (6:13) 3. Clockwork Animals "Walking Shadow" (9:57) 4. The First Eloi "Blanket Cave" (13:40) 5. Martyrs "Pin Blue Sometime" (16:40) 6. Ghosts Of Cinema "Debt (20:48) 7. Shapes Like People “A New Crown” (24:47) 8. Celezenka “Confession (Masato Saito 1990 Mix)” (28:16)

Side Two
1. In The Afterglow "The Life That Could Be" (35:53) 2. Memories Fading "Play for Yesterday" (40:14) 3. The Riptide Rats "Dunes" (44:20) 4. The Shop Window "It's a High" (48:31) 5. The Fever Van "DGU" (51:52) 6. Shades Of Violette "Afterlife" (56:06) 7. Nax "Desaparecer" (1:00:36)

Side Three
1. highspire "Pray" (1:07:32) 2. Vertical Space "In My Bed" (1:09:33) 3. Moon Pilot "Do or Do Not" (1:12:10) 4. Fir Cone Children "3D (Feat. Krissy Vanderwoude)" (1:13:52) 5. Blueburst "Supernova" (1:15:54) 6. Superluminal Objects "My Brain Thinks Your Brain is OK" (1:21:13) 7. Siren Section “Glass Cannon” (1:24:48) 8. Champion Fever "Refuge (Synths Only Version” (1:30:04)

Side Four
1. subspacesub "Sparks Burn" (1:40:12) 2. The Summer Triangle "Starry Night" (1:42:56) 3. Atlantic Canyons "Messed Up" (1:47:48) 4. The Velvet Air "Dissolve" (1:51:04) 5. The Moment Of Nightfall "Beloved Enemy (Live)" (1:55:09) 6. Leeloh "Everyday is Imagination" (1:58:25) 7. The Naked Souls "Spouthole" (2:02:35)

Side Five
1. Shapes Like People "A Wild Christmas, We Broke Santa" (2:13:31) 2. In The Afterglow "Home at Last" (2:16:17) 3. The Suncharms "December Girl" (2:20:19)

Side Six
1. Pillow Fight "Christmas Time" (2:25:22) 2. Martyrs "Snow Came Down" (2:28:39) 3. Wynona Bleach "(Don't Know Why) I Wish You Merry Christmas" (2:32:07)

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Happy Belated Thanksgazing™ and welcome back to the Afterglow Echoplex, a shoegaze, and shoegaze-adjecent collaborative mixtape podcast. This month's episode features music by Pink Breath Of Heaven, highspire, The Crushing Violets, Celezenka, The Velvet Air, 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.

(Timestamps below!)

Side One
1. The Shrine Of The Most Blessed Sacrament "Garth" (4:19)
2. highspire "Drifting" (8:10)
3. Basavriuk "Run Eternal" (11:09)
4. Pink Breath Of Heaven "Wind is Calling" (16:30)
5. ASTROVELVET "İntihar Önceleri" (20:34)
6. Arkham Sunset "Facades" (23:23)
7. The Mystery Divide “Candy” (27:25)
8. The Crushing Violets “When We Dream” (30:14)

Side Two
1. The Velvet Air "Fossils Buried" (38:00)
2. Rare Kreature "Play for Yesterday" (42:25)
3. Ashby "Horizon" (46:19)
4. Dramatics "Wait for Me" (50:27)
5. Celezenka "Confession (Alternative Mix)" (53:56)
6. Neon Wire "Wasting" (58:01)
7. Atomic Glider "Undead" (1:00:58)
8. headsoused “Existing/Can't Help It” (1:03:58)

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

Listen to Evelyn Pope's “Surround Yourself In Sound” here!

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Welcome back to the Afterglow Echoplex, a shoegaze, and shoegaze-adjecent collaborative mixtape podcast. This month's Clover Records' Special Episode takes a deep dive into the Japanese lo-fi label's back catalog, featuring music by 800 Cherries, Pervenche, Hour Musik, red go-cart, Recycled Pop, 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.

(Timestamps below!)

Side One
1. Kactus "Weather Vane" (4:30)
2. Rocky Mountain Broncos Power "Are You Free" (8:12)
3. Flow "Blue" (11:41)
4. Recycled Pop "No. 9" (15:37)
5. 800 Cherries "grapejohn" (19:04)
6. Smiley "Drive" (22:20)
7. Comet Sun “Immigrant Song” (25:03)
8. Pervenche “Out of the Room” (30:49)

Side Two
1. Poussin* "little white" (39:01)
2. Peatmos "Play the Wind" (41:29)
3. Hour Musik "Love You" (46:15)
4. Cymbals "Empire Start Technics" (51:42)
5. Colenimo "B.A.S.I.K" (54:04)
6. Red Go-Cart "Early Morning Play Ground" (56:33)
7. Momorien "Sleep (Live)" (58:51)
8. Daffodil-19 “Launderette” (1:03:59)

This podcast would not be possible without the gracious contributions of Masato Saito at Clover Records and the phenomenal bands listed above. Please visit their BandCamp pages to purchase their music.

Listen to Life Of The Record's The Jesus and Mary Chain's Psychocandy podcast episode here!

Learn more about Lush's 35th Anniversary Edition of Gala here!

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Welcome back to the Afterglow Echoplex, a shoegaze, and shoegaze-adjecent collaborative mixtape podcast. Today's episode features Cloud Studies, A Violet In Youth, Sunny Intervals, Dakota Blue, Moonwards, 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.

(Skip ahead to the songs using the timestamps below.)

Side One
1. Cloud Studies "Cloud Cartography" (4:24)
2. The Lonely People "No One Else" (7:58)
3. Purplespace "Only X" (10:43)
4. Dead Adventures "Ashes Into Dust" (15:30)
5. Kind Kid "Safe With You" (19:15)
6. The Naked Souls "Winter Kills Me" (22:25)
7. Dakota Blue “Mystery Wave” (26:16)
8. Nice Wave “Double Take” (30:07)

Side Two
1. Jonathan Rundman "Let's Put On an Opera" (36:57)
2. Leeloh "How Long is Forever?" (40:25)
3. Gwendolyn "Aero!" (44:24)
4. Sunny Intervals "I've Been Looking Over My Shoulder for Too Long" (46:09)
5. Clockwork Animals "Jonic" (49:04)
6. A Violet In Youth "Sherbertland" (55:05)
7. Moonwards "Shockwave” (59:39)

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

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Q: What was Mark E. Smith's favorite season?

A: Autumn.

Welcome back to the Afterglow Echoplex, a shoegaze, and shoegaze-adjecent collaborative mixtape podcast. Today's episode features Chainlacing, Snowcuffs, Cigarettes For Breakfast, Jet Cemetery, Temporary Drag, 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. Blush Response "Afterglow"
2. Nargile "X-Day"
3. Chainlacing "Real Abstraction"
4. Snowcuffs "Sink Down"
5. Military Wives "Life in Glass"
6. Jet Cemetery "Eagle Rider"

Side Two
1. Vertical Space "Hands With Holes"
2. Russian Baths "Secret Keys"
3. thought distortion "Taro"
4. Cigarettes For Breakfast "Blue Skies for Sore Eyes"
5. Hazelene "Every Loss"
6. Temporary Drag "Through and Through"
7. summer home "Something's Changed"
8. maybeinthenextlife "Aches"

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

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Get Tickets at The Six below the Midnight Society PDX! to see The Stargazer Lilies, Tremours and Rick Bain & The Genius Position on Sept. 4th!

Go to Superluminal Objects’ Bandcamp page to purchase their debut self-titled album on Sept. 19th!

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Welcome back to the Afterglow Echoplex, a shoegaze, and shoegaze-adjecent collaborative mixtape podcast. This month's episode features Dollop, Court Lee, Bad Island Easter, Madi Gaines, The Shop Window, and much more! This episode also features an interview with Ten Million Lights and DreamgazePDX co-founder, Ryan Carroll, who discusses the collaboration with Portland 's second annual shoegaze and dreampop festival and Seattle's Tremolo.

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. Awkward Bodies "Are You Listening?"
2. dollop "A Dog Indoors"
3. Slow Writer "Feral Dogs"
4. Vlimmer "Vielzuviel"
5. The Riptide Rats "Action Jaxxson"
6. Court Lee"Love's a Waltz"
7. BYGONE SUMMERS “Burn Your Body”
8. The Shop Window “Blues”

Side Two
1. Gregory Jones "My Kind of Girl"
2. ASSISTANT "Overwhelming"
3. subspacesub "Hours in the Night"
4. Nahiadance "I Go Bubbles (Athens Champagne Night)"
5. Sunset Cassette ‘87 "Order of Melchizedek"
6. Bad Island Easter "January First"
7. Madi Gaines "Cvnt”
8. The Fever Van “Trying to Tell You”

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

Tickets to DreamgazePDX and Tremolo can be purchased here and here.

Send well-wishes to HDTGM and MovieBitches' Avaryl Halley at andrew@moviebitches.xyz!

Get Echo Foxtrot's EP2 here!

Check out The Fever Van's Les Willox's solo music on Bandcamp here!

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Welcome back to the Afterglow Echoplex, a shoegaze, and shoegaze-adjecent collaborative mixtape podcast. Today's episode features music by Mahogany, Daze, Meat Whiplash, Velveteen, The Photocopies, 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. Meat Whiplash "Don't Slip Up"
2. Bad Light "Little Misery"
3. Ghosts Of Cinema "In Spite of Everything"
4. The Photocopies "Before You Do it Again"
5. Velveteen "7th Heaven"
6. Pjos "Everything Was Taken Away"
7. The Tail Of The Lion “Fair Warning”

Side Two
1. Daze "Mellow"
2. The Summer Triangle "Distant Skies"
3. Mahogany "A Scaffold"
4. Exploding Flowers "Timing is Everything"
5. Wasting "Shadow Dance"
6. Reflections After Jane "When Morning Comes"
7. Some Gorgeous Accident "Heaven Sent

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

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Welcome back to the Afterglow Echoplex, a shoegaze, and shoegaze-adjecent collaborative mixtape podcast. Today's episode features music by Semaphore, Telepathic Traffic, Oh Doom, The Clang Group, Sand Box, 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 Occasion "No Future"
2. Sand Box "Porcelain Dolls"
3. Black Tapestry "Cornered"
4. Telepathic Traffic "Wembley’s Sound-World"
5. Martyrs "Sunset Sinking"
6. Lux "Starlit"

Side Two
1. The Clang Group "Page 1"
2. Promise The Moon "Oops"
3. Semaphore "Porcelain"
4. Joshua Treble "Before Pale"
5. A-Train Of Thought "Slowdown"
6. mynameisblueskye "Bounce Back, Kid"
7. Oh Doom! "Someone Else Made You Better"

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