Eardrum Buzz Radio Shows

Echodrone's MIXTAPE

On Monday, March 15th from 6-8pm PT all five members of Echodrone introduced and played some of their favorite songs.
 
Eugene Suh plays Rafael by Seam, Black Horse by Gastr Del Sol, First Movement by Glenn Branca, Dripsody by Hugh Le Caine and Abba On The Jukebox by Trembling Blue Stars.
 
Brandon Dudley plays Digital by Joy Division, Gigantic by Pixies, Avalyn 1 by Slowdive, A Deep Sleep For Steven by Pale Saints and A Short Happy Life by Medicine.
 
Jackie Kasbohm plays After The K.M. Tapes by Velveteen, Today We Escape by Stun, The Recluse by Cursive and a rare demo of Gypsy by Fleetwood Mac and Estrella Guía by NAX.
 
Mike Funk plays Faking The Books by Lali Puna, White Wind by School of Seven Bells, The Argument by Sea and Cake, Hold On, Hold On by Neko Case,  A Stream With Bright Fish by Harold Budd & Brian Eno and Risingson by Massive Attack.
 
Andy Heyer plays Turnstile by Autolux,  When We Escape by Minus The Bear, Image Game by Lite and closes the show with A Slow Unfolding Of Wings by And So I Watch You From Afar.
 
All five members make up the Echodrone sound on their new album Resurgence, out now digitally on Bandcamp and on vinyl at Diggers Factory.
 
https://echodrone.bandcamp.com

Bret's Ramblings 128 - Spring Forward

A special two hour Bret's Ramblings. Spring is in the air and the sun is out later. People are getting their shots and positivity is spreading.
 
Hear my show at 3pm and 11pm PT weekdays, new on the first and third Tuesdays at www.Eardrumbuzz.net
 
We start with some noisy Post-Punk, move into a little dreamyness, head into darker territory, then end with some Shoegaze, Indie Rock and Psych.
 
This time with:
(Song, Band, Album)
Landing, fatherfigures, Any Time Now... And High Time Too
Tag, Phileas Fogg, Kopf, Unten
I Don't Know What I'm Doing, Maximo Park, Nature Always Wins
Purple Sunshine, The Stargazer Lilies
The Bee's (Live at Ortlieb's), Cigarettes For Breakfast, Cigarettes for Breakfast EP 1st Anniversary Live at Ortlieb's
Dreaming of Distant Shores, After Daylight, The Paradigm Shift
So They Say, The Devil And Her Chauffeur
Desir (Ft. Luha), Hibou
Astro, Nax
The Bridge, Small Black, Cheap Dreams
Fox and Shaman (ft. Isabelle.B Baumann), Feu Follet, Beneath The Earth
The Silence, Only Shallow, The Silence single
Just One More, The Sculpture Club, Worth
Pass On, The Black Fever
Deplorables, This Sect, Everything We Know Into A Black Hole
The Sandman, Collapse of Dawn, ...Of Nightmares & Dreams
Volution, Neonach, Volution
Go Out In Light, Mute Swan, Only Ever
Collider, Citrus Clouds, Collider
Carefully Breathing, An Autumn for Crippled Children, As The Morning Dawns We Close Our Eyes
Density, Beeps, Beeps
Rendezvous, Kilbey Kennedy, Jupiter 13
Set Yr Eyes Aglow - Instrumental,  Pacific Latitudes, The Soundtrack Of Your Life -Ghosts In The Land Of Promise Instrumentals
Craigmoondance, The Emerald Isle, The Emerald Isle
When U R Gone, Ural Mountains, Blurry Pictures
Hey Lizzie, Lay It On Me,  Collars
Not My Home, EEP, Death of a Very Good Machine
 
EXTENDED PLAYS:
Harvest Moon (Neil Young), Dead Rituals, Cover Songs Vol. 2
Surge, Yellow6, For The First and Last
The Future Sound of London, Her Face Forms in Summertime, Dead Cities
Om Nama Shivaya (Rude Audio Fresh Remix), Dan Wainwright, Om Nama Shivaya EP
We Are M'berra, Khalab & M'berra Ensemble, M'berra
Billy Bellsium, µ-Ziq, Somerset Avenue Tracks (1992-1995)
The Princess and the Clock, Kero Kero Bonito, Civilisation II
Peg (Steely Dan), Super 8 & Nick Frater, Cruise Control: A Yacht Rock Cover Comp
Talk To Me Like The Sea (Everything But The Girl), Softer Still, I Remember That!: 12 sophistipop tunes quoted out of  context
I'm Not In Love (10CC), The Skating Party, Cruise Control: A Yacht Rock Cover Comp
Sail On Sailor (The Beach Boys), Seventh Seals, Cruise Control: A Yacht Rock Cover Comp
 

Bret's Ramblings 127 - Reloaded

Noisy, melodic, dreamy, grooving, rocking, soothing. It's episode 127 of Bret's Ramblings!
 
SETLIST:
(Song, band, album)
Do What Now?, Gaadge, Yeah?
Eroosio, Radio Supernova, Takaisin
It's Real, Flyying Colours, Fantasy Country
We Suffer In Silence, Mansfield, Star-Crossed Lovers
Come So Far, Oceans
Hidden Sun, Parallels
Last Looks, Bathe Alone, Last Looks
Broken Melody (Radio Edit), Vix20, Broken Melody
Girl Power, Flu Flu, Mi Mundo Interior
Another Life, Juliper Sky
Jaded, Echodrone, Resurgence
VERTIGO feat. ISHIKAWA (My Dead Girlfriend), Collapse
Better To Know (Ion Orion Mix), Ten Million Lights, High In Strobes
The Crime Song, Sugar Horse, DRUJ/Radio Cash-Ins
 
EXTENDED PLAYS:
Noise Pollution, Soundgarden, Badmotorfinger
Youth, Decay, SOM, Awake
Raivo, KUAUN, Ice Fleet
Run, Spiritualized, Lazer Guided Melodies
Reality, The Blue Herons
Teau-Tequ (demo), The Leontini Vernacular, Anthropause EP
Safe, Victoria Real
Orange Dragonfly, cEvin Key, Resonance
The Politics of Dancing, Re-Flex, Living In Oblivion: The 80's Greatest Hits, Vol. 1
Cowgirl (Remix id2 A1804), Underworld, Cowgirl Limited Edition
Capitalism Flash Bang Wallop (Jack Dangers Remix), Consolidated

Paul Darrah of Tenant From Zero On Eardrum Buzz Radio

Enjoy Two hours of music and interviews with Paul Darrah, aka Tenant From Zero. The new album Flight is a collection of sophisticated pop songs with Paul's smoky and emotional vocals.
 
Paul has great taste in music and introduces four songs from theCatherines, serpentwithteeth, A Girl Called Eddy and Thomas Dolby.
 
Interspersed are songs from some of his favorite bands and collaborators: Bryan Ferry, The Go-Betweens, The Loch Ness Mouse, Japan, Jorge Elbrecht, Prefab Sprout, Everything But The Girl, Nah and The Fisherman And His Soul as well as music from Tenant From Zero and a choice cover or two.
 
Listen to Paul talk about his influences, who plays on Flight, his favorite lyrics and what he brings to his sound.
 
Purchase Flight now: https://tenantfromzero1.bandcamp.com

Bret's Ramblings 126 - In 3D

Take a deep dive into the worlds of Shoegaze, Electronic and the indescribable with Episode 126 of Bret's Ramblings. Originally aired on Eardrum Buzz Radio at Eardrumbuzz.net, heard weekdays at 3pm & 11pm PT, new on first and third Tuesdays.
 
Including the songs that didn't make it onto the one-hour aired show.
 
Setlist:
(song, artist, album)
Blinding Light of Love, Too Much Joy, Mistakes Were Made (first album in 25 years from Alternative Rock favorites)
Prism, 17 Years Old and Berlin Wall, Act (collection of last 4 EP's played live by Japanese Shoegazers)
Giant Step, Small Leap, Holy Ship, Single (new song from Swedish 90's dance-rock revivalist)
Ur2Yung, Machinedrum, A View of U (Trip-Hop, Drum & Bass, Soul and more from the South Carolina electronic producer)
Leben Ohne Licht, XTR Human, Single (New from Berlin's Dark dance singer and producer Johannes Stabel)
End, Last Ice, Last Ice (Atmospheric yet driving collaboration between We Are Parasols and Bloody Knives)
Kaleidoscope, Para Lia, Gone With The Flow (Dramatic Indie Rock from Germany)
Owl In The Parlour, Cathal Coughlan, Song of Co-Aklan (New single form Fatima Mansions and Microdisney former frontman.)
Whispers, Ousel, Single (New single from Brazilian Dream-Pop band)
Unhinge (Ft. Dani Mari, Panophonic, Awakening (Tom Lugo's textured and thoughtful one-man-band, featuring Primitive Heart, aka Dani Mari on vocals for this song.)
Please Tell Me The Story of How We Got Here, Bradley Coomes, The Works (Shoegazey instrumental from Louisville, KY musician.)
Low, The Rosie Varela Project (Beautiful new single from EEP frontwoman.)
Luminous, Vicious Blossoms, You Breath Inside of Me (Catchy yet noisy rock from Somewherecold Records)
 
Extended Plays:
Living Nightmare,  Pictures on Silence, Breathing room - LIVE Session#2 - PURPLE MOON ONEIRONAUTS (Parisian Post-Rock)
Awake-Sedate, SOM, Awake (Hard-edged Post-Rock from current and former members of Constants, Junius and Caspian)
Kylver, Hy-Brasil -  Live, The Plague Tapes (UK Doom Metal) 
This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody), David Byrne, Austin City Limits Festival, USA, 05-10-2018 (David Byrne playing the classic Talking Heads song from Speaking In Tongues album.)
Golden Soul, llawgne, Single (Psych Pop from Sweden)
Green (Luncil RMX), The LSDays, Green Remixes (Mexican Psych-gazers get remixed by Brazilian Electronic producer Luncil.)
Light Cycle, Yppah, Sunset In The Deep End (new from the uplifting Los Angeles Trip-Hop producer.)
Spectrum, Helios, Domicile (Ambient album from Mint Julep husband and wife duo)
Reality (Ft. Dani Mari), Xeresa, Xeresa (Remastered & Extended) (Reissue of amazing Electronic-tinged solo project from Shore Dive Records owner Nicolas Wardell.)
 
 

Marcus Mayes from Become The Sky

Marcus Mayes, drummer for Liverpool, UK Shoegaze/Dream Pop group Become The Sky selects and talks about two hours of excellent music.
 
Setlist:
(Song, Band)
Marcus
Swimming Through Us, Airiel
Across Waters, From Dust To Flesh
Sing Tomorrow's Praises, Asobi Seksu
Marcus
Anne-Marie of We Are Parasols
My Favorite Escape, Become The Sky
Marcus
Fotzepolitic, Cocteau Twins
Lostening, Daniel Land and the Modern Painters
Marcus
Got Come Back, Fleeting Joys
A New Renaissance, Hugar
Days Gone By, Mint Julep
Marcus
Marcus
Waking & Evening Prayers For Rosemary-Mai, Paul Thomas Saunders
Leaves Are Gone, Secret Machines
Marcus
Opentillate, Sway
Untitled 6 (Paul Corley Remix), Sigur Ros
Marcus
Take All Of Me, Whimsical
Alison, Slowdive
Marcus
God's Dream, Ringo Deathstarr
Downfall, Resplandor
Six Days At The Bottom Of The Ocean, Explosions In The Sky
Marcus
White Noise, Exitmusic
Atone, Exit Calm
Marcus
Cement (Daniel Land Mix), Advances in Mathematics
 

Bret's Ramblings 125

Originally heard on Eardrum Buzz Radio 3pm & 11pm PT on the first and third Tuesdays at www.Eardrumbuzz.net
 
Bret's Ramblings 125 Setlist:
(Song, Artist, Album)
This Can't Wait Til Later, Tenant From Zero, Flight
Introduction
Please, Shine A Light, Mansfield, Star-Crossed Lovers
When There's Nothing, Psychic Love Child, Single
Fortuna, Sie Still, S/T
Exodus (Extended Version), datemonthyear, Single
Interlude 1
Daylighter, Relay Tapes, Single
Fade Away, The Churchhill Garden, Single
Wait, Cigarettes For Breakfast, Single
Interlude 2
Motovun, Blue Canopy, Sleep While You Can
TV God, Art D'Ecco, Single
Closing
Needle (Feat. Sean Flanigan), Jeremy Bastard, Everyone is History, There is No Memory
 
(Extended Play)
Ella Megalast Burls Forever (Live), Cocteau Twins, Black Sessions, Paris, France, 04-02-1994
Machine Guns and Peacock Feathers (Carpenter Brut Remix), Ulver, Single
Papua Merdeka (Machinedrum Remix), Keleketla!, Keleketla! Remixes
Absent Salt, Hydro Fyter, Siblings Pt. 1
Ambient Lullaby, Syllix, Analog Ambience, Vol. 2 

Eardrum Buzz Radio Best of 2020: Indie Rock, Psych and Post-Metal

Listen to Eardrum Buzz Radio 24/7, check the schedule and hear some great music!
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The Heavier side of Eardrum Buzz Radio featuring:
 
Song, Artist, AlbumAin't Life Cruel, Golden Fang, Here, Now HereAlmost Hear The City, Sunstack Jones, Golden RepairWaiting For Her, Black Nite Crash, Colony Drive EPParasites In Paradise, Lacquer, The Create Work ProgramScapegoat, Oganalii, PendulumBattle Unicorn, Violet Cold, Noir KidSometimes...Feels, Sicayda, Sometimes...Feels (like it's getting worse and worse ) SingleEase Me, Oathbreaker, Ease Me & 4 InterpretationsIn The End, Helicon, this Can Only Lead To ChaosForever (The Beremy Jets Remix), Dani Mari, No Fear In Love RemixesChorale, Sunset Wrecks, Trickles into Gravity's Mawa shadow, seahorses, cluthch the hand of deathThe possibility of only, Cielo Oceano, The Space has Always Recuded Me To SilenceMinor Mending, Guest Directors, West Coast Noixe Vol. IShe Carries The Sun, Split Moon, Slow SatelliteNew Geography, I LIKE TRAINS, KOMPROMATOff His Way, Cloudkicker, SolitudeENEMIES, BLOOD PICK ME, CODE:001Craving Silence, An Autumn For Crippled Children, All Fell Silent, Everything Went QuietThe Night is No More, Skyforest, A New DawnForgiveness, Misertus, EarthlightTime Domain, Mesarthim, The Degenerate EraMist Pillars '19, vvilderness, Dark WatersThrust In Me, Opollo, JAFO

Bret's Ramblings Best 0f 2020: Ambient, Indie Pop and Post Rock

Some selections from the Eardrum Buzz Radio library showcasing releases from 2020.
 
Ambient music from The Corrupting Sea, Nonconnah, Ulrich Schnauss, A Journey of Giraffes, Phantoms Vs. Fire, Engineers, Oathbreaker (Jesu Remix), The Stargazer Lilies (Reclaimed Remix), mayfairgrin (Faded SF Remix), Homem Em Catarse, anaveyblue and Rhian Sheehan.
 
Indie Pop from Tim Burgess (From The Charlatans UK), Local Hero (From The Voices), The Suncharms, The Pull of Autumn, Jorge Elbrecht, Lights That Change and K. Michelle Dubois.
 
Post Rock from A.M. Feelgood, Airships on the Water and Federico Balducci,  
 
A couple of groovy, trippy Psychedelic songs from Shmu and Vinyl Williams. 
 
And the hard to define We Are Parasols.
 
Music you can hear on Eardrum Buzz Radio on a regular basis.