Happy state sanctioned month of love and welcome back to the Afterglow Echoplex, a shoegaze, and shoegaze-adjecent collaborative mixtape podcast. Today's episode features Oopsy Dazey, Juicer, Lovely Weather, Helens, Shapes Like People, 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. Atlantic Canyons "See the Hue"
2. Juicer "Why Don't"
3. Dead Orchards "Where Dreams Go to Die"
4. Helens "Reverie"
5. Cold Morning Colors "Floating"
6. Quietly Into The Night "Moving Static"

Side Two
1. Shapes Like People "When the Radio Plays"
2. Pollen "My Name"
3. Oopsy Dazey "Spell It Out"
4. Healees "Waterslide"
5. Venetian Veils "Verdant Pulsing"
6. ghostplay "You'll Be Gone"
7. Lovely Weather "So Tired"

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.

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Please rate and review this podcast on the podcast catcher that tickles your fancy. If you're in a band and would like to submit a song for consideration on a future episode of Afterglow Echoplex, please email a WAV file, mp3 or BC download code to: afterglowechoplex@gmail.com

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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

Until next time, keep celebrating the scene!

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

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