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Afterglow Echoplex

Afterglow Echoplex

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A podcast from the outskirts of inner-space, featuring 60-minute collaborative shoegaze, dreampop & ethereal noise-rock "virtual mixtapes."


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  • Afterglow Echoplex - Episode Sixteen
    Sep 4 2025

    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.

    Cover photography by BlueCalypso Photographs.

    Get tickets for DreamgazePDX and Tremelo, happening Sept. 25th-27th!

    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!

    Follow Afterglow Echoplex on Bluesky and, (blah!) Threads.

    Please rate and review this podcast on the podcast catcher that cares and always seems to remember your birthday.

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

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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • Afterglow Echoplex - Episode Fifteen
    Aug 1 2025

    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!

    Cover photography by BlueCalypso Photographs.

    Follow Afterglow Echoplex on Bluesky and (pfft...!) Threads.

    Please rate and review this podcast on the podcast catcher that does it for you. 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 do

    Send us a text

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

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    1 hr and 47 mins
  • Afterglow Echoplex - Episode Fourteen
    Jul 1 2025

    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.

    Cover photography by BlueCalypso Photographs.

    Follow Afterglow Echoplex on Bluesky and something called Threads...? Seriously???

    Please rate and review this podcast on the podcast catcher that compliments your pitcher. 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

    Send us a text

    Support the show

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

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    1 hr and 14 mins
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