Episodes

  • 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.

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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

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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

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    1 hr and 14 mins
  • Afterglow Echoplex - Episode Thirteen
    Jun 13 2025

    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"

    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 that Threads thing.

    Please rate and review this podcast on the podcast catcher that floats your boat. 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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    1 hr and 14 mins
  • Afterglow Echoplex - Episode Twelve
    May 14 2025

    Welcome back to the Afterglow Echoplex, a shoegaze, and shoegaze-adjecent collaborative mixtape podcast. Today's episode features music by Selett, OMIDARI, Bara Hari, Opaleene, STEREOMA, 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. Emperor Of Ice Cream "Weather Vane"
    2. Echo Of The Low Light "Fearless Arrow"
    3. STEREOMA "Do You Wanna"
    4. Emmaline Twist "Strange Pursuit"
    5. Bara Hari "Violence Rising"
    6. 4AM "Dark Hours"
    7. Selett “Mourning Dove”

    Side Two
    1. The Skating Party "Animaul"
    2. Opaleene "Vertige"
    3. Silver Biplanes "Radiogram"
    4. Glasswing Butterfly "Faded Dreamscape"
    5. Every Ending Is A Rat Tail "Before (Demo)"
    6. Siyi00417 "GS.23"
    7. OMIDARI "Raindrop"
    8. Solyara "Aíne"

    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 what's it called? Threads...?

    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

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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • Afterglow Echoplex - Episode Eleven
    Apr 1 2025

    Welcome back to the Afterglow Echoplex, a shoegaze, and shoegaze-adjecent collaborative mixtape podcast. Today's episode features The Stalwart Lovers, The Specific Heats, Mirrorball, Soft Science, Moon Pilot, 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. Cheerless "Petrichor"
    2. The Specific Heats "Sometimes I Feel Nothing"
    3. The Stalwart Lovers "This Love is Gonna Tear Us Apart"
    4. Fir Cone Children "Spelling Your Name"
    5. Tiny Forehead "Cultural Liposuction"
    6. Moon Pilot "Her Time"
    7. Shades Of Violette “Remember”

    Side Two
    1. Soft Science "Stuck"
    2. Casper Skulls "Spindletop"
    3. Cabin Full Of Bears "Slip Awhile"
    4. S K Y T O N E "Krung Thep"
    5. Spirit Hotel "Moon Eyes"
    6. The Rabbit Sons "Who Would've Thought?"
    7. Timmy Vigilante "The Devil Steals Your Joy (The Pot)"
    8. Diffident Daffodils "Losing Touch"
    9. Mirrorball "Red Hot Dust"

    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, pfft... whatever... Threads, I guess?

    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

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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • Afterglow Echoplex - Episode Ten
    Mar 5 2025

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    Welcome back to the Afterglow Echoplex, a shoegaze, and shoegaze-adjecent collaborative mixtape podcast. Today's episode features Mo Dotti, Sister Ray Davies, Echo Foxtrot, Alpaca Sports, Blueburst, and much more! This episode also features an interview with legendary skateboard videographer, Tony Roberts, who discusses the potential reemergence of the long-lost demo tape by the elusive indie-rock band, The Eclipse.

    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.

    1. Seadreams "Preamble"
    2. Nonentities "D’Architecture"
    3. Mo Dotti "Whirling Sad"
    4. The Moment Of Nightfall "Beloved Enemy"
    5. Blueburst "Executioner's Song"
    6. Nax "Blue Dreams"
    7. Champion Fever “Blaze”
    8. Done Is Done “Disrepair”

    Side Two
    1. Alpaca Sports "Tomorrow I’ll Be Fine"
    2. KEELEY "Days in a Daze"
    3. Sister Ray Davies "War Machine (The Purpose of a System is What it Does)"
    4. Sakkaris "Cigarette"
    5. Charley Stone "Does She Mention Me?"
    6. Superluminal Objects "I Can Feel Your Spooky Action"
    7. Echo Foxtrot "In the Light (Live)”
    8. Siren Section “Climbing Fences”

    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.

    Links mentioned in the Tony Roberts interview can be found here, here and here!

    Follow Afterglow Echoplex on Bluesky and, to a lesser extent, 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 download code to: afterglowechoplex@gmail.com

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    1 hr and 38 mins
  • Afterglow Echoplex - Episode Nine
    Feb 7 2025

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    Happy greeting card 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.

    Follow Afterglow Echoplex on Bluesky and Threads.

    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

    Until next time, keep celebrating the scene!

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    1 hr and 14 mins