A few years back I became aware of this crazy guy over in Melbourne, Australia named Damian Frood. He used to make sounds as Tina & The Hams with Craig Tigwell and their music was a delightful blend of catchy Post-Punk and weirdness that I loved. Now, Damian makes music solo as The Failed Blue Dot and he still sounds weird and catchy! 

For his Eardrum Buzz Radio Sixth Anniversary show Damian is joined by Zaar, a mischievous alien who also loves good music. Enjoy their Spaced Out Radio show!

1. Astronomy Domine -Pink Floyd

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For his special Sixth Anniversary Show for Eardrum Buzz Radio, Surprise Cast Podcast host Dubya picked some interesting songs and gave some thoughtful insight into the music. Dubya is always thoughtful in his interviews as well.

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Midnight Oil - "Hercules"

Close Lobsters - "Loopholes"

The Wedding Present - "What Have I Said Now?"

Jose Gonzalez - "Every Age"

Capital Children's Choir - "So Long you Pretty Thing

Sinead O' Connor - "Daddy, I'm Fine"

Cocteau Twins - "Pur"

The Reds, Pinks, and Purples "Pictures of the World"

Kitchens of Distinction - "Gone World Gone"

When I started following Seattle's Black Nite Crash and reviewing their music for Highwire Daze Magazine I enjoyed the band's sound, a mix of psychedelic and textured and catchy tunes. But little did I know, that guitarist/singer Jim Biggs was also a club DJ. DJ JimiC has done anniversary shows in the past but this time he's put together two hours of music that is all over the place and a joy to listen to.

Intro (Mike Vickers – Jet Set) w/talk over

moondaddy – passenger

gina x – nice mover

supermodel – i used to live in England

talkover

pete fij - cuckoo

love spells – wish i didn’t love you

see see rider – see see

talkover

verve – all in my mind

voyager one – little ruin

black nite crash – last time

talkover

velocity girl – forgotten favorite

secret shine – you are inside

c’est la mort – nothing ever lasts

kitchens of distinction – drive that fast (kexp)

damon and naomi – blue thunder (acoustic)

black nite crash – falling down (acoustic)

talkover

the hair and skin trading company – elevenate

loop – black sun

sundial – let it go

talkover

27 various – turn on and on

the earthmen – fall and rise of my favorite sixties girl

majesty crush – boyfriend

talkover

the nightblooms – a thousand years

boo radleys – tomorrow

the jennifers – just got back today

talkover

black nite crash – i think you should leave

six by seven – american beer

farewell (john scott – gathering crowds) w/talk over

About the DJ: Jimi C (aka Jim Biggs) is the Shoegaze Soothsayer of Seattle, having fronted scene stalwarts Black Nite Crash for over 20 years. Raconteur and Man About Town (or at least he was until the pandemic), he also continues to DJ in bars and clubs around the Pacific Northwest solo and with his crew The Vinyleaters, not to mention at least once a year on Eardrum Buzz Radio.

Black Nite Crash’s most recent album, Signal to Noise, is out now, available to listen to on Youtube and all your favorite streamers, but, perhaps more importantly, also on Bandcamp, where the artist actually gets paid. You can check it out, as well as the lengthy Black Nite Crash discography at blacknitecrash.bandcamp.com. (There’s free stuff there, too!!! Including their latest song “I Think You Should Leave”!!!)

Black Nite Crash is mostly sticking to the Pacific Northwest for the summer, but we intend to hit the road and maybe even come to YOUR TOWN in the very near future.

Facebook: @blacknitecrash

Instagram: @blacknitecrash

Bandcamp: https://blacknitecrash.bandcamp.com/album

There's a bit of a theme on this episode of The Comforts of Madness. Don't Panic and hang the DJ, Our Favorite Idiot, Rob Levy, he's not an Agony Freak and this July you might feel like a Lost Boy trying to help Save the Youth of America. But you will surely get a Headrush listening to Episode 28!

The Comforts of Madness can be heard on Saturdays at 7am and 6pm Pacific time at www.eardrumbuzz.net

Chris Connelly – July

Peter Murphy – Subway

Stephanie Seymour - Harvest Time

Courtney Barnett – Same

Phoebe Bridgers - Lost Boys

Snail Mail - Agony Freak

Blondshell – Violins

Party Dozen - Special Unit

Sweeping Promises - Shooting Shadows

The Bug Club - Look Like Me

Skorts – Headrush

Heartworms - Extraordinary Wings

Velocity Girl - Tales Of Aphrodite

Bratmobile - Do You Like Me Like That?

Johnny Marr – Spin

Kula Shaker - Good Money

The House of Love - Melody Rose

Graham Coxon – Easy

Robyn Hitchcock- How To Feel Alright

The Dear Boys – Procrastination

Billy Bragg - Help Save The Youth Of America

Interpol - See Out Loud

DIIV - Raining On Your Pillow

Soft Science – Spinning

Tremours - Tracers Diary - Keep Comin' Up F

otofrom - This City Is Over

PJ Harvey – Voyager

Paul Heaton - Favourite Kind Of Idiot

The Housemartins – Freedom

The Smiths - Panic

I came across DJ Knillz probably around the time he started his Thursday night Twitch show five years ago. He just celebrated by playing an eclectic set of songs for over three hours! Knillz was kind enough to record a live show, not during his regular slot for Eardrum Buzz Radio's Sixth Anniversary Weekend.  It's full of the Shoegaze and Dream Pop you love plus some new finds you're sure to want to get.

If you're interested, you can go and follow DJ Knillz at: https://www.twitch.tv/dj_knillz and enjoy his Thursday show for yourself!

Death of Heather - Drown

Spectacle - Gorgeous

The Helio Sequence - Stracenska 612

Un.Real - Lovely One

Blushing - Control

Azure Ray - No Signs Of Pain

Minipop - Fingerprints

New Candys - Gills On My Lungs

Rainsong - Deliriant

Tender Age - Get High

The Belltower - Sea of Smiles

Shallow - Smile

The Concretes - Lonely As Can Be

Soft Science - Know

Be Forest - Gemini

I Break Horses - The Prophet

Single Gun Theory - I’ve Been Dying

Tiger Baby - Sweetheart

Flunk - Honey’s In Love

Out Hud - How Long

Draag - Midnight Paradise

I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness - According To Plan

Crash City Saints - Annabella

Deafcult - Rubix

Rogue Wave - You

The Emerald Down - Stars

Resplandor - Downfall

The Rosemarys - Sparkle

The Sundays - What Do You Think?

Deserta - I’ll Be Gone

Gunnar Malmquist, from Uppsala, Sweden, a music fan and who shares the same birthday as me yet looks two decades younger than his age, as well as Terje Lomondal, from Oslo, Norway, a fellow music fan and listener to our station  got together to present two hours of music for Eardrum Buzz Radio's Sixth Anniversary Weekend. Together they are Scandinavian Shoegazers United!

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Gunnar Malmquist @DJ.Mqt and Terje Lomandal @terje.lomundal.5

Terje set 1

Wave Decay - See the sun

Mo Dotti - pale blue afternoon

The Stargazer Lillies - Shining Yellow

Gunnar set 2

American Levitation Co. - Shine

Siluett - Under the Marquee

skilda världar - Esprit

Fathom 5 - Nothing Lasts

Terje set 3

FOG - Dreaming Dreaming Dreaming

Deary - Seabird

Astromonies -I Dived

Yndling - It's almost like you're here

Gunnar set 4

Midsommar - Alice

The Blue Herons - Silent

narcolepsy - rose

Alison's Halo - Skywide

rocket rules - Tiptoe

Terje set 5

Futureheaven - Imber

Canvas Tile - to do, to say

Dopedrone - Mystical

Gunnar Set 6

New Order - Crystal

Thrushes - Crystals

Slowdive - When The Sun Hits

Fathom 5 - Then The Sun Hit

Terje set 7

Tribes of the city - Fourteen

Velveteen - Just like Autumn

Tapeworms - Ice Cream

The Virginia Planes - Step into this World

Alex Keevill is The Microdance. For the past few decades he's released many songs and albums and collections of his pretty, noisy, passionate music. I know that musicians are the biggest music fans and felt that Alex would find some truly interesting songs for his Sixth Anniversary show for Eardrum Buzz Radio. I was right!

Woods of Desolation - Ad Infinitum

The Microdance - Devour

Silversun Pickups - The Royal We

Panopticon - Embers at Dawn

The Microdance - Smithereens

The Smashing Pumpkins - Obscured

The war on Drugs - An Ocean Between the Waves

The Microdance - Premonitions of Love

Aphex Twin - Girl-Boy Song

Soundgarden - Tighter & Tighter

The Microdance - Sad Hearts in Hell

Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill

Alice in Chains - Them Bones

The Microdance - Baby Ghost

Pearl Jam - You Are

Deftones - Combat

The Microdance - Come Back to Me My Lover in the Sky

Postal Service - Clarke Gabel

The Microdance Socials:

Instagram - themicrodance

Facebook - themicrodance

TikTok – themicrodance

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https://themicrodanceswc.bandcamp.com/album/our-love-noire

Being a lover of Pink Floyd, Space Rock, Prog, The Church and more, I heard the music of All India Radio and Kilbey Kennedy and fell in love with Martin Kennedy's music and releases. Based in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, Kennedy covers so many bases of music I love and is a talented musician and songwriter, singer and bandleader and collaborator. He took the time to make a one hour show for Eardrum Buzz Radio's Sixth Anniversary and you get to enjoy it here!

1 My Bloody Valentine - Soon

2 Catherine Wheel - Black Metallic

3 Sonic Youth - Shadow of a Doubt

4 Kilbey Kennedy - A Question in The Dark (outtake from "Things we did on Earth")

5 Flying Saucer Attack - Oceans

6 Cocteau Twin - Amelia

7 All India Radio - Everything That Exists Anywhere

8 Mercury Rev - Frittering

9 Tangerine Dream - Rubycon (single version)

10 DJ Shadow - Building Steam With A Grain of Salt

11 Pink Floyd - Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun

Facebook: @martinlkennedy

IG: @allindiaradioband

@kilbeykennedy

https://kilbeykennedy.bandcamp.com

https://allindiaradio.bandcamp.com

In this Beyond the Beaten Tracks special celebrating six years of Eardrum Buzz Radio, BTBT's Greg Fuhs spins a selection of hidden sonic gems featured on past episodes of BTBT.

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