The Lunar Orbit

It’s that time of the year again! The biggest post-rock, post-metal, post-adjacent festival in the US is here, and I want to talk about it! Postfest 2026 happens this weekend in Indianapolis, so I’m dedicating the show tonight to highlighting all they awesome bands that will be gracing the stage! If you were able to make it to the festival this year, The Lunar Orbit is here to bring you what is easily the next best thing!

Playlist:

The Lunar Orbit is back just in time for July 4th, and for America’s 250th anniversary I thought it would be a fun idea to walk people through a little tour of post-rock in the US. Starting with Slint and Rodan back in the 90s through to Explosions in the Sky, This Will Destroy You and ending up with bands like Grails and Russian Circles. It’s been American bands pushing and evolving the genre for decade after decade. Come hope on the shuttle and enjoy the tour!

Playlist:  

Your Halloween spooks and spoils don't have to end on November 1st! Keep the spirt alive with The Lunar Orbit's 2025 Hard Rock Halloween Spooktacular! Featuring ghoulish frights, bumps in the night, and story time with Vincent Price!  

Playlist:  

Young Fathers "Alpha" from 28 Years Later (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Black Rainbows "Holy Moon" from Holy Moon

Cosmonauts Day "Cave of Trees" from Paths of the Restless

Elephant Tree "Attack of the Altaica" from Theia

jennielea! "Stirring the Brew" from Its Me Jennielea and My Very First Cd

20 Watt Tombstone "Lair of the Swamp Witch" from Death Blues vs. The Dirty Spliff - EP

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs "GNT (Live)" from Live in New York

Elder "Sanctuary" from Reflections of a Floating World

Leave "Witch Circle" from Witch Circle - Single

Mars Red Sky "Collector" from The Task Eternal

Yuri Gagarin (SWE) "Cluster of Minds" from At the Center of All Infinity

Blackwater Holylight "Motorcycle" from Veils of Winter

October Country "My Girlfriend Is a Witch" from October Country (Expanded Edition)

Witch "Black Saint" from Witch

Santana "Black Magic Woman" from Santana the Ultimate Collection

All Them Witches "Heavy/Like a Witch" from Our Mother Electricity

Green Lung "Woodland Rites" from Woodland Rites

Mountain Witch "Forbidden Forest" from Burning Village

Edgar Allan Poe: The Conqueror Worm (read by Vincent Price): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIJ5CAGUrqU

It’s finally that time of year again! The chill is in the air, the spooky skeletons have come out from their graves, the vampires and werewolves are ready to rock…. that’s right its OVERDRIVE OCTOBER!!

Tune in all month for the heaviest riffs, biggest sounds, and most in your face post-rock I can find. Catapulting us into Halloween!

Playlist:

• Snooze "Harked" from I KNOW HOW YOU WILL DIE
• Skin Thief "Growing Endless" from Frozen in the Act of Breaking
• Black Flak and the Nightmare Fighters "Squall" from Ode to Ebb and Flow
• Thumos "The Euthyphro" from The Trial of Socrates
• Scale & Feather "Generations" from Severed
• Ashbreather "Beef, Egg & Cabbage (Out of Stock)" from La Grande Bouffe
• Altar Solar "Triangulación" from Altar Solar
• Sundrowned "Jacob's Ladder" from Higanbana
• Gifts From Enola "Benthos" from From Fathoms
• Civil Service "Black Giraffes" from Black Giraffes - Single
• Origami Phase "Oceans in the Dark" from Ostara - EP
• Celestial Vault "Owl" from Solar Throne
• After-Math "The Fault is Mine (feat. Greybloom)" from Live In Awe of Our Dire Existence
• Thot "Sleep Oddity" from Sleep Oddity - Single
• Money "Billy Pilgrim" from Stovepipe
• Kadavrik "Seven Years" from Grimm I & II
• soothe "Sleep" from Bleed Out
• Whitewater "Brain Fog" from Afterlife

It’s that time of the year again! The magical week at the end of July where herds of post-rock fans invade the sleepy hamlet of Indianapolis, to chant, break bread, and make merry with their favorite bands. That’s right, it’s Post-Fest 2025! The largest post rock and post rock adjacent festival in the US (afaik), a magical event, and a great excuse to bring you a tailored list of some of the most interesting artists featured over the three stages. I’ve assembled a diverse cast to bring you this week, so jump in!

Playlist:  

• This Will Destroy You "Grandfather Clock" from Young Mountain
• Ranges "Tower" from Babel
• Pianos Become The Teeth "Genevieve" from Drift
• Signal Hill "Van Gogh Sky" from Chase the Ghost
• Driving at Night "Fading but Fighting" from Fading but Fighting
• Glacier "Distant/Violent" from A Distant Violent Shudder
• PILLARS "Black Prayer" from Cavum
• Rainbows Are Free "Electricity on Wax" from Head Pains
• standards "Special Berry" from Fruit Island
• Isolation Drills,Katherine Carlson "The Bahia Honda Bridge" from Year Two
• Emma Ruth Rundle "Shadows Of My Name" from Some Heavy Ocean
• Circus Trees "Trap Door" from This makes me sad and I miss you
• Bongripper "Terrible Bear Attack" from Hippie Killer
• Ranges "The Greater Lights" from The Ascensionist
• Newmoon "Eternal Fall" from Temporary Light
• Respire "Keening" from Hiraeth
• Turquoise "Suns Over The Yardarm" from Fermented Fruit
• Surrounded by Water "In Solitude We Take Our Last Breath" from S/T
• Nrthrn "SLEEP" from LITHIUM

Bringing you a rebroadcast of a new music show from this time last year - It's a post-rock summer, and its HOT.

Playlist:  

• Walk Among Statues "Surfer Skies" from Surfer Skies - Single
• Wohl "Dai" from Dai - Single
• God Is an Astronaut "Falling Leaves" from Embers
• Khan Tengri "Apocalypse Man" from Apocalypse Man - EP
• Mountainscape "Astrium" from Iridescent
• Dying Serenade "Beyond Her Eyes" from Beyond Her Eyes - Single
• Dotzd "Viento" from Viento - Single
• Oh Hiroshima "Swans in a Field" from All Things Shining
• Scale & Feather "Haze and the Clarity" from Haze and the Clarity - Single
• World Times Three "Til the Robins Come" from In Hearts and Stone
• Planisphere "Shutter Speed" from Mindstory
• Glasgow Coma Scale "Syntagma" from Apophenia X / Live at Freak Valley
• Yomi Ship "Ronin's Lament" from Feast Eternal
• Astetal "Subluminal" from Subluminal - Single
• Outlander "Orbit" from Acts of Harm
• This World Has Bees "Something That Just Is" from This Barren Place - EP

For the past few weeks, I’ve been listening to a ton of classical music. So, I got it in my head to put together a playlist of post-rock themed around those elements. Losts of strings, symphonic movements, crescendos – the two genres have so much in common this was an easier venture than I thought!

Playlist:  

• If These Trees Could Talk "Deus Ex Machina" from Above the Earth, Below the Sky
• MONO, Platinum Anniversary Orchestra "Nowhere, Now Here - Live with the Platinum Anniversary Orchestra" from Beyond the Past Live in London with the Platinum Anniversary Orchestra
• Laura "Radio Swan Is Down Part 1" from Radio Swan Is Down
• God Is An Astronaut "Komorebi" from Epitaph
• Yndi Halda "A Sun-Coloured Shaker" from A Sun-Coloured Shaker
• Silent Whale Becomes a Dream "Before The Coming Sun" from Canopy Remastered
• Balmorhea "Truth" from All Is Wild, All Is Silent
• Star of Heaven "The Harp" from The Harp
• The Ascent of Everest "As the City Burned We Trembled for We Saw the Making of Their Undoing in Our Own Hearts" from How Lonely Sits the City
• Wolcensmen "Lady of the Depe" from Songs from the Mere
• KAUAN "Akva" from Sorni Nai
• Industries of the Blind, Samuel Gallo "The Lights Weren't That Bright, but Our Eyes Were so Tired" from Chapter 1: Had We Known Better
• Fourteen Nights At Sea "Glass Monster" from Great North
• Osi And The Jupiter "Appalachia" from Stave

We’re absolutely spoiled for choice this summer with post-style releases. I’ve assembled a list from all over the genre with a bit of post-rock, ambient electronic, somber piano, and even some avant-garde jazz!

Playlist:  

• Emma Ruth Rundle "Still the Morning Chorus" from Music from the Bella Vista
• kristeva "The Inside of the Sun Frozen Solid (pt 1)" from kristeva
• VESUVE "L'HORIZON DES EVENEMENTS, Pt. 1" from L'HORIZON DES EVENEMENTS - Single
• Shuta Hasunuma "Robot Mechanic (feat. ヨシダダイキチ)" from "Design Ah! neo"3
• in:tides "Samsara" from Samsara - Single
• Shane Andre "Tightrope" from To Land Afar
• Wave Mosaic "Falling (Loud Noises)" from Living Artifacts
• THE NARROWS "Doctor Waivers" from Sloth & Envy - EP
• White Noise Generator "One" from Myriads
• Red Pine Mushroom "Voice of the Mushroom" from Voice of the Mushroom - Single
• Pelican "Flickering Stillness" from Flickering Resonance
• Scale & Feather "Fledglings" from Fledglings - EP
• The Depth Beneath Us "117B" from Descent
• Damn Dirty Apes "New Norm" from New Norm
• Swans "Red Yellow" from Birthing
• You Are a Soul "Ambiguity" from Peace and Struggle

We’re all looking down tonight, starting at our laces, glancing at our heels, shoooooe gazing! It’s been a while since I did an indie, shoegaze, alt-rock kind of show and I’ve been missing that vibe. Well, miss that vibe no more I say! Because that’s what I’m bringing your way tonight – tons of awesome bands, some loud, some soft, some just off the wall. Check out the playlist below!

Playlist: 

• Kid Mammoth "Hummingbird" from Past, Present, Future
• Unwed Sailor "Rock Candy" from Monster Collecting
• Kamasi Washington "Lazarus" from Lazarus (Adult Swim Original Series Soundtrack)
• Alberta Cross "Black Mountain - Woodstock Raw" from Black Mountain (Woodstock Raw)
• Modern Color,Audiotree "On & Off - Audiotree Live Version" from Modern Color on Audiotree Live
• Lysistrata "Answer Machine" from The Thread
• Slow Teeth "Still You Speak" from I
• sleepmakeswaves,Audiotree "How We Built The Ocean - Audiotree Live Version" from sleepmakeswaves on Audiotree Live (session #2)
• From Beyond These Walls "This Is Where We Land" from The Dawn
• Clowder "window seat" from window seat
• Sundaze "Afterparty" from Be There
• Giant the Vine "Protect Us from the Truth" from A Chair at the Backdoor
• Magnet School "The Raven" from The Raven
• Wantamnam 我地希望 "是 Am" from 是 Am
• Hongza "Out Of Place" from Out Of Place
• Magū "Full Canoe" from Dwell

Geez this year is totally flying by – we’re already to the middle of May meaning it’s time to review all the awesome new music from the last 30 days. Tune in!

Playlist: 

• Pelican "Pining For Ever" from Gulch
• Unwed Sailor "Slab City" from Cruel Entertainment
• Challenger Deep "Zero to Midnight" from The Cruelty of Fangs
• City of the Lost "Secret Street" from Luminar
• Transmissions "Rebirth Bloom" from BLOOM
• Breathe In. Asphyxiate. "The Blinding Light Ignites on the Darkest of Days" from The Blinding Light Ignites on the Darkest of Days
• Thimble "Mimic" from Mimic
• Hiroe "Tides" from Tides
• Goodnight Sweet Prince "Tohoku" from Tohoku
• Downriver Dead Men Go "Truth" from Truth
• Lights of Hyperspace "The Protector" from Jupiter
• Jonathan McNutt "Take Shape" from Take Shape
• Yvette Young "Qi" from Qi
• City By The Sea "now i wither" from now i wither
• IOTA CENTAURI "Lullaby for a Dying Sun" from SUPERMASSIVE
• Brotsjór "Think" from Think
• The Absolute End Of The World "Waiting for summer to end" from Hikikomori
• Cosmic Call, After-Math "Look up at the Stars (I Will Be There)" from Look up at the Stars (I Will Be There)