Tonight, Big Sonic Heaven featured some great new shoegaze from Encarta 98, out of Bogotá, Colombia. They were handpicked by Robert Smith to open for The Cure and Slowdive in 2023. From New York, we heard the latest single from Aerial Love Feed, described as apocalyptic shoegaze. Plus, new music from Johnny Marr, and lots more. 

We also gave away an advanced copy of the book, “Still in a Dream: Shoegaze, Slackers, and the Reinvention of Rock, 1984-1994,” written by journalist Simon Reynolds, who covered shoegaze while it was exploding! And as always, I mixed in some of your favorite shoegaze, dreampop, and post-punk classics!

Big Sonic Heaven playlist for Oct. 4, 2026

• “Black Sun” – Dead Can Dance
• “Kisses” – Slowdive
• “Can’t Be Sold” – Echo & The Bunnymen
• “Already Yesterday” – The Church
• “Strange Land” – The Tear Garden
• “Paradise” – New Order
• “Like Me” – MØAA
• “That Feeling” – Johnny Marr
• “Terrified” – trentemøller
• “We Raise Our Hearts” – Postiljonen
• “Tomorrow” – Ladytron
• “Glass Castles” – &Tilly
• “Painted Bird” – Siouxsie & The Banshees
• “Blush” – The Secret French Postcards
• “Will it Break” – Silverdeer
• “Closedown” – The Cure
• “Ice Pick (Walk Away)” – Boy Harsher
• “Spanish Heart (feat. Bernard Sumner)” – 808 State
• “A New Goodbye” – Nation of Language
• “Nada va a cambiar” – Encarta 98′
• “Cocoon” – Morphine
• “Happiness Is Easy” – Talk Talk
• “I’ll Be (2026 Remaster)” – Sing-Sing
• “Who Sees You” – My Bloody Valentine
• “Pale Trembles a Gale” – The Autumns
• “The Drift” – deary
• “Blood on the Leaves” – The Wolfgang Press
• “REM (feat. Lili Hall)” – Now Always Fades
• “Deus” – Sugarcubes
• “The Big Shake” – The Mary Onettes
• “We Prayed In the Dark” – Echo & The Bunnymen
• “Someone New” – Aerial Love Feed
• “Thursday” – Asobi Seksu
• “Memories Fade” – Tears For Fears
• “Stare Into Light” – Velour 100

This holiday weekend in Big Sonic Heaven, we featured another brand-new single from Echo and the Bunnymen along with a new one from Simple Minds. We featured the brand-new dreamy shoegazey single from Dottie and the latest from Hannes Kretzer out of Berlin, a track that builds into a beautiful wall of sound.

We also revisited some great new tracks from Trentemøller, BlauDisS &Tilly, plus some of your favorite shoegaze, dreampop, and post-punk classics. 

View the playlist below and listen to the show recording above for up to two weeks after it airs.

Big Sonic Heaven playlist for Sept. 6, 2026

• “Just One Kiss” – The Cure
• “Just Drive” – Postiljonen
• “Feels Like Summer” – Sing-Sing
• “Love’s Easy Tears” – Cocteau Twins
• “Take Me By The Hand” – Echo & The Bunnymen
• “All the Way” – New Order
• “Surely I Can’t Wait” – Nation of Language
• “Texture” – Catherine Wheel
• “Saudade” – This Love Is Deadly
• “Blister Sunrise” – M83
• “Don’t Fall” – The Chameleons
• “Your Lips, My Mouth” – Airiel
• “Reality” – Poison Girl Friend & Sigh Society
• “Catch The Breeze” – Slowdive
• “lakes” – she’s green
• “Terrified” – Trentemøller
• “Not Me” – This Mortal Coil
• “Beginner Boys” – Simple Minds
• “Black Sun” – Dead Can Dance
• “little galaxy” – Silk Daisys
• “Don’t You Go (feat. Dominic Appleton)” – Stefano Guzzetti
• “You & them & missing” – BlauDisS, &Tilly
• “Higher Love” – Depeche Mode
• “Veil” – Violet Oscillation
• “Memories and the Sky” – Goodbye Ranger
• “Sorry For Laughing” – Propaganda
• “The Big Shake” – The Mary Onettes
• “Devotion & Decay” – Hannes Kretzer
• “Red Shoes” – Throwing Muses
• “doll” – dottie
• “Kiss of Snow feat. Krissy VanderWoude” – LongingSky
• “Thoughtforms” – Lush
• “Goodbye Vista” – Deserta
• “Distraction” – Beachy Head
• “Blood Spilled” – Blonde Redhead
• “Fall Apart” – Ellis
• “Stumble And Fall” – Clan Of Xymox
• “Delicious Demon”-Sugarcubes

Tonight I featured the new trentemøller single from the upcoming album out this November. I also played a couple of shimmering new singles from Crystal Canyon and Alison’s Halo, as well as a reimagining of a Twin Peaks classic from Tokyo-based POiSON GiRL FRiEND. 

Plus, we heard the very dreamy new single from Kate de Rosset, and much more. We also spun the 60’s girl-group-inspired Sing-Sing, the 90’s group made up of friends Emma Anderson and Lisa O’Neil, who are reissuing their debut album after 25+ years with a new single and artwork designed by Chris Bigg. And, of course, our weekly dose of shoegaze, dream-pop, and post-punk classics!

View the playlist below and listen to the show recording above for up to two weeks after it airs.

Big Sonic Heaven playlist for Aug. 30, 2026

• “All Night Long” – Peter Murphy
• “Brother (feat. Dave Gahan)” – Humanist
• “Terrified” – trentemøller
• “Jerusalem” – Sinéad O’Connor
• “Mrs Connelly” – Crystal Canyon”Twisterella” – Ride
• “NIRVANA” – Glazyhaze
• “Clearest Blue” – &Tilly
• “Lilies” – Cranes
• “Feels Like Summer (2026 Remaster)” – Sing-Sing
• “Secrets” – Silver Swans
• “Chimär (Gbg)” – Kallsup
• “Duel” – Propaganda
• “Night Comes Out” – The Raveonettes”Are You Safe?” – Maquillage”Ornaments of Gold” – Siouxsie & The Banshees
• “Sacred Echoes (Part Two)” – The Church
• “Because I Don’t Know (Lita Lores Version)” – Lita Lores & Tricky
• “Speakers Don’t Speak (Clean Version)” – The Wolfgang Press
• “Screw” – The Cure
• “CTRL” – ACTORS
• “Stuck” – Alison’s Halo
• “Change” – Prepare My Glider
• “Space Song” – Beach House
• “The Light That Surrounds You” – Echo & The Bunnymen
• “Smile” – State Of Grace
• “Ophelia” – Johnny Marr
• “Paint A Vulgar Picture” – The Smiths
• “The Drift” – deary
• “It’s a Fine Day (feat. Ian Masters)” – Stefano Guzzetti
• “Crushed” – Cocteau Twins
• “Burrow” – AtticOmatic
• “Chase the Bloom” – Kate de Rosset
• “Falling” – POiSON GiRL FRiEND
• “Primal” – Slowdive
• “hide-a-lullaby” (Mixtape Version Feat. Peel Dream Magazine) – Winter
• “Of Course I’m Lying – Yello

We featured lots of new music for you in Big Sonic Heaven tonight including two Shoegaze singles, one from Canada’s Prepare My Glider, featuring Gouachepaint on vocals, and another from Swedish band Kallsup. We’ll also heard the lovely cinematic dreampop of Flower Face out of Montreal, along with another new Echo and the Bunnymen track.

Plus, from Italy, Steffano Guzetti’s 4AD-inspired compilation has just been released and I shared a couple tracks from that, featuring Emma Anderson, Heidi Berry, and Ian Masters. We also gave the Singaporean artist Shye another spin, and of course, many of your favorite shoegaze, dreampop and post-punk tracks, including a Creation Records set.

View the playlist below and listen to the show recording above for up to two weeks after it airs.

Big Sonic Heaven playlist for Aug. 23, 2026

• “Hyperballad” – Björk
• “Alfie” – deary
• “Blood Spilled” – Blonde Redhead
• “The Light That Surrounds You” – Echo & The Bunnymen
• “Baby Talk” – Lush
• “Bleed” – She’s Green
• “Boyfriend” – Majesty Crush
• “Hurt” – The Haunted Youth
• “Last Dance” – The Secret French Postcards
• “Skin Of The Night” – M83
• “Living In Another World” – Talk Talk
• “I Wanted It To Be You” – Shye
• “Catch The Breeze” – Slowdive
• “On My Own” – Ulrich Schnauss
• “You & them & missing” – BlauDisS &Tilly
• “Falter” – Acopia
• “To Here Knows When” – My Bloody Valentine
• “Does This Hurt?” – The Boo Radleys
• “It’s a Fine Day (feat. Ian Masters)” – Stefano Guzzetti
• “Lilac Wine” – Jeff Buckley
• “Chimär (Gbg)” – Kallsup
• “Magic Only” – Panda Riot
• “Change” – Prepare My Glider
• “Tristan / Sanvean” – Dead Can Dance
• “Bad Dream” – Flower Face
• “White Light” – Locust & Olive Kimoto
• “St. Swithin’s Day” – Dubstar
• “Brussels Is Haunted” – Echo & The Bunnymen
• “Deep Ocean Vast Sea” – Peter Murphy
• “Love’s Riddle (feat. Emma Anderson & Heidi Berry)” – Stefano Guzzetti
• “Face” – Moev
• “Take Forever (feat. Robert Smith)” – The Japanese Popstars

Tonight, in Big Sonic Heaven, we brought you some great new shoegazey, atmospheric music. We featured Brooklyn multi-instrumentalist Taja Cheek, also known as L’Rain, whose genre-bending music has been described as kaleidoscopic. We also featured some beautifully layered atmospheric shoegaze from In Inertia, out of Jakarta, Indonesia. We played the new Shye, who always delivers a great Dreampop track, and the first single from Swervedriver’s Raise:demos album coming out this October, and your favorite Shoegaze, Dreampop, and Post-Punk tracks.

Big Sonic Heaven playlist for Aug. 16, 2026

“Black Celebration” – Depeche Mode
“Down with the Upward” – A Shoreline Dream (feat. Mark Gardener)
“Brussels Is Haunted” – Echo & The Bunnymen
“Les Yper-Sound” – Stereolab
“Flawed (demo version”) – Swervedriver
“Musette And Drums” – Cocteau Twins
“There Must Be so Much More” – Pink Turns Blue
“Ophelia 3:58” – Johnny Marr
“Are You Safe?” – Maquillage
“500 (Shake Baby Shake)” – Lush
“Never Follow Suit” – The Radio Dept.
“Lusty” – Lamb
“I Wanna Disappear” – Starflyer 59
“Breaking My Light” – Minor Victories
“Love Spells” – Attic Ocean
“Six Different Ways” – The Cure
“In The Flowers” – Sea Lemon
“What Remains Is Beautiful” – In Inertia (feat. Niskala)
“Bonny” – Prefab Sprout
“I Wanted It To Be You” – Shye
“Bright As Yellow” – The Innocence Mission
“The Sweetness Of Honey” – Club 8
“Euphoria (Firefly)” – Delerium
Want You – deary
“Hoppípolla” – Sigur Rós
“Dark Horse” – Edward Ka-Spel
“So And Slow It Grows (7″ Remix)” – WIR
“Death Cults” – Dead Can Dance
“elmyra” – L’Rain
“Harrowdown Hill” – Thom Yorke
“Come Together (7″ Version)” – Primal Scream
“Ruined In A Day” – New Order
“swim” – Night Tapes
“After the Rain” – The Orange Peels
“Crown of Thorns” – Erasure
“My Times Up” – The Raveonettes

Tonight we heard the brand-new single from Blonde Redhead and a track from the new Starflyer59 EP. Plus, some dreamy new music from Locust & Olive Kimoto, and more, along with your favorite shoegaze, dreampop, and post-punk classics.

Big Sonic Heaven playlist for Aug. 2, 2026

• “The Garden Ends” – The Autumns
• “Mon Amour Sauvage” – Dead Can Dance
• “Blood Spilled” – Blonde Redhead
• “Crank” – Catherine Wheel
• “I Wanna Disappear” – Starflyer 59
• “The Sweetness Of Honey” – Club 8
• “Eighties Fan” – Camera Obscura
• “Lions & Tigers” – Asobi Seksu
• “Coming Home” – The Haunted Youth
• “From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea” – The Cure
• “The Visitors” – Doublespeak
• “New Dress” – Depeche Mode
• “Recollection” – Keep Shelly In Athens
• “swim” – Night Tapes
• “Unicorn” – Bel Canto
• “White Light” – Locust & Olive Kimoto
• “Jellyfish” – Left at Orion
• “Pearl” – Chapterhouse
• “Sleepsong” – Deary
• “Without you (feat. Soccer Mommy)” – Winter
• “2 Wicky” – Hooverphonic
• “Octopus” – Starrgazy
• “A Return” – The Tear Garden
• “Orange Appled” – Cocteau Twins
• “Aurora” – Attic Ocean
• “Someone’s Calling” – Modern English “Northern Sky (w/ Anne Garner)” – Stefano Guzzetti
• “Mr. Somewhere/Andialu” – This Mortal Coil
• “Gold” – Sigur Rós
• “Ophelia” – Johnny Marr
• “Chained to a cloud” – Slowdive