In this week’s Big Sonic Heaven, we heard new music from Canadian singer-songwriter Carly Hann, a dreamy track from the project Fischersund featuring Jónsi from Sigur Rós, the latest from Edward Ka-Spel, and more. We also featured artists who were a part of the incredible Primavera Sound Festival lineup in Barcelona including The Cure, My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, and Einstürzende Neubauten, as well as your favorite shoegaze, dreampop and post-punk classics. 

Big Sonic Heaven playlist for June 7, 2026

• “Golden Hair” – Slowdive
• “Clusters” – Emma Anderson
• “Time to Breathe” – Remington Super 60″
• “Happiness Is Easy” – Talk Talk
• “Mon Amour Sauvage” – Dead Can Dance
• “For Phoebe Still A Baby” – Cocteau Twins
• “Kiss Her Kiss Her” – Blonde Redhead
• “Six Different Ways” – The Cure
• “Alone” – Carly Hann
• “Lovesleep” – Swallow
• “Juniper” – Forest Circles
• “Ten Grand Goldie” – Einstürzende Neubauten
• “Blind Hearts” – Clan Of Xymox
• “Projections” – Night Tapes”
• The Visitors” – Double Speak
• “Deus” – Sugar Cubes
• “Last Dance” – The Secret French Postcards
• “Sometimes” – My Bloody Valentine
• “Selene” – deary
• “Half A Person” – The Smiths
• “Skiptir engu (translates to “It doesn’t matter”)” – Fischersund, Jónsi, Kjartan Holm & Sin
• “Song To The Siren” – This Mortal Coil
• “Smoke” – Shye
• “Under Your Spell” – Desire
• “Thoughtforms” – Lush
• “Dark Horse” – Edward Ka-Spel
• “Crank” – Catherine Wheel
• “Just Drive” – Postiljonen
• “Feel This Flame Unfold” – Bragolin & Carrellee
• “Ruined In A Day” – New Order
• “Calling the Magazine” – Mind Cinema
• “Snow Heart” – Lucy La Dusk
• “The Dance Of The Birds” – Gergana Dimitrova & Lisa Gerrard
• “Beauty*2” – Ladytron
• “Compulsion” – Martin L. Gore

We heard new music from Doublespeak, the synthpop project of Vince Clarke (Depeche Mode, Yaz, Erasure), Neil Arthur of Blancmange, and producer Benge. Plus, music from Russian shoegaze band Shark’s Tears, the brand-new single from The Secret French Postcards and, as always, your favorite shoegaze, dreampop, and post-punk classics.  

Check out the playlist below and listen to the episode on-demand for two weeks after it airs using the media player above.

Big Sonic Heaven playlist for June 1, 2026

• “Untitled” – The Cure
• “What They Call Us” – Fever Ray
• “Slivered Kisses (feat. Danella Hocevar)” – She Shone
• “Plain Tiger” – Cocteau Twins
• “Rain” – Shark’s tears
• “Tunic (Song for Karen)” – Sonic Youth
• “Disorder” – Joy Division
• “Fairground” – Deary
• “Last Dance” – The Secret French Postcards
• “Visions” – Hooverphonic
• “Strangers” – ACTORS
• “Distraction” – Beachy Head
• “6 Underground” – Sneaker Pimps
• “Gold” – Sigur Rós
• “Long Distance Lover” – Locust
• “Girl Of Colours” – 24 Gone
• “Each Day I Adore you” – Welcome Strawberry
• “History” – The Verve
• “Like Me” – MØAA
• “Reel Around The Fountain” – The Smiths
• “Goodbye to Love” – Doublespeak
• “Summertime” – The Sundays
• “My Plants Are Dead” – Blonde Redhead
• “Shanty” – Slowdive
• “Welcome to the Ocean of My Drowned Stars” – Dog Silent
• “Blown a Wish” – My Bloody Valentine
• “October Love Song” – Chris And Cosey
• “Because I Don’t Know (feat. Mitch Sanders)” – Tricky
• “Slow” – Caelum Bliss
• “Not Sorry” – Poster Paints
• “All In My Mind (Acoustic Version)” – Love and Rockets
• “Time to Breathe” – Remington Super 60
• “What Else Is There?” – Röyksopp
• “A Question of Lust” – Depeche Mode

Big Sonic Heaven featured some bands hittin’ the road this year! Tricky is touring North America for the first time in eight years, and his first show is right here in Detroit at El Club on September 16. We heard his latest track “Out of Place” (feat. Marta).

Gene’s first American Tour in 24 years starts this November. The limited tour doesn’t include Detroit, but if you want to travel, they’ll be in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Toronto, DC, and NYC. The same goes for The Tear Garden. The closest shows to Detroit are Chicago on September 24 for the Cold Waves festival and Cleveland at the Grog Shop on September 26. 

Check out the playlist below and listen to the episode on-demand for two weeks after it airs using the media player above.

Big Sonic Heaven playlist for May 18, 2026

• “Black Metallic” – Catherine Wheel
• “No One’s Listening” – Goodbye Ranger
• “Jovano” – Gergana Dimitrova & Lisa Gerrard
• “Jerusalem” – Sinéad O’Connor
• “Out of Place (feat. Marta)” – Tricky
• “This Far” – Cranes Come
• “wake up (clean version)” – The Haunted Youth
• “Michael” – Beachy Head
• “Next Life” – Mint Julep
• “Just One Kiss” – The Cure
• “Drink the New Wine” – Bauhaus
• “Olympian” – Gene
• “Mon Amour Sauvage” – Dead Can Dance
• “Lovelife” – Lush
• “Alfie” – deary
• “Long Distance Lover” – Locust
• “Souvlaki Space Station” – Slowdive
• “You Are The One” – Kilbey Kennedy
• “Slivered Kisses (feat. Danella Hocevar)” – She Shone
• “Pale Clouded White” – Cocteau Twins
• “Always There” – The Churchhill Garden
• “Floating” – Julee Cruise
• “8th Deadly Sin” – Miki Berenyi Trio
• “Pause The Rain” – Masal & Emma Anderson
• “This Life” – Mandalay
• “Além” – Summer of Hate
• “Ophelia” – The Tear Garden
• “Home” – Depeche Mode
• “One Day” – Future Islands
• “Untitled 8″ – Sigur Rós”

Tonight’s episode featured new music from The Haunted Youth’s new album “Boys Cry Too,” more from the latest Tokyo Shoegazer album, a Philadelphia multi-instrumentalist called Forest Circles, and more from The Twilight Sad.

A few great collaborations were also featured, including “Pause the Rain” by synthpop harp duo Masal and Emma Anderson of Lush. Plus, a track from Kilbey Kennedy, featuring Steve Kilbey of The Church and Martin Kennedy from All India Radio, as well as the hypnotizing new track from Gergana Dimitrova and Lisa Gerrard of Dead Can Dance.

Local music included Shoestrings, a new release from the Detroit Dreampop duo Bluhm, as well as a classic from Velour 100 in celebration of the 30th anniversary of their album Fall Sounds, which is now available on vinyl for the first time.

Big Sonic Heaven can be heard Sundays 9 p.m. to midnight and on-demand at WDET.org, playing dreampop, shoegaze, post-punk, trip-hop and more.

Check out the playlist below and listen to the episode on-demand for two weeks after it airs using the media player above.

Big Sonic Heaven playlist for May 11, 2026

• “andalucia plays” – Slowdive
• “Barabas” – Hooverphonic
• “Hurt” – The Haunted Youth
• “Swamp Thing” – The Chameleons
• “Pause The Rain” – Masal & Emma Anderson
• “Iceblink Luck” – Cocteau Twins
• “No Sweeter Feeling” – deary
• “Who Do You Love?” – Mojave 3
• “Lost In the Weight” – Deserta
• “New Dawn” – Tokyo Shoegazer
• “Lament” – The Cure
• “Stare Into Light” – Velour 100
• “Higher Love” – Depeche Mode
• “Forgive You” – Shoestrings
• “Serafina” – Kilbey Kennedy
• “Another Kind of Love” – Bluhm
• “Only Shallow” – My Bloody Valentine
• “wake up” – The Haunted Youth
• “Acid, Bitter, and Sad” – This Mortal Coil
• “BACK TO FOURTEEN” – The Twilight Sad
• “Stray Fantasies” – Mint Julep
• “Only So Much Light” – Air Formation
• “Priest Alley Song” – Red House Painters
• “The Dance Of The Birds” – Gergana Dimitrova & Lisa Gerrard
• “Wandering Star” – Portishead
• “Our Day Will Come” – Dead Can Dance
• “Smile” – State Of Grace
• “Double Dream” – Panda Riot
• “After the Rain” – The Orange Peels
• “Juniper” – Forest Circles
• “Lover Lover Lover” – Ian McCulloch
• “Paradise” – New Order
• “Voices” – Intermix

Shoegaze is a prominent genre in Big Sonic Heaven and last night was no exception as I featured new music from Tokyo Shoegazer, She Shone, The Haunted Youth as well as some Shoegaze classics. Take a peek below at the playlist and, as always, the show is available for two weeks on-demand at WDET.org. Thanks for listening!

• “Rococo” — Cocteau Twins
• “The Drift” — deary
• “The Perfect Girl” — The Cure
• “Be Still” (Robin Guthrie remix featuring Elizabeth Frazer) — Peace Together
• “A New Goodbye” — Nation of Language
• “Remains” — Tokyo Shoegazer
• “Mesmerise” — Chapterhouse
• “Prince of Insecuria” (feat. Erik Ljunggren & Johannes Winther Farstad) — Bel Canto
• “A Girl Like You” [7″ Mix] — Wolfgang Press
• “Slivered Kisses” (feat. Danella Hocevar) — She Shone
• “Diamonds in the Sand” — State of Grace
• “What a Mess!” — Ellis
• “Love in Itself” — Depeche Mode
• “Atlantis” — Postiljonen
• “You and Your Sister” — This Mortal Coil
• “Another Tale From Another English Town” — Lanterns on the Lake
• “The Dance of the Birds” — Gergana Dimitrova & Lisa Gerrard
• “End Credits” — Laptop
• “In Real Life” — ACTORS
• “Leave Me Alone” — New Order
• “Wake Up” — The Haunted Youth
• “Bedbugs and Ballyhoo” — Echo & the Bunnymen
• “Clusters” — Emma Anderson
• “The Maker of Heavenly Trousers” — Cranes
• “Chained to a Cloud” — Slowdive
• “Além” — Summer of Hate
• “No Flash in the Sky” — Moev
• “Our Day Will Come” — Dead Can Dance
• “Wild Horses” — The Sundays
• “Tell Me” (feat. Saoirse Ronan) — Johnny Jewel
• “I L U” — School of Seven Bells
• “Dirt” — Searows
• “Lions” — Tones on Tail
• “The Runaway” (feat. Elle J) — UNKLE
• “Trainspotting” — Primal Scream

It’s been a great couple of months for new music in Big Sonic Heaven and tonight we dove into those albums further. Dead Can Dance continues to release a new track every month via Bandcamp. We heard the almost 9-minute track, “Death Cult.”

We also revisited Deary, Bug Teeth, Art School Girlfriend, The Twilight Sad, Miki Berenyi Trio, Ashes and Diamonds, The Giraffe Told Me in My Dream, and A Shoreline Dream. Plus classics from Lush, Slowdive, Tones On Tail, The Cure, Cocteau Twins, and more.

Check out the playlist below and don’t forget this show is available on-demand for the next two weeks at wdet.org.

• “Glóð” – Sigur Rós
• “Light From A Dead Star” – Lush
• “Smile” – Deary
• “That Was Another Country” – The Innocence Mission
• “Life in Mono” – Mono
• “Death Cults” – Dead Can Dance
• “Blind Hearts” – Clan Of Xymox
• “Saudade” – This Love Is Deadly
• “lakes” – She’s Green
• “Birdmad Girl” – The Cure
• “Thin Circle” – Bug Teeth
• “Blue Bell Knoll” – Cocteau Twins
• “Seven” – Fever Ray
• “You Just Haven’t Earned It Yet, Baby” – The Smiths
• “Like Me” – MØAA
• “Down with the Upward (feat. Mark Gardner)” – A Shoreline Dream
• “Christian Says” – Tones on Tail
• “BACK TO FOURTEEN” – The Twilight Sad
• “Boyfriend” – Majesty Crush
• “Paralysed” – Ride
• “Surely I Can’t Wait” – Nation of Language
• “Stray Fantasies” – Mint Julep
• “Almost Transparent” – Art School Girlfriend
• “When The Sun Hits” – Slowdive
• “Fate” – Memoryhouse
• “Into You” – The Haunted Youth
• “In Your Room” – Depeche Mode
• “Island Of One” – Miki Berenyi Trio
• “Ruined In A Day” – New Order
• “Hollywood” – Ashes And Diamonds
• “Just Like Honey” – The Jesus & Mary Chain
• “Tonight Is Mine” – Emma Anderson
• “Nefi & Girly” – Asobi Seksu
• “Before” – The Giraffe Told Me in My Dream
• “Special One” – Ultra Vivid Scene
• “Acid, Bitter and Sad” – This Mortal Coil

It’s been 40 years since the release of Cocteau Twins’ “Victorialand.” In celebration of the anniversary, we heard two tracks from the album. We also heard a track from New Order celebrating their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Then we heard a classic from Bjork as she gears up for her rave during the eclipse in Iceland this August and a new limited edition 7’ single from Nation of Language, covering the Bruce Springsteen song, “Tougher Than The Rest.”

Plus a track from the debut album from the new Italian shoegaze band, Yumeia & Tre Flip. Portland-based Phosphene has a new album, “Velveteen,” due out in May. We listened to “Wired,” along with new Hammock, The Twilight Sad, and more!

Check the playlist below and listen to the episode for two weeks after it airs using the player above. 

• “Lazy Calm” – Cocteau Twins
• “Skin in the game” – Slowdive
• “Emo Song” – The Haunted Youth
• “The Loudest Sound” – The Cure
• “Alma” – Deary
• “Vapour Trail” – Ride
• “Nirvana” – Glazyhaze
• “1963” – New Order
• “Wire” – Phosphene
• “Sweetest Perfection” – Depeche Mode
• “Slow (Clean Version)” – Basement Revolver
• “Falter” – Acopia
• “Drive That Fast” – Kitchens of Distinction
• “Back to Nature” – Doublespeak
• “Duel” – Propaganda
• “The Unsetting Sun” – Hammock
• “The Last Day Of Our Acquaintance” – Sinéad O’Connor
• “Lonely Town” – Steve Queralt & Emma Anderson
• “Spring And By Summer Fall” – Blonde Redhead
• “Pluto Drive / Solar Choir” – The Creatures
• “DESIGNED TO LOSE” – The Twilight Sad
• “500 (Shake Baby Shake)” – Lush
• “Gepetto” – Belly
• “Maid Of Orleans” – OMD
• “Fly to the Ceiling (feat. Rosa Rocca-Serra)” – Theis Thaws, Tricky
• “Death Cults” – Dead Can Dance
• “Unicorn” – Bel Canto
• “eterno riposo” – Yumeia & Tre Flip
• “Such A Shame” – Talk Talk
• “4ever” – Bathe Alone
• “Venus As A Boy (7″ American Dream Remix)” – Björk
• “Tougher Than the Rest” – Nation of Language
• “Little Spacey” – Cocteau Twins
• “Beauty*2” – Ladytron

In tonight’s Big Sonic Heaven, we featured music from The Twilight Sad’s new album which features Robert Smith on bass and guitar.

The band is also touring this spring with another Big Sonic favorite, deary. We played two new tracks from their debut album, “Birding.”

We also heard the latest from Hammock featuring The Flaming Lips and more, along with your favorite shoegaze, dreampop, and post-punk classics!

Check the playlist below and listen to the episode for two weeks after it airs using the player above. 

• “Feel So Different” – Sinéad O’Connor
• “Vertigo” – Miki Berenyi Trio
• “Our Day Will Come” – Dead Can Dance
• “Feel” – The Church
• “Blue Ribbon” – deary
• “Face To Face” – Siouxsie & The Banshees
• “Kandy” – Fever Ray
• “Crushed” – Cocteau Twins
• “Silhouette” – Nation of Language
• “All Night Long” – Peter Murphy
• “Blood Money” – The Sisters Of Mercy
• “Plainsong” – The Cure
• “Everyone Knows” -Slowdive
• “INHOSPITABLE/HOSPITAL” – The Twilight Sad
• “Delicious Demon” – Sugarcubes
• “Just Drive” – Postiljonen
• “Sunday Morning” – Beth Gibbons & War Child Records
• “Kiss Her Kiss Her” – Blonde Redhead
• “Monopoly” – Yndling
• “Leaves Me Cold” – Lush
• “Desire” – Silver Swans
• “No Sweeter Feeling” – deary
• “Lions & Tigers” – Asobi Seksu
• “Translucent” – The Bellwether Syndicate
• “Ride It On” – Mazzy Star
• “Hide & Seek” – Airiel
• “Strolling” – The Giraffe Told Me In My Dream
• “Compulsion” – Martin L. Gore
• “Chemicals Make You Small (feat. The Flaming Lips)” – Hammock
• “The Him” – New Order
• “Gold” – Sigur Rós
• “Summer Moon” – The Raveonettes
• “Universal Soldier” – Depeche Mode & War Child Records
• “Goodbye Lucille #1” – Prefab Sprout
• “Pump” – He Said

Excited about some new music in Big Sonic Heaven this week. We played two tracks from the much-anticipated album “Birding” from dreampop three-piece Deary, which was released this week. We also heard the new single from She’s Green, “Paper Thin,” from their upcoming EP, “Swallowtail,” which is due in July.

Plus, the latest from The Julies, Dead Can Dance, Searows, and Miki Berenyi Trio, along with your favorite shoegaze, dream pop, and post-punk.

• “Elysium, Honor Him, Now We Are Free” – Hans Zimmer & Lisa Gerrard
• “Doot Doot” – The Fauns
• “In Violet” – Searows
• “Baby’s Breath” – deary
• “Love’s Easy Tears” – Cocteau Twins
• “I Think I Knew” – The Church
• “A Night Like This” – The Cure
• “Low December Sun” – Air Formation
• “Paper Thin” – She’s Green
• “Sweetness And Light” – Lush
• “I’m So Tired” – Deserta
• “Out Of Sight” – Hooverphonic
• “Nobody Loves You More” – Kim Deal
• “Neon Afterlife” – The Julies
• “All Mine” – Portishead
• “Island Of One” – Miki Berenyi Trio
• “Run” – New Order
• “Orange of the Westering Sun” – The Innocence Mission
• “Primal” – Slowdive
• “Smile” – deary
• “Everywhere” – Cranes
• “New You” – My Bloody Valentine
• “Fine Friend” – Pale Saints
• “Stranglehold” – The Churchhill Garden
• “Hazlewood” – Toothpaste
• “Halo” – Depeche Mode
• “Thin Circle” – Bug Teeth
• “Success Has Made A Failure of Our Home” – Sinéad O’Connor
• “Vanity (feat. Rachel Goswell)” – Drab Majesty
• “Coldsweat” – Sugarcubes
• “Our Day Will Come” – Dead Can Dance
• “The Worst Taste In Music” – The Radio Dept.