This episode of Big Sonic Heaven featured three tracks with proceeds going toward helping people in war-stricken areas. First up, an unexpected new release from Dead Can Dance, their first new single in five years, “Our Day Will Come.” For every purchase of “Our Day Will Come,” Dead Can Dance will donate 50% of the proceeds to MAP (Medical Aid for Palestinians).

MAP does incredible work to provide medical care, food, and nutritional aid to the Palestinian people. The new single also came with an announcement that all of their future music will only be released on Bandcamp, a platform that bans AI music. Their statement is below:

“We have decided to no longer support streaming platforms that continue to exploit artists and promote AI generated music. In future we will sell our music directly to the public via Bandcamp, a platform that continues to support independent artists and which has commendably banned all forms of AI generated music, a technology that threatens the very life and soul of our profession.”

We also took the new Depeche Mode and Beth Gibbons War Child Records Help(2) tracks for another spin. Proceeds help to protect, educate, and stand up for the rights of children living through conflict around the world.

In other new music, we heard the latest from Deary, ACTORS, Art School Girlfriend, Plastic Milk, and more. 

Plus, we celebrated 30 years of Stereolab’s album, “Emperor Tomato Ketchup!” Yay!

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

• “You Do Something To Me” – Sinéad O’Connor
• “All That We Had Is Lost” – Postiljonen
• “Alma” – deary
• “Love Less” – New Order
• “Vertigo” – Miki Berenyi Trio
• “Our Day Will Come” – Dead Can Dance
• “Railwayed” – Kitchens of Distinction
• “Primitive Painters” – Felt
• “Universal Soldier” – Depeche Mode & War Child Records
• “Les Yper -Sound” – Stereolab
• “Sugar Phantom Blackout” – Bluhm
• “Torture” – The Cure
• “Other Things” – Ringo Deathstarr
• “Almost Transparent” – Art School Girlfriend
• “It’s Enough Now” – Mandalay
• “A Return” – The Tear Garden
• “Overcome” – Tricky
• “chained to a cloud” – Slowdive
• “Thursday” – Asobi Seksu
• “CTRL” – ACTORS
• “Heart and Soul” – Joy Division
• “Deep Ocean Vast Sea” – Peter Murphy
• “The Robot Girl Psychiatrist” – The False Dawns
• “Punish Me With Kisses” – The Glove
• “Kiss Of Snow (feat. Krissy Vanderwoude)” – LongingSky
• “Vapour Trail” – Ride
• “Sunday Morning” – Beth Gibbons & War Child Records
• “Carolyn’s Fingers” – Cocteau Twins
• “Into You” – The Haunted Youth
• “Klettur” – Sigur Rós
• “Sticky Halo” – Plastic Milk
• “I Tried” – Shoestrings
• “Kiss a Girl In Black” – Fleeting Joys

Tonight, Big Sonic Heaven featured tracks by Depeche Mode and Beth Gibbons from the “War Child Records Help(2)” charity compilation. “Every purchase, stream, and share of ‘HELP(2)’ supports War Child UK to raise critical funds for children living through the unthinkable.”

Head over to their Bandcamp to buy a track or the full record to support this important cause. 

We also heard a new single from Detroit dreampop duo Bluhm, a new English-French art-pop duo called Nonsense Rats, and more, plus your favorite Big Sonic classics.

Don’t forget that every show is available for replay for two weeks at wdet.org. Thanks for listening!

• “Trust” – The Cure
• “Phosphorous” – Lamb
• “Alfie” – Deary
• “Cherry-Coloured Funk” – Cocteau Twins
• “Universal Soldier” – Depeche Mode & War Child Records
• “Scarlet” – Lush
• “String Theory” – Lanterns On The Lake
• “Violently Happy” – Björk
• “The Night Is Quiet” – Nonsense Rats
• “Don’t Fade Away” – Dead Can Dance
• “South Coast” – Throwing Muses
• “Tears” – The Chameleons
• “Fear Everything” – Bathe Alone
• “Before” – The Giraffe Told Me in My Dream
• “The Ghost In You” – Siouxsie & The Banshees
• “Sunday Morning” – Beth Gibbons & War Child Records
• “2Wicky” – Hooverphonic
• “Running Away” – Washed Out
• “Come Together” – Primal Scream
• “No Longer Making Time” – Slowdive
• “Burrow” – AtticOmatic
• “Song To The Siren” – This Mortal Coil
• “Pink Funeral” – Beach House
• “Reel Around The Fountain” – The Smiths
• “Faît Accompli” – Curve
• “The Lake (Cinematic)” – Fever Ray
• “Like Suicide” – ACTORS
• “Here’s To All The Ones” – Hunter As a Horse
• “You Look So Fine” – Garbage
• “Sugar Phantom Blackout” – Bluhm
• “Anger is an Acid (with IAMX)” – cEvin Key
• “Such A Shame” – Talk Talk

There’s been a lot of new music in Big Sonic Heaven over the last few weeks. This time around, we featured “Underground,” a new track by Inner Magic, the new band of former Chromatics and Smashing Pumpkins members, Adam Miller and Jeff Schroeder, respectively.

We heard the new single “Doing Laps” from Polly MacKay’s project called Art School Girlfriend, along with new tracks from Searows, Whitelands, AtticOmatic, Softcult, Good Day Father, and more. 

Chapterhouse is kicking off their North American Tour in May, where they’ll be performing their debut album, “Whirlpool,” in its entirety, with the Toronto show featuring another Big Sonic Heaven favorite, She’s Green. This is their first North American tour since 2010. We listened to “Pearl” to celebrate the announcement! Plus, a slew of your favorite Big Sonic Heaven classics!

Don’t forget that every show is available for replay for two weeks at wdet.org. Thanks for listening!

• “Lorelei” – Cocteau Twins
• “We Would Meet in Center City” – The Innocence Mission
• “Garden” – Maria Somerville
• “Duel” – Propaganda
• “Doing Laps” – Art School Girlfriend
• “Sooner Than You Think” – New Order
• “Goodbye” – Cigarettes for Breakfast
• “Soon” – My Bloody Valentine
• “Queen of Nothing” – Softcult
• “A Means to An End” – Joy Division
• “A Return” – The Tear Garden
• “Nothing” – Depeche Mode
• “8th Deadly Sin” – Miki Berenyi Trio
• “Brighter” – Slowdive
• “Golden Daze” – Whitelands
• “The Sulphur Man” – Doves
• “Underground (feat Ruth Radelet)” – Inner Magic
• “Lovelife” – Lush
• “All that We’ll Ever Be” – Mint Julep
• “Isobel” – Björk
• “Dirt” – Searows
• “All Night Long” – Peter Murphy
• “Jerusalem” – Sinead O’ Connor
• “Hljómalind” – Sigur Rós
• “Lewin” – AtticOmatic
• “Ballerina Out of Control” – The Ocean Blue
• “The Great Unknown” – Ivy
• “Sonic Amadea” – Good Day Father
• “Pearl” – Chapterhouse
• “Dreamweavers” – Trentemøller
• “Take Forever” – Japanese Popstars (feat Robert Smith)
• “Seabird” – Deary
• “Out of Sight” – Hooverphonic

This episode of Big Sonic Heaven featured the latest from Nation of Language, Morrissey, Hatchie, Stereolab, and another track from Whitelands new album “Sunlight Echoes.”

We also heard a couple of great Alex Chilton and Cole Porter covers by This Mortal Coil and Sinead O’Connor, respectively, and, of course, a whole bunch of shoegaze, dreampop, and post-punk classics.

See the playlist below and hear this episode on demand for two weeks at wdet.org or via the WDET app.

• “In A Lonely Place” – New Order
• “Purple” – She’s green
• “Silhouette” – Nation of Language
• “Last Night” – Lush
• “I Am No God, an Effigy” – Whitelands
• “Life in Mono” – Mono
• “Want You” – Deary
• “Kangaroo” – This Mortal Coil
• “This Is Not a Drill” – Lanterns on the Lake
• “Make-up is a lie” – Morrissey
• “Crystal Wrists” – Peter Murphy
• “You Do Something to Me” – Sinead O’ Connor
• “In A Manner Of Speaking” – Martin L. Gore
• “Give up the Ghost” – Minor Victories
• “Apart” – The Cure
• “Little Galaxy” – Silk Daisys
• “Crank” – Catherine Wheel
• “Flowing” – Cigarettes for Breakfast
• “Musette And Drums” – Cocteau Twins
• “Familiar” – Piroshka
• “Come Alive” – Nitzer Ebb
• “Carousel” – Hatchie
• “Ace of Hz” – Ladytron
• “Magic Doors” – Portishead
• “Consequence.” – The Notwist
• “Fed Up With Your Job” – Stereolab
• “Up the Down Escalator” – The Chameleons
• “Here Is The House” – Depeche Mode
• “Warmth” – Glazyhaze
• “San Geronimo” – Red House Painters
• “Slomo” – Slowdive
• “The Worst Taste In Music” – The Radio Dept.
• “Glimpse” – The Giraffe Told Me in My Dream
• “Open Mind” – Moev