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)

The Lunar Orbit is back, as promised, with all new music! Tons of great stuff was released last month, and I’m going to try and highlight as many of my favorite tracks as possible!

Playlist:

• Scale & Feather "Creosote" from Creosote - Single
• Kusanagi "Polymorph" from Polymorph - Single
• L.O.E, Alan Watts "After All Is Said & Done (feat. Alan Watts)" from After All Is Said & Done (feat. Alan Watts) - Single
• Moraines "Anima" from Future Histories
• There Was a Yeti "Matriarch" from Asymmetry
• Pelican "Indelible" from Flickering Resonance
• Musuem of Light "Get Paid" from Diviner
• Ghosts of the Sun "Blood Ritual" from Blood Ritual - Single
• Verbian "Pausa Entre Dias" from Casarder
• Isolation Drills "Ruriden" from Year Two
• Metempsychosis "Ocean Metamorphosis" from Gaia Fable
• Kinski "Stumbledown Terrace" from Stumbledown Terrace
• Airships on the Water "In Place of Distance" from In Place of Distance - Single
• Idiogram "Bevel" from Reunion of Broken Parts
• Orca "Impeccable" from Title
• City of the Lost "Memories" from Memories - Single
• BARRENS "Periastron" from Periastron - Single

We may be a little late, but I won’t miss a yearly tradition. Doing the show every other week means I missed, 3.14...PI Day! I can't miss PI DAY! That means we’re celebrating the only way we can – 3.1415926535 seconds of all math rock!

Playlist:

• Rooftops "I Fast Early" from A Forest of Polarity
• Via Luna "Unwinder" from Heavy Light
• Suffer Like G Did "Beow" from Beow - Single
• toe "Dual Harmonics" from Our Latest Number - EP
• Chinese Football "Game Start / Electronic Girl 游戏开始 / 电动少女 (Audiotree Live)" from Chinese Football (Audiotree Live) - EP
• The Most "F.A.C." from At Once
• Of Two Minds "Natural Light" from Natural Light - EP
• Trying Science "Math Salts" from Next - EP
• Parachute Day "Frisbee" from Thank You Notes - EP
• Desert Vows "Miyazaki Frontier" from Long Time, No See
• Shaolin "Castle Freak" from Adiaphora - EP
• Origami JP "From the Train Window" from Trains - EP
• Zoo Strategies "A Single Hat Lost at Sea" from Languager
• Illegal Jazz Brunch "The Long Night" from Slice of Life
• Defórmica "Novelesco" from Páramo
• Floral "Ebullient" from Floral LP
• Delta Sleep "Maconiklaus Culkinski" from Management
• Stage Kids "Jafari's Revenge" from Killer Tofu
• Cuzco "You Said Number 11" from A Medicine for Melancholy - EP