The Lunar Orbit

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"...

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...

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...

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 Beyon...

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, Pl...

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,...

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:  Ki...

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 B...

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)...

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" f...

Einstein theorized that objects experiencing a greater gravitational pull will be subjected to time dilation, meaning the more gravity, the slower time passes. Well – he was right, and to counter that effect on The Lunar Orbit we had to move the whole dang show up 2 hours! Since we’re premiering a new time slot and might have some new listeners I’ve prepared a Post-Rock Primer, an Intro 101 course...

The Lunar Orbit returns to finish our Top 2024 releases list! Then after that I wanted to feature some fantastic new releases from groups like Living with Giants, Deeparshi Roy, Ysbryd Mawr, NRTHRN and many more! Some of these I missed from 2024, some just came out last month, and all are excellent! Tune in, will be a great show! Playlist:   Mono "Oath" from OATH A Burial At Sea "DALL" from Close...

This week, I finally made it to the studio to bring you The Lunar Orbits Top Albums of 2024! I have combed through a lot of the fantastic music from last year and come out on the other side with a 20-track long list of my absolute favorites. No particular order here, I can’t pick favorites that granularly, but rest assured everything you’ll tonight is stellar! Tune in to hear all the selections an...

Another winter storm blew through RVA last night, and the *heaviest* stuff hit right as I was supposed to go on air! Unfortunately, I don’t like being stuck in the snow, so I'm bringing you another rebroadcast this week. It's a great one, but I can’t wait to finally get back and bring you this best of episode! Stay tuned! Lots of fun fast paced music on tonight’s show, math rock and other esoteric...

Happy New Year! It's finally cold outside, a winter storm is brewing - what better time than to listen to this winter wonderland of an episode! Originally aired back in December of 2023, I had to put it back at the top of your feed!   Lots of chill, cozy, atmospheric vibes perfect for a hazy winter walk or some contemplation by the fire. A lot of music in this genre can evoke a calm, slower atmosp...

It’s time to deck the docking stations and tinsel the rocket, it’s a Lunar Orbit Christmas ‘24! Join me for some all-time classic post rock holiday/winter tracks from bands like Shy Low, Sigur Rós, Manchester Orchestra, Low, and many more!! We’re blasting off into the week of Christmas and New Years with a favorite yearly tradition, so don’t miss it! 🚀🎄 Playlist:   Keith Kenniff "Flow & Branch"...

This week, I have pulled together a little bit of everything from across the post-rock spectrum! We have ambient electronica, hard rock crescendos, harmonious midwestern sparkles, and whatever This Patch of Sky is! Featuring tons of great artists including Johnathan Corley, Zombie Wester, Kontakte, Sky Flying By and many more! Playlist:  Jonathan Corley "Trackside" from Another Pioneer Moonlit Sai...

This week, after a month of misfires we’re finally ready to light this candle! I am finally able to bring you the show I was planning to do at the beginning of November. Which means this episode be prepared for some more toned-down vibes, especially compared to the October shows. Everything from If These Trees Could Talk, to Caspian, Bear the Mammoth, Retrograde Motion, and even…. The Cure?! Playl...

I'm lost in the woods again this weekend, so I'm bringing you a replay of an awesome show from this time last year! A little bit of everything on tonight’s show, post-doomgaze all the way to ambient soundscapes. Wanted to make sure to include the new tracks from last week’s show we couldn’t get to including brand new music from Lowercase Noises, and Seeress! Playlist:   Have Near "Pervasive" from...

We’re coming down from Overdrive October with a bit more chill show. Great vibes to bring you into a (hopefully) chilly fall. Leaves changing, cider in a mug, rocket launches ever 3.14 minutes to keep the schedule of lunar refitting on track! Quick boys before we have to light these candles before winter, after that the migratory birds will block the flight path!! Playlist:   Wander "Soar" from Mo...

Happy Halloween!! We are on our final week of Overdrive October! Tonight, we go out with a bang, a night of spooky space monsters, and cosmic calamity! The show this evening is full of mythical beasts’ head banging to crazy guitar riffs. A giant mythical Anubis dances to the sound of distorted horns, a band of skeletal astronauts’ jam with instruments made out of satellite scraps, cosmic horrors e...

Hey folks, I was adventuring in the woods last week and wasn't able to record an episode, so instead to keep Overdrive October going I am bringing you a re-run of last year's 3rd week! Originally broadcast October 21, 2023.   Week 3!! Just in time for the Fall Fund Drive! Same deal, some awesome overdriven, distorted, heavier than the sun post-rock, AND some chat about how amazing WRIR is. Playlis...

We’re back with the second week of OVERDRIVE OCTOBER!! Will you roll well enough to escape the Minotaur's blade? Only one way to find out!   Playlist:   Tars "I'm Steady" from Per Aspera Treebeard "8X0" from Nostalgia Inner Landscape "The Order of Things" from 3H33 Nuummite "Krakatoa" from Celestial Triarchy Breaths "A Year on Fire (Instrumental)" from Lined in Silver (Instrumental) [Instrumental]...

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Trying to catch up with all the new releases I've been letting fly by - this episode recaps some of the best releases from August, 2024!   Playlist:   Kerretta "Eyes In The Bull Temple (Radio Edit)" from Eyes In The Bull Temple (Radio Edit) - Single Brontide "Mineral" from Mineral - Single Falling In A Dream "System Overload" from Dead Young Buck - Single And So I Watch You From Afar "Gallery of H...