The Lunar Orbit

I've been loving the  @mogwaiband  album “As The Love Continues” so a lot of the tracks on this episode are inspired by the movements and builds on there! Lots of great stuff tonight including  @monoofjapan  with a wonderful winter themed track,  @juniperridge  with some jazz-rock, excellent guitar work from  @marcroussel , great orchestral jamming from  @fractal_band  , and much more! Playlist: ...

Back from the Thanksgiving break, I'm knee deep in schoolwork this week so I'm bringing you a really stellar episode which aired on WRIR back in July 2021! Hence the timely reference to the SpaceX ship. Something of a contemplative set this week, a lot of down tuning, and melodic rock. Lots of chimey, washy, weird sounds! Think you'll really enjoy it!   Playlist:   Black Hill "Night In a Mossy Hut...

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 Seeress! Playlist:   Have Near "Pervasive" from Facing Forward - Single Rocket Miner "Lotus" from Song for an October Sky (Remixed & Remastered) Seeress "Holograms" from Holograms - Sing...

We’re back this week with a ton of the new releases that I missed last month! Turns out while we were focused on the heavy stuff tons of bands were throwing out killer new records left and right. This episode has some awesome new stuff from local bands Loxias, and Keep, plus lots of great newly released live performances and some fantastic new ambient records! Links to live performances: SLIFT – I...

Happy (almost) Halloween! Tonight is the finale to Overdrive October and our Halloween extravaganza! A show is full of spooky shoegaze, haunting psychedelic, and petrifying post-rock! Muhahaha! Plus, we continue the WRIR Fall Fund Drive! Playlist:  Clutch "Nosferatu Madre" from Sunrise on Slaughter Beach Psychonaut "All I Saw as a Huge Monkey" from Unfold the God Man After Nations "Aon" from The E...

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. Playlist:   Four Stroke Baron "Cyborg, Pt. 2: The City" from Planet Silver Screen Russian Circles "Quartered" from Blood Year Katre "The Run" from Behind the Resilience Toska "Chalk Teeth" from Ode to the Author Petyr "Grease 'em All...

Week 2 of 💥Overdrive October💥 Bringing you the most distorted overdriven head banging post-rock this side of Halloween 🎃 Ton of awesome music tonight including Night Verses, PILLARS, Mothra, and maaaaany more, tune in if you dare! 👻👻💀 Playlist:   Aligns & Rubicones "Friday Night Fire Fight" from Cyberpunk 2077: Radio, Vol. 1 (Original Soundtrack) Night Verses "Copper Wasp" from From the Gall...

It’s October! The leaves are changing, spookiness set to max, and its week one of our annual tradition💥OVERDRIVE OCTOBER 💥A month of the heaviest, distorted, pulse pounding post-rock leading straight to Halloween! Playlist:   Orsak:Oslo "079 Dutchman's Wake, Pt. I" from In Irons Audiolepsia "Beatrix" from Muses Wolfredt "Assegai" from IIII Hiroe "Doom Moon" from Doom Moon - Single Nazca Plate "Y...

All new releases from the month, and lots of new to the show bands! Playlist:   Parallel Colors "Forlorn" from Forlorn - Single Explosions In the Sky "Ten Billion People" from End Flourish "Neon Rain" from The Body Will Lead You Night Verses "Rose Wire" from Every Sound Has A Color In The Valley Of Night: Part 1 Delayed Schedules "F.R.E.E." from F.R.E.E. - Single Ever After "Conduit" from Conduit...

It's all post-punk this episode! Fast guitars, dreamy riffs, overdriven vibes – good stuff! Have been diving into a lot of Midwestern emo stuff over the past week, which is where this episode came out of, a little all over the map between post-punk, shoegaze, emo, and some math rock(?) and whatever Death From Above 1979 is. Enjoy!   P.S: Zach from the future here, this ep originally aired live on...

This episode is a weird mix of genres, I’ve been officially influenced by a popular music podcast, and became a fan of psychedelic German rock from the 70s. Then, there are the ambient bands I didn’t get to on last week’s show. Then I’ve been listening to heavy-post blues. Then to top it all off, Inon Zur and the Bethesda Boys drop one of the best ambient albums of the year with the Starfield soun...

It’s the beginning of the month which means we go over new music! New The Joy Formidable, Explosions in the Sky, Temples, and many more! Playlist:   The Joy Formidable "Cut Your Face" from Cut Your Face - Single Din of Celestial Birds "Launch" from The Night is for Dreamers Explosion in the sky "Moving On" from Moving On - Single Red Pine Mushroom "Horseman" from Horseman - Single TFAP "Enigmatic"...

Bringing you a fun show from the archives tonight, originally aired back in Nov 2020. Tons of great music, including Arctic Rise, There’s A Light, Release the Long Ships, and many more! Also, there may or may not be a dramatic reenactment of the dramatic siege of the International Space Station by forces unknown.   Playlist:   Arctic Rise "A Hero's Journey" from Frequencies Made Visible There's A...

I’ve pulled myself away from Baldur’s Gate 3 to bring you a fun prog-y, mellow distorted set! As you probably be able to tell by the first song, this is a very prog-rock inspired entry, kind of ambient, flowing, chilled out. How else to describe it, who knows just listen! Featuring bands like Wobbler, The American Dollar, My Brother the Wind, Barn Owl, I Hear Sirens, and many more! Playlist:   Wob...

Out of the office this week, so bringing a re-run of our Best of 2022 show! A (very incomplete) list of some of the best post-rock that was released last year!   I have tried to make this a list of both some of the biggest releases of last year like Russian Circles “Gnosis", and El Ten Eleven’s “New Year’s Eve”, and some of my favorites like Deer Park Ranger, hubris., and Guilt & The Bear. This is...

It’s the beginning of the month so we know what that means, new music time! Highlighting a ton of great music from July, plus a couple I missed from earlier. Playlist:   Illiterate Light "Light Me Up (Audiotree Live Version)" from Illiterate Light on Audiotree Live (Audiotree Live Version) After-Math "Cry Havoc" from Cry Havoc - Single Welmoed "Naga" from Ask & Embla Bear the Mammoth "Eugene" from...

Today, Post-Fest highlights! If you haven’t heard me talk about it enough a big post-rock festival is happening this weekend in Indianapolis. Even though I can’t bring you the show live from Post-Fest I can at least pretend! This episode I’m highlighting as many of the bands playing as I can in 2 hours, so strap in! Playlist:   Cloakroom "Gone but Not Entirely" from Time Well Shipwreck Karpathos "...

  Tonight! Obviously, I have to feature the new Explosions in the Sky track from their upcoming album End, but then we’re doing a chilled out spacy Friday, featuring bands like Clutch, Black Mountain, Korbak, Kikagaku Moyo, and many more. Playlist:  Explosions In the Sky "Ten Billion People" from Ten Billion People - Single Clutch "Spacegrass (Live)" from Pure Rock Fury Black Mountain "Space to Ba...

It’s a new month, which means we get to go over all of the awesome albums which came out in the last one! June definitely did not disappoint, let’s highlight some! Playlist:  The Smile "Bending Hectic" from Bending Hectic - Single Follow "Glimmer" from Old Haunts Bear the Mammoth "Cridge" from Cridge - Single So Far As I Know "To Life's Horror Is to Laugh" from To Life's Horror Is to Laugh - Singl...

In the last couple of weeks, we have gotten a ton of awesome live performances from a few bands, wanted to spend about the first half of the show highlighting all of those, and then the second half listening to a killer assortment pulled from our master list! Also fun fact, Apollo 13, you know with Tom Hanks, was released 28 years ago today! Links to all the live performances below: we.own.the.sky...

Lots of fun fast paced music on tonight’s show, math rock and other esoterica! Playlist:   Challenger Deep "Like Giving Wings to a Tiger" from The Stuff of Legends Yndian Mynah "Socks On Astroturf" from The Boys Scribbled Like Mad Japanese Sunday "Because You're Still Breathing" from Black Box Volume 1 Trampoline "Escher (Live)" from Escher (Live) - Single Elephant Gym "Witches" from Dreams tricot...

Another great new releases show you for you. Tons of awesome post-rock releases in May! Playlist:  D. Majestic and the Spectral Band "The Tallest Man on the Moon" from The Tallest Man on the Moon - Single Ephilexia "Dreadfiend" from To Hell We Fly - Single Ēlūcescentia "Valoni" from Vuoret Jotka Laskeutuivat Taivaasta Klidas "Shores" from Shores - Single Pulse of Silence "Across the Bridge of Il...

We’re back live with LONG songs!! Overtures is the only way I can describe it. Perfect episode to let yourself be enveloped in the atmosphere of the music and enjoy. Playlist:   King Buffalo "Goliath, Pt. 1" from Orion All Them Witches "Acid Face" from Acid Face - EP Elder "Weißensee" from The Gold & Silver Sessions Kungens Män "Bortkopplad från tiden" from Stockholm Maraton Domo "Samsara" from D...

  Good evening! A little bit of quieter show tonight! Have been in an ambient mood this week! Featuring a couple more new tracks that we I didn't get to last episode, then going into some great music from the week. Playlist is below!  Playlist:  Dallas Skies "About a Girl" from About a Girl - Single Shy, Low "Instinctual Estrangement" from Instinctual Estrangement - Single It Was a Good Dream "A D...

  On this episode we’ve got a whole slate of new releases from March until now! Been a while since we did a more release show, so a lot to catch up on!  Playlist:  Party Dozen "The Iron Boot" from The Real Work Arhios "Bara" from Miscible Entropia "Retox" from Total Empires of Light "The Lights Became Blood" from Aberrations Fargo "Berlin" from Geli Arctic Rise "A Species With Amnesia" from A Spec...