This is an archive of playlists from our previous shows. Most of our older shows are available in podcast form.
Episode 260: 9/1/2024
We hit our 260th episode this week! We started this show with a set of new darkwave, post-punk, and industrial tracks. The second block was a set of industrial, noise rock, no wave, and punk with an underlying theme of work, because it’s Labor Day weekend. The third block was a set of noise, power electronics, and death industrial. Then we finished the show with a set of shoegaze, slowcore, etc.
Episode 259: 8/25/2024
We started this show with a block of new industrial and synthwave tracks. The second block was a set of mostly recent industrial and EBM tracks. The third block was a set of noise rock. And we wrapped up the show with a block of goth, darkwave, and post-punk songs.
Episode 258: 8/18/2024
We started this show with a block of new post-punk and darkwave tracks. The second block was a mix of synthwave and adjancent tracks. The third block was a mix of goth and post-punk, with mostly recent tracks. And the last set featured a psychedelic dirge cover.
Episode 257: 7/14/2024
We began this episode with a set of new darkwave, goth, and post-punk tracks, including a recently identified mysterious song. The second block featured tracks by darkwave artists that are playing in the Little Rock area soon. The third block was a mix of shoegaze and post-punk, by artists who are playing in the Little Rock area soon. The fourth and final set featured songs referencing the Moon, in honor of the fifty-fifth anniversary of the 1969 Moon Landing.
Episode 256: 7/7/2024
The first block of this show debuted some new darkwave, post-punk, and goth tracks. The second block featured artists that are playing shows in the Little Rock area in the near future. The third block was a set of sets about ‘Mericuh, because it was the fourth of July. The last block was a mix of tracks referencing aliens, UFOs, etc. in honor of World UFO Day.
Episode 255: 6/30/2024
This show started with a set of brand new post-punk, industrial, etc. tracks. The second block was a set of obscure goth, post-punk, etc. from the 1980s. The third block was a set of noise rock, darkwave, metal, etc. with a theme of summertime. The fourth and final block was a set of metal, darkwave, post-punk, and industrial in “honor” because the Fourth of July (US Independence Day) is coming up in a couple of days.
Episode 254: 6/23/2024
This episode was our 2024 Summer Solstice special. We began with a set of goth, post-punk, etc. tracks with a theme of heat, etc. because it’s been pretty hot recently. The second set was a mix of goth, post-punk, and industrial songs with a theme of summertime. The third block was a mix of synthwave, post-punk, and punk that was themed around beaches, and surfing, because that’s a summertime thing. And the fourth and final set was a mix of experimental and ambient tracks about summer.
Episode 253: 6/16/2024
This week’s episode was a milestone for us. Half Machine Lip Moves debuted on June 16, 2017. We celebrated our seventh anniversary by doing nothing particularly special. We started this show with some brand new darkwave and post-punk tracks. The second block was a mix of old and new industrial tracks. The third block was a set of noise rock and no wave. The fourth block was a set of industrial and experimental tracks. The fifth block was a set of summer-themed industrial and EBM. The sixth and final block was a set of experimental and ambient tracks with a summer theme.
Episode 252: 5/26/2024
This show began with a set of brand new post-punk, darkwave, and synthwave tracks. Then we began the show proper, which was a tribute to the late producer and audio engineer Steve Albini, also of the bands Big Black and Shellac. We played tracks from releases that were recorded, mixed, or produced by Steve Albini, as well as tracks he played on or wrote. Most of it leaned on noise rock and no wave, along with a bit of post-punk, and we closed the show with a set of post-rock, experimental, etc.
Episode 251: 5/5/2024
We started this show witha set of new post-punk, darkwave, and EBM tracks. That was followed with a set of post-punk and synthpop with an underlying theme of being stuck and going nowhere. The third block block was a somber one. The fourth block was a set of post-punk, darkwave, etc. tracks themed around magic, because this show was supposed to air around Walpurgisnacht. We played a set of tracks themed or referencing Halloween in the fifth block, because it was about halfway to Halloween. And we finished the set with a track of mostly-new dungeon synth tracks.