VELVET UMBRELLA RADIO After Hours
WDRT Late Nights. One-hour show. Fridays, 2–3 a.m.
Digital Frequency. Three Hours. Mixcloud Archive.
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Welcome to Velvet Umbrella Radio

Every Door Leads Somewhere Strange
The show art is clickable.
The videos are doors.
The playlists have stories.
Some pages lead to hidden corridors.

Follow the clues.
Open a few doors.
Get wonderfully lost.
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Velvet Umbrella News

Velvet Umbrella Radio – Eclectic Wonderland, After Hours, Petals & Hooks. Hit play for showtimes and to explore further.
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BROADCASTS

A late-night frequency curated by Mickey Fingers. Darkwave, shadow, and full signal. Produced in the margins of daylight.
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This Week’s Transmissions

This week, familiar songs arrive wearing entirely different clothes. Covers, reinterpretations, fifty years of love, and a darker version of midnight.

Wednesday • Eclectic Wonderland • 1–3 PM Central • WDRT Viroqua

7 Days of Cake

Two hours of unforgettable cover songs, musical reinvention, and a celebration of fifty years of love.

7 Days of Cake Eclectic Wonderland show artwork

DJ Tea, Mr. Announcer Man, and Mickey Fingers explore familiar songs heard in entirely new ways, along with a special celebration honoring Jan and Art and fifty years of music woven through their story.

Show Notes & Stories

Friday Overnight • Velvet Umbrella Radio: After Hours • 1–3 AM Central

The Other Version of Midnight

Dream pop. Darkwave. Shoegaze. Post-punk. Twenty-six haunting reinterpretations after dark.

The Other Version of Midnight show artwork

Mickey Fingers and Celeste Violet slip deeper into the night with reinterpretations of music connected to The Cure, Bauhaus, Joy Division, Echo & the Bunnymen, David Bowie, Depeche Mode, and more.

Because sometimes the songs don’t change. We do.

Stories & Show Notes Velvet Umbrella Archive

Wednesday afternoon, follow us into Eclectic Wonderland.
Friday night into Saturday morning, meet us on the other side of midnight.

Past broadcasts, exclusive transmissions, stories, video playlists, and open doors are waiting.

Velvet Umbrella Radio
Same Frequency. Different Light.

This Week’s Transmissions

Dancing mushrooms, midnight static, explicit release, and eight hours of corridors. Choose your door.

Wednesday • Eclectic Wonderland • WDRT

Oh Shiitaki!

Oh Shiitaki show artwork

Dancing mushrooms, electronic curiosities, oddities, and questionable decisions.

Friday Overnight • Velvet Umbrella Radio: After Hours

After the Static

After the Static show artwork

Shoegaze, dream pop, darkwave, ambient drift, and music for everyone still awake.

Petals & Hooks • Door One • Explicit

F*ck This Playlist

F*ck This Playlist show artwork

Unfiltered. Unhinged. Explicit. Scream with us into the void.

Petals & Hooks • Door Two • Eight Hours

No Exit: Corridor I & II

No Exit Corridor One and Two artwork

Liminal spaces, ambient rooms, distant signals, and somewhere to disappear for a while.

Corridor I

Corridor II

Do you need to let it out, or do you need to let go?
Either way, we left the door open.

Velvet Umbrella Radio
Same Frequency. Different Light.

This Week’s Transmissions

Heroes, Monsters, Spellwork & Darkroom Secrets

This week we are opening two rather different doors from the archives. Wednesday brings comic-book heroes, giant monsters, peculiar auditions, and several spectacularly questionable decisions. Then Friday night slips through the threshold and into a moonlit darkroom beside the ocean.

Wednesday: Eclectic Wonderland airs live from 1 to 3 PM Central on WDRT, then remains available in the WDRT archive for two weeks.

Friday overnight into Saturday morning: Velvet Umbrella Radio: After Hours airs live from 1 to 3 AM Central on WDRT, then moves into the Velvet Umbrella archive at VelvetUmbrellaRadio.com.

Wednesday • Eclectic Wonderland • WDRT

COMIX

Audities: Heroes, Monsters & Bad Decisions — Vol. 1

COMIX — Audities: Heroes, Monsters and Bad Decisions, Volume 1 artwork

Meanwhile, Somewhere in the Archive…

Heroes assemble. Monsters arrive without an appointment. Bad decisions are made with tremendous confidence. Open the comic-book transmission and follow the evidence.

Read the COMIX Show Notes

Friday Overnight • Velvet Umbrella Radio: After Hours • WDRT

Spellwork at the Threshold / Darkroom by the Ocean

Two transmissions. One doorway. Moonlight, photographs, strange chemistry, and the tide moving just beyond the walls.

Spellwork at the Threshold and Darkroom by the Ocean artwork

Enter the Darkroom

The first hour lingers at the threshold, where music becomes ritual and the doorway refuses to behave like an ordinary doorway. Then the second hour follows the filmstrip toward the sea, into a darkroom filled with moonlight, memory, and photographs that may know more than they should.

Spellwork Show Notes ✦ Darkroom Show Notes

Eclectic Wonderland • Velvet Umbrella Radio • Keep Wandering

This Week’s Transmissions

Two Doors. Two Very Different Frequencies.

Mystery, questionable evidence, cathedral shadows, beautiful corrosion, and music that wandered in after dark without knocking.

Wednesday • Eclectic Wonderland

Mickey Fingers: Man of Mystery

An Incomplete Dossier

Mickey Fingers: Man of Mystery — An Incomplete Dossier show artwork

Open the Dossier

Follow the clues, inspect the evidence, and listen to the complete archive transmission. Answers remain suspiciously unavailable.

Read the Show Notes

Friday Overnight • Velvet Umbrella Radio: After Hours

This Corrosion / Goth Daddy / Slip One to Me

Cathedral echoes, dangerous shadows, and something beautiful moving beneath the static.

This Corrosion, Goth Daddy, Slip One to Me show artwork

Enter After Hours

Turn down the lights. The signal gets darker after midnight. This one arrives wrapped in corrosion, velvet, cathedral reverb, and one dangerously seductive little transmission.

Story Part 1 ✦ Story Part 2 ✦ Story Part 3

Eclectic Wonderland • Velvet Umbrella Radio • Keep Wandering

Last Week’s Transmissions

Three Shows.
One Shared Journey.

Open every window. Stay through the night. Follow the tide a little farther.

After Hours now airs from 1–3 AM
Watch on YouTube ↗
Part One

Eclectic Wonderland Open Every Window

Eclectic Wonderland: Open Every Window
📖 Read the Story & Show Notes →
Playlist • Mickey’s Notes • Corridor Report • Audio Journal
Part Two

Velvet Umbrella Radio After Hours Night After the Storm

Now two full hours · 1–3 AM
Velvet Umbrella Radio After Hours: Night After the Storm

Show notes, stories, artwork and more links coming soon.

Part Three

Velvet Umbrella Radio Petals & Hooks When the Tide Finally Turned

A special Mixcloud-only transmission
Velvet Umbrella Radio Petals and Hooks: When the Tide Finally Turned

Show notes, stories, artwork and more links coming soon.

The music is here.
The stories and strange little doors are still unfolding.

More show notes, blog stories, artwork galleries and links are coming soon.

Peace, Love & Cosmic Bunny Rabbits

The Door Was Already Open | Storie Between The Tracks
Extraterrestrial Encore | Stardust & Static
Harry's House | War Paint
Mermaids & Other Evidence

FunGuy Frequencies

The Boardwalk Trilogy

Into My Arms | 3 Night Radio Spell

Goth Daddy Transmissions

Uncle Monkey | Same Room, Different Light

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No Idea... The Trilogy

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Lost Rooms & No Exit – Four Nights In The Maze

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April Showers | This Corrosion

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COMIX & Spellwork

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Feral After Midnight

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Don’t Go Feral, Baby — Velvet Umbrella Radio
The moment it started. “Don’t Go Feral, Baby” began as an on-air incident and became the origin of Velvet Umbrella Radio’s After Hours series. Featuring darkwave, post-punk, and late-night storytelling, this broadcast sets the tone for what follows:
Almost Feral After Midnight and Feral After Midnight.
"Don't Go Feral, Baby" - Mickey Fingers
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Almost Feral After Midnight — Velvet Umbrella Radio
The first After Hours broadcast on WDRT. Darkwave, post-punk, and late-night radio atmosphere from Mickey Fingers & DJ Celeste Violet
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Feral After Midnight — Velvet Umbrella Radio (After Hours)
The unfiltered After Hours broadcast. Darkwave, post-punk, underground radio, and late-night atmosphere from Mickey Fingers & DJ Celeste Violet.
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Double Feature: Petals Day

Petals & Hooks

Petals Before Midnight
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After Hours

Petals And Hooks
Petals & Hooks - a long‑form dark-wave ritual mix curated by Mickey Fingers and DJ Celeste. Four hours of nocturnal synth, shoegaze, and shadow‑pop stitched together as one continuous spell.
Petals & Hooks debut + latest Velvet Umbrella: After Hours, dark-wave ritual from the Driftless
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Forkin’ Around With Mickey Fingers
Forkin’ Around With Mickey Fingers
Seductive, shadowed, and intentionally unfiltered

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Show Links

📼 Archive Transmission 📼

Velvet Umbrella Video Vault

Archived radio shows, animated artwork, visual experiments, strange discoveries, production diaries, and a growing collection of beautifully questionable decisions.

Every transmission tells another part of the story.

Eclectic Wonderland • Velvet Umbrella Radio • The Archive Continues