VELVET UMBRELLA RADIO
August 2026
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Welcome
Welcome to Velvet Umbrella Radio
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 Radio – Eclectic Wonderland, After Hours, Petals & Hooks. Hit play for showtimes and to explore further.
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BROADCASTS
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This Week's Transmissions
Dream Logic
The dream has two doors.
Two shows. One strange little dream. One door opens in daylight. The other waits until almost everyone else has gone to sleep.
Door One • Eclectic Wonderland
Dream Logic Part One
Robots, suspicious moonlight, impossible memories, electronic curiosities, and a café where waffles have apparently made some extremely questionable decisions.
Door Two • Velvet Umbrella Radio: After Hours
The Dream Stays Open
The lights dim. The edges soften. Shoegaze, darkwave, liminal rooms, distant signals, and the places that only seem to exist after midnight.
Two frequencies.
One dream that apparently refuses to end.
Follow the stories. Press play. Stay as long as you like.
Dream Logic is currently in effect.
The Puppet Master Returns
The curtain has opened.
The archive is waiting.
Four transmissions.
Four doors.
Follow the breadcrumbs.
The Puppet Master Returns
Four transmissions.
Four doors.
One story moving quietly behind them all.
🗝️ Watch the mirrors.
Follow the strings.
The archive is open.
The Transmission Begins
Masquerade of Shadows
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
The curtain closes...
but somewhere behind the velvet...
the strings are still moving.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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This Week’s Transmissions
Dancing mushrooms, midnight static, explicit release, and eight hours of corridors. Choose your door.
Wednesday • Eclectic Wonderland • WDRT
Oh Shiitaki!
Dancing mushrooms, electronic curiosities, oddities, and questionable decisions.
Friday Overnight • Velvet Umbrella Radio: After Hours
After the Static
Shoegaze, dream pop, darkwave, ambient drift, and music for everyone still awake.
Petals & Hooks • Door One • Explicit
F*ck This Playlist
Unfiltered. Unhinged. Explicit. Scream with us into the void.
Petals & Hooks • Door Two • Eight Hours
No Exit: Corridor I & II
Liminal spaces, ambient rooms, distant signals, and somewhere to disappear for a while.
Corridor I
Corridor II