Taking time away from peddling records to minors on the streets of Seattle and bribing an unsuspecting Portland resident to “sample the merchandise,” the ever-rotating but always excellent Estocar joined Closet Radio for a live in-studio performance and interview. They’re pushing heavy doses of the … Continue readingCloset Radio Episode 056: Get Inside My Estocar – Estocar In-Studio
With the holiday season off to a bang, some of you out there may be in need of a refill on soul. Some of you may feel like you have no soul left. Some may be missing a soul or two. Maybe your soul is … Continue readingCloset Radio Episode 055: All Souls On Sale
Spindly fingers tap a tick-tock rapping to the beat in a perfect square to awaken that which had slipped through the cracks of perception. There is dirt under your nails and blood in your seams with limbs all akimbo conveying subtleties of breakdown in unison. … Continue readingCloset Radio Episode 054: Getting Down In The Underworld – The Rikki Horror Picture Show pt. 3
Snap and pop into the ashes beyond your dark windows when the unexpected invites itself in. The numbers click back until our bluest spectre whispers that unconscious fishes cannot differentiate between the uninspired sleepwalkers and idle fans refusing to spin.When that chip on your block … Continue readingCloset Radio Episode 053: The Afterlife of Automatons – The Rikki Horror Picture Show pt.3
Looking into empty reflections searching for any sign of life. Remember to breathe when the lungs collapse, the brain shuts down ticking off glass-eyed marbles on the spinning wheel of preservation merely locked in a jar on the doctor’s shelf. We must recapture what never … Continue readingCloset Radio Episode 052: No More Room In Hell – Rikki Horror Picture Show pt.2
With the spark of an eye, this stranger is marked by the temperatures of light. Her heart ticks to a syncopated beat as sharp as the blade in her hand. Silenced by fear of no bumps in the night when a dark reflection of what … Continue readingCloset Radio Episode 051: Going In For The Kill – Rikki Horror Picture Show pt. 1
Brand spankin’ new band from the hairy depths of Portland, Not Now, Not Ever, joined Closet Radio live in the KPSU studios for an instrumental whiplash of dark-post-prog-with-a-steaming-side-of-strings experience that you’ll thank me for later! This fierce foursome is immensely talented at bringing epic tales … Continue readingCloset Radio Episode 050: Told You Before – Not Now, Not Ever In-Studio
Closet Radio proudly presents the RADIO DEBUT of Portland post-art-punk trio Tiny Knives LIVE in the KPSU studios! The ladies joined us to play some new songs of their must-have second release, “Static,” which is hot off the presses at Stankhouse Records in a convenient … Continue readingCloset Radio Episode 049: Time Like A Cat On A Hot Tin Roof – Tiny Knives In-Studio
Break the seal of sun-rotted eyes of being left for dead in a cloud of light. Once alone, now no longer. Retinas scorched from the smiling face of a westerly wind and her invisible eyes replace me in limbo. “Good Day Today” – David Lynch … Continue readingCloset Radio Episode 048: Not A Problem, Dude
Empty the sand from your soles and let the scent of burned tires melt into the back forty acres of a wasteland engulfed yet only seen through red filters. Death smells like the desert heat. “Survival” – Vivian Girls “Albert Goes West” – Nick Cave … Continue readingCloset Radio Episode 047: Cracking The Skin