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WL//WH Track Of The Day STAR HORSE Stockholm-based four-piece Star Horse‘s highly anticipated 2019 debut album, “You Said Forever,” beautifully steeped in dream pop and shoegaze atmospheres, fully intoxicated our senses to be straightforwardly picked as one of that year’s favorites. Like it took a long time to be released, besides the archival 2020 collection “No Memories Before This,” spanning…

Video Of The Day  Contre Jour Almost exactly a year from their comeback after a decade-long hiatus, which we featured and to which I refer you for more in-depth details, the Nice, France-based trio Contre Jour, started in 2009 (Fka Neptüne), made up of original band members Roxane Benassaya (Vocals) and Christophe Méoni (Bass, Synth, Programming), and Emmanuel D’Auzon (guitar), who joined in…

WL//WH Track Of The Day  LAVA DIVERS Hailing from the Triângulo Mineiro in southeastern Brazil, the four-piece guitar rockers Lava Divers, formed in 2014 and inspired by the noisy UK/US bands of the late 80s/early 90s, released their locally lauded debut full-length, “Plush,“ at the end of 2016 on Midsummer Madness, before taking a long break. Lava Divers returned last May with both the new…

Fragments Vol. 7 // Summer LP Roundup This column, titled “Fragments,” has been running for three years and is only available for two months each year (July and August). I created it to recommend albums that I haven’t had the chance to review throughout the year (on WL//WH), as well as to highlight some artists who have frequently appeared on my radio show. I tend to remember the ones I like and…

WL//WH Review   BLEKA DÖDENS MINUT Pulling its name from Rob Reiner’s and William Goldman’s 1987 movie “The Princess Bride”, whose debut self-titled EP’s conceptual narrative is inspired by, the Stockholm/Umeå based five piece Bleka Dödens Minut is a new jangle rock collective featuring notable members from relatable Swedish underground outfits such as PoPo, Bleak Streak, Sekunderna, and Nära…

Video Of The Day  IAMNOONE   We are not prone to feature the same band in a short span of time, but the Italian ‘Occult Wave’ duo, Iamnoone, made of Philippe Marlat (vocals, baritone guitar and synth) and Stephan Seth (bass, backing vocals and synth), never disappoints, and the recent collaboration with the Athenian eclectic dance electronic producer and labelmate Kay-Chi on synths and…

Track Of The Day   STILL YEARS    Albuquerque, New Mexico-based synth-heavy post-punksters return after a five-year hiatus with a 5-track EP “There Are Dreams I Can’t Sleep Off,” whose proceeds will be donated to the Prairieland Defendants. Formerly known as Loss of Breath, the band delivers a vibrant and earnest evocative array of encompassing chilly glowing synths, bleak bass meanderings and a…

Video Of The Day THE WORLD IS AGAINST YOU  The World Is Against You (TWIAY), the now full-fledged Wellington, NZ-based genre-bending alternative rock five-piece collective, started in 2024 by multi-instrumentalist Thomas Waddington with the fresh addition of Stefan Jenkins, Rhys Hicks, David Hurnen, and Ezra Beckett, unveils the video by Reef Bridges for the latest single, “Skyrim III”, part of…

New Music FUNSOVER Berlin, Germany-based newcomer alternative rock four-piece Funsover, made up of Enrico Baldarelli, Otso Latva-Somppi, Pilar Sarchione, and Andrew Ward, drops an Official Music Video, written and directed by Sofia Koivusaari and Otso Latva-Somppi himself, for the debut single “Needles”, a song about searching for the elusive needle in a haystack. Dubbed by the band “grange…

Weekly Shoegaze / Dreampop / Psychedelic / Indie Tips – JUNE 2026 – #26-26   Episode 143 this week on Shoredive Records Transmissions feat. divecollate / beatastic666 / pamrisourie / wearecanaries / thecolourflies / thetapwaters / vanishingmuffins / ultrasaturatedd / youwithnolieswish and more… DOWNLOADS AND CDS: Shore Dive Bandcamp  // VINYL: Elasticstage.Com Tune in: ♦ First Saturday of the…

WL//WH Weekly Post-Punk // Darkwave // Dark Synth Tips – JULY 2026 – #26-26 It’s the 9th consecutive season for Mike D (longtime editor of the WL//WH team) on-air, with Wave After Wave radio program this year relocated to the internet station DarkwaveRadio.Net Every Tuesday, Live at 22.00 (EET) / 21.00 (CET) PICKS OF THE WEEK: photo by Chris Friel

WL//WH Video Of The Day  MY RAINING STARS The French Guitar Pop auteur Thierry Haliniak, under the My Raining Stars moniker, unveils his third and final single “Wherever” from the upcoming fourth album, “Toy Club,” due on July 10th via  Too Good To Be True (EU) and Shelflife (US), paired with the music video curated by fellow artist  Maud Anyways. The French musician E-grand, Haliniak’s longtime…

WL//WH Track/Video Of The Day  LOVEJOY Refined guitar pop music tunesmith right from his inception between the late 90s and early 00s, Richard Preece, under his Lovejoy nom de plume, together with a bunch of noteworthy Sarah Records-affiliated collaborators, released a treasured string of 7” singles, EPs and albums, mainly through the indie pop specialist imprint Matinee Recordings. The indie…