This week beneath the Velvet Umbrella: radio shows, welcome videos, playlists, show notes and musical rabbit holes from Eclectic Wonderland and After Hours. Come inside, beautiful creatures... the music is waiting. 💋

Familiar songs return with different fingerprints as Eclectic Wonderland dives into remixes, alternate versions, strange transmissions, Dimension 5 snacks, and a few doors that probably should have stayed closed.

The lights are lower now. Dream Logic Part Two drifts through shoegaze, dream pop, ambient spaces, darkwave, memory, and the quiet rooms between sleeping and waking. Welcome to Velvet Umbrella Radio After Hours. The dream stays open.

Some playlists are collections of songs. Others become something more. Petals & Hooks: The Artifact began as a transmission, a collection of contradictions, memories, and questions. Follow the corridor into The Puppet Master Returns and discover another chapter inside Masquerade of Shadows.

Familiar songs. Different shadows. The Other Version of Midnight explores dark covers, alternate versions, post-punk, dream pop, shoegaze, strange love, familiar ghosts, and the versions of ourselves that only seem to speak after midnight.

Familiar songs. Different voices. Fifty years of love. 7 Days of Cake celebrates alternate versions, unexpected covers, family memories, and Jan & Art’s 50th anniversary, with DJ Tea, Mr. Announcer Man, and Mickey Fingers inside Eclectic Wonderland.

Some mixtapes don’t begin when you press play. They’ve been waiting for years. Join DJ Tea, Mr. Announcer Man, and Mickey Fingers as they follow a half-remembered cassette through dream pop, alternative classics, post-punk, shoegaze, and beautifully unexpected discoveries. Because around here… the door was already open.

The coffee has gone cold. The records are still humming quietly to themselves. Stardust & Static continues the story that began in Extraterrestrial Encore, inviting listeners into the quieter half of the journey. Through dream pop, ambient music, original voice overs by Mickey Fingers, and artwork by Celeste Violet, this late-night transmission explores friendship, curiosity, and the feeling that perhaps the universe has been listening all along.

What happens when visitors from another star system fall completely in love with 80s alternative music? Welcome to Extraterrestrial Encore: 80’s Hits From Beyond (The Full Story), where curious extraterrestrials discover community radio, record stores, coffee, dream pop, Wisconsin cheese curds, and a little station called WDRT. Featuring original voice overs by Mickey Fingers, artwork by Celeste Violet, and a soundtrack full of wonderfully strange cover songs, this two-part

February 2026 was a big month for Eclectic Wonderland on WDRT 91.9 FM, celebrating the show’s 4-year anniversary, welcoming Mickey Fingers as a new co-host, and launching the After Hours world of Velvet Umbrella Radio. The month’s broadcasts featured indie, dream pop, darkwave, and Valentine-themed mixes curated by DJ Celeste (DJ Tea) and Mr. Announcer Man.

Petals & Hooks is the After Hours darkwave ritual from Velvet Umbrella Radio, curated by Mickey Fingers and DJ Celeste. Four continuous hours of post-punk, coldwave, darkwave, and shadow-soaked synths stitched together as one long nocturnal transmission. From Chromatics and Boy Harsher to Molchat Doma, Bauhaus, Dead Can Dance, and Fields of the Nephilim, the mix drifts from frozen city streets to cathedral-sized gothic finales before dissolving into the early-morning haze.

Eclectic Wonderland has officially expanded… 🎩 Mickey Fingers is now part of the Eclectic Wonderland family - and yes, the rumors are true: the show is now officially… “Now With More Testosterone.” This post is your velvet-lined welcome portal: the backstory, the official announcement, exclusive audio clips (including After Hours), and the chaotic origin tale of how this weird little radio family formed through mixtapes, Artist Way madness, Gala Violet creation sessions, an

This week’s Eclectic Wonderland drifts between shadow and light, a carefully set table where longing is the main course and memory lingers like the aftertaste of champagne. The music is deliberate—each lyric, each note, chosen to draw you into its atmosphere. He suggested I live inside the songs he selected and the precise order he arranged them in, like moves in a game played long before the board was built.