ROCKTOBERRR 2026 is a month-long trail of haunted radio, strange stories, playlists, recipes, artwork, and curious little breadcrumbs. Start with The Invitation and follow the story as October unfolds.

September ended somewhere between an orchard, a corn maze, and a dance party. Then October knocked. The Invitation begins ROCKTOBERRR with a black envelope, strange details, familiar threads, and the feeling that something has already started moving behind the door.

We took a little time off, wandered Wisconsin, got lost in a corn maze, found another story, opened an envelope we probably should have left alone, and danced anyway. This week: Somewhere Past the Orchard, The Invitation, and Fuck-It, We’re Dancing. Plus pumpkin spice cupcakes, because October is knocking.

After midnight, the signal changes. Velvet Umbrella Radio | After Hours follows darkwave, post-punk, dream-pop, strange transmissions, hidden recipes, haunted corridors, and the stories waiting between the stations.

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.

There is a moment after the noise stops when the room feels different. Not empty. Just clearer. After the Static drifts through shoegaze, dream pop, darkwave, ambient textures, cathedral echoes, and late-night songs that seem to glow after the last note fades. For everyone still awake. The static has faded. The relay is steady. And the music remains.

Enter the corridors with Mickey Fingers and Celeste Violet for an 7.5-hour No Exit broadcast under the Petals & Hooks banner. Corridor One and Corridor Two run as a single haunted maze of rooms, longform mixes, and cinematic deep cuts, built like a movie you listen to instead of watch.

Some weeks arrive with a plan. This one showed up wearing a mushroom hat, carrying a pineapple, and refusing to explain itself. Oh Shiitaki! is two hours of strange songs, electronic curiosities, exotica, dancing mushrooms, suspicious animals, questionable decisions, and music that wandered in without an appointment. No shrimp. No useful explanations. All heart.

Some rooms stay with you. Some follow you home. And some… you knew better, but you went in anyway. This week on Velvet Umbrella Radio: After Hours, Mickey Fingers opens the second door in Lost Rooms—the rooms you shouldn’t have stayed in.

Some places don’t exist anymore… but they never really left. This week, Mickey Fingers takes the board for the first chapter of Lost Rooms—a four-part transmission built from memory, music, and the rooms that still glow somewhere in your head.

Well friends… March came in like a disco ball and flew out like a herd of caffeinated cows. Honestly, I don’t remember half of it. But what I do know is that it was jam-packed with music, madness, and magical mayhem.

May your new year be filled with music, laughter, creativity, and all the good things. And if you find yourself in a season of wintering...