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.

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.

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

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 with DJ Tea & Mr. Announcer Man drifts like a lucid dream—equal parts playful, seductive, and surreal. It’s a soundtrack stitched from post-punk shadows, trip-hop pulses, and whimsical oddities. I’ve been wandering through dark fairytales and waking dreams lately, and this playlist feels like a cocoon breaking open—something wild, something blooming into itself. From the theatrical energy of The Dresden Dolls to the aching beauty of Porti

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.

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...