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The Door Was Already OPen (part 1 of 2) | a half remembered mixtape left on a doorstep
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.

Mickey Fingers
4 days ago10 min read


Stardust & Static | After Hours
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.

Mickey Fingers
6 days ago7 min read


Extraterrestrial Encore: 80s Hits From Beyond | the complete story (part 1 of 2)
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

Mickey Fingers
Jul 114 min read


Lost Rooms: The One's You Should've Left |After Hours
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.

Mickey Fingers
Apr 105 min read


No Exit: The Corridors | With Mickey Fingers And Celeste Violet | One And Two |Petals And Hooks
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.

Mickey Fingers
Apr 107 min read


Lost Rooms: The Ones That Stayed
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.

DJ Celeste | DJ Tea
Apr 85 min read


Petals & Hooks – A Darkwave After Hours Ritual
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.

Mickey Fingers
Mar 114 min read
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