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. 💋

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

The boardwalk has disappeared beneath the tide. Sea, Swallow Me drifts through dream-pop haze, ocean-static devotion, fading photographs, midnight longing, and the beautiful ache of becoming undone beneath motel neon and moonlit waves. The final chapter in the Snapshots From The Boardwalk trilogy unfolds through memory, surrender, soft collapse, and the rooms we return to when the world becomes too heavy.

Late-night ocean frequencies, dream-pop haze, cigarette ember romances, and photobooth memories that never fully faded. “Darkroom By The Ocean” continues the Velvet Umbrella Radio trilogy through noir romance, seaside longing, and midnight cinematic drift.

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.

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 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.

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.