In Pieces:Broken Things and Beautiful Hearts

Mickey Fingers
Nov 12
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In Pieces: Broken Things and Beautiful Hearts

🎙️ Eclectic Wonderland — November 12, 2025

Episode Title: In Pieces: Broken Things and Beautiful Hearts

Aired on WDRT 91.9 FM, Driftless Community Radio

Featuring the new Gala Violet single: “In Pieces”

This week’s Eclectic Wonderland is a love letter to the broken, the brave, and the still-beating hearts.

Titled In Pieces, this episode honors the heaviness so many are carrying - the grief that lingers, the memories that surface, the weight that’s hard to name. Inspired by the release of Gala Violet’s new single (a haunting elegy to lost connection and layered longing), this show is also a personal tribute to DJ Tea’s baby brother, Mikey, who passed away in 2016 after a long struggle with addiction.

With five distinct sets that stretch from indie anthems and psychedelic alt-rock to shimmering dream-pop and electronica, In Pieces holds space for truth and tenderness. It’s a sonic arc (from defiance to reflection, memory to mending) closing with Together in Electric Dreams and Till the End of Time as a final kiss to the stars.

Because life isn’t always sunshine and sparkles.

Sometimes it’s jagged and raw.

But even when it’s in pieces, there’s music, there’s memory, there’s meaning.

And maybe… healing.

Genres:

Alternative, Indie Rock, Dream Pop, Electronica, Healing Music, Grief Mix, Tribute Set, Experimental, Soft Psychedelia, Recovery Radio

✨ Sneak Peek: Featured Tracks Include

• Gala Violet — In Pieces

• New Radicals — You Get What You Give

• Grimes — Oblivion

• Massive Attack — Teardrop

• Primal Scream — Higher Than the Sun

• Billie Eilish — ilomilo

• The Chemical Brothers — Let Forever Be

• Princess Goes — Ketamine

• Blur, Suede, Coldplay, and more…

💔 This show is dedicated in loving memory of Mikey.

For anyone who has ever felt like it was too much... we see you. We love you. We’re in this together. About the cover: The “In Pieces” cover is a kintsugi heart, cracked and repaired with gold. I left the seams visible on purpose. The gold is the healing, the proof that something broken can hold light. The feathers are the quiet signs I keep getting, little angel hellos that remind me Mikey is still woven in. Delicate, but not fragile. Still here, still shining.-DJ Tea (Kinsington)

In Loving Memory Of Mikey (April 28, 1982 - November 14, 2016)

In Loving Memory Of Zeus (December 3, 2003 November 16, 2017)

Playlist

✨ Dive into the full playlist below — with videos linked for every track, so you can watch, listen, and wander through the eclectic flow.

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A Fun Little Promo!

Eclectic Wonderland Links (Links In Pink!)

Show Notes & The full playlist: {Links Are Pink!}

Spinitron Play List!

Intro

(1) New Radicals — You Get What You Give

(2) Pulp — Mis-Shapes

(3) M.I.A. — Paper Planes

(4) Evan Blum & Michelle Raitzin — Endless Sky

Second Break

(1) Grimes — Oblivion

(2) Royal & The Serpent — Overwhelmed

(3) Matchbox Twenty — Bent

(4) Belle and Sebastian — I Want The World To Stop

(5) Coldplay — Fix You

(6) Little Mister Jeans — featuring the Silverlake Conservatory of Music Youth Chorale — Oh Sailor

(7) Video Game Players — Super Mario Bros. Theme

Third Break

(1) Blur — Beetlebum

(2) The London Suede — So Young

(3) Billie Eilish — ilomilo

(4) Mickey Fingers — November ID

(5) Gala Violet — In Pieces

[Click To Pre-Save "In Pieces (Remastered Single)]

Gala Violet Links

(6) Massive Attack — Teardrop

(7) Primal Scream — Higher Than The Sun

(Break) Red Hot Chili Peppers — Pretty Little Ditty

Fourth Break

(1) The Dukes of Stratosphear — Collideascope

(2) Sublime — What I Got

(3) Stone Temple Pilots — Vasoline

(4) Death Cab for Cutie — Soul Meets Body

(5) Sohn — The Wheel

(6) The Chameleons UK — Tears

(Break) Saint Louis Ocarina Trio — Super Mario Bros. Theme

Fifth Break

(1) Lenny Kravitz — Fly Away

(2) Spacehog — In The Meantime

(3) The Chemical Brothers — Let Forever Be

(4) Princess Goes — Ketamine

(Break) Neil Norman — The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai

(Closer) Phil Oakey & Giorgio Moroder — Together In Electric Dreams

(Fade) People Like Us — Till The End Of

Velvet Umbrella Records

Peace, love & cosmic bunny rabbits,

— Mickey Fingers, DJ Tea & Mr Announcer Man

✨ About Mickey Fingers

Mickey Fingers is the co-creator of Velvet Umbrella Records and Gala Violet.

A multi-instrumentalist and engineer-producer, he moves between drums, guitar, bass, piano, and synth with ridiculous ease, building worlds inside Ableton Live.

Equal parts mystery and mischief, he’s a steady hand in the chaos and a spark in the shadows.

You’ll find him behind the curtain, buried in reel-to-reels and synth smoke.