Velvet Umbrella Radio April 2026 Newsletter | Eclectic Wonderland | After Hours Expansion | Petals & Hooks
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Velvet Umbrella Radio April 2026 Newsletter | Eclectic Wonderland | After Hours Expansion | Petals & Hooks
April 30th, 2026
with DJ Tea, Mr. Announcer Man & Mickey Fingers
1–3pm CST on WDRT 91.9FM | Listen Live » By DJ Tea (DJ Celeste) & Mickey Fingers
🖤 April Transmission
April didn’t begin quietly, sweetheart.
It arrived carrying echoes.
Not the kind you hear once and forget…
the kind that follow you down hallways,
through songs,
through late-night frequencies,
through rooms you swore you already left behind.
In March, Velvet Umbrella Radio split open.
By April?
The signal started talking back.
Somewhere between comic book chaos and corridor confessions…
between moonlit rooftops and darkened stairwells…
between “Almost” and “No Exit”…
this strange little world of ours became something bigger than a radio station.
It became a place.
A living one.
One with hidden files.
Secret bios.
Late-night portals.
Unmarked doors.
And voices waiting on the other side of them.
And somehow…
you followed us deeper anyway.
🖤 MICKEY’S CORNER — APRIL TRANSMISSION
This month, Eclectic Wonderland wandered through:
🦸 COMIX transmissions
🌧️ April Showers and memory-soaked mixtapes
🕯️ Lost Rooms and the ones that stayed behind
🎮 Continue? (yes/always, yes)
🗂️ Mickey Fingers: Man Of Mystery
…and a few emotional ambushes we probably should apologize for.
(We won’t.)
Meanwhile, After Hours kept slipping further into the velvet dark with:
🧪 Spellwork At The Threshold
🥀 This Corrosion: Medusa’s Good Friday 1988
🚪 The Ones You Should’ve Left
📼 Same Room, Different Light
🌫️ No Idea. No Exit.
…and enough midnight honesty to make the walls sweat a little.
Then somewhere below both frequencies…
Petals & Hooks emerged fully from the fog.
Not as a side project.
Not as an experiment.
As its own pulse.
Long-form descents.
Darkwave rituals.
Corridor music for the beautifully haunted.
No clocks.
No exits.
Just rooms.
And somehow…
you’re still here.
💋
This month also marked something softer underneath all the noir static and glowing doorways.
Celeste Violet began reopening more of her world:
the Spoonie Support relaunch,
new creative portals,
warmer corners,
gentler places to land.
Because Velvet Umbrella was never just about shadows.
It’s about what survives inside them.
And maybe that’s what all of this has really become:
a signal for the strange ones.
The grieving ones.
The romantic ones.
The exhausted ones.
The ones rebuilding themselves through music, art, humor, memory, and beautiful noise.
The ones still listening.
So…
whether you arrived through Eclectic Wonderland,
wandered downstairs into After Hours,
or disappeared willingly into the corridors of Petals & Hooks…
welcome back.
The doors are open.
Follow the signal.
🖤
Mickey Fingers
Velvet Umbrella Radio
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🗂️ Secret Files & Bio Portals
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April
COMIX | Spellwork At The Threshhold
Forkin' Around Posted
April Showers | This Corrosion
Lost Rooms & No Exit
Mickey Fingers: Man Of Mystery - An Incomplete Dossier
Mickey's In Charge. 3 Shows. No Idea.
Uncle Monkey | Same Room, Different Light
New Contact Pages & Bio Portals
Celeste Violet | DJ Tea
Mr Announcer Man
Mickey Fingers
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Velvet Umbrella Radio | Portal Links Eclectic Wonderland
By day…
you still know where to find us.
Eclectic Wonderland
Bright lights, strange turns, beautiful chaos.
But after midnight?
That’s where things started to… unravel.
Velvet Umbrella Radio: After Hours
Now officially breathing in the dark.
Late-night transmissions.
Looser seams.
A little less polite… a little more honest.
You might hear something you weren’t supposed to.
You might feel something you forgot you could.
🖤 After Hours | Petals & Hooks (Unfiltered — Mixcloud)
No clock.
No rules.
No beige filter.
This is where we stopped asking for permission.
Full-length descents.
Three-hour spirals.
Four-hour rituals.
If you’ve found your way here…
you already know.
🥀 Petals & Hooks
Ah… yes.
The other door.
Darkwave. Coldwave. Post-punk pulse.
A slow burn that doesn’t ask - it pulls.
The first transmission ran over four hours…
and somehow, it still wasn’t enough.
This one doesn’t knock.
It waits.
Explore:
Eclectic Wonderland
After Hours
Thank you for Listening
Peace, Love & Cosmic Bunny Rabbits!
-DJ Tea, Mr Announcer Man, Dewey Lewis & Mickey Fingers
Velvet Umbrella Radio blends Eclectic Wonderland and After Hours into a unique indie radio experience featuring darkwave, post-punk, alternative music, and cinematic storytelling across WDRT and Mixcloud.
Follow the signal.
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