
The Shadow on the Wall is a music blog featuring independent and underground music. All the content posted in this blog has the only purpose of supporting new and talented artists and promoting the work of record labels from around the world.

I carefully curate the music featured in these mixtapes with dedication and passion for you to discover, listen and enjoy.

Music I love and support: indiepop, twee, dreampop, shoegaze, janglepop, lo-fi, post-rock, electropop, garage, noise, experimental, kraut, ethereal etc.


The independently produced podcast that explores the sounds all around us; in art and music movements through history.

Sounds of Sputnik is Roma Kalitkin, whose signature sound mixes post-rock, shoegaze and dream pop with a slight kickback to noise pop. Originally from Rostov-on-Don in southern Russia, he draws inspiration from My Bloody Valentine, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Ride, Sonic Youth, Happy Mondays, and Slowdive. The musical semblance of this project is closer to the style of Mogwai, Air Formation, Hammock, Airiel, Jesu, Highspire, The Twilight Sad. 

Dubbing himself a "white crow", the music he makes has always gone against trends within Russia, both now as a solo artist and for the 20-odd years he played in various post-punk and shoegaze bands prior to that.

Look forward to Sounds of Sputnik's debut LP 'New Born', to be released by Ear to Ear Records on August 25, 2014, featuring Ummagma, Graham Bonnar (Swervedriver/ Brian Jonestown Massacre), Malcolm Holmes (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark), psych rock producer Fran Ashcroft (Damon Albarn), Russian producers Morozov and Oleg Mezherovsky, and Brazil’s Mind Movies. British producer Marc Joy (Mike Peters, Golden Fable, Primal Scream, Oasis, Bernard Butler) has provided mastering support.  

dream-gaze
ambient rock
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formed in 2015, atlanta ga's parsons rocket project takes its name from legendary occultist rocket scientist jack parsons. influences include Mojave 3, Bowery Electric and TYCHO

EP+ vinyl Fall 2017

This podcast is unpaid and survives on donations. You can donate here via paypal https://www.stephenmbland.com/olas-kool-kitchen or buy merch here https://olaskoolkitchen.dizzyjam.com I'm a DJ on KCLA 99.3FM In LA, 107.5 Andhow.FM in New Zealand, Maximum Threshold Radio, Rock Radio UK, Sword Radio UK, Jammerstream One, Kor Radio, Bombshell Radio, Pop Radio UK, Radio Wigwam, Dirty Chai Radio, Rock XS Radio. Radio Candy Radio, Radio Lantau and Firebrand Radio.
 I like my music eclectic. Basically mainstream radio sucks and that's why I do what I do. I provide a Kool alternative.

I'm interested in featuring new music, bands/artists if you wanna be on my show I only accept submissions here please https://www.submithub.com/radio/olas-kool-kitchen  

Bands I've interviewed and or recorded live are

Explosions in The Sky, The Silver Jews, Holly Golightly and the Brokeoffs, Animal Collective, Mount Eerie/The Microphones, Bon Iver, The Go! Team, They Came From The Stars I Saw Them, The Playing Fields, The Chap, The Helio Sequence, Lynch Rider Lulu, Throwing Muses, Scarce, Trespassers William, Damien Jurado, Ariel Pink, Th'Faith Healers,  Vivian Girls, Spiritualized, Spectrum, Jimi Shields, Jason Molina-Magnolia Electric Company, The Jayhawks, Andrew Bird, Darlings Of The Day, Menomena, Yacht, The Hot Toddies, Bonde Do Role,Dika Omka, Citizens of Ice Cream, Khottal, The Stoned Revival, Liyana Fizi,Tenderfist, Beach House, Sleigh Bells, The Antlers, Apse, Circulatory System, Bis, Nana Grizol, Real Estate, Low, Owen Pallett, Panda Bear, Clare and The Reasons, The Smith Westerns, Dr Dog, Surfer Blood, Wild Honey, Peggy Sue, First Aid Kit,  The Charlatans, Gary Numan, Damo Suzuki, Drum Eyes, Nedry, Rocketnumber9, The Waves, A Sunny Day In Glasgow, Florence and The Machine, Magic and Fur, Scout Niblet, Elephant Micah, Peter Tork, Joe Kidd, Thelightshines, The Koolaid Electric Company, Moon Duo, Galaxie 500, A Classic Education, Kyst, Mogwai, Baths, Salem, The Black Angels, PJ Harvey, Suicide, Interpol, Mward,Del Ray, Money Mark, The Album Leaf, Rubik, Julia Kent, My Teenage Stride, The Flaming Lips,The Telescopes, The Cult Of Dom Keller,Elephant Stone, Hall Of Mirrors, The See See, The Entrance Band, Sky Parade, The Suicide Of Western Culture,  Bearcraft, Four Dead In Ohio, Whipping Boy, The Meek, The Blue Angel Lounge, Dead Meadow, Spindrift, Secret Colours, Golden Dawn, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Airiel, Woods, Pink Mountaintops, Wooden Shjips, Bombino, Strangers Family Band, Vacant Lots, The Altered Hours, The Nova Saints, the Lost Rivers, The Chameleons, Gravenhurst, Thee Piatcions, One Unique Signal, A Place To Bury Strangers, The Dead Skeletons, Peter Wolf Cryer, Balthazar, Ancient River, The Underground Youth, Singapore Sling, The Silver Apples, Diane Cluck, Graham Bonnar, bev Davies, Gregg Foreman, The Electric Mainline, Youngteam, The Greencoats, Ricky Maymi, Helicon, Angel Olsen, Lumerians, Twink, Jordannah Elizabeth, K-X-P, Duncan McKnight from The Virgin Tongues, Robert Dean From Japan, My Morning Bride, Mutual Benefit, Nick McCabe and Simon Jones from The Verve, Black Submarine, Mig Schillace from Portishead/Santa Cruz,

Engineering by day, trying to make the best album from 1973 by night

Been in bands since I was 14, like all kinds of music, but I like to make more experimental music than anything else. I also host Into The Unknown on Mixcloud.

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