The Lunar Orbit

Zach Sizemore
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The Lunar Orbit is a weekly(ish) exploration of all things post-rock, shoegaze, ambient, instrumental, esoteric, and beyond. We explore music which helps you feel like you’re being taken out into space and invite you to tune in and relax to as much as you want. Show is hosted first on WRIR 97.3 Richmond (wrir.org) Friday's at 1am, then published on all podcast feeds the next day. For a full collection of every song ever played on the show visit: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/48TS78dqDrfTsgctqA84s2?si=81fc5f94f1ab4774 The rights to all songs played on this show belong to the respective bands or artists. If you like something you hear, please go support them! This show is meant to share the music I love with a wider audience.

  1. Jul 25

    July 24, 2026 – Post. Festival 2026 Retrospective!

    It’s that time of the year again! The biggest post-rock, post-metal, post-adjacent festival in the US is here, and I want to talk about it! Postfest 2026 happens this weekend in Indianapolis, so I’m dedicating the show tonight to highlighting all they awesome bands that will be gracing the stage! If you were able to make it to the festival this year, The Lunar Orbit is here to bring you what is easily the next best thing! Playlist: The Armed "Kingbreaker" from THE FUTURE IS HERE AND EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE DESTROYED Junius "Scythian" from Sotera Vaudlow "Glasslight" from Glasslight The Secrecy "Theresa" from Pins & Needles The Burning Paris "Desolation Sound" from Last Leaves Idle Heirs "Rare Bird" from Life is Violence StarChaser;Michael Baumann "Final Stellation" from Tsars of the Universe (Second Installlment) LOCKSTEP "Weave" from Weave Defender "Shoot 'em in the Head" from Embrace the Fall Loraine "Qualm" from Exist seventh cloud "Right Place Wrong Time" from Right Place Wrong Time Secret Gardens "Wildflower & I" from everbloom Rolo Tomassi "Rituals" from Time Will Die and Love Will Bury It Coastlands "Bottomfeeder" from The Further Still Torche "Kicking" from Harmonicraft Caspian "Sad Heart of Mine" from Dust and Disquiet Lowercase Noises "Silence of Siberia" from This Is for Our Sins Kylesa "Running Red - 2022 Remaster" from Static Tensions (2022 Remaster) LSD and the Search for God "This Time" from LSD and the Search for God Moving Mountains "8105" from Pneuma

  2. Jul 12

    July 10, 2026 – The Odyssey of American Post-Rock

    The Lunar Orbit is back just in time for July 4th, and for America’s 250th anniversary I thought it would be a fun idea to walk people through a little tour of post-rock in the US. Starting with Slint and Rodan back in the 90s through to Explosions in the Sky, This Will Destroy You and ending up with bands like Grails and Russian Circles. It’s been American bands pushing and evolving the genre for decade after decade. Come hope on the shuttle and enjoy the tour! Playlist:   Slint "Good Morning Captain" from Spiderland Rodan "Bible Silver Corner" from Rusty Tortoise "TNT" from TNT Labradford "El Lago" from A Stable Reference The Mercury Program "Tequesta" from A Data Learn the Language Explosions In the Sky "Your Hand in Mine" from The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place Balmorhea "Rememberance" from All Is Wild, All Is Silent El Ten Eleven "My Only Swerving" from El Ten Eleven This Will Destroy You "The Mighty Rio Grande" from S/T (10th Anniversary Edition) If These Trees Could Talk "The Sun Is In the North" from Above the Earth, Below the Sky Grails "Almost Grew My Hair" from Deep Politics Russian Circles "Harper Lewis" from Station The Album Leaf "The Outer Banks" from In a Safe Place

  3. 11/01/2025

    October 31, 2025 – A Lunar Orbit Halloween Spooktacular!

    Your Halloween spooks and spoils don't have to end on November 1st! Keep the spirt alive with The Lunar Orbit's 2025 Hard Rock Halloween Spooktacular! Featuring ghoulish frights, bumps in the night, and story time with Vincent Price!   Playlist:   Young Fathers "Alpha" from 28 Years Later (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Black Rainbows "Holy Moon" from Holy Moon Cosmonauts Day "Cave of Trees" from Paths of the Restless Elephant Tree "Attack of the Altaica" from Theia jennielea! "Stirring the Brew" from Its Me Jennielea and My Very First Cd 20 Watt Tombstone "Lair of the Swamp Witch" from Death Blues vs. The Dirty Spliff - EP Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs "GNT (Live)" from Live in New York Elder "Sanctuary" from Reflections of a Floating World Leave "Witch Circle" from Witch Circle - Single Mars Red Sky "Collector" from The Task Eternal Yuri Gagarin (SWE) "Cluster of Minds" from At the Center of All Infinity Blackwater Holylight "Motorcycle" from Veils of Winter October Country "My Girlfriend Is a Witch" from October Country (Expanded Edition) Witch "Black Saint" from Witch Santana "Black Magic Woman" from Santana the Ultimate Collection All Them Witches "Heavy/Like a Witch" from Our Mother Electricity Green Lung "Woodland Rites" from Woodland Rites Mountain Witch "Forbidden Forest" from Burning Village Edgar Allan Poe: The Conqueror Worm (read by Vincent Price): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIJ5CAGUrqU

  4. 10/05/2025

    October 3, 2025 – Overdrive October 2025 Pt. 1!!

    It’s finally that time of year again! The chill is in the air, the spooky skeletons have come out from their graves, the vampires and werewolves are ready to rock…. that’s right its OVERDRIVE OCTOBER!! Tune in all month for the heaviest riffs, biggest sounds, and most in your face post-rock I can find. Catapulting us into Halloween! Playlist: Snooze "Harked" from I KNOW HOW YOU WILL DIESkin Thief "Growing Endless" from Frozen in the Act of BreakingBlack Flak and the Nightmare Fighters "Squall" from Ode to Ebb and FlowThumos "The Euthyphro" from The Trial of SocratesScale & Feather "Generations" from SeveredAshbreather "Beef, Egg & Cabbage (Out of Stock)" from La Grande BouffeAltar Solar "Triangulación" from Altar SolarSundrowned "Jacob's Ladder" from HiganbanaGifts From Enola "Benthos" from From FathomsCivil Service "Black Giraffes" from Black Giraffes - SingleOrigami Phase "Oceans in the Dark" from Ostara - EPCelestial Vault "Owl" from Solar ThroneAfter-Math "The Fault is Mine (feat. Greybloom)" from Live In Awe of Our Dire ExistenceThot "Sleep Oddity" from Sleep Oddity - SingleMoney "Billy Pilgrim" from StovepipeKadavrik "Seven Years" from Grimm I & IIsoothe "Sleep" from Bleed OutWhitewater "Brain Fog" from Afterlife

  5. 07/29/2025

    July 25, 2025 – Post-Fest Review!

    It’s that time of the year again! The magical week at the end of July where herds of post-rock fans invade the sleepy hamlet of Indianapolis, to chant, break bread, and make merry with their favorite bands. That’s right, it’s Post-Fest 2025! The largest post rock and post rock adjacent festival in the US (afaik), a magical event, and a great excuse to bring you a tailored list of some of the most interesting artists featured over the three stages. I’ve assembled a diverse cast to bring you this week, so jump in! Playlist:   This Will Destroy You "Grandfather Clock" from Young MountainRanges "Tower" from BabelPianos Become The Teeth "Genevieve" from DriftSignal Hill "Van Gogh Sky" from Chase the GhostDriving at Night "Fading but Fighting" from Fading but FightingGlacier "Distant/Violent" from A Distant Violent ShudderPILLARS "Black Prayer" from CavumRainbows Are Free "Electricity on Wax" from Head Painsstandards "Special Berry" from Fruit IslandIsolation Drills,Katherine Carlson "The Bahia Honda Bridge" from Year TwoEmma Ruth Rundle "Shadows Of My Name" from Some Heavy OceanCircus Trees "Trap Door" from This makes me sad and I miss youBongripper "Terrible Bear Attack" from Hippie KillerRanges "The Greater Lights" from The AscensionistNewmoon "Eternal Fall" from Temporary LightRespire "Keening" from HiraethTurquoise "Suns Over The Yardarm" from Fermented FruitSurrounded by Water "In Solitude We Take Our Last Breath" from S/TNrthrn "SLEEP" from LITHIUM

  6. 07/14/2025

    July 11, 2025 - Post-Rock Solar Flare!

    Bringing you a rebroadcast of a new music show from this time last year - It's a post-rock summer, and its HOT. Playlist:   Walk Among Statues "Surfer Skies" from Surfer Skies - SingleWohl "Dai" from Dai - SingleGod Is an Astronaut "Falling Leaves" from EmbersKhan Tengri "Apocalypse Man" from Apocalypse Man - EPMountainscape "Astrium" from IridescentDying Serenade "Beyond Her Eyes" from Beyond Her Eyes - SingleDotzd "Viento" from Viento - SingleOh Hiroshima "Swans in a Field" from All Things ShiningScale & Feather "Haze and the Clarity" from Haze and the Clarity - SingleWorld Times Three "Til the Robins Come" from In Hearts and StonePlanisphere "Shutter Speed" from MindstoryGlasgow Coma Scale "Syntagma" from Apophenia X / Live at Freak ValleyYomi Ship "Ronin's Lament" from Feast EternalAstetal "Subluminal" from Subluminal - SingleOutlander "Orbit" from Acts of HarmThis World Has Bees "Something That Just Is" from This Barren Place - EP

  7. 06/29/2025

    June 27, 2025 – Moonlight Sonata

    For the past few weeks, I’ve been listening to a ton of classical music. So, I got it in my head to put together a playlist of post-rock themed around those elements. Losts of strings, symphonic movements, crescendos – the two genres have so much in common this was an easier venture than I thought! Playlist:   If These Trees Could Talk "Deus Ex Machina" from Above the Earth, Below the SkyMONO, Platinum Anniversary Orchestra "Nowhere, Now Here - Live with the Platinum Anniversary Orchestra" from Beyond the Past Live in London with the Platinum Anniversary OrchestraLaura "Radio Swan Is Down Part 1" from Radio Swan Is DownGod Is An Astronaut "Komorebi" from EpitaphYndi Halda "A Sun-Coloured Shaker" from A Sun-Coloured ShakerSilent Whale Becomes a Dream "Before The Coming Sun" from Canopy RemasteredBalmorhea "Truth" from All Is Wild, All Is SilentStar of Heaven "The Harp" from The HarpThe Ascent of Everest "As the City Burned We Trembled for We Saw the Making of Their Undoing in Our Own Hearts" from How Lonely Sits the CityWolcensmen "Lady of the Depe" from Songs from the MereKAUAN "Akva" from Sorni NaiIndustries of the Blind, Samuel Gallo "The Lights Weren't That Bright, but Our Eyes Were so Tired" from Chapter 1: Had We Known BetterFourteen Nights At Sea "Glass Monster" from Great NorthOsi And The Jupiter "Appalachia" from Stave

  8. 06/15/2025

    June 13, 2025 – More Music for Momentous Times

    We’re absolutely spoiled for choice this summer with post-style releases. I’ve assembled a list from all over the genre with a bit of post-rock, ambient electronic, somber piano, and even some avant-garde jazz! Playlist:   Emma Ruth Rundle "Still the Morning Chorus" from Music from the Bella Vistakristeva "The Inside of the Sun Frozen Solid (pt 1)" from kristevaVESUVE "L'HORIZON DES EVENEMENTS, Pt. 1" from L'HORIZON DES EVENEMENTS - SingleShuta Hasunuma "Robot Mechanic (feat. ヨシダダイキチ)" from "Design Ah! neo"3in:tides "Samsara" from Samsara - SingleShane Andre "Tightrope" from To Land AfarWave Mosaic "Falling (Loud Noises)" from Living ArtifactsTHE NARROWS "Doctor Waivers" from Sloth & Envy - EPWhite Noise Generator "One" from MyriadsRed Pine Mushroom "Voice of the Mushroom" from Voice of the Mushroom - SinglePelican "Flickering Stillness" from Flickering ResonanceScale & Feather "Fledglings" from Fledglings - EPThe Depth Beneath Us "117B" from DescentDamn Dirty Apes "New Norm" from New NormSwans "Red Yellow" from BirthingYou Are a Soul "Ambiguity" from Peace and Struggle

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The Lunar Orbit is a weekly(ish) exploration of all things post-rock, shoegaze, ambient, instrumental, esoteric, and beyond. We explore music which helps you feel like you’re being taken out into space and invite you to tune in and relax to as much as you want. Show is hosted first on WRIR 97.3 Richmond (wrir.org) Friday's at 1am, then published on all podcast feeds the next day. For a full collection of every song ever played on the show visit: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/48TS78dqDrfTsgctqA84s2?si=81fc5f94f1ab4774 The rights to all songs played on this show belong to the respective bands or artists. If you like something you hear, please go support them! This show is meant to share the music I love with a wider audience.

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  • Creator
    Zach Sizemore
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    81
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © The Lunar Orbit 2023-
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