I always try to catch DJ Knillz on Tuesday nights. He always plays new music and videos from the latest Shoegaze and Dream Pop bands and knows his Curve history too! Thanks for doing the show Nils!

DJ Knillz: Former Thursday Night DJ at Asylum (Tucson,AZ) “Awakenings” - Shoegaze / Indie / Trip-hop / Alternative, circa ‘02 - ‘07. Random guest DJ about town since then, although fairly rarely at that. Massive music geek. Occasional music-tinkerer. Also a Sleepblender.

You can join Knillz Thursday nights at https://www.twitch.tv/dj_knillz

https://www.facebook.com/djknillz

DJ Knillz 5th Anniversary Setlist

The High Violets - Comfort In Light

Fun With Ether - Numb

Waterville - Hazy

South - A Place In Displacement

Bodywash - Eye To Eye

Panda Riot - Technicolor

Night Swimming - Evergreen

Holy Motors - Signs

Maps - To The Sky

Cloth - Felt

White Flowers - Stars

Seefeel - More Like Space

Luster - Thorn In Yr Kiss

SPC ECO - Blame

The Caulfield Sisters - Box of Glass

Submotile - Foreshadowing

Deary - Aurelia

Snowcuffs - Sink Down

Bdrmm - Infinity Peaking

Crate - Julia

Sorry, Dave - Harbourmaster

Mo Dotti - For Anyone And You

She’s Green - Purple

Visiting Diplomats - Let Go

Juniper Sky - Waves

Newmoon - Liminal People

Thanks to Gretchen Devault for taking the time to put together this wonderful one hour set of music for The Eardrum Buzz Radio Fifth Anniversary.

The Blue Herons are Andy Jossi (The Churchhill Garden, The Serpent Garden) and Gretchen DeVault (The Icicles, The Francine Odysseys, Voluptuous Panic, Hero No Hero). The jangle pop duo formed in late 2020 and have since released multiple singles and a full-length album in 2024 and is set to release another full-length album in 2026.

The Blue Herons started as a side project for Jossi. After building a following with his shoegaze band The Churchhill Garden, he wanted a separate outlet for his jangle pop songs. The Blue Herons featured guest vocalists and musicians including Krissy Vanderwoude (The Churchhill Garden, Whimsical), Marty Willson Piper (The Church, All About Eve), Hideka, and Thierry Haliniak. While releasing music under The Blue Herons name and looking for the right vocal partner, Jossi connected with DeVault.

DeVault has been active in the indie pop and dream pop scene for years. She led The Icicles through several albums and secured licensing deals with Target and Motorola in the early 2000s. In 2013, she formed the transoceanic shoegaze duo Voluptuous Panic with Brian Bowe. After moving to LA in 2016, she returned to her indie pop background and formed The Francine Odysseys releasing two EPs and a single. DeVault is also part of Hero No Hero with Ken Aki, which released an EP in 2020 and a full-length album in 2024.

Links:

https://theblueherons.com/

https://theblueherons1.bandcamp.com

Setlist:

Doomsday, Sunday (1994), Doomsday – Single

Drown, Bleach Lab, Drown – Single

Ones Who Love You, Alvvays, Alvvays

Bounded Hearts, Tales of Moon, The Meaning EP

wait, i see an albatross!, copperplate, wait, i see an albatross! – Single

Heart in Your Heartbreak, The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, Belong

Please Don't Move To Melbourne, Ball Park Music, Like Love

Only If You Want To, Jetstream Pony, Bowerbirds and Blue Things

Sea Legs, atmos bloom, Sea Legs – Single

Demon Slayer, The Blue Herons, Demon Slayer – Single

Windows and Doors, Dumb Things, Windows and Doors – Single

On My Mind, Mt. Misery, Love In Mind

Ocean's Calling, Stephen's Shore, Green – EP

Shopping in the Toothpaste Aisle, No Frills, Sad Clown

Stay, Sea Lemon, Diving For A Prize

A New Crown, Shapes Like People, Ticking Haze

Episode 28 features songs with former and current Gang of Four bassist Sara Lee.

1 ＺＥＰＰＥＴ　ＳＴＯＲＥ Crunky Stick Bar Swing, Slide, Sandpit

2 Walrus Wade 光のカケラ

3 Moonshake Secondhand Clothes C92

4 HARDWARE FRENCH BOYS IN INDIA UNTITLED LP, 1979

5 Shades of Violette Bursting Sky Spiritsense

6 Tubeway Army Down In The Park Music For New Romantics

7 Medicine Time Baby III The Crow

8 Whitelands Tell Me About It Celebrate Yourself! The Sonic Cathedral Story 2004-2024

9 Gang Of Four The History of the World Songs of the Free

10 Robyn Hitchcock The Rain Gravy Deco: The Complete Groovy Decay/Decoy Sessions

11 Robert Fripp; The League of Gentlemen Under Heavy Manners God Save the King

12 The B-52's Dry County Cosmic Thing

13 Indigo Girls Joking 4.5

14 Ani DiFranco As Is Canon

15 Дурной Вкус With You Светомузыка

16 Manicured Noise Dreams Money Can Buy Northern Stories 1978/80

17 TV21 Snakes And Ladders ('A Thin Red Line' LP rel. 12 Nov 1981) Snakes And Ladders - Almost Complete 1980-82 (Cherry Red 2010)

18 Modernettes Barbra Blank Generation: A Story Of U.S. / Canadian Punk & Its Aftershocks 1975-1981

19 The Ruts Jah War (Single Version) Roots Rock Rebels (When Punk Met Reggae 1975-1982)

20 The Passions Alice's Song Thirty Thousand Feet Over China

21 Lost Echoes Burning Soul Stars

22 Fire Engines Meat Whiplash Chrome Dawns

23 Fast Relief What a Waste Un-Scene! Post Punk Birmingham 1978-1982

24 Moose Do You Remember Reprise

25 Bell Hollow The Bottle Tree Foxgloves

26 LOWMOON Find A Reason Cathedrals

27 highspire skies you climb Your Everything (Deluxe)