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Big Sonic Heaven returns to live radio on Detroit public station WDET
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The enduring Detroit-born radio present Huge Sonic Heaven returns to the radio on Sunday, November 16 for the primary time in additional than twenty years.
The shoegaze, journey hop and atmospheric rock present created and hosted by Darren Revell is thought for shaping Detroit’s different soundscape within the Nineties and early 2000s, in response to a press launch from WDET.
The present began in 1995 in Detroit as a particular radio present on Planet 96.3. It spent 8½ years in Detroit after which moved to Indie 103-1 Los Angeles. In 2013, Huge Sonic Heaven grew to become a podcast, weblog, and in response to its web site, is presently a full-time web radio station bigsonicheaven.com.
“The station is devoted to the ethereal and plush sounds of shoegaze, dream-pop and post-punk with touches of trip-hop, darkwave, synthpop, Britpop, and so on.,” in response to bigsonicheaven.com. “New and traditional artists are usually featured.”
The present will air on WDET from 9 p.m. to midnight on Sundays beginning Nov. 16, in response to WDET’s press launch.
Every episode of Huge Sonic Heaven options deep cuts from legends like Cocteau Twins and Slowdive, in addition to new artists impressed by their sound, in response to WDT websitethe place folks can discover the episodes after they air.
The addition of Huge Sonic Heaven expands WDET’s jazz choices and marks the top of The new music showmentioned the press launch.
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