Full playlist at https://bit.ly/2UER6Z5 | We started our Easter Sunday show with some hot new industrial tracks. That was followed by an EBM set, then we had a post-punk and goth set themed around resurrection, in honor of Easter. Then we had a "darkwave and whatever set." After that was a block of obscure post-punk, and we closed with a dark ambient set themed around springtime.

Full playlist at http://halfmachinelipmoves.com/episodes/0079 | This was our Women's History Month episode, playing artists who are women or women-fronted, which was delayed by our brief hiatus back in March. We started with some industrial tracks. Then we were joined in the studio by Gary of Club Nevermore, Arkansas's brand-new goth-industrial club night which debuts on April 13 to talk about it. Then we played two blocks of post-punk, dark punk, and deathrock in honor of that. That was followed by a block of minimal wave/synthpop; a block of heavy industrial, power noise, and power electronics. Then we closed with a block of ambient tracks.

Full playlist at http://halfmachinelipmoves.com/episodes/0078/ | We returned from a two-week break with an all-German show. We started with some brand-new Rammstein and a Bettina Köster track, then we started the main act with EBM and power noise; a block of synthpop and NDW/German New Wave; a block of female-fronted post-punk and goth; a block of requested experimental and Krautrock/Kosmische; and an ambient closing block.

Full playlist at http://www.halfmachinelipmoves.com/episodes/0077/ | Our longtime listener and friend Molly from Northern California joined us in the studio for one of the funnest and longest episodes of the show to date. We started with a set of EBM and industrial, then there was a block of industrial metal. We followed that with a set of music by artists that will be playing in Hot Springs at this year's Valley of the Vapors Independent Music Festival. We played a set of music from albums that were recorded or released in 1977 in honor of our 77th episode. Then we had a set of noise, and an excerpt from a long Coil track. We then had an hour of overtime, in which we heard Krautrock/kosmische, a bit of Anatolian rock, Russian post-punk, and noise rock and ambient.

Full playlist at http://halfmachinelipmoves.com/episodes/0075 | This show happened on International EBM Day (24/2), so we had a block of old school-style EBM, dancefloor-friendly EBM (you'll have to supply your own glowsticks for this set), and a set of dark EBM. Then, we shifted gears and played some death industrial and power electronics in honor of the Brighter Death Now/Steel Hook Prostheses show in Austin that night, and closed with a block of dark ambient.

Full playlist at http://halfmachinelipmoves.com/episodes/0073/ | This is our second Valentines/Anti-Valentines Day Special. We started with a requested Phil Western song (RIP), then we started the show proper with a couple of post-punk and minimal wave songs about breakups. Then there was a block of songs themed around loneliness and alienation. That was followed by a block of tracks about misanthropy and hatred, then a block of revenge and retribution song. We had a special block at midnight about uh… black gloves and discipline. Then we closed with a block of songs about “love” or whatever.

Full playlist at http://halfmachinelipmoves.com/episodes/0072/ | This show started with industrial and a few of OT’s favorite Teengenerate tracks. That was followed by a block of minimal wave, and a set themed around owls in honor of the day’s Superb Owl. There was a set of tracks from some of Lee Renaldo’s solo work after that, in honor of his birthday. That was followed by a block of shoegaze and some dreamy ambient and experimental tracks in the final block.

Full playlist at http://halfmachinelipmoves.com/episodes/0071/ | We started this show with some new-ish industrial metal; then we did an EBM set themed around airplanes and helicopters, drones, flying, etc. Then we played a set of dark punk and post-punk, all from releases that came out in this decade. We played a synthpunk block, took another trek into the world of dungeon synth music, and closed with a block of ambient drones.

Full playlist at https://bit.ly/2HpZZEw | We started this one with some industrial, and an industrial and EBM set themed around hunting and being on the run. It was also the night of a total lunar eclipse, so we talked a bit about that and played a set themed around the Moon. After that was a block of minor key minimal wave, with old and brand new tracks. Then we went on a quest to explore the world of dungeon synth music, and we closed with block of ambient and experimental.

Full playlist at http://halfmachinelipmoves.com/episodes/0069/ | The first episode of Half Machine Lip Moves in 2019 continued the look back at the previous year. We started with a set of dance floor-friendly EBM and synthpop from 2019, then we went into a block of aggressive EBM. That was followed by a set of death industrial and power electronics from 2018. After that was a block of dark punk/post-punk and deathrock from 2018, and another block of post-punk from 2018. In the final block we heard tracks from experimental and ambient releases from 2018.

Full playlist at https://bit.ly/2LKhq1h | The last episode of 2018 was a review—but not necessarily a best of—looking back at some of the year’s music. We played tracks from some of the year’s industrial metal and EBM releases, along with a track from a project whose work we’re anticipating in 2019. That was followed by post-punk tracks from this year’s releases and we closed with a block of tracks from some of this year’s dark ambient releases.

Artists played: Hide; Author & Punisher; Uniform; L.O.T.I.O.N.; Zwaremachine; Ohgr; Street Sects; Uniform & The Body; Musta Paraati; The Exploding Boy; Soft Kill; Hikikomori; Somos La Herencia; Atrium Carceri, Cities Last Broadcast, and God Body Disconnect; ProtoU; Ugasnie

Full playlist at https://bit.ly/2ELECeM | We started this show, the second Half Machine Lip Moves holiday show, with some Christmas-themed industrial and EBM. Then we had a set of music inspired by Krampus, the Christmas Demon. That was followed by a doom-laden Christmas Mourning set. Then we had a mostly post-punk set themed around Winter Solstice, which was followed by another Winter Solstice-themed set of black metal and noise. The show's last block had renditions of more somber traditional Christmas music, and we closed with a raucous bit of holiday music.

Full playlist at http://halfmachinelipmoves.com/episodes/0066/ | We started with a preview of new work by Susan of High-Functioning Flesh and a set of dark EBM. Then we played a block of artists that are brand new to the show. After that was a block of noise, industrialized black metal, and we closed the show with a dark ambien(t) jazz set.

Full playlist at http://halfmachinelipmoves.com/episodes/0065/ | This episode started with a tribute to the late Pete Shelley (of British punk legends The Buzzcocks) by playing some songs from his solo works, including a track from his forays into experimental synth noise. Then we moved back into industrial by premiering a brand new track by Minneapolis’s Zwaremachine and a block of “pants with spare change rattling around in the dryer industrial,” some listener requests and noisy industrial, and we closed the show with set of post-industrial and ambient—or whatever you call that kind of stuff.

Full playlist at https://bit.ly/2Udt3Br | We returned from our Thanksgiving break. We started with 'the industrial wading pool' to help ease people in to the show. Then we went with a set of hard and heavy industrial metal, a block of dark and nihilistic industrial and EBM—I guess that's what I'd call it; I don't know how to describe this show much of the time—and a block of industrialized black metal. The midnight block was minimal wave and synthpop, and we closed with a block of shoegaze and ambient.

Full playlist at halfmachinelipmoves.com/episodes/0063 | This episode started out with some new-ish industrial metal, then we went into a block of Central and Eastern European post-punk. Most of the rest of the episode leaned heavy on the heavy and noisy stuff—we had a block of "pants with spare change left in the pockets rattling around in the dryer" industrial, a block power electronics, and a block of noise before ending the show with a block of uh… a block that went from minimal wave to dark ambient.

Full playlist at halfmachinelipmoves.com/episodes/0062 | This was a weird and short episode. We started with some industrial, OT talked about difficulties with our Facebook page, then we had a pandering set for our friends Amanda and Jason in South Carolina, then we continued the autumn ambient afterglow in the last hour.

Artists played: Ministry, Skinny Puppy, In Slaughter Natives, Danheim, Soriah With Ashkelon Sain, Desiderii Marginis, The Caretaker, Arcana, Between Interval, Library Tapes, Coil, Pulse Emitter, Danny Clay and Greg Gorlen.

Full playlist at https://bit.ly/2SOwVZ4 | Our old foes The Radio Gremlins returned to sabotage the show by breaking the microphone but we persevered and went on anyway. We started with industrial and post-punk tracks related to the upcoming election, the media, the downfall of society. Then we had a tribute to our friend DJ D, host of South Carolina's Dark Entries Goth Radio (which was a big influence on this show), and two blocks autumn-themed ambient to continue the autumn afterglow now that Halloween has passed.

Artists played: Die Krupps, Thorofon, Killing Joke, Funker Vogt, Missing Foundation, In Slaughter Natives, Atari Teenage Riot, Hypnoskull, Container 90, LOTION, DropDead, Wumpscut, Bile, Youth Code, Horror Vacui, Sopor Aeturnus, Cyan Revue, Christ vs Warhol, Mask For, Korbak, Flowers For Bodysnatchers, Northaunt, Velvet Cacoon, Lycia, Caul, Tor Lundvall, Moss Harvest.

Full playlist at https://bit.ly/2PBk3a5 | Not only did we hit a milestone by reaching episode #60 but it's also the second Half Machine Lip Moves Halloween special. We started this episode with some industrial songs about the Halloween season. Then we had a dark punk and post-punk set, a deathrock set fresh out of the grave, an eerie horror set, a midnight block in the death industrial mortuary, and we closed with a block of fun goth.

Full playlist at https://bit.ly/2O4igp4 | It's late October so it's time for the spooky and atmospheric 2018 Dark Ambien(t). We began with a descent into the shadowy underworld of dark ambient, we had a rain-themed set, a block of music found while trawling through the dark ambient caverns of Bandcamp, made a trip into the haunted house where dark ambient and death industrial meet, a set of ritualistic dark ambient for the midnight block, and we closed with a set spacey dark ambient. We recommend turning out the lights out and listening through headphones, but that's your call.

Artists played: Olhon, Inade, ProtoU, Desiderii Marginis, SIJ & Textere Oris, Encomiast, Deleted Narrative, Ämsi, Exhumed Corpse, Subklinik, Brighter Death Now, In Slaughter Natives, Megaptera, Deutsch Nepal, Schloss Tegal, Sabled Sen, Overscape.