I continued exploring recent releases from Sufjan Stevens, Mitski, Hotline TNT, Bar Italia, L’Rain, Yeule, The Drums, Wild Nothing, Melenas, Slow Pulp and a.s.o. on the show this week, while the retro alternative set focused on music from the year 1987, in honor of the recent Pitchfork Sunday Review of The Sisters Of Mercy’s goth-rock classic “Floodland,” originally released in November of that year.

I continued exploring recent releases from Wild Nothing, Blonde Redhead, The National, Sufjan Stevens, Yeule, The Drums, Melenas, Hotline TNT and Metric on the show this week, while the retro alternative set featured genuinely disturbing music to scare you for Halloween. This might not be your favorite retro set I’ve ever done, but it sure was … interesting, lol!

I continued delving into recent releases from Slow Pulp, The Chemical Brothers, The Drums, Yeule, Metric, Melenas, Glasser, L’Rain, a.s.o., Deeper, Mitski and Wild Nothing on the show this week, while the retro alternative set focused on tunes from the year 1982, in honor of the recent Pitchfork Sunday Review of Ohio New Wave icons The Waitresses’ debut album, “Wasn’t Tomorrow Wonderful?”

I continued exploring recent releases from Slow Pulp, Yeule, Metric, Melenas, The Drums, George Clanton, a.s.o., The National, Mitski, Sufjan Stevens, Blonde Redhead and Deeper on the show this week, while the retro alternative set focused on some slightly challenging art-rock records from the ’90s, in honor of the recent 30th anniversary reissue of the British band Moonshake’s stunning debut album, “Eva Luna.”

I continued delving into recent releases from Slowdive, Yeule, The Hives, The National, Deeper, Melenas, Romy, Blur, a.s.o. and Glasser on the show this week, while the retro alternative set featured great tunes from the year 1985, including some Italo disco classics (Clio, Kirlian Camera), songs from Brazil (May East, Tetê Espíndola), France (Martin Dupont), Japan (Akina Nakamori, Taeko Onuki, Rajie) and Australia (The Church), and gems from legends like Kate Bush and New Order.

I continued exploring recent releases from The Hives, Deeper, Blonde Redhead, a.s.o., Mitski, The National, Romy, Animal Collective, Chai and Glasser on the show this week, while the retro alternative set focused on some killer dreampop tracks in honor of A.R. Kane, the underrated late ’80s duo who allegedly coined the term “dreampop” and who just issued a new box set of their classic releases, “A.R. Kive.” (Oh, there’s also a bonus mini-retro set featuring a trio of “cult artists” whose work was unappreciated in its time but has since found a more receptive audience, featuring Beverly Glenn-Copeland, William Onyeabor and Saâda Bonaire.)

I continued exploring recent releases from Deeper, The Drums, a.s.o., Romy, Alan Palomo, Olivia Rodrigo, The National, Slowdive, The Chemical Brothers, The Armed, Mitski and Blur on the show this week, while the retro alternative set was divided into two blocks: one featured a trio of songs from Talking Heads’ soundtrack album for their classic concert film “Stop Making Sense,” in honor of its re-release in theaters, as well as some other great tunes from 1983, while the second block contained three songs from the newly remixed “Let It Bleed” edition of The Replacement’s fourth studio album, “Tim,” along with more songs from 1985.

I continued exploring recent releases from George Clanton, Mitski, Slowdive, The National, Olivia Rodrigo, Romy, Róisín Murphy, James Blake, The Armed, The Hives, Deeper and The Chemical Brothers on the show this week, while the retro alternative set focused on the “electronica” boom of the late ’90s, that brief period after the grunge wave had crested and modern rock radio had convinced themselves that a lot of instrumental and sample-based electronic acts were the wave of the future (they were mostly wrong, but it was a very fun time anyway!)

I continued exploring recent releases from Olivia Rodrigo, The Armed, The Hives, James Blake, The Chemical Brothers, Romy, Carly Rae Jepsen, George Clanton, Blur and Róisín Murphy on the show this week, while I debuted the “potpourri set” for this week’s retro alternative set (inspired by the frequent grab-bag category on “Jeopardy!”), with tunes from various eras and genres, including some ’60s French pop from Jacqueline Taieb and Françoise Hardy, ’80s synthpop from Taeko Onuki and P-Model, and ’90s indie rock from Sonic Youth and Low.

I continued delving into recent releases from The Armed, Slowdive, George Clanton, Carly Rae Jepsen, Jessy Lanza, Georgia, The Hives and Blur on the show this week, while the retro alternative set focused on music from the year 1993, in honor of Pitchfork’s recent Sunday Review of the Smashing Pumpkins’ classic sophomore album “Siamese Dream” (which of course was originally released in ’93!)