To match the rainy weather in Detroit on Sunday, we fittingly played new music from the Pacific Northwest band Helen, with some 80s/Post-Punk/Shoegaze vibes. We also featured the grungy pop of Nashville’s The Sewing Club and a brand-new single from The Secret French Postcards. 

Plus, we celebrated the anniversaries of This Mortal Coil’s album, “It’ll End in Tears,” The Cure’s “Charlotte Sometimes,” The Jesus and Mary Chain’s “Just Like Honey,” and Lush’s “Black Spring” EP. 

We also talked about our upcoming spooky Halloween episode on Oct. 25!

Email me any Halloween song ideas at darrenrevell@wdet.org. They don’t have to be obvious Halloween songs. We’re going for mysterious, creepy, cool song ideas, Big Sonic Heaven style. Can’t wait to hear your ideas! Thanks for listening!

Big Sonic Heaven playlist for Oct. 11, 2026

• “Texture” – Catherine Wheel
• “Only So Much Light” – Air Formation
• “Ice Pick (Walk Away)” – Boy Harsher
• “Nothing Natural” – Lush
• “Complicated” – The Sewing Club
• “I’ll Fall With Your Knife” – Peter Murphy
• “In Real Life” – ACTORS
• “Softy” – Lowly
• “Lilies (Flood Mix)” – Cranes
• “Shame” – The Secret French Postcards
• “Typical” – Frazier Chorus
• “The Body, It Bends” – A Sunny Day In Glasgow
• “Starline” – Helen
• “Not Me” – This Mortal Coil
• “The Presence” – Emma Anderson
• “Got You” – Aerial Love Feed
• “Charlotte Sometimes” – The Cure
• “No More Kissing In The Rain” – Trentemøller
• “Morning, June and Yesterday” – The Veldt
• “The Ghost In You” – Siouxsie & The Banshees
• “All in a Life” – Johnny Marr
• “Half A Person” – The Smiths
• “Bind Us” – The Wolfgang Press
• “Summertime” – The Sundays
• “Goodbye Vista” – Deserta
• “Welcome Break” – Mary in the Junkyard
• “Just Like Honey” – The Jesus & Mary Chain
• “Fossilized” – Postcards
• “Into The Light (with Diamanda Galás)” – Delerium
• “All Flowers In Time Bend Towards The Sun” – Jeff Buckley & Elizabeth Fraser
• “We Prayed In the Dark” – Echo & The Bunnymen
• “When The Sun Hits” – Slowdive
• “Until The Dawn” – The Awakening
• “Let it Burn” – Le Blonde
• “Life That Can’t Be Shared” – &Tilly
• “Tower of Strength” – The Mission
• “Awake” – Tycho