Night Clerk Radio: Haunted Music Reviews
Birk and Ross plumb the depths of vaporwave, dark ambient, and other haunted genres of music. Discover new music to listen to and find out why we're drawn to retro aesthetics and dark music.
- Update frequency
- every 14 days
- Average duration
- 36 minutes
- Episodes
- 139
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
The Curious Case of the Dungeons and Dragons Promotional Cassette
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In this episode, we dare to enter Ross’s cherished domain: the tabletop role-playing game! We’re checking out “First Quest,” a 1985 promotional cassette released …
August New Music: Xeeland and Nmesh
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It’s time for our August new music episode. This time there’s no obvious overarching theme between our picks so no clever episode title, sorry! We’re starting off …
A Dungeon Synth Picnic
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In this episode, we’re finally breaking out the summer dungeon synth. But first we ask: what even is summer in music when freed from the burden of marketing and p…
Summer Dungeon Synth? No, Summer and Dungeon Synth!
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First of all, sorry for the hecked up timing of recent episode releases. Ross and I have both had family in town which makes sticking to our usual schedule a bit …
Vibing with The Rat Man in Vermis
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In this episode, we’re exploring one of our favorite metagenres: haunted media about media that never existed. This time, we’re delving into Vermis, a strategy gu…
June New Music: Suburbia After Dark and Vistas
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It’s time for June new music explorations and in this episode Ross and Birk have once again shown up with two very different albums. We’re discussing Suburbia Aft…
Seeking More Sanctuary (Sanctuary 2025 Part Two)
In this episode, we’re back to checking out a bunch of great live and URL sets from Sanctuary 2025, a charity show for the TransOhio Emergency Fund organized by Nostalgia Lounge …
May New Music: celadonDREAM Suite and ZIAD!
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It’s time for us to gather around the Bandcamppole and celebrate the working artists of the world with our May new music episode. We’ve once again (completely un…
A Sanctuary Sampler (Sanctuary 2025 Part One)
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In this episode, we’re starting our series covering as many IRL and URL sets as we can get our hands on from Sanctuary 2025…
Patreon Rerelease: Corporate Art and Vaporwave
Hello! We’re starting a new project this month. We have almost 50 bonus episodes on our Patreon. The goal is to get these older bonus episodes out from behind the paywall. So travel back in time with…
An April New Music Sandwich
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It’s time for our April New Music episode! This time around, we’re breaking the rules a bit by discussing three albums. Your three course meal starts with some cl…
Listenin’ To listencorp
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In this episode, we’re checking out listencorp, a long-running magazine that covers vaporwave and electronic music. Each of their six issues features long-form art…
Japanese Ambient Explorations
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You should know that this episode was divinely ordained. The Discogs article below was posted by a listener on our Patreon Discord at the precise moment Birk was …
New Music: Cursed Mall and Blueberries on Mars
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In this month’s new music episode, we’re exploring the anxiety/comfort duality in vaporwave as it appears across two amazing albums. Join us as we discuss the wond…
Passionate Plunderphonics
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In this episode, we’re discussing the 2024 album Passion by D.J. VLK. This amazing display of plunderphonics is made entirely using samples from the forgotten par…
Solarpunk Exploration
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In this episode we’re digging into Solarpunk, a multi-media art movement that aims to build a vision of a more optimistic future, free from the crushing doom of en…
New Music: 飑 and Apeiron
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It’s time for our first new music episode of 2025! It’s getting cold and snowy where we live so we picked out some albums that fit our wintery mood. We’re covering…
Vaporwave Stocking Stuffers
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We’re back! In this episode, we’re easing back into our recording schedule with a discussion of thirteen diverse albums spanning a wide range of Christmastude. Fro…
The Neverending Discord Scroll
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Announcement: Ross is going on vacation so this will be the only public episode this month. We may also miss one episode in December. Patreon episodes will continu…
Storming the Lego Castle
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In this episode, we’re tossing the new music format out the Part 4444 2x5x6 Wall with Window so we can focus entirely on Lego Castle (1979-1998) by Dreamcastle™. T…