The Cleaving Hours with DJ Zelda

08/05/2025

Tonight's show was so much fun! This link is valid through just before the show on 8/18. Enjoy!

The Cleaving Hours presents an eclectic mix of punk, postpunk, psychedelia, grunge, electronica, noise, and beyond. Tune into two hours of the best of underground rock from the 1960s to the 2020s every Monday from 8 to 10 p.m. with DJ Zelda on Humboldt Hot Air.

07/22/2025

Fret not! If you missed tonight’s show, here it is for the next two weeks!

The Cleaving Hours presents an eclectic mix of punk, postpunk, psychedelia, grunge, electronica, noise, and beyond. Tune into two hours of the best of underground rock from the 1960s to the 2020s every Monday from 8 to 10 p.m. with DJ Zelda on Humboldt Hot Air.

07/09/2025

In case you missed the July 7 show, you can listen to it in full right here on Spinitron until July 21!

https://spinitron.com/Humboldt-Hot-Air/pl/20905194/The-Cleaving-Hours

The Cleaving Hours with DJ Zelda
Jul 7, 2025 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM

The Cleaving Hours presents an eclectic mix of punk, postpunk, psychedelia, grunge, electronica, noise, and beyond. Tune into two hours of the best of underground rock from the 1960s to the 2020s every Monday from 8 to 10 p.m. with DJ Zelda on Humboldt Hot Air.

Episode 135
The Cleaving Hours

Cosey Fanni Tutti - Psychedelic Projections

The Fall - Victoria

Adam & The Ants - Kick! - Single Version

This Mortal Coil - It'll End In Tears - Remastered

Magazine - The Light Pours Out Of Me
Cabaret Voltaire - Landslide

Siouxsie And The Banshees - Switch

The Scream (Remastered & Expanded)
Franz Liszt - Liebestraume, S541/R211 : No. 3: Nocturne in A-Flat Major

Dead Or Alive - I'm Falling

Dead Can Dance - The Fatal Impact (Remastered)

Modern English - Grief

Cruel Diagonals - Oblique Ritual

Joy Division - Leaders Of Men - 2010 Remastered Version

And Also The Trees - Virus Meadow

Nightmares In Wax - Black Leather

Sisters of Mercy - This Corrosion - New Version for Digital

Harold Budd & Brian Eno - The Chill Air - 2004 Digital Remaster

Tyler Bates & Chelsea Wolfe - Pearl’s Lullaby

The Southern Death Cult - False Faces

Aurat - Waiting For You

The Membranes - Hail to The Lovers

Angelo Badalamenti - Dance of the Dream Man

Adam & The Ants - Whip In My Valise

The Birthday Party - Junkyard

The Stooges - Down On the Street

The Wolfgang Press - Cut The Tree

Lonely Is An Eyesore
David Bowie - I'm Afraid Of Americans (V1) - Radio Edit

Fire Beninois - Righteous Rockets

Dead Can Dance - Flowers Of The Sea (Remastered)

Clock DVA - 4 Hours

The Cleaving Hours presents an eclectic mix of punk, postpunk, psychedelia, grunge, electronica, noise, and beyond. Tune into two hours of the best of underground rock from the 1960s to the 2020s every Monday from 8 to 10 p.m. with DJ Zelda on Humboldt Hot Air.

07/04/2025

A full KEXP set from Gustaf!

http://KEXP.ORG presents Gustaf performing live in the KEXP studio. Recorded November 6, 2024.Songs:Starting and Staring 00:30What Does it Mean 03:24Design 0...

07/01/2025

Out of the studio again tonight! Back in July!

06/04/2025

If you missed the show on June 2, fret not! Humboldt Hot Air subscribes to Spinitron, which lets you listen to the show for to weeks at the link below! (So this link is good until right before the start of Zelda's show on the 16th.)

https://spinitron.com/Humboldt-Hot-Air/pl/20743521/The-Cleaving-The Cleaving Hours with DJ Zelda

06/02/2025

Tonight Zelda kicks off the first of FIVE evenings celebrating June Gloom! Selections from faves like Specimen, Tones on Tail, The Membranes, and more!

04/15/2025

Another Monday night and Zelda is out of the studio!

03/30/2025

03/10/2025

Did you know that not only can you continue to stream The Cleaving Hours but locals can tune into us at KHHA-LP Arcata, 94.7 FM? YES! The Cleaving Hours has gone terrestrial.
Episode 124 promises an eclectic mix of post-punk/garage/synth/new wave...! 🥳
Tune in tonight, March 10th, from 8 to just shy of 10 p.m. 😺

01/21/2025

TAKE TWO! Last week, we faced bewildering tech issues so postponed the show. Get ready for a show featuring song with/about numbers TONIGHT, January 20th! Tune in to what is soon to be KHHA - LP Arcata, 94.7 FM -- for now, still www.humboldthotair.org, streaming worldwide. Find us the URL or over Radio Garden! I'll be spinning tunes from The Three Johns, Wire, New Model Army, Le Tigre, XTC... lots of classic post-punk! See you from 8 to 10 p.m. Pacific!

01/13/2025

EDIT: our broadcast signal is down so the show tonight has been canceled. Tune in next week!

This lucky 13th January Zelda is celebrating with a themed show featuring songs that have *numbers* in the title! Just because it's the thirteenth! Tune into The Cleaving Hours with DJ Zelda on HumboldtHotAir.org for a meticulously curated variety of quality post-punk and eclectica! Humboldt Hot Air tonight!