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Ice House Radio

The Third Coast, on the record.

Zydeco to industrial techno, a hundred DJs deep.

Sean Bradley and Jackson Allers had turntables, a mixer and a camera in a Sprinter van when they began broadcasting from Bradley's Second Ward backyard in January 2024 — two radio veterans lately back in Houston, one from New York's art world and one from Beirut, taken with what The Lot Radio had built in Brooklyn. Pop-ups in other backyards and storefronts followed, then a short residency at the Montrose cafe Brasil, and that October the pair took over the disused car wash in the garage below the bar Echoes on Richmond Avenue.

More than a hundred residents fill five nights a week, Tuesday through Saturday, and a single evening can run cumbia into chopped and screwed, dark wave, zydeco and left-field house. YorzTruly's monthly t'ēna t'abīya digs through Afrocentric records, Pher works the ambient and experimental end, and Real Gone hosts Haunted Dancehall. Thousands of hours sit in the archive.

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Ice House Radio

The Third Coast, on the record.

Zydeco to industrial techno, a hundred DJs deep.

Sean Bradley and Jackson Allers had turntables, a mixer and a camera in a Sprinter van when they began broadcasting from Bradley's Second Ward backyard in January 2024 — two radio veterans lately back in Houston, one from New York's art world and one from Beirut, taken with what The Lot Radio had built in Brooklyn. Pop-ups in other backyards and storefronts followed, then a short residency at the Montrose cafe Brasil, and that October the pair took over the disused car wash in the garage below the bar Echoes on Richmond Avenue.

More than a hundred residents fill five nights a week, Tuesday through Saturday, and a single evening can run cumbia into chopped and screwed, dark wave, zydeco and left-field house. YorzTruly's monthly t'ēna t'abīya digs through Afrocentric records, Pher works the ambient and experimental end, and Real Gone hosts Haunted Dancehall. Thousands of hours sit in the archive.