SPIKE HEART

Mission Statement, Bio, Mixes, and Contact Info

Spike Heart went to his first rave in 2000, titled iROBOT. The event had close to 2K people in attendance from all over the Midwest. The event was held at an old warehouse, located near downtown Indianapolis.

Above:Flyer from Spike’s First rave ever attended. Click to enlarge.

A week later, Spike Heart purchased his first set of turntables and things have never the same. He looked up to and found inspiration from watching pioneers of his local scene such as Slater Hogan, DJ Shiva(Noncompliant), and Chocolate The Freaky Afronaut. He would also spend hours in wonder as he listened to mixtapes and albums from the likes of Paul Anthony, Bad Boy Bill, Paul Johnson, DJ Craze, Danny The Wildchild, Roni Size, AK1200, Phantom 45, Aphrodite, Frankie Bones, Keoki and many others.

Spike has been an admirer of fringe underground music his ENTIRE life.

Spike was brought up on Industrial, Goth, Metal, Punk, and everything in between growing up in the 90’s. Not being able to really stick to one genre of music ever in his life, it’s no different with DJing and dance music.

From House & Techno to DNB, Spike loved to play whatever he felt like vibing to. In 2015, Spike dreamed up the concept of Graveyard Radio, not only to promote his own DJing, but diligently promote mixes, productions, and shows by local up and coming artists, as well as those who can be considered Underground (according to Mainstream standards), as a way to not only stick out from a sea of DJs in a saturated market, but a way to give back to the same community he so adamantly loved.

Above: Laura Anita Bass & Spike Heart with Hiroko Yamamura in Indianapolis for the intimate microRAVE series. 2019

However, things didn’t come into any major fruition till 2019. Spike Heart and Graveyard Radio partnered up with Anita Bass LLC. They worked in conjunction to each draw upon their well respected platforms, in a consorted effort to promote a variable cornucopia of radio shows, mixes, artists, and events on the now defunct KLST online radio station out of Texas. After taking a sort hiatus during the pandemic, Spike became an official Promoter/DJ for Anita Bass in 2020. Inspiration hit to create graveyardradio.net as a platform to highlight the things that are beloved amongst the dance music community. The radio show was then moved Wax Radio, Indianapolis. A community station that streams at waxradioindy.com.

Above: Phoebe of APM 2023

In 2022, Spike partnered with Aggressively Postive Media. APM brings interviews, show reviews, and other great content to Graveyard Radio.

In 2024 Spike Heart made his long awaited official return behind the decks when Trinidad Traxx put on Royal Rebellion. Since then, Spike has been able to stay active, regularly playing out in his local scene.

Now, as of May 2025, Spike Heart has amassed 297 published features on graveyardradio.net in the last 4 years, written himself and by other contributors. He has also been able to aquire over 120 exclusive mixes or tracks from a plethora of artists on the official SoundCloud that have all been featured here on the website.

Spike will continue to expand on both these libraries, hopefully branching out to add other writers, and publishing other topics beyond music, surrounding ideas & culture.

As of Winter 25, Spike has taken on the face of waxradioindy.com stepping into position as content and social media manager of waxradioindy.com. Using this new position at Wax Radio, Indianapolis, he is now the creative director of a new quarterly dance-industrual-goth night hosted by the radio station. The first show was titled “Nightmare Before Christmas” and was a benefite for www.iyg.org.