Summer Indie 2025

 Twelve years running and, still, all I care about is keeping it happy and fast. I listen to thousands of indie music tracks and most of them are slow and sad. And people eat what they're force-fed. Not me. Maybe it's my naturally high serotonin level (sorry), but I continue to champion the hopeful underdog, the resilient muscle of the heart, the belief in a potential utopia. Will you accept this journey into the beauty and dissonance of hope?

Spotify and YouTube playlists below.

Summer Indie 2025

1. The Wombats - Can't Say No

2. Sharon Van Etten - Indio (the site of my former fave music festival--now a pop wasteland)

3. Art d'Ecco - Tree of Life

4. Mamalarkey - #1 best of All Time

5. Ty Segall - Shoplifter

6. Deep Sea Diver - What Do I Know?

7. Panda Bear - Praise

8. Hannah Cohen - Summer Sweat

9. Tunde Adebimpe (from TV on the Radio) - Magnetic

10. The Laughing Chimes - A Promise to Keep

11. Clutter - Kraut

12. Rialto - No One Leaves This Discotheque Alive

13. Stereolab - Transmuted Matter

14. OK Go - Love

15. Doves - Cold Dreaming

16. The Convenience - Western Pepsi Cola Town

17. The Waterboys - Andy (A Guy Like You)

18. Sports Team - Condensation

19. Horsegirl - Well I Know You're Shy

20. Mocky - Music Will Explain

21. Ten Tonnes - Heaven Sent

22. Dream Pixel - Moreish Idols

23. Goose - Feel It Now

24. Mandrake Handshake - Hypersonic Super-Asterid

For YouTube, I've tried to avoid videos whenever possible, since their mostly uninspired. Let's try to focus on the good music instead of the reason they killed MTV (and Coachella).