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music things that surprised me in 2025

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Surprises from all angles, you’ve gotta keep your head on a swivel out here. What surprised you?

  • Mosh pit at a Beach Fossils concert 
  • Tame Impala making Wet Seal background music
  • Enjoying some Hardcore songs (Turnstile)
  • Finding out Clairos nepo 
  • Finding out having a dad who worked at Coca Cola makes you nepo 
  • Royel Otis guitarist showing his face 
  • A faceless British rapper being the first artist to get a Timothee Chalamet feature
  • Kenny Beats producing Fcukers and Geese albums
  • Geese blowing up 
  • Goose blowing up 
  • Everyone at Empire of the Sun concert being 16
  • The drummer from Paramore dropping a solo retro groovy indie album 
  • Finding out Jaco Jaco was in the band Sports 
  • How many people buy concert tickets just to loudly catch up with their friends the entire show (go to a bar for this in 2026)
  • The Tisburys touring with Neon Trees 
  • How many ppl clicked my indie-wave.com links  
  • Toro y moi dropping a folk remix of his own hip hop song
  • Mike from Stranger Things indie album 
  • Finding out Djo was/is in Post Animal 
  • Tennis calling it quits and shitting on music reviewers on their way out  (rocked though)
  • Dijon being in the new Leo movie

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