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top indie albums of 2025
Sunbeam Sound Machine – Double Magic Standout tracks: Mercy, Vanishing Point Listen Durand Jones & The Indications – Flowers Standout tracks: Paradise, Everything Listen Zac Farro – Operator Standout tracks: My My, Gold Days Listen Hannah Cohen – Earthstar Mountain Standout tracks: Mountain, Draggin’ Listen Far Caspian – Autofiction Standout tracks: An Outstretched Hand/Rain From…
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Stray Fossa x indiewave: night drive mix
Read time: 1 min 43 secs A late-night drive home from the beach with “Transpiring” by Stray Fossa on repeat sparked a new playlist. Luckily, the band was willing to continue the new indiewave collab series and co-curate the mix. Stray Fossa consists of brothers Nick and Will Evans and their friend Zach Blount. Zach…
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top 20 songs of q3 2025
Read time: 4 min 20 secs A round-up of the best songs released during the third quarter (July 1-Sept 30) Tame Impala – “Loser” There’s a million think pieces online about how this song sucks. Maybe I’m just derivative, but I don’t think you need to shapeshift to make a good song. I also think…
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Jaguar Sun x indiewave: morning coffee mix
Read time: 1 min 33 secs Pumped to be launching a new indiewave series bringing in artists I respect to co-curate a themed playlist. Even more pumped to have one of my go-to artists, Jaguar Sun, help kick things off. Jaguar Sun is the solo project of Chris Minielly, a Canadian producer, multi-instrumentalist and singer. Earlier…
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indiewave writers block
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top 30 songs of q2 2025
Read time: 4 min 37 secs A round-up of the best songs released during the second quarter (April 1-June 31) Far Caspian – “An Outstretched Hand / Rain From Here to Kerry” This is technically an “in no order” type of list, but this might be my favorite song of the year so far. It…
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the essential indie bangers
Read time: 33 seconds A few people told me the summer heat playlist was a little slower than they expected. Makes sense, because that was kind of the vibe. Upbeat enough for outdoor party background music; chill enough that your friend napping on the beach wouldn’t get jolted awake. That said, sometimes you just need…
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summer heat mix
Read time: 2 min 28 secs Editor’s note: playlist updated in July 2026 so the write up below may not fully line up with the playlist. more: summer heat refreshed Beach Fossils – “May 1st” Fuck what your calendar says, May 1st is the official start of summer in the book of the common man. …
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top 40 songs of q1 2025
Read time: 5 min 30 secs You blink and it’s April. Q1 is over. A boatload of music has already dropped this year and it’s time for a quarterly review. I’m one of the seemingly few ChatGPT holdouts, but I thought it would be fun to explain my taste profile and see how its list…
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surf the indiewave vol. 2
Read time: 1 min 45 sec Over the past few months, my pocket of the Northeast was experiencing its most brutal winter in years. However, my library doesn’t have much that would fit on a ‘depressing log cabin wintry mix evening’ Spotify Daylist, so I’ve been looking towards Spring over here. Escape the elements and…
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