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    🎡 Julia Jacklin - The Hardest Thing

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    🎡 Skinshape - I Didn't Know

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    Sophie Noel - Hot Nights

    "Hot Nights is the 60s art pop summer bop of your dreams. Perfect soundtrack for when the world is burning"

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    #indierock #indiefolk #artpop #60spop #artfolk #contemporaryfolk #music

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    Sophie Noel - Hot Nights

    "Hot Nights is the 60s art pop summer bop of your dreams. Perfect soundtrack for when the world is burning"

    getmusic.fm/l/M8oKnl

    #indierock #indiefolk #artpop #60spop #artfolk #contemporaryfolk #music

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    Sophie Noel - Hot Nights

    "Hot Nights is the 60s art pop summer bop of your dreams. Perfect soundtrack for when the world is burning"

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    #indierock #indiefolk #artpop #60spop #artfolk #contemporaryfolk #music

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    Sophie Noel - Hot Nights

    "Hot Nights is the 60s art pop summer bop of your dreams. Perfect soundtrack for when the world is burning"

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    #indierock #indiefolk #artpop #60spop #artfolk #contemporaryfolk #music

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    🎡 Calexico - Ballad of Cable Hogue

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  13. Album Recommendations – September 2026


    I’ve given up on trying to regularly write reviews of new albums, but I still want to share albums I enjoyed.  Below are several new (and new-ish) albums – no ratings, no criticism – just music I enjoy listening to and hope you will too.

    Album: Bedroom Sand
    Artist: Radkey
    Genre: Punk rock
    Release Date: July 14, 2026
    Label: Little Man Records
    Favorite Tracks:

    • Victory
    • Falling Out of Grace
    • Ready to Burn

    Radkey is three brothers from Missouri (Isaiah Radke (bass), Solomon Radke (drums), and Dee Radke (lead vocals and guitar).  Their third album rocks hard.

     

    Album: Uuuuuuuu 
    Artist: Picture
    Genre: Dub techno
    Release Date: July 17, 2026
    Label: Short Span
    Favorite Tracks:

    • Quuuuuu
    • Leeeeeee
    • Wooooooo

    It seems like every month I’m recommending an electronic music album with a practically unsearchable titles.  This one comes from Danish DJ/producer Natal Zaks and it’s very good.

     

    AlbumDays
    Artist: The Mountain Goats
    Genre: Indie Folk
    Release Date: August 7, 2026
    Label: Cadmean Dawn
    Favorite Tracks:

    • Charlie Sheen Reaches Out to the Feds
    • Days
    • Going to Fennario
    • Hidden Majesty of Later Venom Albums

    The Mountain Goats are back and as goat-y as ever.

    Album: Lost Weekend
    Artist: Phoebe Bridgers
    Genre: Indie Folk
    Release Date: August 13, 2026
    Label: Dead Oceans
    Favorite Tracks:

    • The Outside
    • Lost Boys
    • Bobby
    • Haunted
    • Never Going Back
    • I Can’t Wait

    The super-talented Phoebe Bridgers returns with her first solo release in six years, filled with thought-provoking songs of love and grief.

    Album: Connection
    Artist: Qudrat Wasefi
    Genre: Traditional music of Afghanistan/Fusion
    Release Date: August 14, 2026
    Label: unknown?
    Favorite Tracks:

    • Connection
    • Grief
    • Home↔Breath

    Qudrat Wasefi, a trumpeter from Afghanistan now based in Boston, blends tradtional music of Afghanistan with Western classical music featuring trumpet, piano, electronics, rubab (Afghanistan’s national instrument), tabla, and choir.

     

    Album: Gotta Get Out
    Artist: The Linda Lindas
    Genre: Punk Rock
    Release Date: August 28, 2026
    Label: Reprise
    Favorite Tracks:

    • Burning Out
    • Helado de LimΓ³n
    • Closer (feat. Hayley Williams)
    • I Could Be Wrong

    Bela Salazar, Eloise Wong, Lucia de la Garza, and Mila de la Garza started The Linda Lindas at a young age, so even though this is the band’s third album in an 8-year career, their ages range from 16 to 21.  Their musical sound continues to mature blending punk, pop punk, new wave, and surf rock sounds documenting the personal and the political.

     

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    Zane Alexander - Outer Darkness Between Worlds

    "Lo-fi acoustic songs about identity and belonging, sung across cultures, sung in French and Spanish"

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    #folk #singersongwriter #lofi #acoustic #indiefolk #slowcore #minimal #world #contemporary #antifolk #spanish #polyglot #french #franais #espaol #music

  15. Flora Cash β–Ίholy ghost and hallelujah

    Swedish-American indie-folk duo Flora Cashβ€”comprising the husband-and-wife creative core of Shpresa Lleshaj and Cole Randallβ€”revisits one of the standout compositions from their third studio album, Our Generation, accompanying the track with the official release of a new music video for "Holy Ghost and Hallelujah." Sonic Architecture: Musically, the track exemplifies the duo's signature ability to fuse melancholic, organic acoustic frameworks with expansive, ambient indie-pop production. […]

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    Rapt - Natural Light {Single}

    "A great folk cover of Casiotone For The Painfully Alone's song"

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    #folk #indiefolk #slowcore #acousticfolk #music

  17. Morning album was a random YTM recommendation based on my listening habits: Bloodless by Samia who I have never heard of. They were right to recommend it, it is a really solid record of in one of my favorite genres: sadgirl indie folk/pop.

    #indie #indiepop #indiefolk #singersongwriter #music #nowplaying

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  19. Briston Maroney ▢️ Even If You Are Not Mine

    Singer-songwriter Briston Maroney continues his streak of emotional authenticity with β€œEven If You Are Not Mine” a delicate and introspective new single. Following the success of his cathartic 2025 studio album, JIMMY, Maroney wastes no time returning with a thought-provoking acoustic-driven anthem. Thematic High Praise: The thematic core of this single deserves an unequivocal thumbs up. Maroney masterfully dissects the complex psychology of selfless loveβ€”specifically, the guilt of […]

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  20. It is such a crime that Miss Misery had to compete against one of the most iconic movie songs of all time, cause any other Oscars I think Elliott Smith would have won deservingly.

    #folk #indiefolk #folkrock #indie #indierock #90s

  21. Ten Songs With … The Mountain Goats


    β€œTen Songs With…” is a new, irregular series of posts in which I explore the music of a group or artist I like but am only familiar with a small portion of their catalog.  Unlike my previous Deep Dives series this will be more focused, limited to highlighting – yep, you guessed it – ten songs.

    Ten Songs With … The Mountain Goats

    I became aware of The Mountain Goats around 15 years ago, and am familiar with several songs the band has released over the past couple of decades.  But I was surprised to learn that The Mountain Goats have been recording since 1991, and have released 24 studio albums – plus live albums, compilations, EPs, singles, cassettes, and limited releases.  This was going to be a challenging catalog to explore!

    The Mountain Goats are essentially a project of John Darnielle, born in Indiana, raised in California, and now based in North Carolina.  While Darnielle attended Pitzer College from 1991 to 1995, he released his first recordings as The Mountain Goats.  Many early recordings were just Darnielle and his guitar, but he was joined by Rachel Ware on bass and vocals from 1992 to 1996.  Peter Hughes joined for a brief stint on bass and vocals in 1996, and then returned to play with the band from 2002 to 2024.  The other two long-time members of the band are Jon Wurster, drummer since 2007, and Matt Douglas, a multi-instrumentalist and vocalist since 2015. Numerous other musicians and collaborators have contributed to The Mountain Goats sound live and in the studio.

    The first decade of The Mountain Goats drew on Darnielle’s urgency to record songs as soon as possible by playing them straight into a tape recorder.  While Darnielle returns to this β€œlo-fi” style from time to time, since the release of Tallahassee in 2002, albums by The Mountain Goats are typically recorded in a professional studio with a full band. Tallahassee was also the first album released on a major label, 4AD.  The Mountain Goats later recorded with Merge Records for 15 years.  Since 2025, new releases by The Mountain Goats are independently released on their own Cadmean Dawn label.

    Darnielle is known as a talented lyricist with a literary style.  Many songs are autobiographical and confessional, including stories of growing up with an abusive stepfather (on the album The Sunset Tree) and his addiction to methamphetamine just after high school (We Shall All Be Healed).  A recurring theme across his works include song cycles about the dysfunctional β€œAlpha” couple, who argue in character through the song lyrics.  Darnielle has also created concept albums based on his various interests such as the Bible (The Life of the World to Come), professional wrestling (Beat the Champ), and goth culture and music (Goths).

    To prepare for this post, I searched for lists of β€œBest Albums” made by fans of The Mountain Goats, making a composite list.  From this list, I chose to give a close listen to the ten albums that seemed most essential (see below) as well as various singles and playlists of the bands best songs. From this project I made my list of Ten Song, albeit it seems to only scratch the surface of The Mountain Goats’ outpout.

    1994 Zopilote Machine
    1995 Sweden
    1997 Full Force Galesburg
    2000 The Coroner’s Gambit
    2002 All Hail West Texas
    2002 Tallahassee
    2005 The Sunset Tree
    2008 Heretic Pride
    2012 Transcendental Youth
    2017 Goths

    My Ten Songs

    β€œAlpha Incipiens” – Zopilote Machine (1994)

    β€œNo Children” – Tallahassee (2002)

    β€œAlpha Rats Nest” – Tallahassee (2002)

    β€œThis Year” – The Sunset Tree (2005)

    β€œDance Music” – The Sunset Tree (2005)

    β€œAmy aka Spent Gladiator 1” – Transcendental Youth (2012)

    β€œThe Legend of Chavo Guerrero” – Beat the Champ (2015)

    β€œRain in Soho” – Goths (2017)

    β€œTraining Montage” – Bleed Out (2022)

    β€œRocks in My Pockets” – Through This Fire Across from Peter Balkan (2025)

    Have you listened to The Mountain Goats?  If so, let me know your favorite songs in the comments.

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  22. Indie Music Hits: singer-songwriters, indie folk, acoustic pop and fresh independent discoveries.

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    #IndieMusic #IndieFolk #AcousticPop

  23. Listening to the new Phoebe Bridgers this morning. So far I like it but not as much as any of her albums that came before (including Boygenius and Better Oblivion Community Center) but I still have a handful of songs to change my mind. It uses a lot of electronic manipulation which I'm meh about. I've wanted to like this one more than I do but I've still saved the vast majority of songs to my master playlist so its like good.

    #phoebebridgers #folk #folkrock #indiefolk #indie #indierock #synthpop

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