Freedom, Fifty Songs and the Art of Slowing Down

Mitxoda Weekly #108, October 16, 2026 Some revolutions change the course of history. Others change the way we look at what we’re doing. On October 23, 1956, the Hungarian Revolution began. Seventy…

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Episode 76 : The Mic Is Back!

The microphone is back! And with it, my voice, a few stories between tracks, and, as you’ll discover, my occasionally questionable grasp of geography. We open with Rainburn, whose Indian progressive rock…

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Love from the underground

There is a particular kind of kindness in remembering something somebody told you weeks ago. SFSF remembered Maison Vide. She remembered the empty house behind the song. In a message sent from…

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Episode 75: Numbers are numbers

Seventy-five. There it is, sitting at the top of another episode of Le Salon Indie de Mitxoda. A tidy little number for something much less tidy: finding music, making room for it,…

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Apparently, we’re still making music

The indie artist’s optimism has no sensible limit. Pull up a chair. There is a particular kind of optimism in an artist returning to a song after almost twenty years. The world…

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When My Body Cancels Before I Do

Mitxoda Weekly #105 – Three albums, an invisible illness, and a Belgian radio show. This week, three albums from my life are having birthdays. Nirvana’s Nevermind turns 35. In a Bar, Under…

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