Episode #72 : After Cologne, the wish to meet again
Indiependence Day 2026 is over. The music has stopped, but something is still moving. There are weekends that end when you get home. And then there are weekends that keep travelling with…
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Same Place, Louder Next Year
There is a peculiar moment at an independent music gathering when the map collapses. Germany, Belgium and all the other places people travelled from stop being distances. Names that normally appear beneath…
Read MoreEpisode 71: When Songs Become People
Most new music enters my life in the least romantic way possible. An email. A Spotify link. A Bandcamp page. A SoundCloud track. Sometimes a very long press release. Sometimes three words…
Read MoreThis Summer’s Heroes
🇳🇿 Vanessa Tottle — Invisible Rose🎛️ Electronic / Trip-Hop • August 21, 2026Born alone at a Wellington hotel bar, complete with real field recordings of cocktails being shaken and poured, Invisible Rose…
Read MoreEpisode 70 : Why Do We Keep Making Music?
Who are we actually talking to? What are we trying to fill, to repair, to affirm? What are we trying to prove – if anything? And perhaps the question that sometimes hurts…
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Why Do We Still Make Music?
If you came here from Mitxoda Weekly #101, you already know where this started. I asked a simple question: Why do we still make music? Despite the noise. Despite the algorithms. Despite…
Read MoreEpisode 69: Love Is the Answer
Happy is the one who goes on holiday. I wish we could invent little proverbs like that all year long. I’ve just returned from Andalusia, and some of the landscapes are still…
Read MoreEpisode 68: Away, Still Listening
Two hours of music. No microphone. No new submissions this time. Summer has caught up with me a little, and I simply haven’t had enough time to properly listen to and process…
Read MoreEpisode 67: Midnight Somewhere
There was something particularly warm about this 67th Salon Indie. Mostly new music, fresh discoveries, and one of those playlists that simply found its own flow. No complicated recipe this week, just…
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Soundcheck: A Daily Wordle for People Who Dig Indie Music
I made a game. Play Soundcheck Now Because apparently, creating newsletters, radio shows, playlists, websites and a whole indie universe wasn’t enough 🙂 So here we are. Meet Soundcheck – the daily…
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