1 April 2020

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2020 New Music Now –  Indie Rock ‘n’ Folk.

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Benjamin Gibbard performs from home (RollingStone.com)

1. Benjamin Gibbard – Life in Quarantine
2. Chromatics – TOY
3. Bukahara – Canaries in a Coal Mine
4. Papooz – Figs and Gorgonzola
5. Melissa Payne – Darker than Your Dark
6. Pomplamoose (ft dodie) – Monster
7. Kandace Springs (ft Norah Jones) – Angel Eyes
8. Joel Plaskett – If There’s Another Road
9. Koffi Olomide – Pygmalion 
10. Sean Koch – We All Believe
11. X Ambassadors – Belong
12. The Lumineers – Have You Ever Seen the Rain
13. Josh Ritter and The Milk Carton Kids – Losing Battles (acoustic)
14. Radical Face – The Crooked Kind
15. Mundy’s Bay – Visions of You
16. Frazey Ford – Holdin’ It Down
17. Ocie Elliott – Fame
18. Great Lake Swimmers – Getting to the Heart of It
19. The Killers – Caution
20. Mise en Scene – Angel
21. Partner – Good Place to Hide (At the Time)
22. Nothing but Thieves – Is Everybody Going Crazy?
23. Mondo Cozmo – Black Cadillac
24. Waxahatchee – Witches
25. New Wales – Face Tattoo
26. The Dears – The Worst in Us
27. Passenger – The Way That I Love You
28. Basia Bulat – Love is at the End of the World
29. MishCatt – Midnight Sun (acoustic)
30. Mélodie Lauret – Quand j’entends les gens
31. RHODES – This Shouldn’t Work
32. JJ Shiplett – Closer
33. Gordon Lightfoot – Oh So Sweet

 also on The Workout Mix of New Indie Rock & Folk playlist (as of the publication of this chart)

  also appears on the Sweet Summer Mellow Playlist

  also appears on The 2020 Top Summer Party Tunes Playlist

 also appears on the Protest! playlist.

15 March 2020

Stay well, music fans!  There is sooooo much music online that staying home should not be tedious. Catch up on old favourites but, more importantly, DISCOVER new music! 

😷Indy😷

 

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Kodaline (from Riotmag.co)

1. Kodaline – Sometimes
2. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – Blue Moon Rising
3. Rob Hirst and Jay O’Shea – Pearl Shell Buttons
4. William Prince – Wasted
5. Dixie Chicks – Gaslighter
6. Celeigh Cardinal – The Devil is a Blue-Eyed Man
7. Hawksley Workman and Sarah Slean – Lost Together
8. Julia Stone – Beds are Burning
9. Samantha Crain – Garden Dove
10. Naive New Beaters – Addicted to Joy
11. Grouplove – Youth
12. Born Ruffians – Dedication
13. The Franklin Electric – Made It up in Your Head
14. HAIM – The Steps
15. Melissa Payne – September Skies
16. Joe Nolan – Tupelo Honey
17. Artists for Peace and Justice (Jackson Browne, Jonathan Wilson, Jenny Lewis, Sanba Zao) – Lapé, Lanmou
18. Waxahatchee – Lilacs
19. The Wild North – Margaret
20. Kid Francescoli (ft Samantha) – Eu Quero
21. Hamilton Leithauser – Isabella
22. Josh Farrow – Something I Can Feel
23. Donovan Woods – Grew Apart
24. Overcoats – New Shoes
25. Ruby Waters – Sweet Sublime (Stripped)
26. Daniel Romano – Nerveless (Live)
27. JJ Shiplett – Waiting on the Rain
28. Khruangbin (ft Leon Bridges) – C-Side
29. Sharon Van Etten – Beaten Down

 also on The Workout Mix of New Indie Rock & Folk playlist (as of the publication of this chart)

  also appears on the Sweet Summer Mellow Playlist

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 also appears on the Protest! playlist.

1 March 2020

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Yola by Mhari Shaw

1. Yola – Faraway Look
2. Arlo Parks – Eugene
3. Best Coast – Master of My Own Mind
4. Shred Kelly – Dead Leaves
5. X-Ambassadors – Great Unknown
6. Jordan Klassen – Identivacation
7. Yves Tumor – Gospel for a New Century
8. Thundercat – Dragonball Durag
9. Gregory Porter – If Love Is Overrated
10. Gorillaz (ft Fatoumata Diawara) – Désolé 
11. Milky Chance (ft  Témé Tan) – Rush 
12. Busty and the Bass (ft George Clinton) – Baggy Eyed Dopeman
13. Sans Chateaux – Lee Inland
14. Grimes – Delete Forever
15. Drezus – It’s OK
16. The Strokes – Bad Decisions
17. Metrik – We are the Energy
18. Fake Shark – Bad Chemistry
19. Arkells – Years in the Making
20. The Dead South – Blue Trash
21. Les Deuxluxes – Lighter Fluid
22. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Cars in Space
23. Scenic Route to Alaska – Daydreaming
24. Johnny Flynn – Queen Bee 
25. Charlotte Cornfield – In My Corner
26. Rose Cousins – The Lullaby (My Oldest Love)
27. Frazey Ford – Everywhere
28. Alanis Morissette – Smiling
29. The White Buffalo – The Rapture
30. Slow Leaves – Miss You
31. Boy & Bear – Wicked Game
32. Tall Tall Trees – The Wind, She Whispers
33. Test the Timber – 100 Mile House
34. Nathaniel Rateliff – What a Drag

 

 also on The Workout Mix of New Indie Rock & Folk playlist (as of the publication of this chart)

  also appears on the Sweet Summer Mellow Playlist

  also appears on The 2020 Top Summer Party Tunes Playlist

 also appears on the Protest! playlist.

15 February 2020

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A Girl Called Eddy

1. A Girl Called Eddy – Someone’s Gonna Break Your Heart
2. Khruangbin (ft Leon Bridges) – Midnight
3. William Prince – Lighthouse
4. Basia Bulat – Already Forgiven
5. Yola – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
6. Marcus King – Wildflowers & Wine
7. Frazey Ford – Azad
8. The Jerry Cans (aka ᐸᐃ ᒑᓚᖃᐅᑎᒃᑯᑦ or Pai Gaalaqautikkut) – Havava
9. Nahko And Medicine for The People – Garden
10. U.S. Girls – 4 American Dollars
11. Artists for Peace and Justice (ft Jackson Browne) – Love is Love
12. Sarah Harmer – St. Peter’s Bay
13. Overcoats – Fire & Fury
14. Hawksley Workman & Sarah Slean – Wound You
15. Kakkmaddafakka – Echoes
16. Alan Doyle – Anywhere You Wanna Go
17. Tim & The Glory Boys – When You Know You Know
18. Fitz and The Tantrums – I Just Wanna Shine (acoustic)
19. Bombay Bicycle Club – Is It Real
20. Tame Impala – Breathe Deeper
21. Molly Sarlé – Human
22. Jenn Grant – Happy Birthday, Baby
23. Paul Rudolf – Open Water
24. Bobby Bazini – Choose You
25. Busty and the Bass – Summer
26. Morningsiders – Not Your Lover
27. Sans Chateaux – Wayfarers
28. Wyatt Donaldson – Our First Love Song
29. Brian Bulger – Brother, Are You on Your Way?
30. NONEWFRIENDS. – Already Gone
31. Oh Wonder – In and Out of Love

 also on The Workout Mix of New Indie Rock & Folk playlist (as of the publication of this chart)

  also appears on the Sweet Summer Mellow Playlist

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 also appears on the Protest! playlist.

1 February 2020

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J.S. Ondara by Daniel Mendoza

1. J.S. Ondara – Lebanon
2. molly ofgeography – Mile Magnificent
3. POLIÇA – Steady
4. U.S. Girls – Overtime
5. A Girl Called Eddy – Big Mouth
6. Baxter Dury – Slumlord
7. Gregory Porter – Revival
8. Faouzia – The Road
9. girl in red – kate’s not here
10. Matilda Mann – The Fucking Best
11. Ocie Elliott – Forest Floor
12. The Jerry Cans – Atauttikkut
13. Grouplove – Deleter
14. TOPS – I Feel Alive
15. Badly Drawn Boy – Is this a Dream?
16. M. Ward – Unreal City
17. Radical Face – Reveries
18. Seryn – Peeling Paint
19. Peach Pit – Shampoo Bottles
20. Sir Woman – Speak
21. Rose Cousins – The Return (Love Comes Back)
22. K.S. Rhoads (ft Allie Farris) – Up to You to Move the World
23. Paul Rudolf – Invisible Me
24. Joel Plaskett – Head over Heels into Heaven
25. Trampled by Turtles – Our Town
26. Steve Martin & The Steep Canyon Rangers – California
27. Léo Piché – Un dernier verre
28. Nathaniel Rateliff – And It’s Still Alright
29. Mendeleyev – Girl from the North Country
30. Aoife Nessa Frances – Here in the Dark
31. Madison Cunningham – Pin It Down
32. The Big Moon – Your Light
33. Warmduscher – Disco Peanuts

 

 also on The Workout Mix of New Indie Rock & Folk playlist (as of the publication of this chart)

  also appears on the Sweet Summer Mellow Playlist

  also appears on The 2020 Top Summer Party Tunes Playlist

 also appears on the Protest! playlist.

15 January 2020

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Hinds by Erik Tanner

1. Hinds – Riding Solo
2. Black Leather Jacket – Village People
3. Wolf Parade – Julia Take Your Man Home
4. Vampire Weekend (ft Danielle Haim) – We Belong Together
5. J.S. Ondara – American Dream
6. Rob Drabkin – Two Left Feet (The Way You Move)
7. Baron.E – Danser dans le noir
8. Karina Vismara – No Se Deja Conquistar
9. Emmrose – Hopeless Romantics
10. Ashley Ann McMillen (ft Mary Bragg) – Little Bitty Ring
11. Andy Shauf – Things I Do
12. Jack Peñate – Murder
13. Bombay Bicycle Club – I Can Hardly Speak
14. Videoclub – What Are You So Afraid Of
15. Circa Waves – Jacqueline
16. Beatific – Perpetual Contemplation of an Infinite Glory
17. Mighty Oaks – Forget Tomorrow
18. Zach Heckendorf – Lust & Wonder
19. Reuben And The Dark (ft AG) – Hold Your Head High
20. William Prince – Always Have What We Had
21. Emily Afton – Lonestar
22. Sons of The East – Come Away (Unplugged)
23. Artists for Peace and Justice – Under the Supermoon
24. CoCo Zandi (ft Wild Child) – Angel
25. The Mowgli’s – Wasting Time
26. Cornershop – No Rock: Save in Roll

 also on The Workout Mix of New Indie Rock & Folk playlist (as of the publication of this chart)

  also appears on the Sweet Summer Mellow Playlist

  also appears on The 2020 Top Summer Party Tunes Playlist

 also appears on the Protest! playlist.

1 January 2020

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Nahko And Medicine for the People (from Instagram)

1. Nahko and Medicine for the People – Slow Down
2. Trampled by Turtles – Ooh La La
3. Vampire Weekend (ft Danielle Haim) – Married in a Gold Rush
4. The Dandy Warhols – Sins are Forgiven
5. Black Pumas – Old Man
6. Dylan LeBlanc – Renegade
7. Joshua Hyslop – Behind the Light
8. Donovan Woods – While All the While
9. Jenn Grant (ft Mary Bragg) – The Party
10. Sudan Archives – Glorious
11. Sans Chateaux – Messengers
12. Wild Rivers – Thinking ‘Bout Love
13. Mighty Oaks – Lost Again
14. Peter Bjorn and John – Reason to be Reasonable
15. Hey Hey My My – Plastic Life
16. Alberta Cross – Something Real to Defend
17. Big Little Lions – Here We Go Again
18. Overcoats (Joey Pecoraro remix) – The Fool
19. Said The Whale – Level Best – For Bedtime
20. Bombay Bicycle Club – Racing Stripes
21. Dan Edmonds – Softie
22. Half Moon Run – Natural Disaster
23. Sons of The East – You Ain’t Going Nowhere
24. Jamestown Revival – This Too Shall Pass
25. Son Little – hey rose
26. City and Colour – Living in Lightning
27. SONTALK – I am a War Machine (Acoustic)
28. Washington – American Spirit
29. E^ST – FLIGHT PATH

 also on The Workout Mix of New Indie Rock & Folk playlist (as of the publication of this chart)

  also appears on the Sweet Summer Mellow Playlist

  also appears on The 2020 Top Summer Party Tunes Playlist

 also appears on the Protest! playlist.