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 gives this episode an intense start. The kind of opening that…

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 Berlin, after speaking about my dedication to indie artists and the…

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, and hoping someone, somewhere, will hear a song they want to keep. We musicians have…

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 has moved on. The person who wrote it has changed. Something in those old recordings…

Episode 74: Special Belgium Just chilling with some friends, enjoy these Belgian gems, with a bit of collabs too 🙂

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 the Sea by Belgium’s dEUS turns 30. Blind Melon’s self-titled debut turns…

Episode 73 : A Gift, an Empty House and a Necessary Song This Friday, I received a gift. A real one. A parcel arrived from Germany, from Rosdorf, to be precise, sent by Éléonore Palmegratz aka Aliènor. Its a wonderful pack, a CD inside. But before even discovering its musical contents, the parcel…

Maison Vide Maison Vide, Some houses become empty. Others keep everything. The house is empty now. That sentence sounds practical. Finished, almost. A task completed, a door closed, a line crossed off a list. It says nothing about what it took to get there. My mother died four and a half years…

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 you. Indiependence Day 2026 was one of those. A few days in…

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 songs become faces. Conversations no longer wait for a reply,…

Episode 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 and a URL. An artist I have never heard of asks me to listen. And I do.…

This 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 turns distance and longing into a wonderfully cinematic trip-hop…

Episode 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 the most:  is there even an audience for what we create? As indie artists, I think…