CJ Simonson

Here she blows, top 100 albums and EPs from 2025. Cheers!

When this song hit as it said "One Day" in YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING >>>>>>

Wrote about DIG! and also Diary's psychedelic debut SPIRAL BOUND.

Interviewed Zack about drumming, indie rock, etc etc

I cannot write about it as a Bandcamp Pick for MGRM as Swami for whatever reason don't throw their stuff on Bandcamp (missing out on a lot of money imo!) but the I Will Die In This Jean Jacket album fucking rules.

If you're looking for something fresh this Bandcamp Friday, my buddy Jake (occasional Merry-Go-Round contributor) just put out an EP! RIYL: The Cult, Alien Boy, Protomartyr, Fucked Up, The Twilight Sad, The Replacements. Olivia Rodrigo's drummer Jordi Radnoti is behind the kit on the whole EP!

The new Widowspeak is as close as they've ever gotten to interestingly sounding like Mazzy Star (and god knows they've tried, ample times); do with that what you will!

Out now wherever you find podcasts, we’re joined by @cjsimonson.bsky.social & Luke Phillips of @mgrmagazine.bsky.social on this week’s episode to talk butt rock bands covering songs, paired with butt rock songs covered by indie bands/artists. Listen now: linktr.ee/indieheadspodcast

On this episode, we're joined by @cjsimonson.bsky.social & Luke of @mgrmagazine.bsky.social to talk butt rock bands covering songs, paired with butt rock songs covered by indie bands/artists. Support us on Patreon for as low as $1/month to hear this episode over 48 hours early!

Watched THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE last night and I cannot stress enough, it posits that Jimmy Stewart for most of the film is a young man that just left Law School, meanwhile he looks like this. Makes him as a late 40s teen in IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE look like child's play (pun intended).

Been a while since I just cried to a song, but "Where It Lands" on the new Andrew Sa album just came outta nowhere and got me.

For anyone needing a roughly 2.5 hour distraction, really enjoyed playing KABUTO PARK, now available wherever you play games.

Hey Nongman, go read @jackprobst.com’s profile of Scotty Aux

Monday marked the start of COMEDY BANG! BANG!'s 2026 Ground Beefing tour. Ahead of tomorrow's Chicago date, we chatted with @scottaukerman.bsky.social about what 17 years of the show looks like on the road, his persona on @cbbworld.bsky.social, the podcast medium's importance to comedy, and more!

Was at Planetary working Arlo's first record when we had #1 for like, 11 weeks or something insane, and have been at [PIAS] for both of the next two albums. Been really exciting to have been there since the beginning and see the reaction at radio evolve and grow.

New Labrador tune fully out today, good record and fun video!

@cjsimonson.bsky.social nailed it with this opening graf. Also, hey @ratboysband.bsky.social 👋

Released a new Sequence Selector with the undeniable Cold Gawd. Prompt Matt drew was a playlist for the final moments before the asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs. Fun episode, he has some fun jabs at various punk and rock institutions as well. Like, Subscribe, etc!

Fascinating things are being asked on the Grateful Dead Facebook fan pages

My Phoenix Suns don’t have a lot, but at the very least when people hit threes at home the announcers will always be able to yell “they’re making it rain in the desert!”

Listening to an album, getting to a song that's 11 minutes long, and just leaning back like Antonio Banderas in the 1995 film ASSASSINS evernever-records.bandcamp.com/track/gizzard

Baffling new Spotify playlist to stumble upon, why does it look like this guy has killed his wife and is in a holding cell?

The Home Front + Spiritual Cramp Co-Headline would frankly save a lot of older punks lives, and that’s just a fact

No one has asked for this but, my top five U2 songs of the last 20 years: 5. "Ordinary Love" (Extraordinary Mix) 4. "Get On Your Boots" 3. "You're The Best Thing About Me" 2. "Every Breaking Wave" 1. "Song of the Future"

On ECHO IN THE DUST, you can sense Julianna Riolino's confidence growing. Both as a songwriter and especially as a performer, the varied and dazzling alt-country songs on her sophomore album exude a playful boldness. Check out our premiere of the deluxe version of the album today!

This IG ad is trying to tell me old people are putting peanut butter on their phones and that’s one of their biggest mistakes is that true?? I love putting peanut butter on my phone fml

The prompts for Sequence Selector are randomly assigned before we start rolling the cameras, but I really couldn't have given Gelli Haha a more Gelli Haha prompt than to build a playlist "for shrinking down in the Magic School Bus and exploring the human anatomy." SWITCHEROO coded for sure.

Best Remember Sports album since ALL OF SOMETHING, really great stuff

This is the kinda name / set up / premise a @pftompkins.bsky.social Comedy Bang! Bang! character would begin with ten years ago

Oh hey, I contributed to this!

An artist that has been posted plenty on indieheads, where plenty of weird video interview content gets shared, will get taken down, but a band called Daddy's Beemer can get zero upvotes and stay on. Make it make sense.

Any successful news operation that emerges going forward will have to be unabashedly left wing. Landlords fucking people over? That's a left wing cause. Businesses polluting? Left wing. City councilor is corrupt? Left wing. Workers being mistreated? Sports stadium displacing housing? Buddy,

Hello people of Bluesky. We dropped a second episode of Sequence Selector this week, featuring the great band Niis (on Get Better) making us a playlist for a summer bbq in hell! Like, comment, subscribe, do any of that fun stuff if you would!

"Come on in," Grace yells in SINNERS. It's an emotional response that has angered audiences since the film was released. But as our current political moment is revealing, the vampires were always here, and they don't plan on leaving. On I.C.E., Minneapolis, and Ryan Coogler's Best Picture nominee.

Good stuff! feelslikeheaven.bandcamp.com/track/snow-d...

You can’t report illegal acts because you don’t want to compromise them being carried out is an interesting take, if true

Without further ado, we present our Top 50 Albums of 2025! From The Tubs' COTTON CROWN to Greet Death's DIE IN LOVE, Rico Nasty's LETHAL to Jobber's JOBBER TO THE STARS, we count down the best of the year according to our staff! Check out the list today!

Wrote about both our best artist and best new artist of 2025! Enjoy!

To begin our three days of EOTY music coverage to close out 2025, let us begin with a pair of essays about the best artist and best new artist of the year! While the former was obvious, the latter is an act that many of our writers are buying stock in early. Enjoy!

Allegedly taking place in the year 2025, Spike Jonze's 2013 film HER is a fascinating depiction of not-so-future Los Angeles, capturing the feeling of what it is to live in the city while flouting its mechanical limitations. On AI, LA optimism, male loneliness, and more.

Wrote about about a whole lotta covers for a sixth year in a row! And if you’re the type to want an easy r/indieheads post, by all means post it up there. Picks from Mavis Stapes excellent album, King Hannah, MJ Lenderman, etc. Happy Holidays!!

It’s our Bandcamp Picks of the Week, featuring the devastating, grungy existentialism of Lily Seabird’s TRASH MOUNTAIN, out now via @lameorecords.bsky.social, and the springy Midwest anti-folk of Case Oats’ LAST MISSOURI EXIT, out now via @mergerecords.bsky.social!

Five years ago, we claimed Danny Brown was the best artist of the 2010s. Half a decade later he might be in the conversation for the greatest of all time. On the difference five years makes, QUARANTA, his podcast, and the brilliantly colorful STARDUST.

It's our Bandcamp Picks of the Week, featuring @zayallcaps.bsky.social's modern madcap pop spectacle ART POP * POP ART and bloodsports' thrillingly aggressive ANYTHING CAN BE A HAMMER! Read about both and then check them out over on @bandcamp.com!