Date: October 31, 2025 Everyone seems to be celebrating the dead, the living, the missing, the still-here. For one long weekend the macabre comedy wins over our daily stress. Halloween is everywhere, ...

Date: October 31, 2025 Everyone seems to be celebrating the dead, the living, the missing, the still-here. For one long weekend the macabre comedy wins over our daily stress. Halloween is everywhere, right before we place a flower on a grave among other graves. Dark thoughts? Not really, just the season speaking. I won’t be celebrating Halloween in my living room anyway.

The Salon Indie of Mitxoda – Episode 26 (October 24, 2025) There are nights when the world feels too calculated, too measured, too optimized, too watched. And yet here we are, building something that can’t be tracked: a small universe of sound, shared in trust. A song doesn’t need data to breathe. It just needs someone to listen. In this 26th Salon, the lights were dim, the tea was warm, and time slowed down.

When the screens go silent, the underground sings. Neon Vampire feat. Mitxoda, Ray Cokes, AI’s strange echo, and a wave of indie voices rising again.

How are you today? It’s one of those questions I asked my community this week. It may sound simple, or even funny. But in a world that’s losing its sense of gentleness, asking “How are you?” is already an act of care. We shouldn’t go to bed angry. We shouldn’t start a new day without a smile. And yet, sometimes the small shadows find their way in.

And honestly, indie artists are unconventional, not matter what!

Why do we consume music? What remains within us after each song? Do we still find our place in this immense, ever-changing sea of sound? Sometimes, it’s good to take a step back,  to listen, to breathe, to simply be with music. So today, let’s begin with a moment of pure harmony, a pause in motion. Ultranoire is a  German-Hungarian collaboration that reminds us how electronic minimalism can become emotional architecture.

Women & Wine Wednesday – Listen live to talented independent women artists! Streaming music that empowers. Tune in for women-empowered music & more!

There’s something timeless about communication. However intense, fragile, or chaotic it may feel, it remains the only way we have to connect, to exchange, to appreciate, to challenge, to seduce, to imagine, and most of all, to create new ideas, again and again. Even as musicians, secluded in our moments of divine creation, we seek feedback. We crave that instant when someone’s reaction makes us tremble, smile, or want to throw everything out the window and start over.

Women & Wine Wednesday – Listen live to talented independent women artists! Streaming music that empowers. Tune in for women-empowered music & more!

Ava Gratia, rehearsal rituals, fresh indie news & Nadine’s treasures

New tracks, stories, and more!