Necktie Optional episode 18 (8/13/2026)
Twenty-eight tracks tonight, opening with The Weakerthans, Built to Spill, and Girl Scout setting a literate, guitar-driven tone. Dinosaur Jr. roughed up the edges before Embrace slotted in with "Road to Nowhere" — the band's first new material in four years, released ahead of their 30th-anniversary UK headline tour — and Ratboys brought things back to scrappier footing.
Michigander, Twin Fin, Circle Change, and Great Grandpa kept the momentum going. Twin Fin's "South of San Francisco" came out via Ineffable Records, Billboard's top independent reggae label, giving the track a looser…
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