Necktie Optional episode 26 (10/22/2026)
A best-of-the-half-year show, and a trailer for BeNtO Box (Best of Necktie Optional, Vol. 1), a 78-song playlist collecting the standouts from the show’s first six months.
Hooky, guitar-forward indie rock carried most of the set: The Vaccines, DMA’S, Michigander, The Beths, Great Grandpa, JW Francis, mypilotis, The Brook & The Bluff, Twin Bloom, and Slow Coast. Trophy Eyes supplied the hour’s heaviest, most urgent guitars, and feeble little horse added a noisier, rougher edge. The Velvet Teen and As Tall As Lions went bigger and more dramatic. Petey USA, Indigo Elephant & Mare, EGOISM, yeemz…
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