Introducing B-Side’s Best: Your Monthly Guide to Music Worth Overthinking

We spend our days diving deep into songs most people will never hear—artists making music with genuine emotional weight, lyrical complexity, and philosophical depth. The kind of tracks that demand repeated listens because there’s always another layer to unpack.

B-Side’s Best is where those discoveries live.

What This Playlist Is

This isn’t a “best new music” playlist. You won’t find chart-toppers or algorithm favorites here. Instead, this is a curated collection of tracks from underrepresented artists—the ones we’ve reviewed, analyzed, and genuinely couldn’t stop thinking about. Indie folk with existential anxiety. Electronic music that wrestles with isolation. Protest songs that ask uncomfortable questions. Whatever’s captured our attention and earned the kind of philosophical dissection we’re known for.

Think of it as the musical companion to everything we write about: emotionally honest, lyrically rich, and refreshingly free of whatever Spotify thinks you should be listening to this week.

How It Works

We update monthly. Every 4-6 weeks, we rotate songs on and off the playlist based on what we’re currently obsessed with. That means:

• New additions get highlighted in a blog post explaining why they made the cut
• Departing tracks make room for fresh discoveries (though they’re never far—check our archives)
• The core vibe remains consistent: thoughtful, underrepresented artists making music that rewards attention

Each monthly update includes mini-reviews of the additions, giving you context for why these songs deserve your time. If a track intrigues you, chances are we’ve written a full review diving even deeper into what makes it tick.

Why Follow This Playlist

If you’re tired of algorithmic recommendations serving you the same indie-pop-folk blend everyone else is hearing, this is your antidote. We’re championing artists with 10K-100K monthly listeners—big enough to have honed their craft, small enough that you can still tell your friends you discovered them first.

More importantly, every song here has been vetted by people who actually care about lyrics, narrative structure, and whether the production choices serve the emotional content. We’re not playlist farmers chasing follower counts. We’re critics who happen to make playlists.

Get Involved

Follow B-Side’s Best on Spotify and check back monthly for updates. If you’re an artist making thoughtful, emotionally complex music, submit your work—we’re always hunting for the next artist who deserves an essay.

And if you find something here that resonates, let us know. The best music discoveries come from people who actually listen.

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Updated monthly. Currently featuring: existential indie, political folk, and electronic music for the emotionally literate.