Episodes

  • White Board Release Party
    Jul 10 2024

    Ben and MP return from the longest vacation ever, introduce the long awaited white board, and pay tribute to a beloved local artist. It's a super-sized double-wide triple XL episode with 24 new indie/DIY tracks that span the globe. You are sure to find more than a few new favorite bands.

    EPISODE PLAYLIST:

    • Farmer's Wife, "Boheme"
    • Street Racer, "Hot Glue"
    • Etcetera, "Threat Below"
    • The Mysterines, "Hawkmoon"
    • Sour Widows, "Big Dogs"
    • Annabel Lee, "Colorful Kid"
    • Paper Ashtray, "You/Me"
    • Virginity, "Going Out Of Business"
    • Girl Scout, "I Just Needed You To Know"
    • mercury, "Crick"
    • Twin Films, "Consumer Debt"
    • Sean Cunningham, "Habit"
    • Picture Parlour, "Face In The Picture"
    • Talking Points, "June"
    • Eli Superflyy, "No No"
    • Pageant Mum, "Up To My Temples"
    • Queen Cult, "The Hand Lender"
    • Queen of Jeans, "Go Down Easy"
    • Robber Robber, "Dial Tone"
    • World's Greatest Dad, "Twenty Deer"
    • Reality Club, "SSR"
    • SOMOH, "Problem Child"
    • Allergen, "Storm Clouds"
    • Edgehill, "Towel"
    • NEW CLOSING THEME SONG: Manners, Please, "Stay Strange"

    Dedicated with our love to Katrina Bolyard.

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    3 hrs and 7 mins
  • Retrospective 1
    Jun 21 2024

    MP and Ben are taking some vacation time and will return with new episodes starting July 11. Please enjoy this retrospective episode of their favorite songs from the first 20 episodes of Lets Play Ten. No talk, just 20 great indie rock tracks to increase your rock and roll heart rate while you pine for the boys' return. The rule still applies: If you like it, buy it!

    EPISODE PLAYLIST:

    • Pool Kids, "I Hope You're Right"
    • DISQ, "(With Respect To) Loyal Serfs"
    • mercury, "Moment"
    • Calicoco, "Underneath"
    • The Snuts, "Knuckles"
    • oldsoul, "July"
    • Carlie Hanson, "Pretender"
    • Kali Masi, "The Stray"
    • M.A.G.S., "Elephant"
    • Wednesday, "Chosen to Deserve"
    • The Cordial Sins, "Isolation"
    • Fraulein, "Pet"
    • Spanish Love Songs, "Clean-Up Crew"
    • Black Country New Road, "Up Song"
    • Petey, "I'll Wait"
    • Outerloop, "For The People"
    • Glowing, "Pay The Price"
    • SPRINTS, "Adore Adore Adore"
    • swim school, "kill you"
    • Blanco Tranco, "Lara"

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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • Brunch With Losers
    May 25 2024

    MP and Ben plan a stop gap episode, contemplate a road trip, and have multiple conversations about stuff that you don't care about. You will however, care about this episode's "diabolically good" playlist, carefully curated for your lawn mowing introspection.

    Episode Playlist:

    • THICK, "Mother"
    • Beautiful Freaks, "Loser Sellouts"
    • Wishy, "Love On The Outside"
    • MAITA, "girl at the bar"
    • Future Teens, "Mourning Time"
    • Sunday (1994), "Our Troubles"
    • Jess Day, "Lilith"
    • Losers, "Red Sweater"
    • 86TVs, "Tambourine"
    • Slate, "Sun Violence"
    • TAKER, "Youth"
    • Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard, "Human Compression"
    • BONUS MATERIAL: Losers, "Fear"

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    2 hrs and 5 mins
  • Wet A** Podcast
    May 9 2024

    Edible Merch? Record Store Day malaise? Borderline obsessions? Disappearing institutions? Sure, we've got all of that. Plus a lively conversation about how little kids process music and why it matters to their future selves. As always, Ben and MP proudly present 10 brand new indie rock tracks that will adorn your psychic bulletin board.

    EPISODE PLAYLIST:

    • Council Grounds, "Tied Down"
    • Emily Wolfe, "Kill The Love"
    • Of All Things, "Will You Give It A Taste?"
    • Snarls, "Baby Bangs"
    • The Joy Hotel, "Jeremiah"
    • The Upsides, "Context"
    • Jessica Boudreaux, "Be Somebody Else"
    • McKenna Esteb, "All Time Record"
    • ILA, "Glory"
    • wilt, "More Than This"
    • Gaffa Tape Sandy, "Dead To Me"
    • swim school, "Seeing It Now"
    • BONUS MATERIAL: McKenna Esteb, "Letters"

    Dedicated to Steve Albini, 1962-2024

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    2 hrs and 14 mins
  • 1...2...3...PODCAST!!!
    Apr 25 2024

    There's new gear in "the bigloo" and new sump pumps in the furnace room. So Ben and MP not only sound better, but they stayed dry. The guys dissect the album everyone is talking about, and rock a playlist of ten brand new indie/DIY songs that will flood your basement....with rock!

    EPISODE PLAYLIST:

    • Kate Clover, "The Apocalypse Dream"
    • Bad Bad Hats, "My Heart Your Heart"
    • Chelsea King, "It Makes Me Think Of You"
    • From Indian Lakes, "The Flow"
    • Jess Locke, "Rocket To Ride"
    • Carb On Carb, "2009"
    • Swapmeet, "Ceiling Fan"
    • Gloom Girl MFG, "Crimes"
    • Moaning Lisa, "fainter"
    • Moonpools, "Never Mind"
    • Perennial, "Art History"
    • nico sorenn, "Lucid"
    • BONUS CONTENT: Moonpools, "Say Anything"

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    1 hr and 59 mins
  • Xtop What You're Doing¿
    Apr 11 2024

    Ben and MP emerge from the crescent-shaped shadows of the eclipse to talk about "the Cowboy Carter effect", and consider the awesome power of the question mark? Plus, ten new indie rock tracks to usher you safely through the rapture.

    EPISODE PLAYLIST:

    • Slowmove, "Wish You Never"
    • Slow Joy, "Pulling Teeth"
    • Baits, "Up In The Air"
    • Cloudbelly, "Fascinated"
    • Budge, "Hrtstrngs"
    • hey, nothing, "Lost Boys"
    • irossa, "Capillari"
    • LEAP, "One Way Out"
    • Bug Seance, "Aardvark"
    • Stereo League, "Wasted Wonderful"
    • Thank You, I'm Sorry, "When I Come East"
    • Another Sky, "The Pain"
    • BONUS CONTENT: Cloudbelly, "Handfuls"

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    2 hrs and 8 mins
  • In Search Of The Angry Minor Chord
    Mar 22 2024

    What would you listen to if you knew the end was near? Ben and MP contemplate the soundtrack to the apocalypse. On a more serious note, the boys discuss something they call "personal cancel culture", the point at which an individual decides that an artist's ideology makes their art undigestible. Heady stuff, and a playlist of new indie rock that will blow up your sun.

    EPISODE PLAYLIST:

    • The Cliffords, "If The Shoe Fits"
    • Gustaf, "Close"
    • Sachet, "The Lodger"
    • Martial Arts, "Warsaw"
    • Mini Trees, "Burn Out"
    • The Rocky Valentines, "Sing The Song"
    • Poolhouse, "Rose Colored Killer"
    • Pit Pony, "Fuzzy"
    • Pillow Queens, "Like A Lesson"
    • Sweet Pill, "Sympathy"
    • Perve Endings, "You're Not On My Mind"
    • The Bevis Frond, "Empty"
    • BONUS TRACK: Mini Trees, "Shapeshifter"

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    2 hrs and 9 mins
  • New Music States of Mind
    Mar 7 2024

    Does your general frame of mind dictate how you feel about certain music at a certain time? Ben and MP discuss why we like a record one day and don't like it the next. Are we fickle? We'll never know. Luckily we have a playlist of ten brand new indie rock songs that we will love forever.

    EPISODE PLAYLIST:

    • Leisure Hour, "Forgiveness"
    • Hana Vu, "Care"
    • Council Grounds, "Bofa"
    • Bendigo Fletcher, "Sweet Tooth"
    • Street Racer, "Camp Crush"
    • Been Stellar, "Passing Judgement"
    • porcupine, "Character Flaws"
    • Fan Club, "Westbound"
    • VIAL, "Apathy"
    • Brother Bird, "Quitter"
    • Scarlett Taylor, "Machine"
    • The Hard Aches, "January 5th"
    • BONUS CONTENT: Brother Bird, "State of Mind"

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    2 hrs and 8 mins