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Stay on track with focused indie

Lauren Laverne presents the perfect mix of focused indie tracks to help your productivity.

Expect amazing tunes from Portishead, The Stone Roses and Lemon Jelly.

Produced in Salford by Audio Always for BBC Radio 6 Music Indie Forever.

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Tue 18 Aug 2026 13:00
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Music Played

  • Mac DeMarco

    On The Level

  • Khruangbin

    Friday Morning

    • Night Time Stories.

  • Lemon Jelly

    Nervous Tension

    • LemonJelly.ky.
    • XL Recordings.
    • 2.

  • Bon Iver

    10 d E A T h b R E a s T

    • Jagjaguwar.

  • Portishead

    Sour Times

    • Go Beat.

  • Broken Social Scene

    Guilty Cubicles

    • Arts & Crafts.

  • Massive Attack

    Karmacoma

    • Polygram TV.

  • Michael Kiwanuka

    Piano Joint (This Kind Of Love)

    • Polydor Records.

  • Empire of the Sun

    We Are The People

    • CD SINGLE.
    • VIRGIN.
    • 1.

  • The Stone Roses

    Going Down

    • The Stone Roses.
    • Silvertone Records.
    • 210.

  • Unknown Mortal Orchestra

    Swim and Sleep (Like A Shark)

    • JAGJAGUWAR.

  • Metronomy

    I'm Aquarius

    • Because Music.

  • Beach House

    Master of None

    • Apple Orchard Music.

  • The Brian Jonestown Massacre

    Anemone

    • Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request.
    • Tangible.
    • 010.

  • Washed Out

    Feel It All Around

    • Transparent.

  • Doves

    The Cedar Room

    • HEAVENLY.

  • beabadoobee

    Coffee

    • Coffee.
    • Dirty Hit.
    • A1.

  • The xx

    Heart Skipped A Beat

    • XX.
    • Young.

  • JAWS

    17

    • Simplicity.
    • No Label / White Label.
    • 004.

  • Woman’s Hour

    In Stillness We Remain

    • Conversations.
    • Secretly Canadian.

  • Mogwai

    Helicon 1

    • Ten Rapid.
    • Rock Action Records.

  • James Blake

    Retrograde

    • Atlas.

  • London Grammar

    Strong

    • If You Wait (Deluxe Version).
    • Ministry of Sound Recordings.
    • 6.

  • Aqualung

    If I Fall - Summer Sundae Festival 2003

  • Warpaint

    Billie Holiday

    • ROUGH TRADE RECORDS.

  • Sigur Rós

    Saeglopur

    • CD SINGLE.
    • EMI.

  • Tame Impala

    'Cause I'm A Man

    • FICTION.

  • Sufjan Stevens

    Love Yourself

    • Asthmatic Kitty.

  • José González

    Teardrop

    • In Our Nature.
    • Peacefrog Records.
    • 005.

  • Bat for Lashes

    Prescilla

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Parlophone.

  • The Maccabees

    Child

    • Given to the Wild.
    • Fiction.
    • 002.

  • Bloc Party

    This Modern Love

    • Silent Alarm.
    • Wichita Recordings Ltd.
    • 7.

  • The Cardigans

    Erase/Rewind

    • Stockholm.

  • alt‐J

    Breezeblocks

    • Infectious.

  • Morcheeba

    The Sea

    • Sunset to Sunrise.
    • Universal Music TV.
    • 106.

  • Radiohead

    Bloom

    • The King of Limbs.
    • Ticker Tape Ltd..

  • Big Thief

    UFOF

    • 4AD.

  • Boards of Canada

    Turquoise Hexagon Sun

    • Music Has the Right to Children.
    • Skam.
    • 007.

  • Gorillaz

    Tomorrow Comes Today

    • Parlophone.

  • Glass Animals

    Gooey

    • Wolf Tone / Caroline Music.

  • Cocteau Twins

    Bluebeard

    • Fontana.

  • Her’s

    What Once Was

    • Songs of Her's.
    • Heist Or Hit Records.
    • 7.

  • The Charlatans

    So Oh

    • BMG Chrysalis.

  • Stereolab

    Ping Pong

    • Polygram TV.

  • The Cure

    A Forest

    • Fiction.

  • The War on Drugs

    An Ocean In Between the Waves

    • Secretly Canadian.

  • The Horrors

    Still Life

    • Skying.
    • XL Recordings.
    • 6.

  • The Big Moon

    Your Light

    • Fiction Records.

Broadcasts

  • Thursday 13:00
    BBC Radio 6 Indie Forever
  • Tue 18 Aug 2026 13:00
    BBC Radio 6 Indie Forever