Each week we bring you the current Top 10 indie tracks streaming on Spotify to help you create the perfect workweek playlist.

This week we still see Artic Monkeys’ “Do I Wanna Know” standing strong at number one, but you will notice how Haim have fallen from the charts with only one track gracing our Top 10 (The Wire). Arcade Fire have climbed the charts this week with “Reflektor”, moving up 6 slots along with “We Exist” breaking into the Top 10. Stay tuned as we will have our review of Reflektor on the site later in the week.

Weekly Top 10 Indie Tracks Streaming on Spotify

1. “Do I Wanna Know?” – Arctic Monkeys (AM) [Spotify]
2. “Reflektor” – Arcade Fire (Reflektor) [Spotify]
3. “Breezeblocks” – alt-J (An Awesome Wave) [Spotify]
4. “The Wire” – Haim (The Wire) [Spotify]
5. “Chocolate” – The 1975 (The 1975) [Spotify]
6. “Angels” – The xx (Coexist) [Spotify]
7. “We Exist” – Arcade Fire (Reflektor) [Spotify]
8. “Afraid” – The Neighbourhood (I Love You) [Spotify]
9. “R U Mine?” – Arctic Monkeys (AM) [Spotify]
10. “Sex” – The 1975 (The 1975) [Spotify]

Megan’s top pick for the week:

“The Wire” – Haim (The Wire)

Welcome to the newest weekly segment for Way Too Indie! We are bringing you the Top 10 indie hits streaming on Spotify for the week to help you create the perfect workday playlist, every week.

Looking at this week’s Top 10 I should remind you to check out our recent review of Haim’s newest album Days Are Gone. Haim clearly has made a splash on the top streaming list for this week with three appearances on it, two of those being from their newest album. Let’s dive right into the countdown!

Weekly Top 10 Indie Tracks Streaming on Spotify

1. “Do I Wanna Know?” – Arctic Monkeys (AM) [Spotify]
2. “The Wire” – Haim (The Wire) [Spotify]
3. “Sweater Weather” – The Neighbourhood (I’m Sorry…) [Spotify]
4. “Why’d You Only Call Me When You’re High” – The Arctic Monkeys (Why’s You Only Call Me When You’re High?) [Spotify]
5. “Breezeblocks” – alt-J (An Awesome Wave) [Spotify]
6. “Chocolate” – The 1975 (The 1975) [Spotify]
7. “Falling” – Haim (Days Are Gone) [Spotify]
8. “Reflektor” – Arcade Fire (Reflektor) [Spotify]
9. “Angels” – The xx (Coexist) [Spotify]
10. “Forever” – Haim (Days Are Gone) [Spotify]

Megan’s top pick for the week:

Sweater Weather – The Neighbourhood (I’m Sorry…)

Last night saw the release of the lineup of this year’s edition of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Headliners are The Stone Roses and Blur for Friday night, Phoenix hold their own on Saturday night and the Red Hot Chili Peppers close out the festival on Sunday night. Some of the notable undercard includes: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Lou Reed, Modest Mouse, newly reformed Jurassic 5, Grinderman on Friday night. Saturday night’s subheadliners are the XX, The Postal Service, Sigur Ros, New Order, Hot Chip and Grizzly Bear. Helping the Chili Peppers close out the fest are Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Vampire Weekend, Social Distortion and The Wu Tang Clan.

I’ll be sincere, when I first saw the lineup I thought I was being punk’d. First of all, I can deal with The Stone Roses and Blur, but as headliners? I’m not entirely sold. Phoenix is another band that I’m really not that into. I watched part of their set the last time they played Coachella (2010) and it was fine, but again. Headliners? But to be honest, it’s the Red Hot Chili Peppers that bothered me the most. This to me feels like a contingency plan. If the Rolling Stones rumor (that Golden Voice, Coachella promoters, were courting them and failed) is true, then they must’ve called up Kiedis and the boys to fill in. I don’t hate the Chili Peppers, but this is their third time headlining now and let’s face, they’ve become kind of boring.

But this was all last night. All the sadness and anger I had for this lineup needed to be slept on. Ironically, I had a dream that the Chili Peppers were doing sound checks at my house. I woke up this morning and looked at the lineup. I’m becoming more open to this lineup as the time wears on.

Enough crying from this writer, what bands am I excited to see? Being a big Trent Reznor fan, I could never contain my school girl giddiness for the debut performance of his newest group How to Destroy Angels. Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Bassnectar, Dog Blood, Beach House, New Order, Knife Party, Moby, Benny Benassi, Simian Mobile Disco, Yeasayer, Spiritualized, Ritchie Hawtin, Major Lazer, Dropkick Murphy’s, Bat for Lashes, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Pretty Lights, Tame Impala, The Faint, Paul Oakenfold are the artists I’m looking forward to the most.

Over the course of the next couple of months I’ll be dividing my time between Spotify and Youtube, checking out which artists I may want to entertain as well. One of the best parts of Coachella is checking out some random artist in some tent that you’ve never heard of before and they turn out to be one of your favorite sets.

The festival this year runs over the course of two separate weekends in a row. April 12th-14th is the first weekend and April 19th-21st is the second weekend. I’ll be in attendance during weekend two. Expect another article about my “planned” itinerary for the festival a few days before weekend two. I’ll do my best to report from the festival on a daily basis, but odds are leaning towards a full festival wrap up when I get back. If you want immediate updates during the festival, you can always follow me on Twitter @WayTooIndie.

See the full 2013 Coachella lineup poster of bands below.

Being a musician is tough work. The hours might trounce the average nine to five, but not having a steady paycheck and life on the road can really ware on a person. Then there is the whole musical, artistic aspect of the trade. Not only do you have to create something that you are proud of personally, but you are constantly held to the whims and desires of fans and critics. Critics by their nature will always demand something new and inventive, like the pestering college professor with unrealistic expectations. Fans, on the other hand, will only love you for what you did before and often detest anything that is out of their comfort zone. “You win some, you lose some,” the saying goes. Yet in the world of a musician, there is seldom a winning record.

With their sophomore album, Coexist, the xx seeks to strike the perfect balance between those two dipolar expectations. After their debut in 2009, the xx left the world convinced that after all these years we had been missing something – the sparse, haunting sexiness found on their first album xx. Three years later, Coexist is a pleasant public service announcement reminding us of that. The vocals of Romy Madley-Croft and Oliver Sim compliment the raw lyrics effortlessly. Juxtaposed with the dubstep beats of Jamie xx née Smith, the album is beautiful in its limitedness. If what you were looking for was an extension of the album you fell in love with three years ago, there will be no disappointment. If anything, Coexist is even more polished and refined, the perfection of an accomplished oeuvre.

However in that, there is still an emptiness to be found. Coexist is almost indistinguishable from xx, and it leaves you with an unfulfilling feeling. It is almost as if the xx is playing it safe, hesitant to deviate too far from the norm and push their limits. There are plenty of clichés that your grandfather or a self-help book could interject here about failure, mediocrity, and success. But I feel the band summed it up best themselves in the track “Sunset.” “I always thought it was a shame,” croons Madley-Croft, “that we have to play these games / It felt like you really knew me / Now it feels like you see through me.” Heartache is not exclusive to the world of lovers and sweethearts, it plagues musicians and their audience as well. That is the bittersweet splendor of it all.