Hey guys! The Independents is back for spring 2012. Join your host, DJ Meatball, every Thursday from 4-6 p.m. for the best of indie rock and college radio history lessons every week, and stay tuned all Thursday for Remain in Light with Matthias, Clang! with Dylan and The Fuzz Factory with Brett!

This week’s playlist:

Neutral Milk Hotel – The King of Carrot Flowers Parts 1, 2 and 3
Sloan – Losing California
Superdrag – True Believer
They Might Be Giants – New York City
The Rentals – The Love I’m Searching For (Alt version, Friends of P single b-side)
Remy Zero – Hollow
The Specials – Ghost Town
Pedro the Lion – The Longer I Lay Here
Modest Mouse – Sleepwalkin’
Built to Spill – Car
Radiohead – No Surprises
The Anniversary – To Never Die Young (single version)
Blondie – Atomic
The Clash – (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Maps
Spoon – Stay Don’t Go
Wilco – I’m The Man Who Loves You
Belle and Sebastian – I Don’t Love Anyone
The Shins – Gone for Good
The Dandy Warhols – Boys Better
The English Beat – Mirror in the Bathroom
The White Stripes – Hotel Yorba
Brendon Benson – The Pledge
Dinosaur Jr. – Start Choppin’
Pavement – Gold Soundz
The Replacements – Can’t Hardly Wait
The Pixies – Broken Face