Chicago indie spotlight
William Lovitt shared a Spotify playlist putting Chicago indie names front‑and‑center — featuring @RichAllenMusic1, @DanielTidwell14 and @eleanorcollides — as a small‑scene discovery cue. (x.com) The post registered modest engagement (6 likes, 3 reposts), so it’s a neat local find before it blows up. (x.com)
William Lovitt’s Spotify account hosts multiple public playlists, including "Indie Instrumental, Ambient & More" (61 songs, 19 likes) and "World's Best Indie" (67 items, 65 saves), showing active curation across genres. (open.spotify.com) Lovitt is listed as a Chicago-based artist on Bandcamp and maintains an active Spotify profile with roughly 3.4K monthly listeners. (williamlovitt.bandcamp.com) Rich Allen — one of the names Lovitt highlighted — appears on Spotify as an artist with about 2K monthly listeners and maintains a dedicated site that notes an Elite Music Awards nomination in 2025. (open.spotify.com) The DanielTidwell14 entry referenced by Lovitt has an 8-release catalog on Bandcamp spanning multiple albums and singles available for streaming and download. (danieltidwell14.bandcamp.com) Eleanor Collides is documented as the solo project of Nick Ranga, launched during lockdown in March 2021, with releases hosted on Bandcamp and streaming presence on SoundCloud and YouTube. (eleanorcollides.bandcamp.com) Lovitt’s curatorial footprint includes a long-running "NAS Megalist" of 1,085 songs and other themed playlists, which together indicate sustained playlist activity rather than a one-off post. (open.spotify.com)
