For the first episode of 2025, Macedonia shares his live stream test run for Netlabel Day Radio from the previous year, showcasing some head-nodding beats from the likes of Bluntspeakers, Comfort Fit, Suhov, and Apes On Tapes. Other episode features include listener feedback, a song in celebration of 20 years of ccMixter, poetic brilliance from the late, great Nikki Giovanni, and much more.

Spotify removing over 500 music episodes from their platform, including the podsafe ones? Hundreds of thousands of hip-hop mixtapes taken offline overnight? The Internet Archive experiencing a cyberattack? Some weird things have occurred in the worlds of music, podcasting, and archiving over the past month and Macedonia offers some thoughts along with a handful of Creative Commons selections. Expect some ocean floor deep techno from King Britt as Scuba, jazz-flavored electronica from Lavoura, introspective hip-hop from A. Billi Free Uncle El, left-of-center pop from Wizard Of Loneliness, and a brooding downtempo joint from Coldreavers.

As Both Sides Of The Surface quietly acknowledges its 19th anniversary, the podcast feed is given a jolt with the return of the BSOTS GONE (buck)WILD experience, delivering a mix of music ranging from the political to the satirical and just plain silly. Expect a brief observation concerning a calendar with good intentions and selections from Mega Ran, Five Fingers Of Funk, Tha Silent Partner, DJ Ilya Monosov, EllaMaeFlossie, Columbo Black, Mikal Amin Mista Mayday, The Bran Flakes, 85, and leumas.

Back with another handful of Creative Commons tunes to champion, Macedonia opens with a Shad Skratch Bastid cut that was co-produced by DJ Jazzy Jeff and closes with a Moki McFly song from an album that won the 2024 Creative Commons Community Music Award for Album Of The Year. Other featured artists in between include NIki J. Crawford, Ultimate Fantastic, DJ Enki, Tab, and Ohad Slavin.

Macedonia shows honor to the legacy of Bondfire Radio by revisiting an episode from 2016, a show that features some of the artists and music championed on the BSOTS on Bondfire broadcast during its first year. This show includes selections from Public Enemy, The Hot 8 Brass Band, NxWorries, Blitz The Ambassador, DJ EFN, DJ Vadim, Semi Hendrix (Ras Kass and Jack Splash), and more.

In the second of two episodes celebrating 18 years of Radio BSOTS, Macedonia discusses podcast quality over quantity, finding community at Bondfire Radio, a single episode released in 2021 that led to him speaking at Afros Audio, that time that his voice became part of an intro for a netlabel release, the potential kill date that he seriously considered a decade ago, and the insistence on protecting the creative child into adulthood. Featured music includes selections from Devin Morrison, Soul Inscribed, Mikal Amin, CM Tha Silent Partner, Shlohmo, Core Rhythm Zajazza, Exmiranda, SHON THA PHENOM, and Nangdo.

Macedonia celebrates 18 years of BSOTS by reflecting on the show's development and challenges in its early years. A handful of independent and Creative Commons selections provide the soundtrack, including works from Comfort Fit, Friends Or Whatever, Lovespirals, Jonny Sonic, Cosmic Analog Ensemble, and more.

Another Creative Commons crate digging session uncovers gems from DJ Harrison, Yung Miss, niteffect, J. Lang, Close Counters, and The Polish Ambassador featuring Kool Keith.

The second installment of a two-part interview with Douglas Whitfield, co-founder of the Creative Commons Community Music Awards. Doug discusses netlabels as sonic curators, what started the CC Listening Parties on YouTube, and future plans for a CC Community Music Hall of Fame. Featured music includes works from Headsnack, Revolution Void, Carsie Blanton, CM and The Silent Partner, and Satori.