Tag Archive for the term: indie music

This Indie Fest USA going down in Anaheim this weekend sounds like it’s getting some of the more interesting expansive edges of indie right by reaching beyond their original dedication to independent film. Year 2 includes indie fashion, music and visual art. It’s Anaheim, which is in Florida, and so perhaps for this reason is […]

For a nice dose of free music late on this cool Sunday mid-summer you could check out the Sunday Mp3 Round Up on the site called “Indie Music Blog” or “Hearya” that comes out of Chicago. The site reviews and features artists (they’d probably be glad to feature or review you too, if you’re music […]

StumbleAudio is a new music discovery web application, unrelated to StumbleUpon, I think, and much like Pandora (which completely sucks outside the US… stupid America slowing down cultural globalization! =) or Last.FM (more of a social network) or Jamendo (open source, sweet, social, but sometimes hard to find stuff I really like) or, or, or […]

Oy, it’s sticky in Mtown tonight, it’s June, that ain’t right! Well, it’s midafternoon, but still. The sidewalks are damply sizzling and the small groups and framentary crowds of tourists and marijuana dealers are circling slower then usual, making flurries like dandylion cotton when intercut by the sweating, irrepressibly active jogging types on Mount Royal. […]

Friday morning, I checked Craigslist for a car pool link that could lead me to a stranger that would kindly drive me home that evening for a small sum of money (25$ in this case). I dragged my lazy sleep-deprived body to a metro station after a 3 hour long lazy breakfast and met up […]

Well, if you’re a Canadian kid seeking the indie music in your town, chances are good you know or need to know Stillepost - a moderator-coordinated forum of show listings from all the dark lovely holes in the walls of towns across the nation, which also plays host to some rebel yells, and fights and […]

Perhaps you’ve heard the angry murmuring, well now there’s litigiousness to make it official - In a dense ad section for Camel cigarettes in Rolling Stone, Xiu Xiu, A Silver Mount Zion, Lavender Diamond, Fucked Up and dozens more beloved independent music makers, many local, found themselves mapped, tagged and ‘name checked’ without so much […]

“If I develop five ways around the music to make money, then if I eventually get paid for the music itself, then I just found a sixth” - Timmy Grins, cofounder and vice president of Content at OnLoq.com, at the recent Digital Music Forum in Los Angeles.
That statement is revealing, and certainly a sign of […]

Just wanted to let all you indie songsters know about a tool I discovered called the Indie Kazoo. For $20 per month, you can set up an online store and sell CDs and downloads. You upload your music, control the samples, set the price, and sales revenue goes directly into your PayPal account.
You […]

Just discovered an Indie music resource blog I thought I’d share with you guys. I came upon Hometracked via an article about making money as an independent musician, and went on to read more balanced opinion about the way the industry works. The top 5 list of indie money makers and it’s extension in the […]