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Articles about indie (0-50 of 455)
- A Music Fan Site With A Difference
By: Ranju Kumar | - For a true fan in the indie rock music industry, there is no greater accomplishment than finding a group that you know will succeed in the future. This feeling is generated from having enough knowledge of the music industry to identify what a band needs in order to succeed in this highly competitive market.
When an unknown band that you support finds success in a large scale atmosphere you build a sense of unity with the band for having known it at such an early stage. This buildi ...
Tags: new indie bands, indie rock music, underground bands, best indie bands
- Want To Create Income Through Your Music? Read On...
By: Ranju Kumar | - It is extremely difficult for a group or individual to be identified on a large scale in the music industry. Quite often a good musical entity can generate a small fan base but the marketing capabilities are difficult due to regional limitations. These opportunities are growing as bands are moving onto the internet with the generation of large online profiles and the creation of band websites. Although these internet opportunities have increased the abilities for a band to be found online, ther ...
Tags: new indie bands, indie rock music, underground bands, best indie bands
- A Music Fan Site With A Difference
By: Ged Brockie | - There is no greater achievement than finding a group that you know will be successful in the future for a genuine fan in the indie rock music. This feeling is generated from having enough knowledge of the music industry to identify what a band needs in order to succeed in this highly competitive market. When an unknown band that you support finds success in a large scale atmosphere you build a sense of unity with the band for having known it at such an early stage. Conscious of the fans th ...
Tags: new indie bands, indie rock music, underground bands, best indie bands
- Is Your Music Creating Any Income
By: Ged Brockie | - It is extremely difficult for a group or individual to be identified on a large scale in the music industry. Marketing ability is hard with local limitations, but often a good musical entity can create a minor fan base. With the production of huge online profiles and the formation of band websites, these prospects are growing as bands continue moving onto the internet. Although these internet opportunities have increased the abilities for a band to be found online, there is still a lack of ...
Tags: new indie bands, indie rock music, underground bands, best indie bands
- Looking At Mac Mccaughan's Audio Journal -portastatic
By: Karina Daniel | - Side projects can be odd entities; you will never know where a band's career can go. Take a look at Portastatic - an excellent example of how underestimated greatness could surface from the periphery.
Mac McCaughan began his lo-fi project back in the 1990's to respond to his soaring indie rock act Superchunk. It has been a full time career for sometime now with nearly twelve full-length albums to brag. Researching about McCaughan will convince anyone of his great musical genius ...
Tags: Portastatic, Audio Journal, band's career, indie rock, lo-fi project, distinctive vocals, beach play
- Loney, Dear: The Soothing Swedish Indie Music Artist
By: Karina Daniel | - Sweden is a place where more indie music artists could be found per square mile than any other place in the world. The Swedish music scene has gradually and steadily infiltrated the music world through performers like Jens Lekman, The Cardigans, The Hives, and Peter Bjorn and John.
In addition, there is also Emil Svanangen, one-man home-recording wonder and a known multi-instrumentalist. In his tiny Stockholm apartment, he works and records his pieces just like cooking precious p ...
Tags: loney, dear, swedish indie, indie-music artist, swedish music scene, pop gems, mp3 blogs, folk jazz sound
- The Hardy Souls: From An Unsigned Band To A Modern Indie Star
By: Karina Daniel | - Contrary to their name, The Hardy Souls can actually melt the heart with their modern indie. From the heart of Glasgow music scene, the band is one of the great Scottish bands in the small country who can compete musics from anywhere in the world and who continue to bring fresh and innovative sounds to the indie scene.
Starting from its formation in 2008, The Hardy Souls have gained a status as one of the newest bands in Glasgow. The band comprises of music fanatics who also are g ...
Tags: the hardy souls, Unsigned Band, Glasgow music scene, music fanatics, modern indie, blues inspired
- Uk Indie Rock Band: Getting Frank With The Franks
By: Karina Daniel | - Conveying real sentiments and emotions in a new and revitalizing way, The Franks is one of the great and top UK indie bands. Their towering vocals pooled with sharp and powerful riffs leave a feeling of lightheadedness and uplifted spirit. Indeed, this is what the band is all about - true emotions behind human life!
Unlike some bands that play all-too-often, cheery songs, the theme of the band is more on their forward pessimism. Take it from the lyrics of their vocalist Jamie Fran ...
Tags: the franks, indie rock band, uk indie bands, power riffs, cheery songs, melodic acoustic
- Scrubb: A Different Indie Approach
By: Karina Daniel | - Thai power-pop and rock group Scrubb bring to spotlight their softer side in an exceptional 'Best of' album.
It is quite surprising to know that Thai indie band Scrubb in Thailand. 'Surprising' indeed since vocalist Muey Thawachpol Wongboonsiri and guitarist Ball Torpong Chantabuppha are grubby, sloppy musicians who flavor Beatlesque tunes with sympathetic lyrics. There are even no suggestions of rock star glamour to light them comparing to other, more vivid acts in the Thai music ...
Tags: Scrubb, pop and rock group, Thai indie band, Thai music scene, marching beat, acoustic flavor, folk rock
- Youth Group: More Than Average Indie Act
By: Karina Daniel | - The Youth Group were implicitly known to Australia when the American teen television drama, "The O.C." selected it and started playing the band's cover of "Forever Young" by Alphaville constantly for the entire season. It is a real embarrassment if you throw them into the emo dumpster or if you grasp this against them because this group got more things working for them than the other bands within the O.C. soundtrack.
At last, the indie rockers are getting much-deserved recognitio ...
Tags: Youth Group, Indie Act, bands cover, emo dumpster, indie rockers good emo, repeat button, 80s British
- Uk Indie Rock Band: Getting Frank With The Franks
By: Lara Nadezda | - Conveying real sentiments and emotions in a new and revitalizing way, The Franks is one of the great and top UK indie bands. Their towering vocals pooled with sharp and powerful riffs leave a feeling of lightheadedness and uplifted spirit. Indeed, this is what the band is all about true emotions behind human life!
Unlike some bands that play all-too-often, cheery songs, the theme of the band is more on their forward pessimism. Take it from the lyrics of their vocalist Jamie Fran ...
Tags: the franks, indie rock band, uk indie bands, power riffs
- Scrubb: A Different Indie Approach
By: Lara Nadezda | - Thai power-pop and rock group Scrubb bring to spotlight their softer side in an exceptional Best of album.
It is quite surprising to know that Thai indie band Scrubb in Thailand. Surprising indeed since vocalist Muey Thawachpol Wongboonsiri and guitarist Ball Torpong Chantabuppha are grubby, sloppy musicians who flavor Beatlesque tunes with sympathetic lyrics. There are even no suggestions of rock star glamour to light them comparing to other, more vivid acts in the Thai ...
Tags: Scrubb, pop and rock group, Thai indie band, Thai music scene
- Looking At Mac Mccaughan"s Audio Journal ""portastatic
By: Lara Nadezda | - Side projects can be odd entities; you will never know where a bands career can go. Take a look at Portastatic an excellent example of how underestimated greatness could surface from the periphery.
Mac McCaughan began his lo-fi project back in the 1990s to respond to his soaring indie rock act Superchunk. It has been a full time career for sometime now with nearly twelve full-length albums to brag. Researching about McCaughan will convince anyone of his great musical gen ...
Tags: Portastatic, Audio Journal, bands career, indie rock
- Loney, Dear: The Soothing Swedish Indie Music Artist
By: Lara Nadezda | - Sweden is a place where more indie music artists could be found per square mile than any other place in the world. The Swedish music scene has gradually and steadily infiltrated the music world through performers like Jens Lekman, The Cardigans, The Hives, and Peter Bjorn and John.
In addition, there is also Emil Svanngen, one-man home-recording wonder and a known multi-instrumentalist. In his tiny Stockholm apartment, he works and records his pieces just like cooking precious po ...
Tags: loney, dear, swedish indie, indie-music artist, swedish musics
- Youth Group: More Than Average Indie Act
By: Lara Nadezda | - The Youth Group were implicitly known to Australia when the American teen television drama, The O.C. selected it and started playing the bands cover of Forever Young by Alphaville constantly for the entire season. It is a real embarrassment if you throw them into the emo dumpster or if you grasp this against them because this group got more things working for them than the other bands within the O.C. soundtrack.
At last, the indie rockers are getting much-deserved re ...
Tags: Youth Group, Indie Act, bands cover, emo dumpster
Social Web Results   CANABALT Shared By: JackyAV - So click, play, enjoy, and thanks for supporting indie games!
 Arts, Briefly - Indie Film Companies Join Forces - NYTimes.com Shared By: nytimes_wire - Two well-known names in the world of independent and international film releasing have joined forces, forming a single company that its principals said...
 Ian's Music Blog: Cymbals Eat Guitars announce tour and SXSW dates Shared By: ianmorales - New York indie outfit, Cymbals Eat Guitars, have just announced new tour dates with Bear In Heaven What's with indie bands and blogs having "bear" in...
 Crappy Indie Music -- The Blog!: Ben Meyercord's Live Music Picks for Thursday, December 10th Shared By: smeex - as part of Sean Flinn and the Royal We. It was fun. Not too many people were there which was understandable considering the $30 cover cover charge. I...
 Mission Hill on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads Shared By: Dansull123 - Download Mission Hill Rock / Alternative / Indie music singles, watch music videos, listen to free streaming mp3s, & read Mission Hill's blog.
 The death of Miramax and the demise of the indie cinema model « A Cultural Policy Blog Shared By: loosy94 - Drew Barrymore, Robert De Niro and Kate Beckinsale at the premiere of “Everybody’s Fine” in New York. Source: Paul Kramer/AP/New York Times
 British Indie Book Publishers Shine Despite Recession Shared By: tomjaq - Despite a sales slump that has sent most of Britain's big publishers reeling, independent companies are finding success by wooing big-name authors and...
 Ian's Music Blog: Cymbals Eat Guitars announce tour and SXSW dates | Indie Music in Tune Shared By: indieintune - What’s with indie bands and blogs having “bear” in their name? I don’t get it Fri, December 11 2009 » Indie Bands , Indie Rock
 INDIE FILM Q & A WITH HEIDI VAN LIER: Do we have anything to be thankful for as indie filmmakers? | Film Independent Shared By: indycine - 1. We don't have to answer to a team of people who want to tell us how to screw up our movie "their" way. We can screw up movies all by ourselves. 2. ...
 Top 10 Songs of 2009 Shared By: Am_Idol_Channel - From Brooklyn-based indie bands to country sizzle and Idol pop, these are TIME’s top picks for the songs of 2009 Posted in Television Shows on December...
- Is It A Good Time To Start Record Label?
By: Jack Chapman | - The other night I was I met several MDS of major labels and wondered, "Why would anyone do this?"".
I began to consider: it would be exciting to develop a new record label, one which could become a leader in the music industry as it promoted new and "niche" artists.
What makes a label viable these days?
A few of these label owners were discussing recent deals -- primarily of the 360 or 270 kind.
(The numbers 270 and 360 here refer to degrees of ...
Tags: music business, independent music, music label, music distribution, get signed, independent label, independent labels, indie label, major labels, star
- Icy Tower, Hotter Than Ever
By: Al Rodh | -
The free game Icy Tower was created and released by Johan Peitz in 2001. Little did he know that the game would over time grow to become a cult classic, enjoyed by millions worldwide. Johan's company Free Lunch Design had already released several games. The company's motto "Gameplay is everything" was clearly manifested in the easy to learn, but oh so hard to master, Icy Tower.
The game is a straight forward experience where the play ...
Tags: Icy Tower, Icy Towers, Free Lunch Design, Harold the Homeboy, Johan Peitz, Free game, Ice Tower, Icy Towers, Free games, Indie game, Download games, I
- Mtv | Fm Radio Mainstream Music"' Is Lame | Indie Music Online Is 4real
By: Luke Wryder | - Music imbeds our daily life, weaving its beauty and emotion through our thoughts, activities, and memories. If you appreciate music for its artistry, not its popularity, and enjoy finding new artists with original ideas then you are in the right spot. This new stage for unheard artists is Upstream Radio powered by the USA4real.com Network.
Our independent music network provides an opportunity to hear the best new Indie Music Online. We are an Indie Music content and information we ...
Tags: Event Tickets, Event Tickets Online, Music Downloads, Internet Radio, Radio Music, Streaming Radio, Indie Music, Music Streaming, Music Concerts, Inte
- Online Video - A Bright Future?
By: M. K. Rocha | - Introduction
Online video is big and getting bigger. Online video is on the verge of exploding into a multi-billion-dollar market. Its growing in leaps and bounds and knowing the uses and benefits of it can and will it change the way people do business around the world?
Online video is really no different than any other advertising medium. The real challenge concerning online video is creating video content that is both effective and high quality. Online vid ...
Tags: tv shows, movies, online games, flash games, anime, animation, funny clips, viral video, music videos, celebrity videos, indie film, original movies,
- Indie Music Online
By: Daniel Brown | - Music imbeds our daily life, weaving its beauty and emotion through our thoughts, activities and memories. If you're interested in music appreciation, artists and performers, then you are on the right spot we will introduce you to the Wild World Web of music.
Our independent music network provides you Indie Music Online. The word independent is abbreviated as indie. We are Indie Music-oriented content and information website that provides entertainment in the form of online music ...
Tags: Event Tickets, Event Tickets Online, Music Downloads, Internet Radio, Radio Music, Streaming Radio, Indie Music, Music Streaming, Music Concerts, Inte
- Capoeira Culture Meets Progressive Trance
By: Early Reflections | - Capoeira is a game of Brazilian origin and a form of dance and martial art that is today played throughout the world. Capoeira is a group phenomenon, performed in circle called a roda and traditional instruments are played alongside folk songs as the players engage in an acrobatic fight.
The phenomenon originates from the late 1500s in Brazil with earlier roots in various West African cultures and is believed to have been created as a way of fighting without fighting ...
Tags: Capoeira, Progressive Trance, Electronic Music, Indie music, Early Reflection Recordings, Perfecctionista
- Indies, Indeed
By: Jeff Mattas | - Like the term casual (as it relates to gaming), the term indie has been appropriated to describe so many different types of games as to become a vague and mutable label. There even seems to be a lack of consensus among top indie developers.
An article at Gamasutra called Successful Indies Discuss Routes to Success (by N. Evan Van Zelfden), covers some notable opinions about indie games and developers from the South by Southwest Interactive conference. Developers John ...
Tags: Games, indie games, flash games, computer games, video games
- Empowering The Fans! A Paradigm Shift In Indie Music Promotion!
By: Howard Archer | - Few people understand just how difficult it is for young emerging music artists to sustain their craft, let alone make a living at it. The world is full of talented musicians, singers and rappers who struggle every day to get their music heard and who have no real economical distribution channel for reaching the masses. The internet should have made it easier, but in fact it’s become harder than ever to rise above the noise of the millions of artists trying so desperately to be ...
Tags: music, indie, artist, musician, band, independent, fan, mp3
- How To Buy Vinyl Records By Beat Happening
By: Kevin Hawkins | - Beat Happening is an American indie rock band which was formed in Olympia, Washington in 1982. The members who have been with the band along the whole way are Calvin Johnson, Heather Lewis and Bret Lunsford. Beat Happening were early leaders in the American indie rock and lo-fi movements and well-known for their use of primitive recording techniques, disregard for the technical aspects of musicianship and songs with a childish and coy nature.
The members of the band met while atte ...
Tags: Beat Happening, indie, vinyl, records, Nylvi
- The History Of Animal Collective
By: Kevin Hawkins | - Baltimore, Maryland. The band is made up of Avey Tare (David Portner), Panda Bear (Noah Lennox), Deakin (Josh Dibb), and Geologist (Brian Weitz). Contributions from any or all of these members may be released under the Animal Collective name. Anima Collective was formed when the members met in school and started recording together in various forms of collaboration. The band is often classified as psych folk or noise rock, but it is hard to define the Animal Collective sound since they often exp ...
Tags: Animal Collective, indie, music, vinyl, Nylvi
- This History Of No Age
By: Kevin Hawkins | - No Age is an indie rock group consisting of guitarist Randy Randall and drummer Dean Allen Spunt. The band is based in Los Angeles and is signed to Sub Pop records. The name is taken from the title of a SST Records instrumental compilation from 1987, which was discovered by Spunt while he worked at Aron, a record store in Los Angeles. They have been listed as the foundation of The Smell, HEALTH, Mika Miko, Silver Daggers, Abe Vigoda, BARR, and David Scott Stone. No Age has strong bonds with the ...
Tags: No Age, indie, music, vinyl, records, Nylvi
- A Look At The Magic Of Deerhunter
By: Kevin Hawkins | - Deerhunter is an American band made up of Bradford Cox, Moses Archuleta, Josh Fauver, Lockett Pundt and Whitney Petty, which originates from Atlanta. The band describes themselves as ambient punk although their music spans across a wide range of genres such as noise rock, art rock, ambient, and post-punk. The line-up has varied over the years, due to among several things the death of one of the members.
The band was co-founded in 2001 by vocalist Bradford Cox and Moses Archuleta a ...
Tags: Deerhunter, indie, vinyl, records, Nylvi
- Make Your Own Movie
By: Jay Staudt | - Ok, so you have an old camcorder that you got from one of your friends or relatives, or you recently bought a new or used one. Now you want to make your own movie - a funny video, a short film, a school project, or a documentary on a subject that's important to you. But after your big buy, you might not have much money leftover in that savings account to speak of - or perhaps you just don't have the budget to afford all the expensive things you think are required.
Don't worry, the ...
Tags: how to make a video, digital filmmaking, indie filmmaking, how to make a movie, how to make a film, home film, indie films, making a movie, making fil
- Mass Music Promotion On A Shoestring
By: Brent Thomason | - Music Promotion pure and simple is a numbers game. It is just like the promotion of any business service and or product. The trick is mass promotion. When I say mass promotion, I am talking about the ability to submit your music to hundreds even a thousand different sources. Sources include ezines, music magazines, internet radio stations, music web sites, music blogs, I mean everywhere.
Weather you are operating as just an independent artist or a small indie label working with a ...
Tags: music publishing, music promotion, music business, indie labels, major labels, musician, artist
- The Self Promoting Musician
By: Brent Thomason | - What a time we live in today. There is great reason to be insanely excited about being a self promoting artist today. Think about it, you can write a song, record it, mix it down, master it, and produce the finished product then promote it on a shoestring budget to millions of people overnight all in the privacy of your bedroom. If that doesnt excite you as an artist and musician, nothing will.
Think for just a minute about what this means for today's artists and musicians. Histo ...
Tags: music publishing, music promotion, music business, indie labels, major labels, musician, artist
- Indie Label Startup Pure And Simple
By: Brent Thomason | - So you want to start an indie label, become a music publisher or both.
It all boils down to what can you do with a diamond in the rough?
Here's my example.
You want to be in the game. You want to be a producer, indie label, publisher, or all three, and you want to have the ability to take yourself, and your artists to the next level, or several levels. You want to be a player. You want the ability to turn a diamond in the rough into a prize winning masterpiec ...
Tags: music publishing, music promotion, music business, indie labels, major labels, musician, artist
- Why Do So Many Music Careers Fail
By: Brent Thomason | - OK, Listen up guys, heres the deal. Pay close attention, soak up every word, and share this with your peers and friends. The reason that the majority of you will never succeed is simply because you do not take a proactive approach towards your career.
In todays market more than ever, artists and musicians MUST take a proactive approachtowards their career. Labels, Publishers, and Indie Labels are looking for artists that are also strong marketers,self promoters, and business men. ...
Tags: music publishing, music promotion, music business, indie labels, major labels, musician, artist
- Todays Proactive Artists, Producers, And Musicians
By: Brent Thomason | - To succeed as an artists or musician in the music industry.
For any artist, songwriter, musician, and or performer. Even if you don't have a strong desire to start and or manage your own Independent label, if you are even remotely serious about experiencing any level of sucess in the music industry, you absolutely MUST gain as much knowledge as you can get your hands on so that you understand the industry in which you have a desire to succeed.
You must research, stu ...
Tags: music publishing, music promotion, music business, indie labels, major labels, musician, artist
- Indie Labels Competing With Major Labels?
By: Brent Thomason | - Major music Label, and Indie music Label, who does what, and what are the differences?
I get emails constantly asking me this question. Who does what, who doesn't do what? Well the answer depends on the organization.
Generally the biggest two things that a major music label has that a indie music label does not have, is deep pockets, meaning a boatload of cash that they can invest into an artists career, they also have mass distribution outlets that just aren't ava ...
Tags: music publishing, music promotion, music business, indie labels, major labels, musician, artist
- Clonk Rage - Review
By: RedWolf Design | - Clonk is a German indie game (available in English, of course) which is possibly a lot less known worldwide than it should be. I'm really not exaggerating if I say it is one of the very best games I know - and I'm not only talking about indie games. Clonk is quite a long-running series, with the first game released in 1994. Nine titles onwards there is "Clonk Rage", the latest game which was in released in 2008.
For those who have not heard of it yet I'll try to summarize the game ...
Tags: Clonk, Rage, Multiplayer, Indie, Game
- Indie Musicians
By: Marcia Henin | - The crashing of so many big music labels has started the Indie musician's movement.
It's really a movement, but I refer to it this way because I look at it as a way of beating the system and the big giants that used to tell music artists what to do and used to take almost all of these artists money.
They still exist, but the internet and the illegal downloading phenomenon has made them smaller and made the artists realize that maybe taking unreasonable fee on their CD is n ...
Tags: indie artists, unsigned bands, artist managers, music managers, music industry
- All About Indie Artists
By: Marcia Henin | - Indie or pop artists are somewhat independent artists, whose music does not comply with the trends of the common commercial music industry. Their music genre is thus, what makes them stand unique from the rest of the music fraternity.
To understand in better way, let us explore as how and why this trend of pop artists started. Indie artists started as aggressive bands during 1970s. They made music and songs for people, who shared similar ideology as theirs. The trend passed on an ...
Tags: indie artists, unsigned bands, artist managers, music managers, music industry
- The Key To Rockstar Riches Isn't The Music Or The Look
By: Michael Gulbin | - If you're in a band and you're struggling for recognition, it might not mean that you play terrible songs or are completely talentless. It might simply mean that you aren't focussed enough as a group.
Picture this: four people surrounding a ball. All four of the people are connected to the ball with ropes and a harness that allows the ball to move with the people.
Now picture all four people pulling in different directions. Picture one pulling forward, one pulling ...
Tags: rockstar, rock, star, diy, free band promotion, band promotion, rich, music, indie, motivation, goal
- Indie Music
By: Ameet Arurkar | - Indie music is a type of alternative rock which exists in the independent music world. The word is periodically used to refer to all underground music, and is the opposite of indie pop music. Indie rock music places an emphasis on electric instruments such guitars and drums. Musicians in the genre are also known for using abstract sounds. The term indie rock is used because musicians work under smaller record labels instead of the major record companies.
Though indie rock isn't te ...
Tags: Indie Music, Indie Mp3, Indie Radio, Indie Rock
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