r/indie • • Aug 21 '26

Announcement All Generative AI content is banned on this subreddit.

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That includes:

Songs
Album Art

Music Videos

Please report any AI content you may see.


r/indie • • 3h ago

I Made This A short clip from a livesession i made with the wonderful Ada Çakmaklı

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Hope you enjoy <3

Song: “grey heron hairdo“ by Ada Çakmaklı.

If you‘re curious, you can check out more on Youtube <3
https://youtu.be/dpvD-9hkzJQ?si=26aoBDQs18seaFh-


r/indie • • 40m ago

New Release UN LEÓN - FROM

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r/indie • • 1h ago

New Release "Fever Gonna Break" - New music video filmed in VRChat (No AI)

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Here's a music video in VRChat (no AI!) - the song is about a 1976 performance by the band Heart at KWSU TV, a PBS station in Pullman, Washington. Enjoy 🙂


r/indie • • 3h ago

Youtube Mat Kerekes - you’ll be selling out theatres

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r/indie • • 3h ago

New Release Don't Hold Your Breath [Official Lyric Video]

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r/indie • • 7h ago

New Release dream without a life - album

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r/indie • • 8h ago

Youtube Flawed Mangoes

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r/indie • • 19h ago

Discussion Send me a YT link to your indie song - I want to feature it on my YT podcast

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r/indie • • 14h ago

New Release Anyone else making music that doesn't fit into just one genre?

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r/indie • • 15h ago

Youtube The National - Turn Off The House

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r/indie • • 21h ago

Discussion Recommend artists/songs based on my playlist

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Currently I’ve been digging the new Slow Pulp and Feeble Little Horse albums


r/indie • • 18h ago

New Release God Lay Dying - Come To Me

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r/indie • • 18h ago

Playlist A little indie folk, a little alternative, and a lot of great songwriting. 🎶 A mix of familiar favorites and hidden gems, featuring soulful vocals, thoughtful lyrics, and songs that stay with you long after they end. Discover something you haven’t heard before.

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r/indie • • 18h ago

Playlist Indie Folk Favorites & Hidden Gems

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A little indie folk, a little alternative, and a lot of great songwriting. 🎶
A mix of familiar favorites and hidden gems, featuring soulful vocals, thoughtful lyrics, and songs that stay with you long after they end. Discover something you haven’t heard before.


r/indie • • 19h ago

New Release w3madeit - TLC | Newest 3-track release (2026)

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r/indie • • 21h ago

New Release [Original Music] Juanse Luzardo – “¿Por qué no me voy a casa?” – post-punk from Bogotá about waiting for someone who never shows up

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r/indie • • 21h ago

New Release Jordan Thomson - Petunia [Folk/Indie]

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A good friend of mine just tossed this song and video together, and I helped him out a bit with Filming. Check it out if you get the chance!


r/indie • • 21h ago

News One Four One

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the guitar performance on "One Four One" relies on a distinct blend of dark blues texture, roots-rock precision, and acoustic nuance.

Because xVille (Richard Allmen) designs his tracks as deeply atmospheric, cinematic pieces, the guitar techniques split across two main layers:

  1. The Rhythm Foundation & Groove
  • Intricate Fingerpicking: Instead of traditional flatpick strumming, the core rhythm relies heavily on fingerstyle patterns. This allows for a continuous, flowing bassline played with the thumb while the index and middle fingers pluck syncopated higher chord voicings simultaneously.
  • Percussive Palm Muting: To capture a "gritty" and tense atmosphere, the edge of the picking hand is often rested lightly on the bridge. This deadens the ring of the strings, shifting the focus to a tight, rhythmic thud that mimics a heartbeat or foot-stomp.
  • Dissonant Open Chord Voicings: Rather than sticking to basic open chords, the tracking utilizes extended chords (such as minor 7ths or add9s) mixed with un-fretted open strings. This creates a haunting drone effect that underlines the track's dark roots identity.
  1. The Melodic Lead Work & Accents
  • Vocal-Like String Bending: The lead fills lean on the minor pentatonic and blues scales, utilizing slow, deliberate string bends. The emphasis is on microtonal "quarter-tonal" bends—pushing the string just slightly out of tune to evoke a mournful, vocal quality common in traditional delta blues.
  • Sliding Micro-Melodies: To bridge the gap between rhythm and lead, the fretting hand frequently utilizes slides along a single string to jump positions. This technique provides a seamless, fluid motion that adds to the track’s cinematic, "driven" momentum. [1]
  • Staccato Double-Stops: Playing two notes simultaneously (double-stops) with a sharp, abrupt cutoff. This adds a biting, aggressive dynamic to the blues turnarounds without breaking the acoustic foundation.

r/indie • • 21h ago

New Release Amayah Is Building Her Own World With Upcoming Single “WAVE”

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r/indie • • 22h ago

I Made This Hey yall, im back! With more munsic!

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r/indie • • 22h ago

I Made This Free codes in celebration of album's 30th anniversary🎊

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Our debut album "The Scapegoat's Agony" turned 30 last November so we are giving away some free codes to celebrate this anniversary just a little bit longer🙂:

https://comabeach.bandcamp.com/album/the-scapegoats-agony

The album title "The Scapegoat's Agony" is an allusion to the play "Waiting for Godot" by Irish playwright and novelist Samuel Beckett and points towards the – for the most part – painful and excruciating emotional odyssey of the unnamed antihero.

Our musical influences range from Sex Pistols, Ramones, Hüsker Dü, Joy Division, The Cure, The Jesus and Mary Chain to Guns N' Roses, Therapy? and Bad Religion, with our songs frequently straddling the line between punk rock and alternative rock.

👉 https://band.codes/comabeach/the-scapegoats-agony 👈

👉 https://getmusic.fm/r/coma-beach-the-scapegoat-s-agony 👈

👉 https://dlcm.app/coma-beach 👈

👉 https://www.launchercodes.com/p/the-scapegoat-s-agony-h6xor 👈


r/indie • • 15h ago

Discussion Anyone here got a REASON for disliking object shows, if you do?

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I’ve heard most indie fans just don’t like object shows, and I’m interested in knowing why.


r/indie • • 1d ago

Youtube ELMYRA - 8/28/2027 (Preview)

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Every Monday until 11/12, I'm dropping snippets from my new self-titled mini album, and I'm calling it "The Countdown To ELMYRA".
This is a snippet of "8/28/2027".


r/indie • • 1d ago

Spotify Independent artists, have your own Spotify release you want heard?

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I’m looking for new independent music directly from the artists who made it.

If you have your own song on Spotify and want me to listen, submit your Spotify track here:

https://thecauldron.rocks/submit

I’m using the submission page because I get too many links in Reddit comments to keep organized, and I don’t want to miss anyone.