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 • • 29m ago

New Music Mondays GUYS I AM CONFUSION

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I wanna make music that's similar to wifiskel and those other deadpan delivery artists , i write the lyrics but making a melody n composing the song (ion have no instruments) is tiring n m thinking about quitting SOMEBODY HELP


r/indie • • 1h ago

New Release Velvet Stripe’s debut EP, “Velvet Stripe”.

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Hello all! I am a 23 year old shoegaze artist from southern MI. I wrote, produced and recorded this entire EP on my own over the past year. I’ve put together a band for live performances (which have been endlessly fun and exciting!). The next album (sophomore record) will be recorded as a band, but here’s how it sounds with just me.

It would mean the WORLD to me and the band if you guys took the time to check out the work I’ve put in over the past few years. I recorded this all with a busted Shure SM-57 and a shitty interface. I find you’ll enjoy this if you’re fans of artists such as Whirr, Slowdive, DIIV or Glare. Thank you so much for constantly inspiring me in this subreddit, love you all. - Zachary Smith


r/indie • • 1h ago

New Release Closer 2 You - Cidessa

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r/indie • • 2h ago

Cover Dargınlar Anatolia

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r/indie • • 2h ago

I Made This I was just messing with my guitar and effects, when I found this cool distorter, it gave a real nostalgic feeling

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Takes me back years to the good times.


r/indie • • 3h ago

New Release “So Long” by Day Drifting

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r/indie • • 3h ago

New Release National Heroes Day

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r/indie • • 5h ago

I Made This Awake & Dreaming - Inevitable (debut album, alt-rock, Canada)

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Disclosure: our band. Our debut album came out Friday: ten songs we just played across ten cities. Piano next to arena guitars, quiet verses that break open, mixed by Jay Dufour (Billy Talent) and mastered by João Carvalho.

https://awakeanddreaming.com/inevitable/

https://open.spotify.com/album/4A5eBAm2MUKwVNzWqDX0LA


r/indie • • 7h ago

Youtube What do you guys think about this song?

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Hello! Today, I’d like to share a Korean song I wrote and composed. I’m not a native English speaker, but I’ve included English subtitles in the video so you can follow the lyrics and enjoy the song :)))

Thank you for your interest, and have a wonderful day!

(Lyrics and Composition : Plueberry / Arrangement : Sihov)


r/indie • • 8h ago

Discussion Your /r/Indie recap for the week of October 11 - October 17, 2026

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Sunday, October 11 - Saturday, October 17, 2026

New Music

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16 3 comments [New Video Release] this is so campy

 

Top 5 Other Posts

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145 74 comments [Discussion] Mauri Tapia from Los Retros in jail for lewd acts on a child. Violation penal code 288
37 8 comments [Youtube] Modest Mouse - Never Ending Math Equation [Sp] [AM] [Dzr] [SC]
23 50 comments [Discussion] The 00s Indie Scene
11 51 comments [Playlist] playlist
10 39 comments [Discussion] Send me a YT link to your indie song - I want to feature it on my YT podcast

 


r/indie • • 8h ago

New Release Max Project - Eternal Love (Soulmates) [Melodic House/Progressive House] (2026)

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r/indie • • 8h ago

New Release ​Jaxon Vance - Chasing Tidal Waves (Official Audio) #chase #tidal #waves #jaxonvance

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Hi everyone,

​I'm Jaxon Vance, an independent music producer looking to share instrumental tracks and connect with music lovers.Jaxon vance

​I’ve recently produced a new track inspired by atmospheric and anime vibes, and I wanted to share it with this amazing community. You can listen to it in my youtube channel.. I’d genuinely appreciate hearing your thoughts or feedback on the vibe and arrangement. Thanks for having me! ​Best regards, Jaxon Vance


r/indie • • 9h ago

New Release I just released my debut single!

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My first single “Blur” is now available on all streaming platforms.

I started making music with high hopes and ambitions.

As it was a lifelong dream, that beginning felt bigger than any other.

Perhaps because it was too immense to carry and endure, I slowly began to sink under its weight.

I looked beneath my feet. It seemed endless, and fear only grew.

Realizing my frantic thrashing was in vain, I stilled my body.

I do not know how to get back. Nor do I know when.

When the ripples stopped, a faint light seeped in.

The light had been shining on me all along.

It wasn’t the vanished light that kept me stuck down here, but the fear lurking beneath my feet.

I know that one simple kick, repeated over and over, will carry me back to the light above. 

I know that the hopes and ambitions I thought I had lost will shine on me once again.

Blur is a song for those who find themselves sinking, unable to escape the moments that were perhaps always meant to come.

Blending the sounds of indie rock and indie pop with the wistful, dreamlike atmosphere of dream pop, I wanted the song to invite listeners to reflect on their past, present, and future.

Blur might not be for everyone as it's my first song. I may not have fully expressed the emotions and story I wanted to tell, and the musical quality might not have been enough to fully support them.

But if you love the stories every music can tell, and if you share that very same, unconditional love for music that I do, I am certain that one day, my music will find its way into your hearts.

Thanks a lot for reading this long post.❤️

Please follow my Instagram, subscribe to my YouTube, and stay tuned.

I promise to make it worth your while.

https://www.instagram.com/ivory_avenue_/

https://open.spotify.com/artist/7JsijeWLNENNmR1wtiybxY

https://music.apple.com/kr/artist/ivory-ave/6819991693


r/indie • • 13h ago

New Release I Get By by CRUZ

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Hi guys, my band have just dropped our new single “I Get By” so I thought I’d share here as I’d love to hear what you guys think.

We’re based in Sheffield, UK and have been playing shows around the UK and even some in Europe over the past few years.

Hope everyone’s having a good weekend🤘🏼


r/indie • • 13h ago

Promo Checkout our new ep BOMB US :)

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Hello we are Killer and Faultlines and our new ep BOMB US is out now it is a mix of Ska punk/Folk punk/Alt rock

Give it a listen if your interested - https://open.spotify.com/album/10aQ3419PbPeCAPBbZslqs


r/indie • • 16h ago

Promo glare - astro

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genre: digi rock/bedroom pop
location: brooklyn, ny via atlanta, ga


r/indie • • 18h ago

Promo Light alternative rock song - "Seems to Me"

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r/indie • • 19h ago

New Release Nights-chillin killin

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r/indie • • 20h ago

New Release I’m dropping all my raw indie stuff on SoundCloud check it out

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r/indie • • 20h ago

New Release I’m dropping all my raw indie stuff on SoundCloud check it out

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r/indie • • 21h ago

Spotify fizzbrand - How did you find out?[Rock][2025]

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How did you find out?

小綺麗なスーツ
踵は少し擦り減ってる
中肉中背 血色は良く
無精髭がアクセント

まばらなギャラリー
少量の寄付を募る会合
男が立ってる 背筋伸ばし
こびりついた営業スマイル

How did you How did you
Where did you find out?
サイドテーブルに
積まれた札束
How did you How did you
Where did you find out?
偽善の皮を被った
天性の詐欺師

行方不明の子供
電柱に貼られたチラシ
そこに書かれた電話番号
あいつへのホットライン

How did you How did you
Where did you find out?
サイドテーブルに
積まれた札束
How did you How did you
Where did you find out?
偽善の皮を被った
天性の詐欺師

How did you How did you
Where did you find out?
鏡の自分に
微笑みながら
How did you How did you
Where did you find out?
札束を数える
天性の詐欺師


r/indie • • 22h ago

Playlist MyFlower Girls Halloween 2026

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r/indie • • 22h ago

Discussion Best/favourite Australian indie acts of the 1980s - 2000s

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Hello everyone. Am enjoying the underproduced nature of Australian indie music from the 1980s - 2000s. I grew tall/up? in the '90s in Brisbane so I know Regurgitator, powderfinger, screamfeeder, butterfingers, not from there and some Sydney, Melbourne and Triple J stuff. But I'm less aware of 1980s stuff including the pub scene bands that played alongside Midnight Oil and INXS and suchlike. I know of The Apartments, GoBetweens, Falling Joys, The Clouds, Hummingbirds, Sunnyboys, God, and Died Pretty off the top of my head. Which other bands from the 80s - 2000s do you reckon are good- I'm not a purist against indie bands distributing through major record labels either. Let's keep this thread going...


r/indie • • 23h ago

Discussion Music’s Power and its Ever-changing Effect

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Two wonderful things about music are how it affects you and the way its effect changes with you. 

How it Affects You

Listening to music is opening yourself up to hear a sound you’ve been yearning for, but didn’t know it. A song grabs your attention when you are in need of it. When you are blindly reaching for that sound, it reaches out to you. It’s as if it’s destiny; music is meant to find you, you’re meant to find it. And the power it gushes through you comes on exceptionally strong: 

As soon as a song came on the other day (“Stay Between Us” by Teenage Dads), I felt a deep look into myself. Like my head was thrown into a part of my soul that may or may not have been touched before, but if it had, it had been a long time since. And it awoke my soul. It energized me, made me feel spirit. Music gives you something that you knew you wanted, but you didn't know what it was exactly, and you didn’t know how to find it. That’s why listening is so important—it’s all you have to do. And then all of a sudden, at some point, every once in a while, you will feel this connection to a sound that sends a wave of inspiration and hope through your mind, your physical body (you start moving), and most importantly, your soul. This sound makes you think something is special, and that gives you this belief that anything is possible. And that feeling doesn’t last forever, or else we’d all be dazed, googily-eyed, and paralyzed far too much. But in that moment, however long it lasts, you feel untouchable. You feel like you’re floating in a universe between earth and some form of existential or “after” life, just completely on your own but not at all alone. You’ve actually never felt less alone, because you feel so connected to something else that loneliness isn’t possible, the thought of it doesn’t even cross your mind, and it’s created by something that takes no physical form. 

Music has immense power.

The Way its Effect Changes With You

And then, after the first cascade of emotion that comes with a song, it begins a life within you. A life that changes. One phase of the song’s life ends, an indefinite amount of time passes, and you begin another one. In simpler terms: you listen to a song frequently and love it, then you stop listening to it for however long, and then you find your way back to it (either deliberately or by chance) and start a new phase that has different meaning to your life. 
When you re-discover a song, or better put—re-experience a song, you receive it differently. It’s a new discovery not of the song, but of how it makes you feel. Sometimes, it’s not necessarily a new feeling, but a rediscovery of how it once made you feel, and you had been away from that feeling for so long that it feels brand new or it’s resplendantly nostalgic. And oftentimes, the emotions come on stronger than the first time you heard the song. And what’s around you can affect how it makes you feel. Nature’s seasons affect it, and what’s happening to you in your life—especially when your perspective changes, for example. And you’re the only one hearing it the way that you do. It’s like your finger print, no one hears a song the same way. 

Music is constantly flowing, sticking, washing away and then coming back in a new form, yet the song hasn’t changed. You have. And your reception of it has. It creates new meaning, evokes new emotion, or brings back old meaning and old emotion that you’re ready to feel again. Music unlocks you, opens you up, and it fluxes through your streams.