I do listen to a lot of independent music, but it’s more the ‘hobbyist musician posts their stuff on a genre-specific or music software forum and I check out their soundcloud and bandcamp’ variant. Most of the stuff is hardly innovative, it’s just that certain styles are either really rare in general or were popular like 15 years ago. YouTube can be pretty useful for this kind of stuff, too, for some (micro-)genres.
I suppose I might not be an indie snob. Except maybe for the word definition. Did you know that ‘indie’ used to describe the material conditions of music creation and distribution instead of being a music genre?
I do listen to a lot of independent music, but it’s more the ‘hobbyist musician posts their stuff on a genre-specific or music software forum and I check out their soundcloud and bandcamp’ variant. Most of the stuff is hardly innovative, it’s just that certain styles are either really rare in general or were popular like 15 years ago. YouTube can be pretty useful for this kind of stuff, too, for some (micro-)genres.
I suppose I might not be an indie snob. Except maybe for the word definition. Did you know that ‘indie’ used to describe the material conditions of music creation and distribution instead of being a music genre?