Indie music has grown to include so much. It’s not just music that is released on independent labels, but speaks to an aesthetic that deviates from the norm and follows its own weirdo heart. It can ...

You have heard the word “indie” tossed around so often that it has started to mean everything and nothing at once. People throw it at a genre, a vibe, a production style, a whole Pinterest aesthetic.

Independent, or "Indie" music, has a broad definition that can be applied across genres and regions. So what makes indie music indie? LA Buckner interviews Quinn Christopherson, an up-and-coming indie ...

Short for “independent music,” indie music is a term that was coined in the ’80s to describe music outside of the mainstream and artists not signed to one of the “Big Four” labels—EMI, Sony, Universal ...

Over the past decade, YouTube Music's "Foundry Class" has become a trademark of quality for independent artists, and the 24 artists who make up this year's class is no exception. The artists range ...

The annual list is led by Executives of the Year Tim Putnam and Zena White of Partisan Records and celebrates the most influential labels, distributors and associations in the independent space today.

I’m in the back room of a scruffy pub in east London on a Saturday at a club called Scared to Dance, watching my life flash before my eyes – I’m back in my student union circa 1986. The DJ plays “Into ...

Correction: This story has been updated to correctly reflect the games for which Gordon McGladdery hired John Robert Matz to compose. Ben Babbitt created the soundtrack for one of the most critically ...

At 77, the salsa pioneer and all-around Renaissance man — who is Billboard's 2026 Indie Icon — is still setting a blueprint for what independent artists can accomplish. By Leila Cobo Co-Chief Content ...

Philadelphia is a top market when it comes to music and there is no shortage of venues in the city of Brotherly Love to listen to all types of music. Indie Rock is an alternative Rock with an ...

The 615 Indie Live music festival will return for its second year on February 7, 2026. The event will feature nearly 50 independent artists (and counting) across 15 different Nashville music venues.