Indie Music
Let Communions’ Guitar Pop Lead You Into Summer on “It’s Like Air”
We're premiering the video, with its sushi dinners, football and buzzcuts, right here.
Do We Really Need an Indie Revival in 2017?
What happens now that basically everyone—The Shins, Dirty Projectors, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Broken Social Scene—is back?
Elevation Is Trying To Transform Books About Music
The independent record label has spawned a publisher, Elevation Books. We talk with founder M. Taufiqrahman about why books written about music need a breath of fresh air.
I Didn’t Let Asperger Syndrome Stop Me From Having a Career in Music
“One thing you excel at when you have Asperger's is your individual passions. Some people get well into cars, others become film boffs or mathematicians. For me, it was all about music.”
WeGotTickets’ INDIE50 List Proves UK Live Music is in Rude Health
We caught up with Jess Patridge from London in Stereo to talk about the INDIE 50 and the state of live music in the capital.
Watch Clips of LCD Soundsystem's First Performance in Five Years
See videos of the New York band's first performance in five years, featuring "Dance Yrself Clean," "Daft Punk Is Playing at My House," and "All My Friends"
'I Felt So Trapped': In Indie Music, Sexual Harassment Is an Accepted Nightmare
From predatory industry executives, to sexist and demeaning press coverage of female musicians, to sexually aggressive fans, the indie music scene has a huge sexual harassment problem.
How a Kid Running an Obscure Music Forum Became the Target Of the UK's Biggest Ever Piracy Case
From his bedroom in North East England, Kane Robinson ran a music forum for 12,000 enthusiastic indie fans. But did a uni student with no prior convictions really deserve two years in prison?
Britain’s Music Industry Needs to Take Lessons from the Indie Gaming Scene
New music is in a funk, with base competence alone serving as a selling point. Labels would be wise to look to gaming for guidance through these depressing greys.
How Old White Guys Created the 'Oscar Movie' Genre
We're going to see the same sort of films get nominated again and again as long as the Academy stays old, white, and male.
Photos of Bottoms Hating Their Bodies
Photography Amy Lombard followed the gay punk band bottoms around Brooklyn as they huffed poppers, hung out at a grimy art space, and sang songs about hating their bodies.
JD Samson's Life After MEN
JD Samson's queer art and music collective MEN has decided to call it quits, so we spoke to the queer icon about what's next.