Indie

Indie typically applies to rock music that is outside of the rock mainstream and is not affiliated with a major record label, hence "independent." Some indie groups actually enjoy significant followings and critical acclaim. Music blogs such as Stereogum and Indie Rock Cafe focus on this genre along with "alternative" rock and other emerging rock music.

Indie (independent) films (see In Bruges) and fashions are two other areas where the term is relatively commonplace.  The indie tag has further spread to include almost any creative or artistic endeavor that lacks an affiliation with a major brand or label.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Indie”

• Halve Finale Oost-Vlaams Rockconcours: JC Kadans Aalter

  
  wannabes — Authority: 136
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• A New Pomplamoose Convert

  
  The Hopeful Skeptic — Authority: 112
  So I found a YouTube video That turned me on to a band , and a myspace page [insert cringe over having to go to myspace] that does awesome Indie rock covers. I always feel bad because I don’t listen to enough female singers. So I am adding this one to the list. So now its Pomplamoose and Aimee Mann and ...
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• One Finger Discount

  
  Rob Fahrni — Authority: 129
  Macworld : "OFD is open to any Mac developer; its being organized by Daniel Jalkut of Red Sweater Software, maker of MarsEdit, FastScripts, and other apps. Jalkut says any developer is invited to participate, and so far more than 25 have signed up. You can now get some great apps like NetworkLocation, Today, ...
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• This Weeks Interesting DVD Releases (November 10th, 2009)

  
  Largehearted Boy — Authority: 141
  The widely praised Pixar animated feature Up is released tomorrow. Other theatrical releases include the documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell and the indie drama Evergreen . The complete series of Dawsons Creek and the animated Justice League are out tomorrow, as well as the second season of ...
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• Memory Tapes – Seek Magic

  
  Sun On The Sand — Authority: 145
  Seek Magic is the gorgeous debut album from David Hawke’s latest project Memory Tapes. Bathed in blissed-out synths and drifting guitars, the album serves as the perfect introduction to chillwave.
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• Moneen – The World I Want To Leave Behind

  
  Sun On The Sand — Authority: 145
  Ontario natives Moneen reinvent their genre once again on The World I Want To Leave Behind , mixing their older, more punk rock sound with their more recent clean vocals and expressive lyrics.
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• Six Things for a Signing

  
  Read Write Believe — Authority: 488
  Six things from my book signing at Hooray for Books!, a wonderful independent childrens book store in Alexandria, Virginia: 1) People showed up!  You may laugh at my anxiety, but authors fear the unattended book signing like they used to fear searching for a friendly lunch table on the first day of a ...
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• Shorties (The Beatles, How to Write a Great Novel, and more)

  
  Largehearted Boy — Authority: 141
  This week PopMatters is exploring the music and pop culture phenomenon of the Beatles . Authors including Margaret Atwood, John Wray , Junot Diaz, and others talk to the Wall Street Journal about how to write a great novel. The New Yorker features a new short story by Yiyun Li. Yo La Tengos Ira ...
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• Various Artists – “No Lip Vol. 2″

  
  ReadJunk.com — Authority: 140
  Record Label: Mohawk BombBand Link: www.mohawkbomb.comBuy on Amazon.com14-track sampler from Florida-based Mohawk Bomb Records, a new label with an interesting, innovative philosophy of not dicking their bands over.While many of their bands hail from Florida and California, MBR’s roster has surprising diversity for ...
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• Accessories to keep you warm: fingerless gloves, tights & leggings

  
  Indie Fixx — Authority: 520
  Since I’m not moving to Key West anytime soon, I’ve compiled my wish list of cold weather accessories and decided to share it with the rest of you folks in the Northern Hemisphere and other cold weather climates. The rest of you can feel my jealously for your warm weather. I will be sharing my pixx all week ...
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• Daily Downloads (Fiery Furnaces, Ponytail, and more)

  
  Largehearted Boy — Authority: 141
  Todays free and legal mp3 downloads: The Builder & the Butchers : "Vampire Lake" [mp3] from Loch Lomond/The Builders & the Butchers Split 12″ other Builder & the Butchers posts at Largehearted Boy Heather Greene : "Moon Hangs Fire" [mp3] from Sweet Otherwise other Heather Greene ...
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• Low-budget filmmaker bemoans indie movie industry

  
  Film Directing and Film Making Tips for the Independent Filmmaker — Authority: 131
  “Today’s independent film industry isn’t independent at all, says Kelley Baker, also known as the Angry Filmmaker. “I’m angry with the way the independent film industry works … They all have Hollywood stars and big budgets,” said Baker, who will be speaking at Dormont’s Hollywood Theater Sunday. “So ...
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• Bear In Heaven – “Beast Rest Forth Mouth” LP

  
  OMG Vinyl ...Because Records Sound Better — Authority: 136
  Yes, I admit, I heard about this record because of today’s Pitchfork review .  Brooklyn’s Bear In Heaven’s “Beast Rest Forth Mouth” is the latest and greatest release from the always-impressive Home Tapes label.  As the PFork review said, this record is hard to pigeonhole into a genre, but it has nice ...
  7 hours ago

• Like a puppet on a blog

  
  The AGS blog — Authority: 125
  Indiegames.com have chosen new AGS release The Marionette to be a freeware indie game pick . ...See this and other articles at ags-ssh.blogspot.com ...
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• Bear in Heaven - Beast Rest Forth Mouth

  
  RADIOBUTT — Authority: 130
  Download (rapidshare) 256kbps / 73mb Preview: You Do You.mp3 Year: 2009 Label: Hometapes bearinheaven.com Wiki Similar artists: The Dodos, Suckers, The Ruby Suns, Yeasayer, Megafaun Pitchfork: 8.4 "Bear in Heavens greatest trick is creating music that evokes the sort of physicality and ...
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• 2010s Indie Games Lineup Full Of Promise (And...Other Things) [Indie]

  
  Kotaku — Authority: 820
  For all their inventiveness and innovation, some indie games can also be, well, a little much . A fact serving as the inspiration for Something Awfuls list of 2010s "Most Promising Bullshit Indie Games". Some of the shame-theyre-not-real-games we have to look forward to include tranScEEnD: You are a seed, the ...
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• The Killer Inside Me Indie Movie Trailer

  
  Antilogic - Design, SEO, Advertising, Technology — Authority: 127
  Wow, I just saw this trailer for Michael Winterbottom’s The Killer Inside Me and it looks very good. It reminds me of No Country for Old Men, don’t really know why though. The film stars Casey Affleck as the sheriff and is joined by Jessica Alba, Kate Hudson, Simon Baker, Elias Koteas and Bill ...
  9 hours ago

• “WU-TANG MEETS THE INDIE CULTURE VOL. 2: ENTER THE DUBSTEP” – CD RELEASE PARTY

  
  MVRemix Urban — Authority: 152
  “WU-TANG MEETS THE INDIE CULTURE VOL. 2: ENTER THE DUBSTEP” – CD RELEASE PARTY If you’re in New York on Monday Nov. 9th, come check out the groundbreaking music behind “Wu-Tang Meets The Indie Culture Vol. 2: Enter The Dubstep” at the exclusive CD Release party at Konkrete Jungle @ The Pyramid. ...
  11 hours ago

• Ventid - Rain Dance for Your Wedding LP

  
  Built on a Weak Spot — Authority: 489
  Being bored late at night after getting home from work can be a good or bad thing. Typically it just has me sitting down watching sleazy horror films until I feel like it’s a good time to head to bed or in other cases I start perusing various online retailers and the money sucking land that is eBay. Sometimes it ...
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• Saidah Baba Talibah TESTIFLY (parts 1-3)

  
  TheCyberKrib United — Authority: 120
  As Saidah Baba Talibah prepares her debut full-length album, the country is letting us know what they think of the vicious vocalist who’s graced stages from Canadian Idol, to MANIFESTO, to opening for class acts like Lee Fields.Be sure to support Saidah’s forthcoming project by picking up the raw elements of a ...
  13 hours ago

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