If there is one constant in the music business, it is change — and in the past few years, the rate of change has accelerated rapidly, as new technologies, new money, new players and new ideas have ...

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 ...

Scrolling through social media, it feels as though “indie sleaze” never went away. Grainy flash photography, smudged eyeliner and a soundtrack of early 2000s indie music are once again dominating ...

The indie music staple magazine, Pitchfork, was once a leading name in online music journalism but became a subsidiary of GQ magazine on Jan. 17. GQ being an established, corporate magazine, signifies ...

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 ...

Those around for punk’s clarion call could’ve never imagined that their festering rage would lead to this. If the movement’s earliest adopters had skipped forward 25 or 30 years to see what they’d ...

As music becomes more accessible, new indie artists have started to adapt the qualities of whatever is popular at the moment to attain more engagement and clicks. But when indie artists start to ...

Als Produzentin unterstützt Marlene Heger vorrangig FLINTA*-Personen auf dem Weg in die Musikbranche. Gleichzeitig arbeitet sie an eigenen Songs – mit einem Ritual. Es ist noch früh am Morgen, ...