Indie30 News Archive

TOP 30: YOUR FRIEND & CHARLIE HILTON DEBUT WHILE TOPS IS TOP

Tweet Slim pickings this week as the year winds down but we have a new number one and the two new entries are more than worthy. Coming in at 23 is the swirling and deliberative ‘Heathering’, from Taryn...

THE DELAY IS OVER, MOLLY NILSSON’S ZENITH PHYSICALLY ARRIVES

Tweet After a six week delay due to pressing delays, Berlin based Swedish artist Molly Nilsson’s new and sixth record was finally made available in tactile form on vinyl and CD last week. To coincide with this momentous...

TOP 30: PORT. ST. WILLOW, GRIMES, SAVAGES, BLOOD ORANGE & FRANCIS DEBUT

Tweet There are just four weekly Top 30 charts to go for 2015 as we wind down another great year in independently made and released music (that’s what “indie” actually means incidentally). Beating out more well known artists...

JOANNA NEWSOM’S DIVERS OUR AOTW, TITLE TRACK VIDEO

Tweet Seminal Californian singer, songwriter and multi instrumentalist Joanna Newsom released her fourth full length album Divers a couple of weeks back, another first class work of highly idiosyncratic lyricism and exquisitely ornamental musical arrangements to which she...

BELIEFS UNVEIL VIDEO FOR ‘LEAPER’

Tweet Toronto shoegaze duo Beliefs have released the angular and rather contemplative title track and third single off their forthcoming album, Leaper. It takes things down a notch across its six minutes in comparison to the explosive ‘1992’...

TOP 30: HAZEL ENGLISH TOPS THE CHART AS THIS WEEKS FEATURED TRACKS DEBUT

Tweet The four tracks featured on Indie30 in the past week all enter the chart in the following order. Junior Boys is the highest entry at 17 with the title track to their forthcoming album, ‘Big Black Coat’....

RATS ON RAFTS RELEASE TAPE HISS TO THE WORLD

Tweet Idiosyncratic Rotterdam post punk outfit Rats On Rafts have just globally re-released their latest album, Tape Hiss, after quietly releasing it on Bandcamp back in April. Now in their 11th year, the quartet have produced something special...

LONDON ARTIST NAO RELEASES NEW SINGLE

Tweet London singer/songwriter and producer Nao has gone very much under the radar around here until a few days ago when we came across her new offbeat soul pop number ‘Bad Blood’. This prompted us to delve into...

JUNIOR BOYS ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM, SHARE TITLE TRACK

Tweet Hamilton electronic veterans Junior Boys are set to return with a new album, Big Black Coat to be released February 5th next year on City Slang. It’s the first new track we’ve heard from Jeremy Greenspan and...

MEMORYHOUSE ANNOUNCE NEW RECORD

Tweet Guelph dream pop duo Memoryhouse are set to follow up their debut full length, The Slideshow Effect from 2012 with a new album Soft Hate, scheduled for early 2016. Evan Abeele and Denise Nouvion have announced the...

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Indie30 is a globally focused independent music blog run by a very small band of music tragic's from Adelaide in Australia. We believe passionately in posting about and promoting new independent music from a diverse range of genres and styles.

While many have retreated from using the term indie, it's proudly been our primary name from the beginning. Contrary to how it is often used, the term does not describe a particular music genre or style. Indie is simply short for independent label.

Used correctly, it describes music created and released independently of the three big music labels owned by multi-national entertainment conglomerates, Universal Music Group (Vivendi Corporation - France), Warner Music (Access Industries - Russia) and Sony Music (Sony Corporation - Japan) along with the 500+ subsidiaries and sub-labels they have between them.

As Indie30 exists solely to promote music and culture independent of the narrow confines and constraints of mainstream belief and corporate practice, we do not feature or promote any music by artists signed to these entities.

Given their underground roots and their constant refusal to yield to corporate greed, Techno and House for example are genres more indie than the pop, rock and folk genres that are mistakenly and often disingenuously mis-labelled as such.

As 4AD, Sub Pop and Matador are “indies” so are Warp, R&S and Ostgut Ton.

To ensure complete freedom and transparency in what is promoted on Indie30, we do not accept any payment or favours for content. The blog has always been and will remain a labour of love, a voluntary entity that is completely non-financial in status. All of us associated with this site have full time jobs unrelated to music.

Whether creating it or experiencing it, independent music and culture is in and of itself a political act. We are unashamedly progressive in all spheres of life and will never compromise our commitment to defend freedom of expression, speak truth to money and power, celebrate diversity in all its forms, fight for equality of opportunity for all and respect our place with the planet not above it.

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Advance promos of singles, EP's or albums are especially welcome and alerts of new videos too. Indie30 does not engage in musical criticism. Quite simply, if we like what we hear and we can, we'll promote it. If we don't, we won't.

We strongly encourage readers to support the independent artists they like featured here and purchase (not just stream) their music and merchandise. The cultural worth of any society is measured by how it values and supports its art - and independent artists have always given society far more than they'll ever receive.

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