Indie30 Features

THE IRREPRESSIBLY IRRESISTIBLE CIGGIE WITCH CALL TIME, ANNOUNCE FINAL SHOW

“Classic Melbourne bullshit, never climaxes”. That’s the humorous and extraordinarily humble self-description you’ll find in the social media bio of the gorgeously idiosyncratic left field pop/rock septet Ciggie Witch. Largely centring on and assembling around the considerable song-writing abilities...

EDITORS NOTE – INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY

Today is International Women’s Day, a day that is a focal point in the year where we honour the struggle for women’s equality and pause to really understand how deep that inequality goes and how much still needs to...

INTERVIEW: EMOTIVE MATHEMATICS – JESSE WOOLSTON’S µSTRUCTURE

Last month New Zealand composer and multimedia artist Jesse Woolston released his new album µstructure to coincide with simultaneous visual art exhibitions in San Francisco for MUTEK and in Miami for the Digital Graffiti Projection Festival and referencing earlier exhibits...

IN LONG FORM: OUR BLUSH(INGLY) BELATED RESPONSE TO HEARTS GROW DULL (PART ONE)

Adelaide shoegaze/dream pop outfit Blush Response, led by DIY multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and producer (and soon be to be qualified veterinarian) Alister Douglas, dropped their long awaited debut album Hearts Grow Dull back in April. Instructive as it is intoxicating,...

AN EXPLANATION: WE ARE NO FRIEND OF SPOTIFY OR ANY CORPORATE OWNED STREAMING SERVICE; AND THERE IS AN EMBRYONIC ALTERNATIVE EMERGING

It’s taken us 10 years to decide to use a streaming service. It was made with full awareness of what they are, what they do and how they do it. Indie30 turns 10 years old at the end of...

NYP EXHIBITS SERIES NO. 3 – V / A – SPACE ODDITIES

When words fail, music speaks – It’s a motto spoken by Label Sphère & with the joy of sounds connecting people on dance floors across the globe, I’m sure it’s a sentiment we can all appreciate. Located in Toulouse,...

LUCY CURATES (AND STARS IN) AN ITALIAN ELECTRONIC MUSIC ODYSSEY

Stroboscopic Artefacts, the record label founded and co-owned by Berlin based Italian DJ/Producer Luca Mortellaro, aka Lucy recently unveiled the captivating 10 track compilation album, Flowers From The Ashes: Contemporary Italian Electronic Music. It captures 10 very distinct creations...

NYP EXHIBITS SERIES NO. 2 – SIMON MILLS – POKE EP

Fans of electronic duo Bent may already be aware of the solo creations that come from the mind of Simon Mills (aka Napoleon), but for those that aren’t, the very awesome Poke EP is an audio delight awaiting to...

LETS TALK ABOUT RAPE: HOW GENDER INEQUALITY & TOXIC MASCULINITY CONSPIRE TO KEEP RAPE IN THE DARK AND SURVIVORS UNSUPPORTED

“It goes without consequences”. Kissy Fleur (Singer-songwriter, harpist & producer). As Ripened Fruit, the confrontational debut album about rape by Kissy Fleur enters its last day as our album of the week, we thought it more than appropriate to...

NYP EXHIBITS SERIES NO. 1 – DJ NOTHING – NOTHING EP

This is the first in our new NYP Exhibits Series. Adelaide DJ/Producer Shannon Dickson offered to scour the beautiful obscure depths of Bandcamp*, the best place to buy online music, and select what he thinks are the best new...

WHAT WE’RE ABOUT

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.

If you are an independent artist, producer, record label, artist centred agent or publicist and you've taken some notice of what we do here feel free to email info through the "Contact Us" link. You can also find us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Due the large volume of requests we receive, these are info only avenues. As we gladly do this in our down time we normally cannot reply to messages so please be sure to send what you think we need.

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.

James Stocker - Indie30 (Founder & Editor)

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NOTE: Indie30 in no way supports or is affiliated with Spotify or its artist unfriendly business model. It is simply used as a platform to promote the artists we feature in our 7 New Music Playlists and their accompanying edition in our Tracks of 2020 Series.

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