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Melbourne based darkwave artist V has released her long awaited second record So Pure, a full seven years after delivering her self titled debut way back in 2012. A project born a decade ago in the now defunct Berlin-Mitte...

EXIUM RELEASES NON-CELLULAR LIFE

Spanish techno aficionados Valentin Corujo (Kessell) and Hector Sandoval (Tensal) aka Exium, have released a brutalist yet shapeshifting new four track EP Non-Cellular Life. The title track can be found over at our New Independent & Underground Techno playlist...

AUBREY & SIMONE GATTO DEBUT ON CURLE

The recent collaboration between English producer Allen Saei and Italian equivalent Simone Gatto continues the bear fruit. They debuted a few months back with the lively ‘Groove 1996’ on German producer Efdemin’s (Phillip Sollman) Naif compilation mix for Belgian label Curle Recordings....

INDIE30 STANDS WITH PALESTINIAN ARTISTS AND ACADEMICS AND SUPPORTS THE BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT & SANCTIONS MOVEMENT

Recent actions by festival organisers in Germany to censor and prevent artists who support the BDS campaign on Israel from playing and the recent publicity surrounding the Meteor Festival in Israel where we discovered to our disappointment that a number of artists whose music...

NEW INDEPENDENT & UNDERGROUND TECHNO – AN INDIE30 PLAYLIST ON SPOTIFY (UPDATED JULY 9)

NEW TRACKS Echologist (RSA/USA) – Dispatch (Mord) South African born and New York based producer Brendan Moeller buries the recurring synth motif deep inside an enveloping multi speed sound vortex on the excellent ‘Dispatch’, the centrepiece of ‘his new EP...

TOPS RELEASE NEW VIDEO, NOW TOURING

Check out the new video for ‘Marigold & Grey’, the fourth track shared by Montreal pop quartet TOPS from their latest record Sugar At The Gate. Bright and nostalgic, it’s old postcard visuals of the band at a carnival...

KELLY LEE OWENS DROPS NEW VIDEO, DEBUT ALBUM OUT NOW!

Kelly Lee Owens dropped her ultra impressive debut album last Friday and to mark the occasion has presented a new video by visual artist Kim Hiorthøy for the single ‘Anxi (feat. Jenny Hval)’ which has been in our chart...

YOHUNA SHARES FIRST SINGLE FROM DEBUT ALBUM

Earlier this month, Johanne Swanson announced the release of her debut record as Yohuna, Patientness, a mixture of subtle atmospheric electronics meticulously built around delicate instrumentation and completed by Swanson’s earnest lyrics ensconced inside her fragile vocals. The first...

IN PICTURES: CORRIDOR @ BAR LE RITZ PDB, MONTREAL

Tweet Montreal art rock quartet Corridor heralded the release of their debut LP Le Voyage Éternal with a blistering set at Bar Le Ritz last Thursday here in their hometown. Highlighting the band’s penchant for alternating shades of...

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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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