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YUMI ZOUMA SHARE HOMELY VIDEO FOR LEAD SINGLE ‘DECEMBER’

YUMI ZOUMA SHARE HOMELY VIDEO FOR LEAD SINGLE ‘DECEMBER’

Watch the new Julian Vapes shot video for Christchurch quartet Yumi Zouma’s first single, ‘December’ released back in early August from their latest Indie30 AOTW listed album Willowbank. It was shot at 36 hand picked locations in and around...

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YUMI ZOUMA’S ‘HALF HOUR’ VIDEO

YUMI ZOUMA’S ‘HALF HOUR’ VIDEO

The music has been coming thick and fast from Yumi Zouma since the announcement of their new album Willowbank. Thus far they’ve shared three tracks from it, ‘December‘, ‘Depths Pt. 1‘ and ‘Persephone‘ and today comes the ruminative fourth,...

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YUMI ZOUMA SHARE PERSEPHONE

YUMI ZOUMA SHARE PERSEPHONE

Yumi Zouma have shared the third single from their forthcoming album Willowbank. The starry eyed and perfectly paced ‘Persephone’ is below. Pre-order the album here. It’s out October 6 on Cascine. Persephone Yumi Zouma (NZL) From the forthcoming...

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YUMI ZOUMA RELEASE DEPTHS PT. 1

YUMI ZOUMA RELEASE DEPTHS PT. 1

The pop gold keeps coming from New Zealand’s Yumi Zouma. The sweet as second single ‘Depths (Pt 1)’ from their forthcoming album Willowbank is below. It follows our current Number 2 listed track ‘December’. Willowbank is out on Cascine...

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YUMI ZOUMA ANNOUNCE WILLOWBANK, FIRST SINGLE HERE

YUMI ZOUMA ANNOUNCE WILLOWBANK, FIRST SINGLE HERE

New Zealand pop quartet Yumi Zouma have just announced their new album Willowbank. It comes hot on the heels of debut long player Yoncalla released only in May last year. The first single is the cohesive yet breezy ‘December’...

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ALDOUS HARDING SHARES VIDEO FOR BLEND

ALDOUS HARDING SHARES VIDEO FOR BLEND

The new Aldous Harding album Party remains on high rotation here. Check out her uncompromising new video for the short and sharp album opener ‘Blend’ directed by Charlotte Evans. Harding explains the blisteringly sardonic clip thus; “The concept is...

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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.

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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.

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