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ASTRID SWAN AND STINA KOISTINEN UNITE IN LIFE AND ART FOR SYMPTOMS & MANAGEMENT

ASTRID SWAN AND STINA KOISTINEN UNITE IN LIFE AND ART FOR SYMPTOMS & MANAGEMENT

Acclaimed Finnish artists Astrid Swan and Stina Koistinen (Color Dolor) have joined forces for a new experimental and chamber pop project simply named Swan/Koistinen. Due to deliver their debut EP in May titled Symptoms & Management, last Friday saw...

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FINNISH TRIO OCELOT SHARE HÄMÄRÄ

FINNISH TRIO OCELOT SHARE HÄMÄRÄ

Photo: Sanna Lehto Helsinki art pop trio Ocelot, led by the distinctive vocals of composer and multi-instrumentalist Emilia Pennanen, have released their pensive piano and bass driven new single ‘Hämärä’ (“Twilight”). It’s a track where the title acts both as...

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RECORD REVIEW: THE NEW TIGERS (FIN) – DO XAO

RECORD REVIEW: THE NEW TIGERS (FIN) – DO XAO

The transformative new album Do Xao by Turku retro pop futurists The New Tigers represents a significant change in direction for the band. It’s nine tracks were created in the wake of a critical decision made in the winter...

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CATS OF TRANSNISTRIA RELEASE NEW SINGLE/VIDEO FROM UPCOMING RECORD, OPIUM

CATS OF TRANSNISTRIA RELEASE NEW SINGLE/VIDEO FROM UPCOMING RECORD, OPIUM

This is our final new music post for 2017. We couldn’t think of a better way to end the year than sharing this… Helsinki’s Cats Of Transnistria have ended 2017 with the release of an intoxicating new single, ‘Candy...

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VERANDAN RELEASES DEBUT EP

VERANDAN RELEASES DEBUT EP

Last week Finnish pop quintet Verandan, formed in 2015 around Cats On Fire guitarist Ville Hopponen, released their long awaited self titled debut EP. It’s a collection of six nuanced pop gems that delivers both depth and variance across style...

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CATS OF TRANSNISTRIA RETURN WITH LOVE

CATS OF TRANSNISTRIA RETURN WITH LOVE

“The single ‘Love’ is exceptionally delicate, aerial and light for us. But the love talked about is, obviously, not real or healthy.” Cats of Transnistria. Helsinki experimental dreamscapists Cats Of Transnistria just released their exceptionally delicate yet dense new...

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VERANDAN UNVEILS DEBUT SINGLE

VERANDAN UNVEILS DEBUT SINGLE

Back in late 2015 Finnish artist Ville Hopponen (Cats on Fire, The New Tigers) assembled an impressive array of fellow musical luminaries to help create his new music project Verandan. He described the process thus; “I have played music...

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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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