Indie, Always The Chearper Music Choice.

While I've talked about a lot of great features to surrendering yourself to the indie cause, such as an eternal delusion of grandeur and being able to wear flares without people assuming your out of touch. Now comes yet another reason to love Indie music, a massive amount of indie music is FREE! yes that's right, no longer will you be forking out money for music the indie genre is packed full of wannabe socialists who would rather remain in obscurity and poverty than take any money for their music. lets jump ahead and take a look at an example!

Billie the Vision and the Dancers



This wonderful group of indie-pop Swedes have just released their 4th album I Used to Wander These Streets (pictured above) and just as with their 1st, 2nd and 3rd album it's available completely free to download right here on their site... it's also available to buy which i actually attempted but only to those folk lucky enough to live in the social experiment known as Sweden can do that. I've chosen a song from each album to help you get a taste for them

I Used to Wander These Streets:
You’re Not Giving Up On Me
Where the Ocean Meets My Hand:
A Beautiful Night in Oslo
The World According To Pablo:
A Man From Argentina
I Was So Unpopular In School:
Nobel Square

Enjoy!
(and tell me what you think)

Don't get left behind!

Being indie is about being one step ahead of everyone else. Yep, it's a competition and if you don't fight back you'll get left behind and fade away into the popular music loving masses. But how can you stay one step ahead of the commercial wave? Well, here's how...

Use the interweb

The lazy indie person's option. Myspace, Purevolume and Last.fm are all invaluable resources if you're looking for awesome new unheard of bands. Last.fm is by far the easiest to use, least commercial and therefore indiest.

Go to a few gigs

You favorite indie bands will be usually supported by other awesome indie bands. If you favorite indie band is playing half way around the world (which they usually do), there is another option.

Pick a venue close to you (one of those bars where all the cool indie or unsigned bands play) and just go. Regardless of who's playing. The less knowledge you have of who's playing the better. Go with an open mind and you're bound to be surprised and low and behold you've found a new awesome band.

Trawl the music shops

The smaller the music shop the better, though the big chains do occasionally have some cool indie bands Cd's in, you usually have to look quite hard. The best option is to go to you local independent record store and ask the guy with long hair (he always has long hair) working behind the counter.

One of these ideas should work... In case of an emergengy when all of the above fails and you feel yourself being compelled to listen to Rihanna's new CD, email Seb or myself and we'll send you an emergency indie mix tape. We never leave a man behind.