Perhaps some of you have gone to my author page to read more about video games, and you’re instead bombarded by all my bad takes on music. Perhaps you keep discovering new artists on Instagram or TikTok and can’t quite tell what the genre is. Perhaps your cool new partner keeps telling you about some band called Ween, and you don’t know what’s up or down anymore. Either which way, you probably have a very genuine question on your mind: “What on god’s green earth even is indie music????”

And hey, look, depending on who you ask, you will get many opinions on this from some very passionate people. But the clearest definition one can give is this: indie music is any published song or album that has been published without any contributions from a major, commercial record label, like Universal or Warner.

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