Etiket: indie
Indie sleaze 2024: style, outfits, meaning, icons
«VI would hate to see you dressed in nothing”, sings Coez in one of his most popular songs, Jets (2015), which fall into the Indie music genre. A verse that…
Indie artists were more successful than ever on Spotify in 2023
For the first time, around half of Spotify’s total sales came from indie musicians. While you often only hear about the high sales of the music industry superstars, what is…
The rise of the ‘indie sleaze’ trend in 2024
While TikTok and Generation Z have long pushed for a resurgence of late ’90s and Y2K fashion, the ‘Quiet Luxury’ trend has in some ways put a damper on hedonism…
5 German-speaking indie newcomers to keep an eye on
From Blumengarten to Berq: These 5 indie artists show what’s going on with the German language. German music has to contend with some clichés. Either you see German holidaymakers celebrating…
from Catalan rumba to ‘indie’
For decades, Plaza Reial and its surroundings were a first-class cultural hub, perhaps the most powerful Barcelona has ever had. with permission at most from the Paral·lel prior to the…
In the Amsterdam indie band Pip Blom, the drummer became a computer: ‘Yet everything is still about live energy’
Your favorite drummer leaves the band. And then? Amsterdam indie rocker Pip Blom (27) really thought about it when drummer Gini Cameron announced that she would no longer go on…
Who are the indie directors who “sold out”
In the early ’90s, according to a story that has now become mythologized in memory, Disney executives asked the actress Sarah Polley, who was 12 at the time, to remove…
Indie Arena Booth 2023: The best games at Gamescom
By Marlene Polywka | Aug 23, 2023 10:42 am A more or less secret star of Gamescom is always the smaller indie studios. There, gaming fans can discover new titles…
AnnenMayKantereit: Indie pop that lifts the spirits live
AnnenMayKantereit filled the Berlin Wuhlheide twice with a lot of energy and special moments. On August 18th and 19th, the German indie pop band AnnenMayKantereit played two sold-out concerts in…
Netflix hardly interfered with the sequel to indie game hit Oxenfree
The lovable indie game hit Oxenfree showed in 2016 that you don’t have to work for a large media company to become a successful game maker. Sean Krankel and his…