demo

2y

bar italia, nourished by time, mj lenderman & been stellar are kinda carrying it right now

Andre Jaquet

2y

mk.gee, phoebe bridges, magdalena bay, boygenius, caroline polacheck, vampire weekend, the smile, mount kimbie, steve lacy, king krule are all still putting out good work and id say most of those guys r relevant its just like everything else in this age its just not as much crossover thats all

Andre Jaquet

2y

mk.gee, phoebe bridges, magdalena bay, boygenius, caroline polacheck, vampire weekend, the smile, mount kimbie, steve lacy, king krule are all still putting out good work and id say most of those guys r relevant its just like everything else in this age its just not as much crossover thats all

DEL634

2y

Will have to check out Been Stellar!

WRU

2y

i consider him rap's 'middle class' next to jpegmafia, danny brown, earl, vince. underground (in terms of 'popularity') to me is dudes signed to him. in terms of distribution its anyone not releasing music under label system eg someone like wiki working on his own imprint. and i also put this distribution aspect as more dominant over abstract popularity

vingu

2y

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i’d consider every one of those “legacy” acts (not legacy as in boomer acts but they came out 5+ years ago. not the best term to use but just to make my point rn it works) and not even indie really. not a bad thing just that they came out before the pandemic/tiktok industry complex/worsening of everything overall and have had immense success.

like i said in my post it’s kinda like what’s going on w rap where it’s this “class” ie the upcoming generation that seems to be getting drowned out completely. i know some pretty amazing artists/bands tryna make it work for example and there doesn’t seem to be a clear path forward anymore at all, and even if you do develop a fanbase thanks to streaming forget about making anything that looks like livable income

Andre Jaquet

2y

then you have an outdated idea of what indie is

vingu

2y

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i don’t really think so but i can’t really agree or disagree if you don’t tell me what yours is im going off the denotation and the historic cultural definition of the word here, don’t think that’s outdated. might not be what you consider to be indie but enlighten me please

demo

2y

they’re signed to dirty hit and opened for Fontaines on their NA tour. They put out a great album last year and a great ep the year before that.

this is the song that got me into them

Andre Jaquet

2y

i dont think an artist coming out pre pandemic makes them a legacy act i dont really get what u mean tbh

demo

2y

@provider

vingu

2y

eh i shouldn’t have said “every one of them legacy acts” that was more shorthand for this idea that they’ve been around a long time and aren’t exactly the current “underclass”. everyone you mentioned came up in a completely different world to now, and even for some to each other (polachek with chairlift, the smile as radiohead etc)

Andre Jaquet

2y

sure i feel that but the whole point of a current underclass is they r the underclass right they arent established yet u could say that but like i think thats a dif convo than r people listening to indie and is it relevant, id say its relevant in a pocket like most subgenres rn
a few of those guys like boygenius, mk.gee, caroline polacheck and mount kimbie didnt really become proper names till like 2021-now id say their breakout years.

demo

2y

they’re signed to dirty hit and opened for Fontaines on their NA tour. They put out a great album last year and a great ep the year before that.

this is the song that got me into them

provider

2y

that fontaines dc album is good btw

Andre Jaquet

2y

mk.gee, phoebe bridges, magdalena bay, boygenius, caroline polacheck, vampire weekend, the smile, mount kimbie, steve lacy, king krule are all still putting out good work and id say most of those guys r relevant its just like everything else in this age its just not as much crossover thats all

Sir Real

2y

all that s*** is ass

CGI Dog

2y

i know numbers arent everything but you look at the charts and the new MGMT album flopped like crazy!! they gave us Electric Feel

Sir Real

2y

all that s*** is ass

IvanOoze

2y

Name some better people or stfu 🤷🏿‍♂️