ABOUT US

WHO ARE WE?

Indie30.com is a promotional music website run by a small band of indie music tragics from Australia who believe passionately in promoting independently made music from right across the globe. Indie music is not a meaningless term to us. It reflects independent thinking and a distinct musical culture that embraces and values difference and artistic freedom.

WHAT ARE WE DOING THIS FOR?

Put quite simply, because we love it. We get a real kick out of promoting new music from quality independent artists of most genres who make music for the right reasons. We also equally wish to help out the record labels that distribute the music and have these artists at the very forefront of their minds. We understand that the music industry for those who stay true to themselves and refuse to sell out the highest bidder can be a very tough road to travel. We are keen to assist in this process wherever we can.

HOW DO WE PROMOTE ARTISTS AND THEIR MUSIC ON OUR SITE?

First and foremost we realise that there are a lot of sites and blogs online that do similar things to us. So what makes us different?

Indie30.com contains a number of features that promote new music. The centrepiece and hence the name of the site is a dedicated TOP 30 CHART that is updated each Sunday. Each track featured in the countdown is accompanied by media content, either in the form of a download (at present available from third parties only), a video clip (usually freely available on youtube), or a streaming link. There are also links to purchase the single, EP or album it’s from and a link to the artist’s myspace site. There is also a points system that contributes to the INDIE30 TOP 100 tracks at the end of each calendar year.

The site also features a regularly updated NEWS SECTION highlighting what selected artists are doing, forthcoming and new album releases, tour dates and record label news as well as a FEATURE ALBUM section where our best new release album remains in the right panel for that entire week. The site also contains a dedicated ARCHIVE SECTION which contains all past content featured on the site.

All of the above content is presented in a stylish, modern design with a consistent format for adding content. Each track featured, whether in the chart or the news section contains the name of the track, the artist, the country they are from, the album from which the track is taken and the label that has released it in its country of origin. Release date information is also provided. As far as navigating through the site is concerned, we have deliberately kept the site as simple to use for readers as possible with minimal features.

At present, indie30 is a totally not for profit. We currently have no advertising on the site but are open to requests from appropriate indie music related businesses or organisations such as the artists themselves, record labels, websites, magazines and venues. We intend to be very careful in how we go about embarking on this process – the music will always come first and will never be compromised.

WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP US HELP YOU HELP US HELP YOU?

If you are an artist or a record label and want us to promote an upcoming release or just have some news to announce please e-mail us and let us know. By sending us a press kit of promotional photos, information about the release, a digital preview of the album, and permission to link to a stream or download of a track legally through our site, if we like what we hear, we’ll be another outlet to promote the music and the track may make it into the Top 30 or even be featured as a feature album.

We should point out that we are not music critics so there is no risk of negative press of any sort. Quite simply, if we like what we receive and are able to feature it on the site we will do so, if we don’t, we won’t.

It should be noted that we highly value artist ownership rights over content and would never use that content in illegal ways. Our site is for purely promotional purposes only.

If you are an existing music site or a blog we would like to hear how we could enter into cross-promotional ties – a mutual back scratching exercise. We would like to feature a list of like-minded sites or blogs for our readers to be exposed to and have ours featured on yours.

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ALBUM OF THE WEEK

June 18, 2013

DAFT PUNK (FRA)

Random Access Memories

Daft Punk Official Site

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1. Give Life Back To Music (feat. Nile Rodgers)

2. The Game Of Love

3. Giorgio By Moroder (feat. Giorgio Moroder)

4. Within (feat. Chilly Gonzales)

5. Instant Crush (feat. Julian Casablancas)

6. Lose Yourself To Dance (feat Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers)

7. Touch (feat. Paul Williams)

8. Get Lucky (feat. Pharell Williams & Nile Rodgers)

9. Beyond

10. Motherboard

11. Fragments Of Time (feat. Todd Edwards)

12. Doin' It Right (feat. Panda Bear

13. Contact (feat. DJ Falcon)

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June 11, 2013

THE NATIONAL (USA)

Trouble Will Find Me

4AD

The National Official Site

Buy here

1. I Should Live In Salt

2. Demons

3. Don't Swallow The Cap

4. Fireproof

5. Sea Of Love

6. Heavenfaced

7. This Is The Last Time

8. Graceless

9. Slipped

10. I Need My Girl

11. Humiliation

12. Pink Rabbit

13. Love Is The Devil

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June 4, 2013

DIRTY BEACHES (USA)

Drifters/Love Is The Devil

Zoo Music

Dirty Beaches Blog

Buy here

Drifters

1. Night Walk

2. I Dream In Neon

3. Belgrade

4. Casino Lisboa

5. ELLI

6. Aurevoir Mon Visage

7. Mirage Hall

8. Landscapes In The Mist

Love Is The Devil

1. Greyhound At Night

2. This Is Not My City

3. Woman

4. Love Is The Devil

5. Alone At The Danube River

6. I Don't Know How To Find My Way Back To You

7. Like The Ocean We Part

8. Berlin

8. Punk (La Vie Anterieure)

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May 28, 2013

DEERHUNTER (USA)

Monomania

4AD

Deerhunter Blogspot

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1. Neon Junkyard

2. Leather Jacket II

3. The Missing

4. Pensacola

5. Dream Captain

6. Blue Agent

7. T.H.M.

8. Sleepwalking

9. Back To The Middle

10. Monomania

11. Nitebike

12. Punk (La Vie Anterieure)

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May 21, 2013

THE FLAMING LIPS (USA)

The Terror

The Flaming Lips Official Site

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1. Look, The Sun Is Always Rising

2. Be Free, A Way

3. Try To Explain

4. You Lust

5. The Terror

6. You Are Alone

7. Butterfly, How Long Does It Take To Die

8. Turning Violent

9. Always There... In Our Hearts

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May 14, 2013

JAMES BLAKE (ENG)

Overgrown

James Blake Official Site

Buy here

1. Overgrown

2. I Am Sold

3. Life Around Here

4. Take A Fall For Me

5. Retrograde

6. DLM

7. Digital Lion

8. Voyeur

9. To The Last

10. Our Love Comes Back

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May 7, 2013

THE KNIFE (SWE)

Shaking The Habitual

Rabid Records

The Knife Official Site

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1. A Tooth For An Eye

2. Full Of Fire

3. A Cherry On Top

4. Without You My Life Would Be Boring

5. Wrap Your Arms Around Me

6. Crake

7. Old Dreams Waiting To Be Realised

8. Raging Lung

9. Networking

10. Oryx

11. Stay Out Here

12. Fracking Fluid Injection

13. Ready To Lose

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April 30, 2013

KURT VILE (USA)

Wakin' On A Pretty Daze

Matador

Kurt Vile Official Site

Buy here

1. Wakin' On A Pretty Day (mp3)

2. KV Crimes

3. Was All Talk

4. Girl Called Alex

5. Never Run Away (mp3)

6. Pure Pain

7. Too Hard

8. Shame Chamber

9. Snowflakes Are Dancing

10. Air Bud

11. Goldtone

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April 23, 2013

SALLY SHAPIRO (SWE)

Somewhere Else

Paper Bag

Sally Shapiro Official Site

Buy here

1. Prescript

2. I Dream With An Angel Tonight

3. All My Life

4. This City's Local Italo Disco DJ Has A Crush On Me

5. What Can I Do

6. If It Doesn't Rain

7. Starman (feat. Electric Youth)

8. Lives Together

9. Sundown

10. Don't Be Afraid (feat. Anoraak)

11. Architectured Love (feat. Le Prix)

12. Postscript

*NOTE: Vinyl tracklisting

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April 16, 2013

PHOSPHORESCENT (USA)

Muchacho

Dead Oceans

Phosphorescent Official Site

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1. Sun, Arise! (An Invocation, An Introduction)

2. Song For Zula

3. Ride On/Right On

4. Terror In The Canyons (The Wounded Master)

5. A Charm/A Blade

6. Muchacho's Tune

7. A New Anhedonia

8. The Quotidian Beasts

9. Down To Go

10. Sun's Arising (A Koan, An Exit)

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April 9, 2013

YOUTH LAGOON (USA)

Wondrous Bughouse

Fat Possum

Youth Lagoon Facebook

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1. Through Mind And Back

2. Mute

3. Attic Doctor

4. The Bath

5. Pelican Man

6. Dropla

7. Sleep Paralysis

8. Third Dystopia

9. Raspberry Cane

10. Daisyphobia

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April 2, 2013

AUTRE NE VEUT (USA)

Anxiety

Mexican Summer / Software

Autre Ne Veut Facebook

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1. Play By Play

2. Counting

3. Promises

4. Ego Free Sex Free

5. A Lie

6. Warning

7. Gonna Die

8. Don't Ever Look Back

9. I Wann Dance With Somebody

10. World War

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March 26, 2013

DOLDRUMS (CAN)

Lesser Evil

Arbutus

Doldrums Official Site

Buy here

1. Intro

2. Anomaly

3. She Is The Wave (feat. Guy Dallas)

4. Sunrise

5. Egypt

6. Holographic Sandcastles

7. Singularity Acid Face

8. Live Forever

9. Golden Calf

10. Lost In Everyone

11. Painted Black

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March 19, 2013

BEACH FOSSILS (USA)

Clash The Truth

Captured Tracks

Beach Fossils Facebook

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1. Clash The Truth

2. Generational Synthetic

3. Sleep Apnea

4. Careless

5. Modern Holiday

6. Taking Off

7. Shallow

8. Burn You Down

9. Birthday

10. In Vertigo (feat. Kazu Makino)

11. Brighter

12. Caustic Cross

13. Ascension

14. Crashed Out

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March 12, 2013

MY BLOODY VALENTINE (IRE)

mbv

Self Released

My Bloody Valentine Official Site

Buy here

1. She Found Now

2. Only Tomorrow

3. Who Sees You

4. Is This And Yes

5. If I Am

6. New You

7. In Another Way

8. Nothing Is

9. Wonder 2

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March 5, 2013

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (AUS)

Push The Sky Away

Self Released

Nick Cave Official Site

Buy here

1. We No Who U Are

2. Wide Lovely Eyes

3. Water's Edge

4. Jubilee Street

5. Mermaids

6. We Real Cool

7. Finishing Jubilee Street

8. Higgs Boson Blues

9. Push The Sky Away

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February 26, 2013

DUCKTAILS (USA)

The Flower Lane

Domino

Ducktails Facebook

Buy here

1. Ivy Covered House

2. The Flower Lane

3. Under Cover

4. Timothy Shy

5. Planet Phrom

6. Assistant Director

7. Sedan Magic

8. International Date Line

9. Letter Of Intent

10. Academy Avenue

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February 19, 2013

INDIANS (DEN)

Somewhere Else

4AD

Indians Facebook

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1. New

2. Bird

3. I Am Haunted

4. Magic Kids

5. Lips Lips Lips

6. Reality, Sublime

7. Cakelakers

8. La Femme

9. Melt

10. Somewhere Else

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February 12, 2013

SUPERSTAR (AUS)

A Toast To...

Bedroom Suck

Superstar Official Site

Buy here

1. Fine Wine

2. Pastoral Urge

3. Deep Heat

4. Low Glow

5. Soft Urge

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February 5, 2013

OLOF ARNALDS (ICE)

Sudden Elevation

One Little Indian

Ólöf Arnalds Facebook

Buy here

1. German Fields

2. Bright And Still

3. Return Again

4. Treat Her Kindly

5. Call It What You Want

6. A Little Grim

7. Fear Less

8. Numbers And Names

9. Sudden Elevation

10. The Joke

11. Onwards And Upwards

12. Perfect

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TOP 30 PLAYER

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THE TOP TEN

1. Get Lucky (feat. Pharrell
Daft Punk (FRA)

2. Pathos Y Lagrimas
Mood Rings (USA)

3. Gun
Chvrches (SCO)

4. Echeance
Police Des Moeurs (CAN)

5. Sea Of Love
The National (USA)

6. Ya Hey
Vampire Weekend (USA)

7. Heartbreaks + Setbacks
Thundercat (USA)

8. Overgrown
James Blake (ENG)

9. The Hardest Part
Kisses (USA)

10. Mobile Homes
Banana Beach (SWE)

FULL CHART CLICK HERE

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ON THE TURNTABLE

Dirty Beaches (USA) - Drifters/Love Is The Devil (Zoo Music)

Deerhunter (USA) - Monomania (4AD)

Daft Punk (FRA) - Random Access Memories

Vampire Weekend (USA) - Modern Vampires Of The City (XL)

ADULT. (USA) - The Way Things Fall (Ghostly International)

Small Black (USA) - Limits Of Desire (Jagjaguwar)

Camera Obscura (SCO) - Desire Lines (4AD)

The National (USA) - Trouble Will Find Me (4AD)

Boards of Canada (SCO) - Tomorrow's Harvest (Warp)

Disclosure (ENG) - Settle (PMR)

Savages (ENG) - Silence Yourself (Matador)

Saturday Looks Good To Me (USA) - One Kiss Ends It All (Polyvinyl)

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CONTACT US

ARTIST OR LABEL?

If you are an independent artist or record label or a promotional or management company that represents an independent artist please feel free to send us updates about forthcoming news, releases, events. Digital audio samples of single tracks or albums are welcome and there is no need to fear any negative press about what you send. Quite simply, if we like what we hear we will feature it, if we don't we won't.

DISCLAIMER

All media on Indie30 is for sampling purposes only. If you like what you hear we implore you to purchase the said album and support the artist concerned. If you are an artist or label who wants something removed please contact us asap and we will remove it.

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