Remezcla https://remezcla.com/tag/indie/ Our Thing Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:53:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://remezcla.com/wp-content/themes/remezcla/assets/images/social/precomposed-144x144.png Remezcla https://remezcla.com/tag/indie/ 144 144 Your Next Favorite Indie Band Is Bogota’s Nicolás y Los Fumadores https://remezcla.com/features/music/your-next-favorite-indie-band-is-bogotas-nicolas-y-los-fumadores/ Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:39:31 +0000 https://remezcla.com/?post_type=re_features&p=482956 It’s 3:00 p.m. on the third day of the 2019 Estéreo Picnic Festival when Nicolás y Los Fumadores arrive to open the Tigo Stage, the event’s largest one. For one of Bogotá’s hottest indie bands at the time, their performance signals that the mainstream industry is finally paying attention to Colombia’s underground scene. Yet the

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]]> Nicolás y Los Fumadores Photo by Paolo Garcia. 10 Best Indie & Alt-Rock Songs of 2024 https://remezcla.com/lists/music/10-best-indie-alt-rock-songs-of-2024/ Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:15:15 +0000 https://remezcla.com/?post_type=re_guides&p=380049 Rock is not, and has never been, dead. It has just come to look— or sound — completely different than what we’ve become familiar with through equated characterizations of more classic era rockstars. But how could we expect stagnation from a genre founded on rebellion and innovation? As Latine music emerges at the forefront of

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]]> Best Indie & alt rock songs of 2024 Art by Stephany Torres for Remezcla. 9 New Indie Songs To Get Into Your Feelings This Valentine’s Day https://remezcla.com/lists/music/9-new-indie-songs-to-get-into-your-feelings-this-valentines-day/ Wed, 14 Feb 2024 17:10:29 +0000 https://remezcla.com/?post_type=re_guides&p=365482 It’s Valentine’s Day, and — to no one’s surprise — we’re deep in our feelings. Hell, after the baby-making nostalgia of this past weekend’s Super Bowl halftime show, how could we not be? But artists across Latin America’s ever-fertile and always-inspiring indie universe are also feeling the body heat, making this a reliable annual source

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]]> Valentine’s Day Art by Stephany Torres for Remezcla. 10 Best Indie & Alt-Rock Songs of 2023 https://remezcla.com/lists/music/best-indie-alt-rock-songs-of-2023/ Wed, 15 Nov 2023 15:01:57 +0000 https://remezcla.com/?post_type=re_guides&p=360936 For the last decade or so, it’s felt like the rock genre quietly slipped into a coma. With the rise and popularity of several different genres and cultural movements, the loud, rebellious, and angsty sound of our youth shifted from the mainstream zeitgeist of the Y2K era into the underbelly of pop culture, particularly in

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]]> HEADER-best-alternative-2023 Art by Stephany Torres for Remezcla The 50 Best Songs of 2022 https://remezcla.com/features/music/best-songs-of-2022/ Wed, 21 Dec 2022 18:24:40 +0000 https://remezcla.com/?post_type=re_features&p=339158 2022 was marked by a myriad of innovative sounds. We’re in an exciting era where artists are not only producing genre-bending collaborations, but also pioneering never-before-heard sounds that are a significant part of this year’s best in music. Take the fresh sounds of Eslabón Armado’s emo regional tracks and DannyLux’s rock-tampered corridos, for example. Gen

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]]> header-EOY-best-of Nuevo Noise: 13 Songs You Need to Hear This Week https://remezcla.com/lists/music/nuevo-noise-13-songs-need-hear-week-7-1-20/ Thu, 02 Jul 2020 20:49:47 +0000 https://local.remezcla.com?post_type=re_guides&p=282414 We are living through an era where more music is available to us than ever – whether it be via social media, streaming or apps. But despite this wealth of options, it can be difficult to cut through the industry hype, the homogenizing algorithms, and find something new and exciting. In our weekly Nuevo Noise

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]]> sow-01-07 Art by Stephany Torres for Renezcla Urbano Street Is Documenting NYC’s Underground https://remezcla.com/features/music/urbano-street-documenting-nyc-underground/ Thu, 02 Jul 2020 14:31:17 +0000 https://local.remezcla.com?post_type=re_features&p=282442 There’s garbage inching into the frame of this sidewalk music video, powered by an extra-long extension cord dropped from the second floor of an apartment. The J/M train is lurching past, making an unmistakable high pitched scream as it grinds to a halt on elevated tracks. Kids run around, dancing in between the musicians set

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]]> Urbano_Street_Music Photo courtesy of Urbano Street Nuevo Noise: 13 Songs You Need to Hear This Week https://remezcla.com/lists/music/nuevo-noise-13-songs-need-hear-week-6-25-20/ Thu, 25 Jun 2020 20:40:36 +0000 https://local.remezcla.com?post_type=re_guides&p=282239 We are living through an era where more music is available to us than ever – whether it be via social media, streaming or apps. But despite this wealth of options, it can be difficult to cut through the industry hype, the homogenizing algorithms, and find something new and exciting. In our weekly Nuevo Noise

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]]> sow-06-25 Art by Stephany Torres for Remezcla 14 Afro-Latinx Artists You Can Support on Bandcamp This Juneteenth https://remezcla.com/lists/music/15-afro-latinx-artists-bandcamp/ Fri, 19 Jun 2020 14:50:07 +0000 https://local.remezcla.com?post_type=re_guides&p=281947 Throughout 2020, Bandcamp has emerged as the undisputed MVP of outreach aimed at independent musicians affected by the Covid-19 crisis. Among tepid responses from music streaming giants, Bandcamp instead opted for relinquishing all sales revenue the first Friday of every month, since March, ensuring the highest possible amount of income reaches the artists that need

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]]> header-juneteenth2-1 Art by Stephany Torres for Remezcla Bandcamp Honors Juneteenth, Donating its Share of Sales to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund https://remezcla.com/music/bandcamp-juneteenth-donates-funds/ Fri, 19 Jun 2020 13:16:14 +0000 https://local.remezcla.com?p=281943 Today is Juneteenth. In recognition and in support of racial justice and progressive change, Bandcamp will allocate 100% of its share of all sales to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund all day—and the streaming platform has pledged to do the same annually. Fans of the streaming platform will remember this isn’t Bandcamp’s first revenue-based fundraiser:

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