100 cuts of indie rock, folk, electronica, lo-fi, dreampop, noise rock, and all kinds of genre-bending wonders. Charli XCX I Love It (I Don’t Care) Imagine Dragons Demons Jason Derulo The Other Side Jay-Z feat. Indie music always evolving, searching beyond the mainstream wall, exploring the deep spectrum of creativity, emotion and intelligence. Or maybe you just have found a song that you love and want to share! Or maybe there's a song that you think we may have overlooked? Maybe you have discovered a song that you feel noone else've done? If you find or know of a song that you feel should be on these lists, please share it with me here. And I'd love to see your own indie lists of 2015 shared on this thread. With your help I will keep two list continuously updated - Best New Indie 2015 and Top 100 Indie Songs 2015 (I'll share this list when 100 great indie songs have been released 2015). Do What You Wanna Do takes its name from the line in Maroon 5’s ‘Animals’, which the headlines for it’s ever so stalkerish video. We who love to discover and share great music from the indie scene will keep this going until the end of the year. DJ Earworm is first of the mark with his end of year mash up, while some of us were heading to bed last night, he released 2014’s version of the United State of Pop.
This thread is dedicated to the best of indie music 2015. Pop songs soundtracked Vine in 2015 from 'Why You Always Lying' to 'Hotline Bling.
STAFF EDIT: New thread for 'Best Indie 2016' here.