Top Indie Music Websites (100% Legal, DRM-free Downloads)
What is indie music? Basically, indie music (from independent) refers to the music that is independent from the commercial music industry and usually associated with autonomous, label-free artists/bands. Below you’ll find some of coolest indie music repositories on the web.
(1) iJigg
iJigg is a community where independent artists post their tracks for iJigg users to rate them. Top rated tracks appear on the front page. Users can easily play tracks, share them with friends, embed tracks elsewhere (i.e. Myspace), create playlists and in many cases download them.
(2) Jamendo
Slightly different in nature but no less of a cool community for indie fans. Hosts over 2500 free to download music albums and provides a bunch of handy additional features, i.e.
- comprehensive Tag cloud, where each tag functions like dynamic playlist
- targeted RSS feeds (albums of the months, latest releases, genre specific…)
(3) Stage.fm
Based on the Alexa website popularity stats, Stage.fm seem to fall behind when compared to iJigg and Jamendo. Nonetheless, it’s the only listed service that provides its users with an option to search for free indie tracks that are similar to popular big-name tunes. For instance, searching for ‘Red Hot Chili Peppers’ brings up all indie tracks that are similar to RHCP tracks.
(4) AmieStreet
‘…independent music (DRM-free) download website. All songs on AmieStreet start FREE and can rise upto 98 cents depending on how much the community likes it.’
To quickly navigate to those community-admired 98 cents tracks, just jump to the category of your choice and switch to “Buzzing-All Time” view. On the other hand, switching to the ‘latest’ view will bring all those yet to-be-rated tracks which for the time being can be downloaded for free.




I have no idea the number of times I’ve got confused between Indie Music and Indie Rock…
Nice list of sites.
if you are so confused just read it ya big dumbass!
same here… I was quite confused myself. I thought indie was some kind of style
I have a massive directory of Music 2.0 sites including lots of indie stores with DRM free downloads - http://rocketsurgeon.squarespace.com
@Jadam
Thanks. You got lots of cool apps over there.
I like http://www.stereosubversion.com a new site featuring many Indie bands, free downloads, feature interviews and more. Really intelligent reviews, too.
@Lindsay
Thanks for the link, I will check it out shortly.
If I may add, I have just launched a free music community for indie musicians and fans, focusing mainly on videos & mp3s. If you’re looking for another free promotional outlet, you may want to check it out:
http://www.jamphetamines.com/
Also there are Amazon could download DRM free music.
Here I found a good tool could help you remove DRM to enjoy your download music as you want.
http://www.wmatomp3-converter.com/digital-music-converter.html
Try http://www.sixtysecondhero.com it’s really cool and totally free.
Here is a really great indie music site.
http://www.sixtysecondhero.com
As a musician for 40 years, and a writer for newspapers and for Web sites, I find several of the mentioned sites very good. You may also want to try Indie Update.
The site http://www.intomusic.co.uk is a great site for free music downloads and some paid for tracks from indie artists.
dmusic.com is a good site for idie artist too
I prefer http://www.heavemedia.com they have an awesome media player, cover awesome bands that you probably won’t hear anywhere else (as well as some more popular bands too) and they have really well done videos. I think they are pretty new though because it seems like they could update more.