Indie Music Universe

LABEL LAUNCH EVENTS AT SXSW TO INCLUDE PERFORMANCES BY THEIR ALL-TEXAS ROSTER

LOS LONELY BOYS, GARY CLARK JR., THE STEPS AND MORE

March 11, 2009 (Austin, TX) – One of the greatest music cities in the USA is going to be home for a new independent record label called Playing in Traffic that officially launches this month at the SXSW Music Festival.  The Austin-based label, helmed by longtime Texas music executive Kevin Wommack and partner Whitaker Elledge, is a new division of Loophole Entertainment, the management company founded in 1984 that represents the GRAMMY-winning Los Lonely Boys among other new and notable Austin artists.  Playing in Traffic will now be the independent label home for Loophole artists Los Lonely Boys, Gary Clark, Jr., The Steps, Sahara Smith and Speak, with all releases distributed by RED Music.

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Looking to find an indie music scene near you? Well look no further. Wikipedia has compiled a great list of cities by region across the US, UK, Europe, and Australia that have popular indie music scenes.

Indie music scenes are localized, independent, music-oriented communities that exist in many countries, especially in the USA, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. These have existed for decades now, in one way or another, but it is now commonplace for a city or town to have a punk scene, a metal scene, or many other scenes based on other forms of art. Indie music scenes became important in the early 1980s, when the rest of the country caught up with punk rock music from New York and London. Scenes are important in keeping indie and punk rock fresh and inventive, because it allows people from a wide audience to hear new independent music and contribute their own talents to it. Obviously, depending on what town one is in, the feel of the scene (and therefore the music that comes out of it) may change significantly.

For the full list of scenes, plus some of the more popular artists and groups involved, go to Wikipedia

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