The indie music space keeps producing fresh voices and long-running favorites. This list rounds up 39 of the best, including DISGRACELAND, No Dogs in Space, and Song Exploder.
DISGRACELAND
DISGRACELAND is an award-winning music and true crime podcast about musicians getting away with murder and behaving very badly. Jerry Lee Lewis's 5...
No Dogs in Space
No Dogs In Space is a music history podcast featuring Marcus Parks and Carolina Hidalgo of the Last Podcast Network. Season 1 - Punk Season 2 - Alt...
Song Exploder
Song Exploder is a podcast where musicians take apart their songs, and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made. Each episode features ...
Switched on Pop
Listen closer to pop music, and hear how it moves us. Hosted by musicologist Nate Sloan & songwriter Charlie Harding. From Vulture and the Vox Medi...
Tape Notes
Tape Notes is a podcast about the art and craft of music production. Hosted by John Kennedy, each episode reunites an artist and producer to talk a...
All Songs Considered
All Songs Considered is NPR's flagship podcast for new music, artist interviews and friendly banter about the albums and musicians you love. Plus, ...
Strong Songs
Music: it's good. On each episode of Strong Songs, host Kirk Hamilton takes listeners inside a piece of music, breaking it down and figuring out wh...
Indiecast
Indiecast is a weekly show from Amazon Music hosted by music critics Steven Hyden and Ian Cohen. Every week, Hyden and Cohen discuss the biggest ne...
Turned Out A Punk
Damian Abraham has been many things... the singer of a critically acclaimed band, a failed VJ and food network host, one of the minds behind TV'...
Sodajerker On Songwriting
Sodajerker On Songwriting is a programme devoted to the art and craft of songwriting. The show, created and hosted by the UK songwriting team Sodaj...
Sound Opinions
Take two nationally respected rock critics, the latest music news, personal commentary, and exclusive interviews and performances, add a huge pile ...
Live on KEXP
Live on KEXP brings you the very best of KEXP’s world-renowned live in-studio and remote performances. Each week, we’ll bring you a new live sessio...
Maed in India
Whether it’s a shoegaze band from Chandigarh, thrash metal act from Visakhapatnam, rapper from Kashmir, vocal folk quartet from Kohima, Tamil indie...
Women of Substance Music Podcast
Women of Substance Radio is an Award-Wining Podcast featuring the best music by Female Indie Artists and Female-Fronted Indie Bands in all gen...
The 6th Floor Show
The Home of Independent MusicThe 6th Floor Show is a podcast that focuses on independent and unsigned artists from around the world! Hosted by 6th ...
Indieheads Podcast
The Indieheads Podcast is a cluster of shows about indie music, pop music, alternative rock, and whatever other stuff our listeners make us listen ...
Yo. Check This
Presented by Pursuit Of Dopeness, Yo. Check This is a podcast dedicated to celebrating music, live events, culture, and more.The rotating crew of h...
The Jammies - Music Discovery
The Jammies is part music journal, part discovery guide. It’s a space to highlight indie artists, dive into catalogs of music, and help you find so...
Meeting Malkmus - a Pavement podcast
Meeting Malkmus - a Pavement Podcast is an obsessive and exhaustive deep-dive into the songs of the seminal '90s indie rock band Pavement. Work...
The Unstarving Musician
The Unstarving Musician features interviews with independent musicians, songwriters, producers, and music industry professionals who share their ex...
Airplane Mode
We’re all looking to live smarter in a world that won't slow down. So take a deep breath, and listen to Airplane Mode. Each week, host Clay Skipper...
Independent Minded
Independent Minded is a podcast where DIY music professionals, indie artists, and pop culture icons tell their origin stories, talk about inspirati...
Moonshine and Music
Moonshine and Music is a Web Series. We interview Artists, Songwriters, Entertainers and Musicians as well as provide an outlet for live studio per...
Bands You've Never Heard Of
Discover your next favorite indie band right here. We go looking for the best music you never knew about, so all you have to do is let us introduce...
King's Music
ENGLISH VERSION Jürgen König grew up in Berlin. His key experience at the end of the 60s was: first acoustic contact with the Cologne band CAN - an...
Indie Talk
Indie Talk Podcast celebrates independent artists from around the world across all genres, bringing you incredible music beyond the mainstream. Our...
SoundOff
Weekly internet talk radio show about youth empowerment. Featuring young entrepreneurs, non-profits, local artists, current events and community fl...
The Groove Radio
The longest-running mixtape podcast since 2005 — where Suzy Chase curates soul, R&B, and yacht rock playlists through sound.
IndieFeed: Indie Pop Music
One song per episode, Legal. Free. Just the way your want them, plus info about the music and where to get more. Discover many IndieFeed genres and...
Razorcake
A weekly music podcast featuring the best punk music and punk bands in the world. Razorcake is the first and only official non-profit music magazin...
In The Van
Stories from the van and artist interviews.As Jacob and the members of the indie band "Oceanic" tour the country, they recount stories from the roa...
Indie 500 Show
The Indie 500 Show podcast counts up the best independent and unsigned music out there.
How this list is built
Shows are selected from PodSEO topic associations and matched AI recommendations. They are ordered by their average PodSEO score over records dated since seven days ago, with ties ordered by show name. The score combines podcast-platform search visibility, editorial placements, and chart performance, with adjustments for Apple listing status. AI recommendations help identify candidates; their frequency does not determine the order. Each list includes up to 100 shows with an Apple Podcasts ID and updates when regenerated.
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