The 2025 Inhailer Indie 500: What independent music/broadcast looks like in the streaming era
The Inhailer 2025 Indie 500 took place this past Memorial Day Weekend, and as usual I have some thoughts on how the composition of this year’s countdown reflects the contemporary status of modern rock/alt/indie/etc. The 2025 chart made a very…
My AMS Lecture at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: “What Is the Modern Rock 500?”
In September 2024 I was honored to give a lecture at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of the American Musicological Society’s lecture series. It was about the 36-year-old institution that’s the Modern Rock (now Indie) 500….
The 2025 Indie 500
In 1989 modern rock radio station WOXY started its annual countdown of the 500 best modern rock songs in its library. This tradition continues at Cincinnati’s independent internet radio station Inhailer with the 2025 Indie 500. The week leading up…
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