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Interactive Radio
Spreading independent music

 
Pixie?            



Yes, Pixie. Pixie Radio.

And what is Pixie Radio?

Pixie Radio is an interactive online radio that's totally free and has multiple channels. Each one of them has his own selection of songs.

¿Why do you play INDIE? ¿What is independent music?

For many long years, as we where growing up listening music, we thought those 20 or 30 artists that sounded on the radio and on television were virtually the only ones that existed. But, besides some alienating uses, Internet showed us that a relationship between large multinational labels and the Mass Media was making impossible for us to discover thousands of small bands associated with small labels that never went ahead their local town. It was the net that allowed us to get in touch with a large number of excellent artists. But submerging yourself in this wide world of new musicians is considered almost as a research job, taking effort and time to reach them and distinguish good from bad. This is why we decided to create Pixie Radio that is found in a personal criteria and that presents what we think is the most remarkable bands and soloists of the Indie Rock Scene.

One of the fears we don't want to loose is the fear of something we like becoming a fad. Why is that something that chase us? Those concepts that are almost impossible to define are the ones that we find more interesting. Those vague ideas that, however, when you use them you know exactly what you mean. But when a concept with such qualities is fixated and begins to be used in only one of it's sides, it begins to die a little. It loose all it's richness that allows you to use it in so many ways. And when someone needs something to become a fad, that's what happens. No one can sell something that can't be defined. Indie is, for us, one of those concepts. It's an idea, an attitude, and it's beginning to become a fad. There is an eternal discussion around Indie, trying to define it, as it happened before with punk, and with rock. When someone asks what Indie means, we make that idea our's, and we give our version of it. But for sure we are close of seeing it's caricature, when it begins to become just another way of being cool. And that's when you complain a little, then you laugh a little, and then you start searching again...

In Allmusic: As such, indie rock is free to explore sounds, emotions, and lyrical subjects that don't appeal to large, mainstream audiences — profit isn't as much of a concern as personal taste (though the labels do, after all, want to stay in business). It's very much rooted in the sound and sensibility of American underground and alternative rock of the 80s, albeit with a few differences that account for the changes in underground rock since then. Yet while indie rock definitely shares the punk community's concerns about commercialism, it isn't as particular about whether bands remain independent or "sell out"; the general assumption is that it's virtually impossible to make indie rock's varying musical approaches compatible with mainstream tastes in the first place.