Indie rock band Tearjerker is a band to watch in 2021. Photo by X.D. Aniel
We are late to get the first couple of 2021 Top 10 Indie Songs playlists together – mostly to pick the best indie songs from a flood of solid singles and albums dropped in the first couple of months of the new year.
The IRC team is glad that we took extra time to really whittle down hundreds of indie rock songs to come out with only the best of the best.
There is also a fair amount of tracks that we classify as more alternative rock than indie rock. You can probably figure out which are which – but to us, they are closely-aligned genres in many ways.
This Top 10 playlist is filled with powerful, intriguing, different, and must-hear indie songs and bands – some of which will be familiar and others new to many of you. We are really excited to share these top indie songs of 2021 in the playlist below.
*February and March 2021 Top 10 Indie Songs playlists are coming out this week! Please share and like.
January 2021 Top 10 Indie Songs
By the way, we have a ton of interesting playlists on Spotify, but we prefer not to point you there. Spotify is not fair to artists and bands so we don’t encourage using it.
Plus, it’s a pain in the ass as a free user, and not too much better as a paid user. We are Soundcloud, YouTube, and Bandcamp fans here – the platforms that are good for and to independent musicians and bands.
Just click once and let it roll through all ten tracks uninterrupted and commercial-free. Below you’ll hear fresh tracks from bands (including indie bands that are now, for all intent nad purposes, mainstream indie) like Grouplove, Tearjerker, PEEL, and Wilderado as well as tunes from lesser-known and DIY artists and bands like Alex Walton, O Cerne, Sonar Red, Jimso Slim, NXTIME, and Up! Way Up! Enjoy and please like and share. We appreciate you.
Stream commercial-free from 12 Top 10 2020 Indie Songs playlists – gooood stuff.
