# Top 10 DIY Songs, Jan. 2022 – No Suits in Miami, Darksoft, Marquee Sullivan, 8Bit Wizrd &more

- Link: https://indierockcafe.com/2022/02/top-10-diy-songs-jan-2022/
- Published: 2022-02-15T15:26:50-05:00
- Author: IRC Staff

More than ever, the choices of music are overwhelming.

Therefore, keeping focused is important. And yet, it used to be, say a decade ago,
easier to focus on the ‘indie rock’ craze (which began to wane right about 2012 
for whatever reason; proof is this keyword search chart from Google Trends) and 
a few dozen popular artists and bands.

But nowadays there are too many fking good artists and bands. And with fewer people
going to blogs (you guys turned on us – sniff sniffle) to find new music and bands,
there are fewer truly independent music indie blogs (like yours truly); many have
closed shop or stop posting.

_ The advent of ad-blockers also helped put a big nail into the blogger world, as
did the continued corporate take-over of the web (yes, you too Google – replacing
so many naturally earned search positions by regular folks with all of your own 
content – hugely impacting blogger’s visibility and thus traffic.)_

One of the things that will never fade out for us is putting the spotlight on talented,
rising DIY indie artists and bands. The fact is that there is way too much good 
music out there. A possible hit record (if radio played diy music – yeah right);
a genius young songwriter; a breakthrough album; a hot new band on a tear, etc.,
already exist with more to come.

SO, let’s celebrate what we can.

A big asterik to the title of this series would include a note that says ‘the top
10 is based entirely on the music we’ve actually had time to listen to’.

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Let’s face a fact: there is so much damn good music that comes from non-labeled 
artists.

Here are just a few for January’s Top 10 DIY Songs of 2022 releases. In this playlist:
No Suits in Miami; Marquee Sullivan; Darksoft; 8BIT WIZRD; Indigo/Lure Division;
Lucas Stern; Slark Moan; The Lagoons; Cole Loomis and String Machine.

Enjoy and please share.