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Indie Rock

246 tracks by 73 artists, spanning 1980–2025 — every one chosen and shelved by a person, not a model. This page is the room’s indie rock shelf, counted honestly.

246tracks
73artists
1980–2025years covered
5%placed by a hand

13 of 246 tracks placed by a hand on the room’s four dials · 233 still waiting — a genre default, a placeholder, or a reading estimated from the record rather than taken from it

Where this shelf sits

Moodbright
blueelated
Energyunhurried
barely movingdriving
Densitybalanced
one instrumentwall of sound
Head · Bodyboth at once
all headall body

The mean of the 13 tracks on this shelf a person has actually placed. The other 233 are excluded: genre defaults and placeholders nobody has listened to yet, and records placed from knowing them rather than from hearing this pressing. An estimate may inform a choice; it may never render as a measurement, and a dial is a measurement.

Across time

1980
1990
2000
2010
2020

Heaviest in the 2000s — 112 of 237 dated tracks.

The biggest shelves

Where this shelf plays

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hand-curated by zubair jeewanjee · no algorithm

Counts computed from the room’s own catalogue on 2026-10-06. Tracks that arrived carrying this genre’s default settings are counted here but held out of the room’s maps until somebody listens — a placeholder is not a placement. — Zubair Jeewanjee · zubair.jeewanjee@gmail.com