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With all the music streaming services watching your habits and guessing what songs you like, they recommend you mostly big name artists with huge marketing teams behind them that you rarely get to hear any real indipendent music. Lots of small groups of indie artists are banding together to support their music and their fans. This site is a way to get exposure to indie music that is not part of the algorithm. We show what is coming up on live streams from a list of content creators focused on sharing indie music. Take control of your listening and check out whats coming up next.

Its simple. The home page of this website will show any live streams currently playing on our list of curated indie music content creators. If something looks interesting give it a look. Below that is a list of scheduled streams and how long until it goes live. There is a search box on the top left that will perform a simple filter to help you find something specific.
Below the live list is the upcoming list that shows what streams are scheduled and how long till they start. Not every creator posts their streams in advance so you should check back often.
There is no login to use. We do not try to figure out what you like. You are not the product, just browse around and support the indie artists you want.

As a musician/content creator that does live streams about indie music such as Live performances, music video shows, interviews, tools and techniques, or general indie music chat. Send your channel info to the contact at the bottom.
Remember, this is for INDIE music. If you are associated with a major label please use your labels marketing department and leave some room for the little guys here. Thanks.
As a listener/fan check out some new streams. Like and subscribe those that you enjoy.

Alpha Version 1

Hosting Setup (Active)
Find a host to serve up web server and db server
More Scraping (Active)
Video status update routine needs refinement. Youtube api quotas are getting hit. work in improving routine to just necessary videos first with full refresh later. also need to handle private videos, they dont get detected prooerly and stick live. Need admin function to kill steam entry.
Data Collection (Complete)

After trying many ways to collect data, YouTube API is unreliable at stream info

Using a python library that is a little slow but reliable.

Upcoming Shows (Complete)
First release has the minimum features of showing all shows in order of next appearing. Live shows will display in larger area at top. Search filter for title and channel handle searching. Links to the stream video page.
Channel List (Complete)
Provides a simple list of participating channels with a simple search. Links to the channels youtube page.
Feedback Form (On Hold)
Still determining reliable of system and databases. For now use the contact information at bottom of the page