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Here is another interview in which I also talk a bit about my own music:

Randy AKA Lime Bar - Building IndieBeat TV and Making Federated Music - The Lorenzo’s Music Podcast

Experimental art rock band creating open-source music.

Lorenzo’s Music (www.lorenzosmusic.com)

I did a couple of interviews to help promote the channel. If you want to know more about how this came about and how it is going (at the time):

E70: Synth Sessions with Lime Bar – Behind The Indie Beat TV - Livestream 2026-01-23

https://mastodon.social/users/limebar https://tv.theindiebeat.fm/ https://tv.gravitons.org/w/vwR6dLps9wR5DEXXDNtQ9R https://nham.co.uk/attend/

Tube Free (tubefree.org)

First three videos in Animation Array starting at Sun, Dec 28, 2025 2:35 PM UTC were:

Roland - https://vimeo.com/user8856161

Scragland Waterpark

Senneman - Knock knock knock - https://buymeacoffee.com/senneman

First three tracks in Pop hour starting Sun, Dec 28, 2025 2:04 PM UTC were:

sideSister - Heaven on Earth - https://sidesister.bandcamp.com/

divaSwitch - Hair Shirt - https://www.youtube.com/@divaSwitchMusic

Slightly Smiling - Being Reedit - https://slightlysmiling.bandcamp.com/

First three tracks in Rock hour starting Sun, Dec 28, 2025 1:33 PM UTC were:

The Schoolgirls - Cats & Dogs - https://theschoolgirls.bandcamp.com

Me In The Bath - Somebody Else Still Looking At You - https://meinthebath.com

Billy Cheesesteak - Pizza Boy - https://bandwagon.fm/@billycheesesteak

First three tracks in Electronic hour starting Sun, Dec28, 2025 1:04 PM UTC were:

The Midnight Detective Club - Beacon Lights - https://bandwagon.fm/@ashnoodle

Lime Bar - Assignment: Understood (Summer Bonkmix) - https://limebar.bandcamp.com

Brontis - Off-World Harmony Supplies - https://boyscoutaudio.bandcamp.com/album/take-me-seriously

The first tracks played on TIBtv after Roberta Fidora's incredible launch video (see above) on Sun, Dec 28, 2025 12:10 PM UTC during the first NHAM hour were:

The Bonkwave Heresy - Rebirth - https://key13.uk (rebirth? how fitting?!)

Summer of Sam & sknob - Better Than That - http://sknam.nham.co.uk

Meljoann - Trophy Wife - https://meljoann.com

Curxes - Further Still - https://robertafidora.com

bgm - BABY - https://fromabasement.com

All randomly selected. Perfect!

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If you know anyone doing original animation please encourage them to submit!

Roberta Fidora - Animation Array

Animation Array. Roberta Fidora, an alternative, experimental, indie artist from Ryde, Isle of Wight

(robertafidora.com)

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If you have a new audio release, let us help promote it on air, no video required!

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Online magazine-style platform aiming to help draw connections between indie musicians, fair distribution platforms and listeners, under a shared ethos.

NHAM (nham.co.uk)

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If you want to watch in other ways, like on a big beautiful HDTV using Roku, Jellyfin, Chromecast, Apple TV, Airplay, VLC for FireTV, Google TV, Kodi, LG and Samsung TVs:

Ways To Watch The Indie Beat Television

Online magazine-style platform aiming to help draw connections between indie musicians, fair distribution platforms and listeners, under a shared ethos.

NHAM (nham.co.uk)

If you want to submit original animations, music videos, station identifications (audio or video), interstitial experimental shorts (eye candy), indie promos, etc. you can at

The Indie Beat TV – The Indie Beat Radio

(theindiebeat.fm)

On launch day, Dec 28th, we planned three events starting at 12:00 UTC and spaced 8 hours apart. We expected maybe 30 viewers and chat to stay open for 1hr each time.

Instead, we had over a hundred viewers repeatedly through the day who stayed for hours and hours.

If you missed the launch video, run straight over to watch it! Made by @RobertaFidora you may recognize it as an homage to something or other:

The Indie Beat TV - Launch Day Animation and Preview

A video created for The Indie Beat TV's launch day on 28/12/2025, mimicking the opening minutes of early MTV with paper cut-style animation and showing upcoming segments on the channel. Watch the 2...

gravitons (tv.gravitons.org)

If you are the sort that likes to scrobble your music listening habits, we have #webscrobbler support for the Radio and coming soon, TV

#PanoScrobbler works as well on Android.

Scrobble Baby!

Online magazine-style platform aiming to help draw connections between indie musicians, fair distribution platforms and listeners, under a shared ethos.

NHAM (nham.co.uk)

And of course you can find everything on the web as well:

The music video channel:
https://tv.theindiebeat.fm/

The radio stations and info:
https://theindiebeat.fm/

The live owncast:
https://live.theindiebeat.fm/

And you can follow along on the fediverse, here is a list of fedi handles to follow:

@TIBtv (tv)
@indiebeat (site)
@streamer (live)

If you want to see tracks that just played on the radio or TV you can see those here:
@tibrnowplayingbot (radio)
@tibtvnowplayingbot (tv)

But of course you can listen in almost all #internetRadio apps, big incomplete list here:
https://www.radio-browser.info/users

And a few other ways
https://theindiebeat.fm/resources/

Because I had made the Radio Free Fedi #Roku app and was sad when RFF shut down in Dec 2024, I contacted Kirsten and asked if it would be OK for me to make an app for #TIBr and she said, yes! I was back in business listening to music on my entertainment center from my couch in the living room.

To install the app, search "Indie Beat" on the device or go here and install it on your account on the web:

Roku

The Indie Beat Radio federates with Bandwagon.fm to amplify its music artists who’ve opted-in to distribution. We also play music in the public domain. Listen. Mix. Share.

Roku (channelstore.roku.com)

Other free roku apps here:
https://limebar.github.io/roku/

#TIBr radio launched Jan 2025 and #TIBtv launched Dec 28 2025

All hosted by @mizkirsten

I took notice when #bandwagon (at https://bandwagon.fm) announced in early 2025 that they would integrated with #TheIndieBeat and allow artists to check a box when uploading music that would distribute the music to the radio station for airplay! How cool is that? Federation for the win!

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I'm going to turn this into a pinned post thread for all things #TheIndieBeat

That's The Indie Beat Television or #TIBtv at https://tv.theindiebeat.fm

And of course The Indie Beat Radio or #TIBr at https://theindiebeat.fm

#indieMusic #music #indie #musicVideo #indieMusicVideo