This article may contain material not appropriate for an encyclopedia. Please discuss this issue on the talk page. (October 2009)

This article has multiple issues. Please help improve the article or discuss these issues on the talk page. It may need copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone or spelling. Tagged since June 2009. It may require general cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. Tagged since June 2009.

An independent music scene is a localized, independent, music-oriented community. It is commonplace for a city or town to have a hip hop scene, a techno scene, a punk scene, a hardcore scene, an indie scene, a metal scene, or many other scenes based on other music genres.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Australia and New Zealand

[edit] Australia

• Sydney: While the independent music scene in Sydney was once second only to Melbourne's, it has suffered from a lack of suitable venues for the last decade or so. Many pubs and clubs are alleged to have found it more profitable to offer gambling machines rather than live music, but a complex and live-music-hostile regulatory environment has also contributed.^[1]

[edit] New Zealand

• Auckland: Auckland is the headquarters of orchestral pop taste-makers Lil' Chief Records.^[2] Once associated with indie-by-name-only The Mint Chicks and Cut Off Your Hands. Other indie related artists: Liam Finn, Betchadupa, The Veils.

This section requires expansion.

[edit] North America

• Los Angeles, California: The Los Angeles indie scene rides the wave through neighborhoods like Koreatown, Los Feliz, Silverlake, and Echo Park, which have given rise to such bands and artists as Elliott Smith, Moving Units, Rilo Kiley, Earlimart, Autolux, Scarling. and Giant Drag.^[3][4].

[edit] Notes