Upbeat Indie Music for Vlogs and Brands

Just under half are instrumental, and many of the songs appear in both versions, which is the main practical advantage of this collection. Torches' "We're Gone" sits next to "We're Gone - Instrumental", and "Love Of Mine (Instrumental)" and "Let You Down (Instrumental)" by Vic & Gab and "Promise (Instrumental)" by Dynah are labeled the same way. Use the vocal cut for a montage or title sequence and swap to the instrumental under voiceover without changing the feel of the edit.

Electric guitars and percussion up front, with electronic layers, keyboards, claps and stomps and the occasional vocal effect behind them. Indie rock is by far the dominant sub-genre, with a strong new wave and 80s rock streak and some alternative and post rock, and the tracks carry reference tags for Foster the People, Bombay Bicycle Club, Local Natives, Arcade Fire and Phoenix. Expect bright, driving songs rather than lo-fi bedroom indie.

Mostly indie rock, with a pop sensibility. Rock is the leading genre tag by a wide margin and indie rock the leading sub-genre, while pop and pop rock account for a much smaller share. In practice that means guitar-based songs with the happy, exciting and inspiring moods people associate with indie pop background music, but with more drive than a synth-led indie pop playlist would deliver. For softer, keyboard-led indie pop, search the pop genre in the catalog instead.

Tracks average about three minutes and forty-three seconds, so these are full-length songs rather than pre-cut stingers. For a vlog, let a song run under a city or travel montage and duck it for talking segments, using the instrumental version where one exists. For a 15 or 30 second commercial, cut to the intro or a single section and use the instrumental to build a loop; city life, everyday fashion, travel vlog, runway and brands are the most frequent theme tags, so the material is already tagged for exactly those edits.

Vlogs you already published stay licensed after your subscription lapses. Every license issued during a subscription is perpetual for the specific finished work it was attached to, so a travel vlog or brand video published while you were subscribed stays cleared after you stop paying. What ends with the subscription is the ability to license new tracks for new projects. Subscriptions bill monthly or annually, and while active they allow unlimited licensing, including for monetized YouTube, client work, ads and social.