The Indie Beat Radio Roku App
The Indie Beat Radio Roku App by @limebar
You may be familiar with The Indie Beat – a new internet radio station focused on music made by fediverse musicians and from the public domain. This station was brought to life earlier this year by the fabulous Miz Kirsten (@mizkirsten).
There are many ways to listen:
- Visit the web site.
- Use any of the hundreds of apps and platforms found in this list at Radio-Browser.
- Listen to the NHAM channel directly on this website.
- Listen to the Bonkwave channel directly on the Bonkwave site.
- Listen to the Audio Interface channel directly on the AudioInterface.org site.
- Listen on your desktop in Gnome.
…and if you own a Roku set top box or television with integrated Roku, you can listen through your soundbar or stereo system from the comfort of your sofa using the Roku app.
The app has gotten a visual glow-up for Pride month and supports the brand new Audio Interface channel as well! The Audio Interface channel joins the NHAM and Bonkwave channels with human curated, hand selected material to compliment the other great genre based stations. Community based radio at it’s finest, right here in the fediverse!
More About The Indie Beat
Through the magic of federation, if you are a musician looking to get airplay it is easy to do!
- Sign up for an account at the federated music discovery and distribution site, Bandwagon.
- Upload your album and check the box that says “Distribute to The Indie Beat”.
- Make sure you use the appropriate genre hashtags so that your tracks get airplay on the correct station(s).
For writers and spoken word artists there is a Spoken Word channel as well! If you record the spoken word (whether that be educational, fiction, poetry, podcast or other) you can just as easily get your material on-air! Use the process above and use genre tag ‘SpokenWord’.
The station also hosts live video streams at and in the Roku app — check the site for upcoming events. If you are looking for a place to stream your own live event, this might be it! Contact @mizkirsten to schedule your event. And don’t forget to publish your event on bandwagon.fm and cal.gravitons.org.
And finally check out the TIBR Now Playing bot (@tibrnowplayingbot) to see which tracks are playing. You can discover and connect with new artists this way — let them know you love their music, share your favorite tracks, buy their music, hire them for your projects, or just chat!
