Do you love Indie music but can't seem to find anything but the same top 40 Clearchannel music? Want to find something different? Here are some tips:

[edit] Steps

Metacritic and pitchfork are all you need [Disregard other steps. Waste of time and energy. You want to find the best with the minimum amount of effort do the meta/pitch combo. Hype machine is for slags and slambots.]
Listen to podcasts (which can be listened to on many supported digital music players). There are a lot of great Indie music podcasts like TartanCast, the CBC Radio 3 Podcast, NPRs Open-Mic Music, Morning Becomes Eccletic, Tanfastic Podcast. These podcasts can be found online at these sites: iTunes, iPodder or podcastalley.com.
Listen to online radio stations. You can use these sites to find new artists based on your own personal tastes. College radio stations are also great.
Traditional radio can also prove useful: indie radio stations like XFM or K-ROCK2 usually have future-music shows on late nights.
Read Indie magazines for example Vice, URB, Pound, and NME.
Visit sites online that make the process of finding music easier for example garageband.com which allows independent bands to compete for popularity. Contrastream.com, the Hype Machine (www.hypem.com) and Pandora.com (The Genome Music Project) is also dedicated to helping indie fans find new music. MySpace is also a great way to discover new bands and preview their music.
Visit music blogs like Good Weather For Airstrikes, Pop Candy from USA Today, Stereogum and IndieUpdate. Pitchforkmedia.com IS notoriously pretentious, but can be a great source for indie band reviews and new music.
Ask your friends what they listen to. You may learn about a new artist.
Go to independently-owned record stores. If you like what they are playing, ask them what it is and buy it. Some online record stores also offer reviews of latest releases . You can also just talk to the people who work there and ask what they listen to.
Go to local concerts. Check the paper and figure out what venues near you host live music on a regular basis. At the concerts pay attention to the artists that open for the main act to find new artists who haven't reached wide-spread appeal.

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Realize that it doesn't matter whether something is Indie or not. Just listen to whatever it is you like.
Listen to online stations from other countries. You may discover a band you really love before everyone else does. Just because a song is in another language, doesn't mean you can't appreciate it.
There are many independent music distribution sites out there now where you can stock up on huge amounts of original mp3s for free.
Remember that just because you listen to "indie music" that doesn't necessarily make you "indie". If you really think about it, being indie is almost another form of conformity.

[edit] Warnings

Don't pretend to be into music you don't like just to be a hipster.
Music is a very personal thing, so don't make fun of other people's choices.
Don't be afraid to have a mixture of mainstream and indie music. It's good to have variety!