Talossan Music Top Special Edition! 2025 - Category nominations

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Indie rock (not sure exactly how to police this)

I'm assuming we're not talking about the original definition of 'rock music released by independent labels', cause that would be fairly straightforward. Assuming we're talking about the genre of vaguely similar sounding alternative-ish rock music it's a bit trickier, but that is a problem with any genre.

 In the past the solution has been to not really police too much at all and for all edgecases let people decide for themselves what nominations fall within the genre (this can also include not giving points to someone else's nominations because you don't really think it fits the category) and only intervene if people are going far beyond any reasonable understanding of the genre with their picks. That usually works well enough, although I suppose Indie is particularly broad and has various definitions that encompass artists that sound not much alike.

An alternative is go with some pre-defined list like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_indie_rock_musicians, which is fairly comprehensive (although it does still include some artists that I'm not too sure about)