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Indie Rock Music tracks can fill a lot of needs. Sports, commercials, trailers, home videos, bumpers/stingers - all these and more are great uses for these tracks. Use SmartSound’s Royalty-Free Music Search for "indie rock" and almost 80 pages of tracks come up. Here are some highlights:

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SmartSound’s extensive list of Energetic Rock Music will pump up the energy on your videos, games and movies, drawing your audience into the excitement and energy you want to build up - whether for critical moments or to set the tone for an entire scene.

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Music has a strange way of being able to get you into different moods for different times in your life. Many associate rock music with being able to get you in a mood to be motivated, to achieve something great. SmartSound has a diverse array of songs to do just that for your production. Here are some examples to help get you started...

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Everyone knows the scene: You’re driving along a long, open highway with your convertible top down and the wind whipping through your hair. What’s missing? A ripping, roaring rock song track is. It portrays liberation and progress like only the open road can. SmartSound has a large variation of rock songs that are perfect for driving occasions. Here are just a few tunes to get you started in the right direction:

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If you’re filling out the soundtrack of a youth- or angst-oriented picture, the jagged edge of alternative rock makes a perfect sonic complement.

SmartSound Royalty Free Music provides both no-budget newbies and cost-conscious professional filmmakers with a wide range of options across all genres.

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Indie Pop lets you reach the final plateau with driving, competitive, The Extra Mile. Sports footage is a natural venue for this track, but it could also follow a hero’s journey in a TV/Film production. Studio orchestra highlighted by clear tones from a bell-like percussion instrument, and piano keep the story flowing in a positive direction.

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Royalty Free Pop Rock Music from SmartSound brings out the lively side of rock music. Upbeat and musical, these selections never get too heavy, but they do sometimes convey the bittersweet facets of life. Rock/Pop laced with an Indie flavor rolls out Shoreline from Bright Side. With a relaxed, friendly beat and melody that seem to go on forever, this track makes a great backup for a montage of going-places scenes. The beach bum has grown up, and turned that ability to patiently wait for the perfect wave into a positive benefit in the working world. Also a nice backdrop for motivating commercials.

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What violins are to orchestral music, electric guitar is to rock and pop; SmartSound’s selections of Electric Guitar Royalty Free Rock Music number in the 100’s. From faithful underpinnings of rhythm and melody, to taking the lead with energy and emotion, the versatility of electric guitar in adding the right up-to-minute feel for your video production is unparalleled.

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Enjoy the earthy energy of Classic Rock Royalty Free Music from SmartSound’s extensive library. There’s enough high-octane vibe to populate a year’s worth of on-screen concerts, or films that move just like one. Whether the Boomers are getting together for an ensemble weekend, or the animated feature is teaching a fun, lunatic lesson, classic rock sets the tone.

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Royalty Free Hard Rock Music from SmartSound bristles with intense masculine energy; hard-driving, hard-core; a few less-intense moments thrown in lighten the mood for a moment before barreling on.

That intensity never lets up in raucous, hard-hitting Smother Me from Core Beyond. Variations like Grunge, Suffocate, and Relentless tell the story of the ferocity that lies within. Use this slammin track for Video Game terror, and Film Traileraction portending a v. powerful movie opening just a few ominous months hence!

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More than 40 albums fill the Royalty-Free Rock, Hip Hop and R&B section. From heavy metal, to hip hop, to R&B the SmartSound selection of Royalty Free Rock Music will have what your looking for. Our musicians have helped define the sound of many world renowned artists. Guitarist Bob Mann recorded, toured with, and arranged for a wide array of rock icons including Rod Stewart, Diana Ross, Steve Tyrell, Celine Dion, James Taylor, Barbra Streisand, Gladys Knight, and others. Josquin des Pres shared credits include Jack Johnson, Gypsy Kings, Spencer Davis, Charlie Daniels, Bernie Taupin, Billy Sheehan and Peter Frampton. Whether you’re producing an Indie film, sports film, product video, or you just want to spice up your on-hold music with something guaranteed to keep your callers from falling asleep on the line, this category has something soulful for you.

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Pop Rock for the 21^st century takes in even more ground than during its birth centur(ies)—Indie music has formalized a mid-ground reaction to Heavy Metal and super-sweet teeny-bop, and ballads continue unabated with synthesizer and electronica embellishments. Count on SmartSound’s Pop Rock selections to add whatever piquant note you need for video projects ranging from TV/Film dramas to offbeat Commercials to a more transparent style of Corporate videos.

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Certain occasions call for no less than the hardest rock you can find! Create an intense and edgy mood in your scene or video production with the angry and extreme power of SmartSound's royalty free heavy metal.

At SmartSound, we’ve created a vast library of royalty free music for all your soundtrack needs. As part of our complete collection of popular genres, we offer numerous albums that highlight hard rock and heavy metal.

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