I have been generally just looking through year end lists of the best new music for the year and spending the next few months going through that, but I feel there may be a better way.
do you use rateyourmusic?
YouTube Music’s recommendation algorithm
Rate your music mostly, just look for genres you like and you’ll find some good stuff
This is going to sound really weird but…Eurovision. Obviously it’s not all (or even majority) “indie” but there’s always a fair bit and I enjoy being exposed to music from other cultures.
For example this year’s major find are a Finnish band called Kuumaa, who Google insist on classifying as “pop” but never mind. Particularly their song from the Finnish national selection this year “Ylivoimainen”. Shoutout to Sudden Lights from Latvia and Joker Out from Slovenia this year too.
I’m old school. I’m still browsing music blogs and independent radio stations like KEXP and WFMU.
this site is very useful: music-map.com
it lets you type in a name of the artist you already like, and then shows you a bunch of others you might like
