Indie and alt-pop songs
Indie music licensing, one-stop
Sonomore offers indie music licensing for ads, film, TV and online video: vocal, artist-driven indie and alt-pop songs with real hooks. Every song is one-stop, with master and publishing controlled in-house, and instrumentals and stems are available on request.
Why indie
Alternative pop songs for licensing, without the clearance chase
Independent songs give picture something that’s hard to fake: a point of view. Audiences hear the difference between a song an artist needed to write and a track built to fill a gap, and brands and productions use that to feel less like advertising and more like culture.
The catch has always been clearance. Independent releases often have rights spread across a label, a distributor, publishers and co-writers, and every one of them has to agree. It’s a common reason good indie songs get dropped from a cut late in the process.
Our indie and alt-pop catalog is built the other way round. The songs are one-stop: master and publishing are controlled in-house, so licensing a song takes one agreement with one company.
Songs in ads
Indie music for commercials, and vocal songs for ads
A vocal song can carry a campaign on its own, or it can sit under a voiceover once the lyric has made its point. Because instrumentals and stems are available, your editor can run the vocal where it helps and drop it where the script needs room, inside the same license.
Indie songs also work for brands that want to feel discovered rather than produced: lifestyle and fashion, tech launches and social-first campaigns. If you’re briefing an ad, see our music for commercials. For scenes and series, see music licensing for film and TV.
One-stop
Why one-stop matters for indie songs
With a typical indie release, the recording and the song can belong to different people, and one missing signature can stop a placement. One-stop songs remove that step: the rights are already in one place.
For you that means one quote, one agreement and an answer you can plan around, even when the edit is still moving.
What you get
What you get
One license, and the versions you need to make the song work in the cut.
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One agreement
Master and sync rights in a single license, from one company.
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WAV files
Full-quality WAV files of the final mix, ready for the online edit.
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Broadcast‑ready mixes
Produced, mixed and mastered to broadcast standard.
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Instrumental
The track without vocals, for dialogue and voiceover.
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Stems
Separate parts so your editor can rebuild hits, lifts and endings.
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Cutdowns
Edits to common spot lengths, on request.
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Alt mixes
Ask about alternative mixes for the track you have in mind.
FAQ
Indie music licensing: questions
What buyers ask before licensing an indie song.
What does one-stop mean?
One-stop means a single company controls both rights you need to put a recording to picture: the master (the recording itself) and the publishing (the composition). Sonomore controls both in-house for the music we license, so one agreement and one point of contact clear the track. There is no separate label or publisher to chase, which keeps clearance quick and predictable.
Are the indie and alt-pop songs one-stop?
Yes. Master and publishing are controlled in-house, so a single agreement clears the song for sync. You deal with one contact from first listen to delivery.
Can we get an instrumental version of a song?
Yes. Instrumentals are available on request, along with stems, so you can run the vocal where it helps the scene and drop it under dialogue or a voiceover.