Pinoy Indie
Pinoy indie is independent music from the Philippines, covering indie rock, indie pop and folk acts who work outside the country's major-label pop system.
Pinoy is an informal word for Filipino. Independent, unsigned acts became much more visible in the 2010s, playing indie rock, indie pop and indie folk. Some, such as Up Dharma Down, formed in Manila in 2004, release their records on small independent labels. The scene sits alongside mainstream OPM, short for Original Pilipino Music, the general term for Filipino pop.
Artists it is known for: Up Dharma Down, Ang Bandang Shirley, Munimuni.
- Family
- Alternative & Indie
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A scene
- From
- Philippines
- Also called
- filipino indie, opm indie
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 2%
About 1,900 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have pinoy indie among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Pinoy Indie artists
Cup of Joe
IV OF SPADES
Ben&Ben
Arthur Nery
Up Dharma Down
December Avenue
Adie
Rob Deniel
fitterkarma
MakiThe pinoy indie artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.