What songs are in the Indie & Alternative quiz?

50 real records, drawn from the same catalogue the Guess The Song app uses, with Imagine Dragons, Billie Eilish and Coldplay among the artists you'll hear. We don't publish the track list — knowing it would be the answer key, and the point is to name the record from the music. The breakdown above shows the years and the difficulty spread instead.

Is the Indie & Alternative quiz free to play?

Yes, and there's no sign-up. Press play and a record starts. You can play as many rounds as you like here; the app adds ranked duels, friends rooms and the harder difficulty tiers.

Indie & Alternative Music Quiz

The records that were nearly hits, and the ones that were. A pool with more range than most: some open on a sound nobody else made, and some make you wait for the chorus.

50 records · free, no sign-up · 30 seconds each

Song 1

Indie & Alternative — 0

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Worth right now

of —

0:00

Nothing heard yet

— cold — at 0:15 — floor

Replaying is free — the price only falls past the furthest point you have heard.

Name the song

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How to play the Indie & Alternative quiz

Press the record and type the title or the artist the moment you have it. Each of the 50 records here is worth the most the instant it starts and less for every second you let run, so the Indie & Alternative quiz is a bet on your own ear: commit early and it pays in full, wait for the chorus and it pays half. The full scoring rules are on the hub.

What’s in the Indie & Alternative quiz

50 playable records, released between 1991 and 2024. We don’t list the tracks — that would be the answer key.

How hard it gets

Band 1 is the most-played tenth of the catalogue. A quiz weighted to the left is one almost everyone can play.

Artists you’ll hear

Imagine Dragons
Billie Eilish
Coldplay
Arctic Monkeys
twenty one pilots
Green Day
Bastille
De La Soul
Fall Out Boy
Foster the People
Glass Animals
Gorillaz
Halsey
Hozier
JID
Lana Del Rey
Lorde
Oasis
Panic! At the Disco
R.E.M
Radiohead
Red Hot Chili Peppers

Questions

What songs are in the Indie & Alternative quiz?: 50 real records, drawn from the same catalogue the Guess The Song app uses, with Imagine Dragons, Billie Eilish and Coldplay among the artists you'll hear. We don't publish the track list — knowing it would be the answer key, and the point is to name the record from the music. The breakdown above shows the years and the difficulty spread instead.
Is the Indie & Alternative quiz free to play?: Yes, and there's no sign-up. Press play and a record starts. You can play as many rounds as you like here; the app adds ranked duels, friends rooms and the harder difficulty tiers.

How the scoring works, what a wrong guess costs and whether you need Apple Music are answered once, on the hub.