By Kirk Carlson — Copyright © 2025. All Rights Reserved. In 2006, long before social media transformed the way we discover and promote music, there was a raw creative world pulsing beneath the surface — the indie scene. It was loud, unpolished, unapologetic, and full of artists who didn’t wait for permission to express themselves. For anyone who lived it, captured it, or stood backstage holding a camera the way I did, it was a defining era. But beyond the music, 2006 indie cu