You have heard the word “indie” tossed around so often that it has started to mean everything and nothing at once. People throw it at a genre, a vibe, a production style, a whole Pinterest aesthetic.

Short for “independent music,” indie music is a term that was coined in the ’80s to describe music outside of the mainstream and artists not signed to one of the “Big Four” labels—EMI, Sony, Universal ...

Correction: This story has been updated to correctly reflect the games for which Gordon McGladdery hired John Robert Matz to compose. Ben Babbitt created the soundtrack for one of the most critically ...