Not affiliated with a major company (5)

I believe the answer is:

indie

(Other definitions for indie that I've seen before include "Not a mainstream group" , "Specialist record company" , "(Pop group) not affiliated with a major record company" , "Non-mainstream record label" , "Non-affiliated record label or pop group (colloq.)" .)

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