Hi Glenn,
thanks for that long answer and I hope that in the near future there will be scores on the Genre API available :) Also for explaining the clustering stuff that leads to genres.
Coming back to the original topic, while it is understandable that Indie means something different in every place, I think there must probably be also some general sense of what a genre like e.g. pop or rock or maybe even indie means to users from around the world.
Even though I love that Echonest has soo much data and the clustering seems awesome I'm wondering if every cluster should be a genre. I'm not really talking about merging them, but more about exposing some (sub-)genres only via combination of genre and city (as there is already also an API for artist location) and for the main-genre only return songs from all over the world.
Another question: Could you explain what the difference between Style & Genre is? Because some names are in both Genre & Style?
Stefan