Umbra Group builds editorial outlets, fan communities, and platforms for people who take music seriously. An independent music media company with reach across continents, languages, and formats.
Think of Umbra Group as the independent music equivalent of a Condé Nast — an umbrella brand with multiple distinct properties serving different parts of the same cultural world.
Each property has its own identity, audience, and format. What they share: an uncompromising editorial standard, a fan-first perspective, and the belief that independent music deserves serious media.
Editorial. Long-form music journalism in Spanish that treats indie and alternative music as seriously as it deserves. Reviews, news, retrospectives.
Community. Fan-driven spaces where the audience is the protagonist — not a passive consumer, but an active participant in the culture.
Platform. Infrastructure for fan communities to exist on their own terms, without depending on fragmented social networks.
Connection. Music as the medium for finding people, not just songs. Discovery that's human first.
Running since 2012, Indietheka is an independent editorial outlet covering indie and alternative music in Spanish — reviews, news, and weekly playlists. The longest-running property in the group.
An English-language Instagram fan community with 281K followers. Curated content, deep archival knowledge, and a space for Radiohead's global audience — independent of any label or management.
Fans build communities around artists — called Orbits — without needing permission. A digital home for music fan communities, built as an alternative to fragmented Discord servers and Reddit threads. You don't need permission.
An automated press & promotion bureau for independent artists. Transit generates the press kit, media pitches, playlist outreach, and social content — fully bilingual — in under an hour.
A consulting studio that rebuilds high-friction workflows with intelligence at the core — humans above the loop, governance you can trust. Every pattern we sell is stress-tested on our own portfolio first.
"Umbra Group is an independent music media company. We build editorial outlets, communities, and platforms for people who take music seriously — in whatever language, on whatever platform, at whatever scale."
Indietheka has been the definitive Spanish-language indie music outlet since June 2012.
The largest independent Radiohead fan community online, on Instagram.
Orbit hosts fan communities for Radiohead, Billie Eilish, Arcade Fire, and more.
Umbra Studio rebuilds workflows with intelligence at the core. Discovery → Redesign → Build → Handoff. A working system, not a slide deck.
Transit automates press & promotion for independent artists — bilingual, from intake to live dashboard, in under an hour.
Color tokens, typography, property accents, and full design system documentation for Umbra Group and all sub-brands.
Refined crescent mark in gold gradient. Current preferred direction. Shown at multiple scales with light and dark backgrounds.
Earlier explorations of the crescent mark — centered, orbiting ring, and horizontal lockup variants for comparison.
1080×1080px profile picture export. Crescent mark optimized for small-size rendering on social platforms.
Strategic proposal introducing TAKE, Catalog, and Pressed as candidate new properties with color systems and positioning directions.
For press coverage, partnership opportunities, advertising across our properties, or general inquiries about the group and its work, reach out directly.
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