The Indie Cred Test

The Indie Cred Test is a broadly written and obsessively crafted multi-facted standardized exam, written by the staff at Chunklet Magazine and edited by Henry Owings, meant to pick apart the reader and underground culture in general. What's cool? What's not? Did you pass? Does it matter? Of course – you need to maintain your cred to preserve, well, your cred!

Individual exams dissect readers' bookshelves along with their DVD and record collection. It's not just about the test subject's lifestyle, it's about where they work, who they know, how they spend their free time, what they put in their body, on their body and who they surround themselves with. Indie cred is serious business. And by "serious" we mean, of course, it's "subject to ridicule" the way only Chunklet can serve it - over ice... with a tongue planted in cheek. Or is it?