Scour the depths of band camp. There are plenty of excellent, unpublished, unsigned bands that may have the exact vibe you’re looking for that would love to accept a modest fee for their music rights.
Many of us on bandcamp use the CC license. It's free, just credit us somewhere. At least I do. My stuff is pay what you want. $0 is an option. Yay you own it now. It does have a license. If you use it commercially, you must credit my artist name.
For the 2 short films I ever edited, I used YouTube audio library.
May be a free/ creative commons musical platform like Jamendo is stll around. Haven't checked for a while
Jamendo is definitely still around, and there has always been plenty of music made as a score there
I kind of like Premiumbeat.com because you can just buy tracks and don't have to subscribe, though they also lean pretty heavily in to corporate too but then they have so much stuff that you still have good odds of finding something that will work. Audio Network is very good and I think have some of the best tools for narrowing search results that I've used, that said though, like all libraries it's incredibly frustrating because just nothing really fits and you can waste hours even days and might still find nothing. AudioNetwork often seems to lean in to bigger, cinematic sounds and it's hard to get subtle stuff, they are good to work with on really big projects because they have people who can help you find stuff.
I’ll look into AudioNetwork, it might come in handy for bigger stuff.
I'll vouch for AudioNetwork also. I've used them in the past, and thought the library was good.
I’m sure you can find something on YouTube, plenty are copyright royalty free
Bandcamp, search for the tag "Library Music".
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