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History: grew out from 60s garage, 70s punk, and 80s post punk it started in the mid 80s as alternative/college radio music. Once Nirvana hit big the alternative genre split: the popular side was just alternative (The Smashing Pumpkins, Hole, No Doubt, etc.) and the other half that wasn’t mainstream (by choice or not) became indie rock (Pavement, Sebadoh, Built to Spill, etc).
Some bands have signed to major labels but are still considered indie (Modest Mouse, etc.). Go figure.
Sound: In the begining indie sounded like alternative (because it was) but it grew more experimental and weird. In Britain indie has more of a typical sound like Radiohead, Muse, etc. rather than a definition based on ‘the scene.’
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indie gigs in United States • view all
| August 2008 | ||
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| Friday 29 August 2008 | ||
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Dave Matthews Band
O.A.R. |
Gorge Amphitheatre George, United States |
12 people attending |
| Saturday 30 August 2008 | ||
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Dave Matthews Band
O.A.R. |
Gorge Amphitheatre George, United States |
8 people attending |
| Sunday 31 August 2008 | ||
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Dave Matthews Band
O.A.R. |
Gorge Amphitheatre George, United States |
5 people attending |
| September 2008 | ||
| Sunday 7 September 2008 | ||
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Ben Folds
Nashville Symphony Orchestra |
Schermerhorn Symphony Center Nashville, United States |
25 people attending |
| Saturday 20 September 2008 | ||
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Treasure Island Music Festival 2008 at Treasure Island
Goldfrapp, Tegan and Sara, Hot Chip, TV on the Radio, The Raconteurs, Justice, Amon Tobin, Okkervil River |
Treasure Island San Francisco, United States |
328 people attending |
| October 2008 | ||
| Thursday 9 October 2008 | ||
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Cat Power
Appaloosa |
Palladium Ballroom Dallas, United States |
40 people attending |
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Comfort_Eagle wrote:
yeah, bathory, best indie band i heart of xD many metal band would be "indie" if you take the original meaning, but this radio pop shit up there is nothing but borring music that makes some mainstream kids feel special^^
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loneparadise wrote:
Tag fail.
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saraa_xx wrote:
eya
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spacerockboy wrote:
If you like indie rock, listen to this song of ukranian indie rock band: http://www.last.fm/music/Esthetic+Education/_/With+You?setlang=en and write me what you think.
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Joostie wrote:
lol
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0k0k0k0 wrote:
tl;dr. short story: Bathory IS indie. arctic monkeys are not. whichever way one puts it.
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imnotathug wrote:
LMAO all shrink style..
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SirAlecHendrix wrote:
3. let's not be fooled by a groups BRANDING (as say coldplay), listen carefully to an artist's music which mostly isn't homogenic at all but comprises different styles and genres. can a track be "indie"?? if you can tell me what the music is, i might believe you :-) otherwise you might stop using a tag that doesn't create a consistent musical experience but only for yourself :-)
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SirAlecHendrix wrote:
2. the problem is that musical reality is changing much faster than our conceptual thinking. originally, the term "independent" didn't refer to a genre but to a BUSINESS status of the artists (not signed to major record labels). this is not a musical definition. what did change that people consider "indie" as a MUSICAL genre now? twenty years ago, i could tell how "indie" sounded. reality changes, but words stick in our brains until we die ... for me it seems it's only an umbrella term (nothing wrong with that) holding a wide variety of mostly guitar-based rock groups losely together. and i feel you have to positively make a list of genres and styles that go under this term TODAY. someone's going to start?
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SirAlecHendrix wrote:
1. what's the point. different people use the same words for different things. particularly when the concept of the word is fuzzy and ill-defined, and there always will be disagreement. everything has to do with the individual's understanding of a concept, and this is subjective. this holds for genres as "vague concepts with no fixed boundaries" (wikipedia). a GENRE in MUSIC should help us DISTINGUISH different kinds of music. how is "indie" capable of doing that? please tell me. i won't argue that listening to "indie" tag radio would suggest that "indie" is NOT a genre because a human crowd is capable of going wrong ...
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secretnumber wrote:
so indie is not a genre
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imnotathug wrote:
its funny, ive checked out the music yall listen to, and its all gay.
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Comfort_Eagle wrote:
if indie is a genre, i'll start taggin my stuff as nuclear blast, roadrunner rec, sony/bmg etc.....QQ
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Aardvarked wrote:
Indie is a genre, I appreciate you're trying to look intelligent by talking about how it stands for independent (no shit.) but it is now a legitimate genre of music, like it or not.
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Dai6kan wrote:
Indie is not a genre.
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Vakarimasen wrote:
awh fuck joy division, tom waits and quotsa are indie omfg...
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Vakarimasen wrote:
some years ago i was sure that "indie" means slight traces of postpunk and new-wave sound which was popular in 80-s along with independent performers and bands. but now yeah it means nothing exept being popular in cool indie style. anyway do you know why lastfm was called "social music revolution"? because of all that stupid proletariat tagging with meaningless shit and thereby leveling true meanings of tags to homogenized stupidity
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imnotathug wrote:
so what would YOU call the national?
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Rotuhiiri wrote:
<3
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CatalystDM wrote:
If you created a genre called '4,' Aphex Twin would be the godfather of that genre.
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