Indie Music
Indie Music is not a genre that describes sound-style. It does not categorize music nor does it group artists, bands, and songs into a division based on similar riffs, melodies, voices, and so on.
Music is "indie" when an artist or a band declares itself separate from any major commercial record label and instead puts out music autonomously through in a DIY kind of way. However, it is possible for artists to start out "indie," and then sign with a major record label, or vice versa. This accounts for a variance of indie or nondiscovered kind of music.
The term "indie" is the shortened version of "independent: "Indie Music" is really "Independent Music."
Why Be Indie?
The DIY approach offers the an indie musician greater liberty in his or her music production and marketing. They are able to withhold a greater amount of profit made from their own music sales. In addition, because the "indie genre" includes such an eclectic variety of music, it allows upalbum'>Pearl Jam has now signed with major record labels such as J and Epic, both that either operate or are owned by Sony Music Entertainment.
What's interesting is that because indie music cannot define music soundselling indie music in its most popular categories.
Indie Rock
The concept of making rock music while adhering to the indie genre first came about in the U.K. and then followed through to the U.S. during the '80s. In a way, it began the whole spirit of "underground music." Indie rockers are notorious for "maintaining complete control" over their music production and marketing.
The following are today's best-selling indie rock artists. Take your pick:
Alternative Rock
Indie alternative rock very much follows the technical definition of what it is to be indie. Indie alternative rockers are musicians that fit within the alternative rock genre but have not signed with a major record label. The term "alternative rock" was originally the reference for most underground rock music, with a heavy
The Cure achieved major popularity, a breakthrough into the mainstream was inevitable, and many alternative artists followed suit. Today, alternative rock is seen as more mainstream.
Indie Folk
Indie folk followed indie rock as it developed in the 1990s. You could even go as far as calling indie folk a branch of indie rock that evolved into its own genre. Indie folk is sometimes described as having more "complicated instrumentation, lyricism, and multi-voiced harmonies." Indie folk bands often participate in large festivals and concerts such as Coachella in California and Bonnaroo in Tennessee.
Indie Rap & Hip-Hop
Indie hiphop is a whole culture, known for its underground community.
Underground hippresident'>MURS, and others.
Related Guides
*
Blues Music
*
Country Music
*
Jazz Music
*
Arcade Fire
*
Neutral Milk Hotel
*
Dr Dre
*
Grunge Rock
*
Rock Music
