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Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom, United States and New Zealand in the early to mid-1980s. Although the term was originally used to describe rock music released through independent record labels, by the 1990s it became more widely associated with the music such bands produced.
Indie music describes a number of related styles, but generally describes guitar-oriented music straying away from mainstream conventions. There are a number of subgenres of independent music which combine its characteristics with other genres, such as indie pop, indie rock, indie folk, and indie electronic.
Punk was an influence into the 1980s on the subsequent development of other subgenres, including new wave, post-punk and eventually the alternative rock movement. From the 1990s alternative rock began to dominate rock music and break through into the mainstream in the form of grunge, Britpop, and indie rock. [8]
This release, the 2013 EP Sullen, is warm and wooly indie rock, inflected with a guitar-forward ‘90s alternative sound like Sugar, but with strong pop sensibilities and nonstop soaring vocal hooks.
And for 10 weeks, her indie rock-meets-chamber pop-meets-country held the No. 1 position on Billboard’s TikTok trending chart. Mitski is not from the American South, though her discography has ...
Slowcore prominently incorporates stylings and traits from indie rock and contemporary folk music. [4] [5] [1] Indie rock is a broad subgenre of rock music that emerged in the 1980s and encapsulates music released independently or through low-budget record labels that typically fails to appeal to mainstream audiences. [6]
Post-punk revival (also known as indie rock revival) [1] is a genre or movement of indie rock that emerged in the early 2000s as musicians started to play a stripped down and back-to-basics version of guitar rock inspired by the original sounds and aesthetics of post-punk, new wave and garage rock.
Loose Buttons are no strangers to New York City's rock scene. In fact, they are the self-proclaimed "first" indie rock band of New York. But having started out in their teens, they've shared the ...