What is “Indie” music?

Written by on March 14, 2009 – 5:26 am -

joezen777 asked:


I have a friend who classifies his band as “Indie” music. http://www.myspace.com/paulcnewman
I’d like to see if I could write some poems that would complement that genre, but what topics and rhythms and temp are commonly associated with Indie music?

Gertrude
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3 Comments to “What is “Indie” music?”

  1. Gabriella Says:

    independent music, often abbreviated as indie, is a term used to describe genres, scenes, subcultures, styles and other cultural attributes in music, characterized by their independence from major commercial record labels and their autonomous, do-it-yourself approach to recording, publishing and live performing…

  2. good vibrations. Says:

    The last two years there as far as far as far as topics there really hard to classify its limitations there as college rock is mix of the smiths pixies husker du 90s indie rock also known as far as arcade fire and bring lot.

  3. xxmachina Says:

    Worst musical genre name since “Alternative”