Thursday, 4 December 2014

Music genre research- Indie rock

Indie rock

  • Indie rock is a type of alternative rock and it originated in the United Kingdom in the 1980's.
  • It includes subgenres like, indie pop, jangle pop, C86 and lo-fi.
  • It was originally used to describe record labels, but in the mid 1980's the term 'indie' began to be used to describe the music produced on post punk labels.
  • Most indie record labels were founded in the 1980's.

Joy Division, a band formed in 1976, producing indie/rock songs.

  • Grunge became mainstream in the 1990's and alternative lost its cultural meaning.
  • Other genres following Indie pop are, lo-fi, noise pop, emo, sadcore, post punk, space rock and math rock.
  • Emo nearly broke out into mainstream in the 2000's because of Jimmy Eat World's platinum selling album, Bleed American. 


  • Growth of technology in the 2000's meant that the internet was a massive advertising point for artists and bands. 
                                                              _Andrea 

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