- 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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