Indie?
 

could someone attempt to explain to me what this is please.

Maybe IamAlejo would. I'd like to have a better understand of it myself.

Alejo's explanation.

So Artist in the Ambulance" is Indie? SOunds like I like Indie then.

The song is indie rock, not the whole cd....Indie rock is basically rock music not associated with many other bands. So basically the band is doing its own thing, but there is other types of indie music. Indie in almost any catogory is known, except indie rap, i haven't heard that one before

Awesome I know what you mean.

Here's a defenition i got after trying to look for one (i can't seem to put it in the right words). Hopefully this will help you out.

One, such as a studio or producer, that is unaffiliated with a larger or more commercial organization.

Yeah I got it, they have their own style. Doesn't fit into a "Music Category". :drummer:

I thought Indie was that really slow rock that is like.... SUPER Emo-ish.. but thats just me so maybe I'm wrong

ugh, a lot of indie sounds like that, but it is not defined to that region. but if you listen to 10 indie songs, 7 of them probably will sound like what you described

ah ok, so at least I have partially the right idea heh heh ;)

yeah, you are looking at the right direction...but if you can manage to find a real version of the song "artist and the ambulance" by thrice it will give you a whole new perspective on indie music

ah, yeah I like Thrice... they be bangin' yo.....lol lol yeah they are hella good so I'll have to check that song out to see what ya mean ;)

might as well forget downloading it...its impossible, took me 5 hours just to get the whole album dealing with all the fake tracks. Anyway, its a good CD, i suggest you go buy it (Artist in the Ambulance)

heh heh ;) I'll look into it ;)

so basically anything thats not really like the mainstream of that genre, or INDIpendent of it?

yeah....the only type of indie i truly listen to though is indie rock, and indie rock is the most you will see...but their is indie music in almost any section of music

like Moby....lmfao just those glasses, the first thing that comes to mind for me is Indie heh heh ; )

Please, don't even bring up moby.

Ha ha Moby...

indie is INDIPENDENT music.
it doesnt have to do with the sound, although people seem to think so. if you are being produced by an indipendent music record, then you are indie.

indie (not rap or as i say crap)
 

yes, indie is all forms of rock pop and alternative music. however it is not rap as stated above or electronica. these things lack musical ability... no offense guys who do these things but an instrument makes 'real' noise. indie is the abreiviation of indipendant, just like emo is the abreiviation of emotion which again as far as music goes is an abrieviation for emotional hardcore but thats not the topic so on we go - ie bands that work through garages or smaller record companies making only a select amount of cds. indie rock does not fall under cliche catagories of pop music, moreso it creates a slower or faster beat with higher amount of 'concentration' (i'm not even going to go into that one), all in all indie is good very very good.

So wait, Rap can't be independant because it isn't music?

You won't last long here you ignorant moron

Indie can describe two things your genre or your label. Indie as in label is of corse meaning independent. ie Indie films. Genre as in lo-fi, slowcore and the such.

Rap most definitely can be indie. I much prefer indie rap.

If we are lucky rainee will be one of those 1-time-posters

:laughing:

Well I guess New Order are not an indie band then even though Factory records were one of the first indie labels, and because they played electronica.

And I guess even though in the band Peter Hook plays bass & Bernard Sumner plays guitar they`re not 'real musicians' either.

Congratulatons , that has to be the most idiotic post I have ever read from someone who quite clearly has a brain in there somewhere.

indie music- comes from independent, this term is someetimes also used for alternative music. it has nothing to do with mainstream music(well some of indie artists respect this one:band: )errr.. close enough?:)

Everyone goes on about indie now, basically every band that has a guitar in it seems to be 'indie'.

I'm still not sure, what bands would be indie that are out now?

The sound not the label right?

The Shins
The Go Team
The Decemberists
Built to Spill
Nuetral Milk Hotel
Belle and Sebastian
The Dismemberment Plan
The Microphones

stuff like that

Oh golly I don't know any of those bands!

ooh the stone roses fan! well i think bands like franz ferdinand or kaiser chiefs claim for themselves they are indie bands.. i like them:wave:

the first band i listened to that is apparently indie was Emery. Theyre from Seattle, recently supported two pretty gig gigs in melbourne. Moving on..

Theyre kind of prog / screamo. so i guess thats how it comes under indie. but i dunno. i like them anyways


yep. most pointless reply ever

conor oberst is my hot indie lover

It depends if you want the the technical definition or the more er.. conceptual definition.

Technically, as other other's have stated indie is just short for independent, as in the artist is on an independent record label as opposed to a mainstream one.

But indie has evolved from that, even though people still like to argue that you can't call indie a genre because it isn't. But as more people start categorizing a certain type of music as "indie" it is inevitible that it will become a genre. It's still pretty hazy as to what you can call "indie," but if I had to I would say it's a soft alternative, a little less edge, for the most part.

But to really get a good idea of what people are considering indie, you can just look around the internet and see what people are calling indie. Obviously everyone will have their own opinion, but you can get a general idea.