my fave indie bands some are alt bands too (soundtrack, rock)

Urban Hat€monger ? · 10-12-2005, 11:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Expletive Deleted

You can be blues rock and still be indie, seeing as how indie isn't a genre. And...
White stripes = Major label
Franz Ferdinand = Major label
Do you see now why I would call those bands "pseudo-indie NME tripe?" Almost all are signed to a major label or a subsidiary of a major label, almost all are written about by the NME, and almost all are bad.

The White Stripes were signed to Sympathy For The Record Industry when White Blood Cells became a hit , so they went a major label , so what? ... so do lots of bands.

Franz Ferdinand are signed to Domino records who are distributed by Rough Trade , thats about as indie as you can get.

Expletive Deleted · 10-12-2005, 08:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger

The White Stripes were signed to Sympathy For The Record Industry when White Blood Cells became a hit , so they went a major label , so what? ... so do lots of bands.

Franz Ferdinand are signed to Domino records who are distributed by Rough Trade , thats about as indie as you can get.

Franz are distributed by Sony here in the US. And you can't really continue to be an "indie" band when you're signed to a major label, especially when you're a band as famous as the White Stripes. I'm not calling them sell-outs or anything, some great bands are signed to majors, I'm just saying that they're not really indie in a purist sense.

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