I've always thought of Indie music as music for people who know more about music than I do.
The term indie rock originally was used to describe independent record labels
Is that so? I always imagined it as a bunch of bearded hipsters playing music on washboards.
It later became associated more with the kind of music the produced, but then in the 2000s as it became very popular it kind of lost it inicial meaning.
I once dated a girl who was a real free spirit. She listened to all kinds of Indie rock. Unfortunately, she was too much of a free spirit for me because she refused to hold down a job.
Did she listen to grudge and punk revival too?
I don't think so. Her favorite band was Modest Mouse.
Modest Mouse
Modest Mouse is an American rock band formed in 1992 in Issaquah, Washington and currently based in Portland, Oregon. The founding members are lead singer/guitarist Isaac Brock, drummer Jeremiah Green, and bassist Eric Judy. Strongly influenced by Pavement, Pixies, XTC, and Talking Heads, the band rehearsed, rearranged, and recorded demos for almost two years before finally signing with small-town indie label K Records and releasing numerous singles.
Since their 1996 debut "This Is a Long Drive for Someone
Indie rock
Indie rock is a genre of rock music that originated in the United States and United Kingdom in the 1970s. Originally used to describe independent record labels, the term became associated with the music they produced and was initially used interchangeably with alternative rock. As grunge and punk revival bands in the US and Britpop bands in the UK broke into the mainstream in the 1990s, it came to be used to identify those acts that retained an outsider and underground perspective. In the 2000s, as a result of changes in