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Indie rock music

Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdomand the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include indie pop, jangle pop, C86, and lo-fi, among others.Originally used to describe record labels, the term became associated with themusic they produced and was initially used interchangeably with alternativerock. As grunge and punk revival bands in the US, and then Britpop bands inthe UK, broke into the mainstream in the 1990s, it came to be used to identifythose acts that retained an outsider and underground and less testosterone-driven perspective. In the 2000s, as a result of changes in the music industryand the growing importance of the Internet, a number of indie rock acts beganto enjoy commercial success, leading to questions about its meaningfulness asa term.

Characteristics

Indie rock, derived from "independent", describes the small and relatively low-budget labelson which it is released and the do-it-yourself attitude of the bands and artists involved.Although distribution deals are often struck with major corporate companies, these labelsand the bands they host have attempted to retain their autonomy, leaving them free toexplore sounds, emotions and subjects of limited appeal to large, mainstreamaudiences.The influences and styles of the artists has been extremely diverse, includingpunk, psychedelia, rock and country.The terms alternative rock and indie rock were usedinterchangeably in the 1980s, but after many alternative bands followed Nirvana into themainstream in the early 1990s it began to be used to distinguish those bands, working in avariety of styles, that did not pursue or achieve commercial success.

Allmusic identifies indie rock as including a number of styles that are: "too sensitive andmelancholy; too soft and delicate; too dreamy and hypnotic; too personal and intimatelyrevealing in its lyrics; too low-fidelity and low-budget in its production; too angular in itsmelodies and riffs; too raw, skronky and abrasive, wrapped in too many sheets of SonicYouth/Dinosaur Jr./Pixies/Jesus & Mary Chain-style guitar noise; too oblique and fracturedin its song structures; too influenced by experimental or otherwise unpopular musicalstyles." Linked by an ethos more than a musical approach, the indie rock movement

encompassed a wide range of styles, from hard-edged, grunge-influenced bands, throughdo-it-yourself experimental bands like Pavement, to punk-folk singers such as

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Magazines that are associated with the music genre

NME magazine

The Fly

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Examples of covers from genre

All of the covers above come NME magazine and all feature a recurring theme of how themain images look, they all are either medium close ups (MCU) or group shots of an MCU

style. They have a serious look on their faces and all keep direct eye contact with thecamera lens .

Indie rock fashion

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