Indie

The term ‘indie’ is best known as being an abbreviation for the word ‘independent’. This term was used to differentiate between bands that were on a major record label and those that weren’t. It also differentiates between an ‘independent’ sound and type of music and the more typical top-40 sound that was so prevalent during the 1980s. For example, many of the hair bands and hard rock scene had become very typical in musical composition (melody, chorus, melody, bridge, chorus, etc. Read more…|Edit this Artist photo: James Blunt

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Dec 28 Monday 28 December 2009
Anthony Green Good Old War	The Glass House Pomona, CA, Los Angeles, United States 34.057602 -117.751915	31 people attended 2 shouts Photos
The Dear Hunter & Moving Mountains in Providence, RI at Club Hell The Dear Hunter, Moving Mountains	Club Hell Providence, RI, United States 41.82047 -71.411542	8 people attended 2 shouts
Yell County The Neighbors	IOTA Club & Cafe Arlington, Washington DC, United States 38.888779 -77.092518	Add shout
The Good Life Old Canes	Triple Rock Social… Minneapolis MN, United States 44.966722 -93.247104	4 people attended Add shout
Alex Chilton Birthday Bash 2009 at Empty Bottle Doleful Lions	Empty Bottle Chicago IL, United States 41.900424 -87.68609	1 person attended Add shout
New years Eve-3 = Show at Hotshots Mathematicians	Hotshots Glens Falls, NY, United States 43.309505 -73.647456	1 person attended Add shout

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gabrielcavaresi wrote:
yesterday evening

Indie is a term for musicians who dress like oldschool lesbians. [3]

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Hillo-munkki wrote:
yesterday evening

http://www.last.fm/music/Amelay

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lamniformes wrote:
yesterday evening

Indie is a term for musicians who dress like oldschool lesbians. [2]

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upuy_smith wrote:
yesterday morning

indie music movement which is based from what we have..do it yourself...

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placental_fluid wrote:
yesterday morning

Indie is a term for musicians who dress like oldschool lesbians.

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Nikopol_XP wrote:
yesterday morning

suxxx

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abbeyclover123 wrote:
Sunday afternoon

whats indie ??

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artgeek707 wrote:
Sunday morning

I wonder when people will realize indie isn't even a genre. It's just a record label status. "Indie" actually ranges from soft rock, post rock, experimental, folk, freak folk, and alternative.

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KrazeeCat wrote:
Saturday afternoon

indie equals hipster.

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catachresistant wrote:
Wednesday evening

The description of indie at the top of this page should be replaced with this.

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Norwegian__Wood wrote:
Wednesday afternoon

lol. everything is indie :O

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HIMYNAMEISCARL wrote:
Tuesday evening

what the fuck is indie

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redevil1990 wrote:
9 days ago

stop tagging everything indie

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mickster50000 wrote:
9 days ago

indie is incredibly bland and weak

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MikeTheDon1981 wrote:
9 days ago

its gettin a bit mork and mindy... shut the window and lets listen to indie..

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Packiesla wrote:
10 days ago

Evryone want to b e 'Indie'

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shallowgraves wrote:
10 days ago

this page looks like my charts. god damn i'm so indie.

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Watcher wrote:
11 days ago

Tagging is just about totally useless. Who cares? I like Pandora's method of capturing the preferred instrumentation/tonality/meter/melody characteristics of a listener, then matching those musical genomes to other similar artists.

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gogitosbanditos wrote:
12 days ago

Farewells- experimental/post-punk/progressive

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Veasna wrote:
12 days ago

I think the question is who /hasn't/ tagged them as Indie, since this tag is so badly abused (not to mention the worst tag ever.)

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