INDIE MUSIC

• Indie rock originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s.

•In the United States, the term "indie rock" was related with the abrasive, distortion-heavy sounds.

•In the United Kingdom, indie pop artists emerged in the 1980s. This era also saw the birth of the C86 indie-pop movement and the twee pop.

Indie bands, 1980s in the UNITED STATES

Hüsker Dü Dinosaur Jr. The replacements

Indie bands, 1980s in the UNITED KINGDOM

Orange Juice Josef KAztec Camera

•In 1990s “alternative" lost its original counter-cultural meaning and began to refer to the new form of music that was now achieving mainstream success.

•The term "indie rock" became associated with the bands and genres that remained underground.

•The 1990s saw the emergence of several defining movements within indie rock.

•The simplistic recording techniques (including home recording), ironic detachment, and disinterest in "selling out" to the mainstream alternative rock scene dominated.

Indie bands of 1990 movementsLO-FI MOVEMENT• Elliott Smith

• Neutral Milk Hotel

EMO MOVEMENT • The Promise Ring

• The Get Up Kids

•In the 2000s, the use of the internet as a tool for music promotion allowed a number of indie rock bands to achieve commercial success.

•Modest Mouse was one of the first popular indie acts of the 1990s to make the jump to a major label, signing with Epic Records in 2000.

•Reasons suggested for this success include the decline of record sales and increased media exposure of indie artists due to internet marketing.

Indie bands of 2000s

MGMT

Glasvegas

Fleet Foxes

Iron & WineTwo Door Cinema Club

Delorean

Band of Horses