wonderwall by oasis

rilo kileys not indie either

 

are too!

well they were..

still are..though they're slipping into..mainstream-ness

 

Uncle Shaker Band
http://www.uncleshaker.us

I've covered their stuff...

 

i'm still lost, but thank you for trying to help...

 

I don't even see how indie can be a genre....

haha whatever ...

 

I swear where i am we have Indie music....which is a genre

 

but indie just means that you're not signed to major record label...

you can make any kind of music imagineable and be indie.

 

argh, i'm confuzzled, damn you english genre naming system

 

nah, that's just the roots; indie has turned out in some style, too.

(http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?...A6AB679AFFA62A0500FD5C0EF57ECBC1B&sql=77:2687
"Indie rock takes its name from "independent," which describes both the do-it-yourself attitudes of its bands and the small, lower-budget nature of the labels that release the music. The biggest indie labels might strike distribution deals with major corporate labels, but their decision-making processes remain autonomous. As such, indie rock is free to explore sounds, emotions, and lyrical subjects that don't appeal to large, mainstream audiences -- profit isn't as much of a concern as personal taste (though the labels do, after all, want to stay in business). It's very much rooted in the sound and sensibility of American underground and alternative rock of the '80s, albeit with a few differences that account for the changes in underground rock since then. In the sense that the term is most widely used, indie rock truly separated itself from alternative rock around the time that Nirvana hit the mainstream." and "Regardless of the specifics, it's rock made by and for outsiders -- much like alternative once was, except that thanks to its crossover, indie rock has a far greater wariness of excess testosterone. It's certainly not that indie rock is never visceral or powerful; it's just rarely -- if ever -- macho about it. As the '90s wore on, indie rock developed quite a few substyles and close cousins (indie pop, dream pop, noise-pop, lo-fi, math rock, post-rock, space rock, sadcore, and emo among them), all of which seemed poised to remain strictly underground phenomena.")

love,
b

 

Yeah, indie is often some form of alternative, though...

 

ok thanks, i'm still lost but thanks

 

eh well sorta...i mean it's not like we're gonna hear some hardcore metal band thats not signed to major label called indie, i think in some way its also somewhat soft

 

Technically... yet untrue.

 

I think most people confuse indie with all that stuff that's ever so popular at colleges.

 

That's college rock, or so I believe it's called this.
I have to agree with you soulrebel51 about indie at some point; they're not signed to any major record company, but even more than that - they stay indiependent from mainstream happening. It's alternative music, but it has developed kind of its typical sound (by this i mean the monotone guitars and bass line), however it must keep on exploring, and exploring indiependent of other genres...i'm quite keen on indie pop.

Now, let's see - Oasis are typical britpop band, not indie, not at all.

Love,
b