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  • From: bendy <bendy AT duke.edu>
  • To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: APM History of Indie
  • Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 07:38:06 -0500

Talk about co-opting:

http://www.apmmusic.com/historyofpunk.html



The Style: Indie Rock, Hard Alternative

Definition: Indie Rock is music in the style put out by small record labels in the 90s, mostly associated with college campus "scenes", such as Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The music is guitar driven, characterized by abrupt changes from soft-to-loud and deliberately noisy passages. The emphasis is on tense, inscrutable verses and cathartic choruses, underscored by a sense of irony (or despair) rather than slick production or deliberate catchiness. It's important to remember that indie rock was created in direct response to Commercial Alternative and Hair Metal.

Popular bands in this style include: Pavement, Superchunk, My Bloody Valentine, Archers of Loaf, The Drop Nineteens.

Mouse over the arrows to hear samples of this style, or click on the cover to audition the entire CD:

CHE 342 Gen Xtreme

Track #16 Slack Barista ->
Track #4 You Make Me Down ->

FKR 928 Campus Guitar Shop

Track #20 Math Class (Story Problem) ->
Track #12 Po-Mo, Post Office ->

Bendy (who's been cross posting MeFi for years)




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