RTP-area local music and culture

["Sorren Thule" <sorren23 AT nc.rr.com>]

can you go into a little more detail, this link goes to the punk history not 
the altrock history and I can't navigate their site too well.  are they some 
creepy company that sells manufactured music or something?  weird . . .

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "bendy" <bendy AT duke.edu>
To: "RTP-area local music and culture" <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 7:38 AM
Subject: APM History of Indie


> 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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