Remember that a lot of you were not 'classic' indie and shared a lot of conventions with other genres. Indie by it's own definition is nebulous as it means 'independent' which is definately you (being independent) but the visual features are frequently swiped.
The one thing we can all agree on is that indie music is the hardest to define. It spawned from many many other types of music, and in a way is not even its own genre. Like pop music, it is a chameleon of a genre.
I’ve explained previously in other articles that the word “indie” always implied that the music was literally “independent,” as in, on an Independent label. I believe that currently this is untrue, though it once was an absolute specification to be classified as indie. Today’s indie music isn’t so easy to pinpoint.
Indie is anything from Vampire Weekend to MGMT to Band of Horses to Devendra Banhart to Scarling. MGMT and Vampire Weekend and Band of Horses are clear and obvious choices. With Devendra Banhart and Scarling it’s a little trickier. Random examples, but good ones nonetheless. Banhart is known more of a hippie-folk-art-rock-world music extraordinaire. While he is all those things, he is also an indie artist. Scarling are a rock/alternative girl band with former members of the gothic rock band Jack Off Jill, who once toured with Marilyn Manson. So while these artists could be classified under several other genres, they can certainly be called indie as well. These difficulties are what makes writing this article tougher than an unearthed potato, aka the skin of Jersey Shore cast member Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_music
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=video&cd=4&ved=0CE4QywgwAw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mtv.com%2Fmusic%2Findie%2F&rct=j&q=indie%20music&ei=g5yuTfq6A8iOswaTir3hDA&usg=AFQjCNEWA58JSFk7FKgTEqoj8U8le-AZOw&cad=rja
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/genres/rockandindie
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