What is indie rock? can you give examples please?

Answer 1

Here go some good examples:

Deerhoof
Belle & Sebastian
Of Montreal
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Le Tigre
Sleater Kinney
The Shins
The Apples in Stereo
Neutral Milk Hotel
Architecture in Helsinki

Answer 2

Indie rock is rock that is considered "underground." The bands are signed to Independent labels and are not that well known.
Here are various definitions: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=indie+rock

Here are some great indie bands:

Blue October
Modest Mouse
Army Of Anyone
The Format
The Forecast
Cold War Kids
Silversun Pickups
Peter, Bjorn & John
Death Cab For Cutie
The Postal Service
The Kooks
Kaiser Chiefs
Snow Patrol
Coldplay
Jet
Incubus
Placebo
The Killers
Muse
The Raconteurs
Bloc Party
Augustana
Bright Eyes
The Shins
TV On The Radio

Here is a list of indie rock musicians: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_indie_rock_artists

Answer 3

"Indie" comes from independent. As in bands unsigned or signed to an independent label. Even bands signed to a major recording label can still be concidered indie, as long as they stay true to the music they played before being famous.
if you want indie, a good thing to do is search myspace music and find a band that's unsigned with agood fan base, so you know the music's good.
Decaydance/Fueled By Ramen bands are pretty good too.

Also go to www.myspace.com/scarletgrey.

Listen to some of they're music, and if you have myspace, message them. They actually reply. [say katyGREY recomended them]
You won't regret it.
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Answer 4

It isn't pop music or pushed by major labels in the home country (for instance a major rock act in England may go unnoticed in the U.S.). It's also known as underground music.
Actionslacks
Poets of the Fall
Devics
The Von Bondies
Fisher
Kelly's Lot
Red Delicious
Greta Gaines
Kissing Tigers
Curve
The Mooney Suzuki
Mazzy Star
Mojave3
Streetlight Manifesto
Save Ferris
Boss Hog
Blues Explosion
The D4
The Forty Fives
Nobody's Star

Answer 5

Indie labels are knowns as independent labels. Indie artists are usually not signed at all or they are on an independent record label. It means they are not on MTV or the radio or signed to big record labels. There are some great indie bands out there and some do become mainstream!

Answer 6

Indie is the British term for alternative, derived from the word 'Independent' as in independent labels because they were not mainstream.

Bands like Blur, Muse, Oasis, but now these bands are considered mainstream already

Answer 7

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indie_rock

Click the above link for a great definition.
Another name for it is Alternative. Popular indie rock bands in the US and their alternative music are listed below.

The All-American Rejects - Dirty Little Secret
Coldplay - Clocks
Evanescence - Fallen, The Open Door
Greenday - American Idiot
Ok Go - Do What You Want
The Postal Service - Such Great Heights
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus - Face Down
Sugarcult - Do it Alone
Weezer - Beverly Hills

Alternative music is really popular in the US. But it varies a lot, each song is totally unique.

Answer 8

Indie rock is music that generally isn't mainstream or it's music that is not generally played on the radio and on T.V.

Answer 9

indi rock is what people generally think of as emo, fallout boy, panic at the disco ect

Answer 10

Well from what i know its a piano song. It is fast and the notes are kinda high( meaning that they are deep) and its just a song that you can just dance to.