How “Indie” Music Gaslights You

23:09 sounds like scooby is doing better? glad to hear it poolea

Mission Of Burma, anyone?

and remember kids , everything is a cash grab. Only thing that can't be utilized is crusty stinky drunk punks.. nobody wants them.

Indie is anything i feel like

I never really cared for the sound of Indie Music, let alone being a skeptic of the "Indie" label on a band. A lot of times, they are hiding that their small-label is having distribution from the Big Three (Warner, Sony, Universal).

indie poo drivle lol, also clips from the movie Threads? sensitive acoustic middle of the road pop lol

indie has existed since records. look at the blues.

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hey can someone send a link for the discord ive been trying to join but i havent been able to join because everytime i do it says the link is expired

please stop being lazy and showing us your physical appearance, it's genuinely disheartening to witness

13:11 Patient Zero for Nu Metal was Urban Dance Squad, not Korn. I will die on that hill.

Cosplaying as a farm boy in overalls whilst critiquing a subculture is 100% goofy.

It suits all the indie things

The only Indie that will never let you down is Dr. Indiana Jones (Jr.)

MAXIMUM ROCKNROLL magazine had an awesome exposé revealing all the big industry connections of fake “indie” bands 30 years ago or more!

Indie was just a marketing gimmick. All indie music was just Rock music, but the industry always needs a flashy new name to get young people, who associated "Rock" with fucking Jimmy Buffet, to get them to buy records. Punk rock was renamed multiple times, same with metal, pop, hip hop. This was so that the artists who were not rich would go from multi-million dollar record deals to small royalty deals receiving little to no money at all for their work, while the record companies slowly slipped in their nephews and children into those coveted Superstar spots, and raked in the money from all the differing sub-genres and shoot-offs of the MAIN genre label. If they keep everything fractured and all over the place, the artists don't get the numbers, therefore don't get the deals, and the companies can dump oodles of cash into their totally fabricated, fake acts featuring their family members and friends.

the 49% ownership sony had of all those labels its kind of like the final goal of the systems we have created. you can look at any industry and a monopoly exists or is forming, where your food comes especially. im glad for how much actually is up for choice and isnt part of false dichotomy or trap

At some point I stopped caring about "indie" bands. I just look at genre "rock", "nu-metal", "rap" or whatever and if I like the band then I'm listening to the band. I think searching for bands what sounds good for you is better than searching for bands what are "inDePEnDenT".

I've reached the point in my cynicism that I assume any new band that I come across was meticulous cultivated by a team of social media cunts who jerk off stalefish to algorithm optimization videos.

Thank you for your insights. Very informative.

For those who want indie bands that seem to actually he independant I'd recommend sorry ghost and Home Style dinner rolls

Interpol is the true indie band of the 2000's

Modest Mouse is an underrated band that had a truly incredible multi-generational run from 1996 – 2011. They lived to see the demise of Grunge, rode the wave of indie rock and the 'garage rock revival', and outlasted its devolution into stomp-clap-hey. And now they're a perpetually-touring jam band.

Get em Coolea!!! Fuck em up