Indie is the new mainstream?

[AlphaMale]

Recently, I came across a posting in a local forum saying that the indie band, Death Cab for Cutie was coming to Singapore. I was pretty surprised and pleased as I find some of their songs pretty enjoyable, and to top that off, a beautiful girl agreed to go with me. But before I could get the tickets, I found out that they had sold out in 2 day.

So how are we supposed to consider a band like them indie, if they are selling out 1600 seater concert halls and have a huge record company(Atlantic records) behind them? Or is it just another "genre" which they use to fool masses of brainless teenagers into thinking that they are cool because they aren't following the mainstream when they actually are.

Indie the new Mainstream?
No
It's the current Mainstream, but it's been that way for a while.
Indie is not a genre. To say it is, is merely a marketing ploy.

 

[bassist 4 life]

Indie doesnt have alot to do with the whole "independent label" thing right now. Its branched out as a genre, it sounds alot like post rock.

 

[ahkiatt]

A genre called independent? Now that just roll of the tongue right.

 

[Bruce Lindfield]

Eh, the longer i play music, the more it all just becomes that; music. It all blends together into a pool of notes and patterns.

But this is the reason for the big argument about Glastonbury - so it used to be that alternative Festivals really only had Indie-style bands as headliners - but this year they had Jay-Z - a rapper headlining - shock horror!!


Where are our Indie bands!!??

 

[ahkiatt]

They're selling out in other parts of the world.