The origins of Indie Rock  

Indie rock originally originated from the united kingdom and the united stated around the 1980's. it is an alternitive genre of of rock music and was originally used to describe record lables, however it also became assosiated with a style of music. Indie rock has many sub genres such as pop, jangle pop and lo fi to name but a few. With the punk rock revival and the introduction of brit pop into 1990's main stream music the term 'indie' was used to describe bands that remained un descovered and under the radar. However in the early 2000's with the introduction of the internet becoming more popular bands that had originaly not broken through mainstream music and had found little sucess suddenly became sucessful and enjoyed commercial sucess. However as a result tarnishing the meaningfulness of the term.

Indie means 'independant', the term is used to describe small low budget record lables with a do it yourself attitude. Independant lables in general strive to remain seperate from bigger more mainstream lables such as Sony and Warner Brothers in every aspect, however they often have to rely on mayor lables for production as they do not have to money to be able to set up there own production company. Independant lables allow artist and bands to explore emotions and styles limited in appeal to large mainstream audiences