Indie rock originated in the UK and USA in the 1980s as a genre of alternative rock that was produced by independent record labels outside of the mainstream music industry. It is a diverse genre with many subgenres that was originally used to identify bands not considered part of the prevailing punk or Britpop styles of the time. In the 2000s, as the internet became more widespread, indie rock bands found greater success by distributing their music online to audiences outside traditional commercial outlets.
2. • Indie Rock is a genre of alternative rock
• It originated in the UK and USA in the 1980’s
• Indie Rock is very diverse with many sub genres
• Originally used to describe record labels and the music they produced
• When punk bands in the USA and Britpop bands in the UK became mainstream the term indie rock was
used to identify the bands outside the norm
• Indie rock bands became successful when the internet became more predominate in everyone's life
(2000’s)
3. • The term indie rock derived from independent which describe the low budget record labels
• The term gradually became the term for bands which were outside the norm and not in mainstream
success
