Indie Rock In The New Millennium

By Author: Jan Weidenbach
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Do you know what Indie rock means? The term Indie rock comes from independent rock music, which is somewhat on the lines of rock music that evolved in the United Kingdom and the United States of American, in early 1980s. Indie rock artists normally tend to have control over their music and career, and prefer to release their albums on independent record albums. Many artists also prefer to tour in order to promote their music, and spread their word through word-of-mouth publicity, and playing their songs on independent radio stations. With the advent of the internet, these indie rock artists also prefer to spread their music through internet web sites, fanzines and fan forums.

Amazingly, there is no specific genre of indie rock, many music sub-genres like garage rock, twee pop, indie pop, dream pop, noise pop, noise rock and indietronica have similar beats and music patterns and that often creates a great amount of confusion on what exactly is indie rock. One of the pioneer bands of indie rock is The Velvet's Underground, who really made a lasting impact on the minds of the young generation then. Most of the indie rock ...
... artists are not globally popular, as they aim towards producing better music for the people, rather than becoming rich and being in the limelight.

At the turn of the millennium, indie rock artists preferred to make the most out of internet, as it became the fastest and cheapest way to reach their audience globally. Many music softwares available freely on internet became their tools to discover new music, as they are not bound to one kind of music style or patterns. With this new age of internet, many independent rock bands that were desperate for a break emerged from all parts of the world. Digital service royalties became a prime source of their increasing income. Indie rock artists explored the advantages of digital services and began producing more soundtracks and music to make it available online for their fans and to earn more income.

Additionally, indie rock artists who were of new age thinking, squeezed out the best out of what the World Wide Web had to offered and they started exploring new technologies like music blogs, social networks and message boards that were related to indie rock music. Many artists who were successful, came up with their private web sites to reach their audience and to provide them with the best music they can play.
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