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Topic: Indie anyone?
Posted By: Fatmangolf
Subject: Indie anyone?
Date Posted: 15 May 2015 at 9:15pm
Arguably the late 1970's and the 1980's saw the expansion of the indie or alternative scene with rock refocused through the lens of the small commercial or home studio...

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Posted By: DaveG
Date Posted: 15 May 2015 at 10:37pm
No argument imo. There was an explosion of independent labels, shops, magazines etc. The whole "here's a chord, here's another - now go form a band" thing. It was an exciting time to be young & into music, fashion, art etc and a period that definitely changed the status quo...... for a while at least!


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Posted By: elwood p dowd
Date Posted: 03 Jun 2021 at 2:46pm
sad to see so few posts in this section, after a period of landfill indie in the late 80's, early 90's there have been some excellent groups of late
though guess it is hard to pigeonhole indie as a genre

the number of new bands the last few years like black country new roads, the cool greenhouse, working men's club, desperate journalist, dry cleaning
ireland's girl band, just mustard, fontaines dc, odd moris
& from the 00's and beyond scotland gave us we were promise jetpacks, the twilight sad, frightened rabbit, the phantom band





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Posted By: patientot
Date Posted: 03 Jun 2021 at 9:26pm
Originally posted by elwood p dowd elwood p dowd wrote:

sad to see so few posts in this section, after a period of landfill indie in the late 80's, early 90's there have been some excellent groups of late
though guess it is hard to pigeonhole indie as a genre

the number of new bands the last few years like black country new roads, the cool greenhouse, working men's club, desperate journalist, dry cleaning
ireland's girl band, just mustard, fontaines dc, odd moris
& from the 00's and beyond scotland gave us we were promise jetpacks, the twilight sad, frightened rabbit, the phantom band





Indie isn't really a genre when you get down to it, though I guess some record companies tried to make it such with "fake indie rock" bands like the Strokes or whatever.

I'm not up much on the current indie scene as it takes a lot of work to find anything I like. I think the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s were a fruitful time for indie music.

Most of the band's you mentioned I've not heard, except Fontaines DC who didn't impress me much on their first album. Haven't heard the latest stuff.

A few years ago there was a group called Fear of Men that I liked a lot. Their first album, Loom, was solid IMHO. The follow-up was a lot more experimental and not as immediate. Not sure if they are still together.

Also Vanna Inget from Sweden, who started out more as a punk-ish type band and gradually got more melodic. Their album Ingen Botten was one of my favorites in recent years. The latest one was also great but took time to grow on me. I hope they keep making music for awhile.


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Posted By: lfc jon
Date Posted: 03 Jun 2021 at 10:06pm
The Rapture from the US  I have three of their albums, there was a radio station I use to listen to years ago that at night use broadcast a New York radio station once a week, can't for the life of me remember what they were called but that's found out about Rapture

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Posted By: elwood p dowd
Date Posted: 04 Jun 2021 at 8:45am
ah yes, remember fear of men, saw them a few times. from brighton, no?
did a great cover version of the chills song doledrums live iirc

the irish ones i mentioned fontaines aside are all at the noisier end of the spectrum with a lot of dissonance

but give the phantom band a go, their first few albums checkmate savage & the wants are great
(coincidentally the wants is the name of another new band that i rather like that have spun off from bodega)

will check out that swedish band


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Posted By: patientot
Date Posted: 04 Jun 2021 at 3:45pm
Originally posted by lfc jon lfc jon wrote:

The Rapture from the US  I have three of their albums, there was a radio station I use to listen to years ago that at night use broadcast a New York radio station once a week, can't for the life of me remember what they were called but that's found out about Rapture


I do remember this band from the early 2000s because I had some friends that were fans. Haven't heard any of their music in a long time though.


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Posted By: elwood p dowd
Date Posted: 04 Jun 2021 at 4:20pm
Originally posted by patientot patientot wrote:

Also Vanna Inget from Sweden, who started out more as a punk-ish type band and gradually got more melodic. Their album Ingen Botten was one of my favorites in recent years. The latest one was also great but took time to grow on me. I hope they keep making music for awhile.

had a listen to the ingen botten album & reminds me of desperate journalist
try their first album (recently rereleased on vinyl)


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Posted By: lfc jon
Date Posted: 04 Jun 2021 at 7:41pm
patientot
The radio station this side was called XFM they are now called Radio X but I still can't remember the USA, New York stations name. Rapture disbanded in 2014. I use to like listening to the New York's station as I found out about a lot of new music from them, but most  at the time I didn't know how to get hold. I did once email the station and they did get back to me and told me I could get the Rapture's new album in England and even told me where I get hold of a copy, That was HMV. I was new to the internet at the time and didn't really know how to use it to the full.


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Posted By: fluddite
Date Posted: 05 Jun 2021 at 9:58pm
Originally posted by DaveG DaveG wrote:

No argument imo. There was an explosion of independent labels, shops, magazines etc. The whole "here's a chord, here's another - now go form a band" thing. It was an exciting time to be young & into music, fashion, art etc and a period that definitely changed the status quo...... for a while at least!


"Sniffin' Glue is often incorrectly credited as the source of the illustration featuring drawings of three  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar_chord - guitar chord  shapes, captioned, 'this is a chord, this is another, this is a third. Now form a band'; this drawing actually originally appeared in January 1977 in another fanzine, Sideburns..." (Wikipedia)

Mind you, some people felt that three chords were altogether too many...






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