Speaking of real rock stars, here's a relevant example of exacting nomenclature from the indie music world.
The large Minneapolis-based band includes live painting on stage in a multimedia performance that has earned them a unique reputation in the indie music world.
Indie music blogs like Cactus-Mouth and Get Off The Coast wrote about the cassette later that day, and within 72 hours the pair had orders from nine different countries.
You can feel it in the audience, which has a decidedly downtown, indie-music vibe, and you can see it in the clothes.
Our adult interests are those best pursued in the cool, dark places of the world: We are film dorks, comic-book geeks, fantasy-lit fans, indie-music nerds.
And we meet up with indie electronic music Dan Deacon outside of LA's Natural History Museum to talk about his live rig and innovative iPhone app.
The 13-event festival, which runs from 13 to 24 February, is organised by Super, a Parisian creative agency that represents more than 150 artists (including international music stars Bon Iver and the XX), organises more than 800 concerts a year around France and co-organises the annual Paris outpost of the three-day indie Pitchfork Music festival, which originated in Chicago and takes place at concert venue La Villette in the north of Paris.
The site is focusing on indie bands and music, enabling bands to get a new form of distribution in the new digital world of music distribution.
Its dystopian sensibility, international range of sounds, and smart, chic nod to the some of most respected innovators of '80s new wave and post-punk music results in a memorably stirring entry into the budding genre of indie-rock world music.
Indie-rock style music plays throughout the spot, which opens with a garage door lifting to reveal a silver LS inside.
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Bridges' guileless performance makes this piquant little indie tale of country music, redemption, and the love of a pretty younger woman such a sad-song charmer.
Though Gomez has veered away from his Brazilian and Cuban influences in his solo music in exchange for a more dreamy, indie pop sound, subtle traces of Latin music are still detectable.
Lerche's music is too indie to make it on commercial radio in the United States.
Live music from 19 indie bands will keep everyone dancing while kids can have fun at the pirate camp, going on scavenger hunts and taking in a pirate show.
According to Triton Digital, which tracks Web traffic, Pandora, which streams a full spectrum of music 24 hours a day, generates the biggest numbers. (NPR.org, the network's overall website, ranks sixth, with NPR Music accounting for 15% of its audience.) Sites like Pitchfork, which appeals largely to indie-rock fans who appreciate not just music and videos but at-times-scalding reviews, are also playing the game.
Essentially, GarageBand.com is a platform for indie bands to distribute and promote their music.
Since its launch in 2009, Greedhead Music has reshaped the way indie rappers think about business, merging artist development with innovative distribution models.
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With time, the band's bombastic nature and unconventional electro-pop music caught the eye of indie label Cantora Records, with whom it released the first MGMT EP, Time To Pretend.
Two, I wanted to introduce American indie rock lovers to Yanka's music in hopes that they will seek out the original recordings and go on to learn more about Russian music and perhaps even, Russian culture.
Recently she parted with her longtime manager, and she says her new management team is helping her "play catch-up" on now-standard methods for reaching fans. (About 18, 000 people "liked" the Eiffel Tower snapshot she posted on Facebook recently.) And Blue Note has been courting magazines and music blogs more attuned to indie acts and unsigned discoveries.
Every night is different, with music ranging from breakbeat to electro to indie.
Others might explore darker material under the circumstances, but Rogue Wave's latest album, Permalight, is full of bright, uptempo indie-pop, with unexpected excursions into electronic music.
Although he might have had more control, and had his principles challenged less, if he went with an indie, he bargained that he would further the music more with a major label.
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Montermini had been drumming for an indie band but his interests began to shift towards electronic music.
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The workers' nights of organising, educating, poetry and barter may be a thing of the past but the music - Afropop, folk, cabaret or indie depending on the room and the night - remains.
Catherine Moore, director of the Music Business graduate program at New York University's Steinhardt School, says in the world of crossover music the difficulty is in genres, such as indie rock, that are more songwriter-based and where the lyrics are very important.
It may be extreme to say the Gee-Bees are hurting the rest of their generation, but indie record labels, home to most of today's worthy music, do not aggressively market new sounds to boomers.
We've talked about making music for the movies, stereotypes on the big screen and Indie documentaries.
Casting highly regarded indie rockers and filling the soundtrack with their songs, Hawley movingly roots their music in a way of life as well as in the grimy urban landscapes they inhabit.
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