Indie Rock died when the first kid said...

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Finally! Someone with a whole lot more credibility than me said it. Can we bury it now?

from an interview with david berman:

Is indie rock dead? Does it matter?
DB: If by indie rock you mean independently produced and distributed music, then no. If by indie rock you mean the barely overground music listened to by college age and college educated white humans in the nineteen nineties. then yes, it's dead.

― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Friday, 14 October 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

Thats a pretty poor definition of indie rock (the second one).

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 14 October 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

http://photos.lacoccinelle.net/22/65/92265.jpg http://daddytypes.com/archive/malkmus_new_native.jpg http://www.tampatantrum.com/ispy/weezerid.jpg http://jofis.chattablogs.com/archives/birthday4Mason-thumb.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 14 October 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

I don't get it.

― Alex H (Alex Henreid), Friday, 14 October 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

those kids are adorable!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 14 October 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

Indie Rock died when the first kid said...

those kids are adorable!

― Alex H (Alex Henreid), Friday, 14 October 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

Oh, the sighs I could sigh...

― Confounded (Confounded), Friday, 14 October 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

http://img353.imageshack.us/img353/1935/realindianajones3kc.jpg

http://img353.imageshack.us/img353/3756/rocksaltjpg6ni.jpg

― Cunga (Cunga), Friday, 14 October 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

http://www.river-phoenix.org/filmography/crusade/page2/indy-large.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 14 October 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

who's the fellow with the kids?

― Jonathan DD, Friday, 14 October 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

adorable children killed indie rock : (

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 14 October 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

who's the fellow with the kids?

mr. wilco

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 14 October 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

adorable children killed indie rock : (

Who else!?!?

― Alex H (Alex Henreid), Friday, 14 October 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

J0hn F3ll Ry4n, founding member of Excepter and No-Neck Blues Band alumnus, imagines a post-noise situation: "It's not like no-wave where everyone is reducing things to black and white," he says. "The current scene is much more omnivorous and exploratory. Check out the change Black Dice pulled off: straightedge free jazz to LSD orgy music in less than three moves? Indie rock died flat in 1994 and everybody knows that, viscerally. It's not just a New York thing; there are noise scenes everywhere. The entire planet is a noise scene. You don't have to ask why people are making visionary apocalyptic music right now. Drop It Like It's Hot is a noise record!"

― texyDancerrrrr (ex machina), Friday, 14 October 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

Indie Rock died when the first kid said...

"I liked their early stuff better"

― Jimmy Mod wants you to tighten the strings on your corset (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 14 October 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

Note to self: sell No Neck records.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 14 October 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

Thank you poly. People who talk like this, who ask things like "is x genre dead?" or speculate what the next big aural movement will be honestly make me want to stop talking and thinking about music and go play in a field. For christ's sake, it's all so insular and speculative and propagated by people who on a deep level do not like music. If you're worried about clubs you can belong to so you can feel welcomed, join the fucking shriners.

― god almighty already, Friday, 14 October 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

The Shriners won't take baptized Catholics, no matter how much I renounce it.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 14 October 2005 21:46 (twenty years ago)

O.G. indie rock as i understood it was really concentrated along the coastal colleges, no?
i mean it differed from hardcore or something which had rigid uniformity on its side, and penetrated lot further. but as its originators gave up on it, it finally reached the flyover rest of the country, and flourished more than ever, in a way.
but there was a little gap there, and those OG types "moved on" to electronica, free jazz, flamenco, or something? thats how i recall it...
and now at least today everyone can agree on folk/americana *whew*

― noizem duke (noize duke), Friday, 14 October 2005 21:57 (twenty years ago)

The Shriners??!?! Cool! I'm not Catholic - sucka.

― Alex H (Alex Henreid), Friday, 14 October 2005 22:02 (twenty years ago)

who's the fellow with the kids
mr. wilco

-- cutty (holle...), October 14th, 2005 10:13 PM.?

That's not Jeff Tweedy up there.

― Sweat Loaf (Sweat Loaf), Friday, 14 October 2005 23:51 (twenty years ago)

Forgive me if you mean some other "mr. wilco".

― Sweat Loaf (Sweat Loaf), Friday, 14 October 2005 23:52 (twenty years ago)

Hahaha.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 15 October 2005 00:06 (twenty years ago)

http://jonesrock.ytmnd.com/

― one eye white, one eye black (FE7), Saturday, 15 October 2005 12:24 (twenty years ago)

"It belongs in a museum!"

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 15 October 2005 12:45 (twenty years ago)

O.G. indie rock? Original Gangsta indie rock?

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Saturday, 15 October 2005 12:55 (twenty years ago)

Oscar Gamble indie rock

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Saturday, 15 October 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

Indie Rock died when the first kid said...

"...Isn't this a line from a Silver Jews song?"

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Saturday, 15 October 2005 23:31 (twenty years ago)

Indie Rock died when the first kid said...

"art"

― Confounded (Confounded), Saturday, 15 October 2005 23:33 (twenty years ago)

Who's the band with their dad?

― space2k (space2k), Saturday, 15 October 2005 23:36 (twenty years ago)

O.G. indie rock as i understood it was really concentrated along the coastal colleges, no?

RAP-IST

― yuengling participle (rotten03), Sunday, 16 October 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

malkmus would be a cool dad, i reckon

― chris andrews (fraew), Sunday, 16 October 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

Mark E Smith eats babies.

― nicholas de jong (nicholas de jong), Monday, 17 October 2005 00:59 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

http://campwomen.tumblr.com/post/578897153

― ksh, Friday, 7 May 2010 23:54 (sixteen years ago)

So Joe Jonas reads Stereogum and Pitchfork? He's also into early Elvis Costello records, so it's not entirely surprising.

― Johnny Fever, Friday, 7 May 2010 23:57 (sixteen years ago)

Indie Rock died when the first kid said....

Well, no, it's not exactly an indie label, because it's more like a 'boutique' label owned by ---------, but it'll be marketed like an indie record, and all the guys there are really cool, and they're really into our stuff, so it's not like being signed to a major at all

― sonofstan, Saturday, 8 May 2010 09:39 (sixteen years ago)

Indie as a term, in its original meaning, died when the likes of Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan started dominating the UK indie lists.

― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Saturday, 8 May 2010 10:02 (sixteen years ago)

Let's put some strings on this one

― Dr X O'Skeleton, Saturday, 8 May 2010 11:22 (sixteen years ago)

Indie rock is dead
Got kicked in the head
Cuz people got too serious
They planned out what they said

― kkvgz, Saturday, 8 May 2010 11:44 (sixteen years ago)

Indie rock died when the 1st kid said 'OK I'll tone down the mix & wear that absurd outfit in the video.'

― ImprovSpirit, Saturday, 8 May 2010 18:49 (sixteen years ago)

joejonas twitter is the new olsen twins hip picks

― abanana, Saturday, 8 May 2010 19:25 (sixteen years ago)

Indie rock died when the first kid said... "indie rock."

― Pete Scholtes, Saturday, 8 May 2010 19:36 (sixteen years ago)

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