Indi rok

Alternativni sastavi su u početku uglavnom bili pod uticajem panka, post-pankа i novog talasa 70-ih i ranih 80-ih. Indi rok sastavi koriste instrumente tipične za rok muziku – električne gitare, bas gitare, sintesajzere, bubnjeve i vokal, ali i mnoge druge. Sarađuju sa malim, nezavisnim izdavačkim kućama, koje nisu „mejnstrim“. Bendovi koji pripadaju indi rok žanru često se poistovećuju sa idealima andergraund potkulture i teže za tim da zadrže artističku kontrolu nad svojom muzikom, što im omogućavaju manje izdavačke kuće.

Klasični indi rok sastavi se uglavnom ne promovišu standardnim marketingom, već turnejama i takozvanim virusnim marketingom, kao i internetom. Neki bendovi vremenom potpisuju ugovore sa većim izdavačkim kućama, sa povoljnim uslovima kao rezultat prethodnog, nezavisnog uspeha. Popularizacija indi muzike početkom 1990-ih dovela je komercijalizacije žanra, kada su veće izdavačke kuće potpisivale ugovore sa velikim brojem indi rok grupa, predstavljajući ih kao alternativne bendove.

Podžanrovi indi rok muzike i njihovi predstavnici su između ostalih:

Podžanrovi nastali 1980-ih i 1990-ih

• Lou-faj (engl. Lo-fi: Daniel Johnston, Beat Happening, Beck, Sebadoh, Pavement, Elliott Smith, The Apples in Stereo, Guided By Voices, Modest Mouse, Yo La Tengo)

• Post-rok (Post-rock: Slint, Mogwai, Tortoise, Shipping News, Stereolab, Laika, Disco Inferno, Explosions in the Sky, Pelican, Sigur Rós, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Slint, Mono, 65daysofstatic, Hope of the States, iLiKETRAiNS, God Is an Astronaut, Red Sparowes)

• Šugejz (Shoegaze: My Bloody Valentine, Ride, Slowdive, Lush, Chapterhouse)

• Garaž pank (Garage punk: Supercharger, The Cramps, The Gories, Guitar Wolf, The Rip Offs, Thee Milkshakes, The Mummies, The Oblivians)

• Nojz rok (Noise rock: Sonic Youth, Drive Like Jehu, Unwound, Shellac, dEUS)

• Nojz pop (Noise pop: Enon, Les Savy Fav, Blonde Redhead, The Notwist)

• Emo (One Last Wish, Fire Party, Rites of Spring, Embrace, Bright Eyes, The Used, Taking Back Sunday)

• Indi pop (Indie pop: Aztec Camera, Orange Juice, The Pasteles, The Shop Assistants, Belle & Sebastian^[1] , Death Cab for Cutie, The Helio Sequence, Magnetic Fields, Beulah, Of Montreal, Peter, Bjorn and John, The New Pornographers, The Shins, Camera Obscura)

• Post-hardkor (Post-hardcore: Minutemen, Hüsker Dü, The Meat Puppets, Dinosaur Jr., Gone, Embrace, Rites of Spring, Fugazi, Quicksand, Glassjaw, At the Drive-In)

• Tvi pop (Twee pop: The Apples in Stereo, Dressy Bessy, Tullycraft, Tiger Trap, Honeybunch)

• Met rok (Math rock: Chavez, Don Caballero, June of 44, Hero of a Hundred Fights)

• Rajot grrrl (Riot Grrrl: Bikini Kill, Bratmobile)

• Alternativni kantri (Alternative country: Will Oldham/Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Uncle Tupelo, Bottle Rockets, Wovenhand, Slim Cessna's Auto Club)

Podžanrovi nastali 2000-ih

• Post-pank revajvl (Post-punk revival: The Libertines, Placebo, The Thermals, Arctic Monkeys, The View^[1], Maxïmo Park, Franz Ferdinand^[1], Editors, The Cribs, The Killers, Kaiser Chiefs, Bloc Party, The Futureheads, Interpol, Boy Kill Boy, Dirty Pretty Things, The Wombats, TV on the Radio, The Fratellis, We Are Scientists, The Kooks, White Lies)

• Garaž rok revajvl (Garage rock revival: The White Stripes, The Vox Jaguars, The Pigeon Detectives, The Vines, The Strokes^[1], Kings Of Leon, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Subways, The Libertines, The Hives, Ikara Colt, Motel Motel, Mclusky, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Mooney Suzuki, The Horrors, The Raveonettes, The Von Bondies, The Black Keys, Dirty Little Rabbits, The Raconteurs, Johnossi, Modest Mouse, Little Joy)

• Dens pank (Dance-punk: DFA Records, Metric, Cut Copy, The Rapture, The Bravery, Klaxons, The Presets, MSTRKRFT, You Say Party! We Say Die!, Shitdisco, LCD Soundsystem, Death From Above 1979, New Young Pony Club, !!!, Q and Not U, Foals, Does It Offend You, Yeah?, VHS or Beta, The Faint, Digitalism)

• Indi folk (Indie folk: Elliott Smith, The Dodos, Angus & Julia Stone, Iron and Wine, Fleet Foxes, Motel Motel, Mount Eerie, Beirut, Bright Eyes, Vetiver, Feist, Bon Iver, Damien Rice, A Hawk And A Hacksaw, Okkervil River, Devendra Banhart, Kings of Convenience, DeVotchKa, Lightspeed Champion)

• Barok pop (Baroque pop: Arcade Fire,^[1] Danielson Famile, Sufjan Stevens,^[1] The Decemberists, Loney, Dear, John Vanderslice, Broken Social Scene, Stars, Cloud Cult, Vampire Weekend, Menomena, Ra Ra Riot)

• Nju prog (New prog: Mew, Porcupine Tree, a.P.A.t.T., Muse, The Mars Volta, Coheed and Cambria, The Secret Machines, Los Hermanos, Battles, People in Planes, Doves, Mesh-29 ^[2], Mystery Jets^[3], Oceansize^[4], Pure Reason Revolution^[5])

• Inditronika (Indietronica: Hot Chip, Junior Boys, Dntel, The Postal Service, Mobius Band, Matthew Dear, First Aid Kit, The Notwist, Shiny Toy Guns)

• Nju vird Amerika (New Weird America: Joanna Newsom, Animal Collective, The Dodos, Liars, HEALTH, These Are Powers)

Indi sastavi koji deluju u Srbiji se međusobno puno razlikuju. Zajedničko im je to da imaju gotovo isključivo mladu i urbanu populaciju, da samostalno izdaju albume ili i nemaju zvaničnih izdanja i da imaju zanemarljivu medijsku podršku.

Tokom 1990-ih su neki srpski indi sastavi vezani za otpor prema tadašnjoj vlasti u zemlji, delom okupljeni oko izdavačke kuće B92. U najstaknutije srpske indi sastave 1990-ih mogu se svrstati na primer Obojeni program (koji su 1990. izdali album u prvoj indi izdavačkoj kući u SFRJ, Search and Enjoy^[6]) Jarboli i Veliki prezir. 2000-ih se indi grupe vežu za takozvanu Novu srpsku scenu, izraz koji je osmislio veb magazin Popboks, koji je važio verovatno za vodeći medij u promovisanju srpskih indi rok grupa. Istaknutiji sastavi su Buč Kesidi, Inje, Činč, Goribor, Petrol, Repetitor, Pionir 10, Slaptrap, S.A.R.S., Ničim izazvan i drugi.

• Indi muzika

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