Well-known examples of this movement include Saint Etienne and Dubstar. As both the financial costs and levels of musical virtuosity required to make passable-sounding electronic music drop under the influence of technological improvements, and people who grew up listening to electronic pop take up music, the electronic style epitomised by alternative dance is increasingly becoming the mainstream of independent music, with the once dominant guitar-based form of pop that dominated low-budget independent recordings now becoming just another subgenre.
Alternative metal is an eclectic form of music that gained popularity in the early s alongside grunge. In many instances, it can be accurately described as a fusion of heavy metal and alternative rock.
It is characterized by some heavy metal trappings most notably heavy riffs , but usually with a pronounced experimental edge, including unconventional lyrics, odd time signatures, unusual technique, a resistance to conventional approaches to heavy music and an incorporation of a wide range of influences outside of the metal music scene.
Alternative hip hop is a genre that is defined in greatly varying ways. All Music Guide defines it as follows:. Alternative hip-hop refers to Hip-Hop groups that refuse to conform to any of the traditional stereotypes of rap, such as gangsta, funk, bass, hardcore, and party rap.
Alternative country includes various subgenres of country music contrasted with mainstream or pop country. Alternative country can refer to several ideas. Alternative rock encompassed a wide array of styles; the prime unifying feature consisted of alienation from the pretentions of s art rock, an alienation that found its mouthpiece in the punk explosion.
The movement was reconfigured during the postpunk era of the s as an autonomous indie subculture centered around college radio and urban community clubs and broadcasting. The Athens, Georgia-based band, R. After all the good times, this one-two punch at the turn of the millennium left indie — and rock music in general — reeling. So a lot of this was bad. Alternative or modern or college or indie rock was supposed to save rock music itself — the white-guy-with-guitar genre that had seemed so indomitable for decades.
But then indie started to erode, and rock began to fade alongside it. But some of what happened in or just after, was fruitful — or at least established a way forward. On this and the albums that followed, the Oxford, UK, quintet would take previous trends of the indie era — the guitar dissonance of shoegaze bands like My Bloody Valentine and Ride, a touch of grunge, the ugly beauty of Sonic Youth, a bit of Chicago post-rock — and put it all together into a complex, alienated, weirdly intimate style that electrified audiences and the music press.
Sleater-Kinney never got better or better-selling than Dig Me Out. But the lively and innovative movement that followed punk and seemed to offer endless possibilities and critiques of corporate capitalism was starting to repeat itself and ebb away. In all of these cases, the indie spirit, which had seen itself as anti-traditional and sonically inventive, lived on in uncompromising artists, often on genuinely small labels — Bloodshot, Acony, Lost Highway — playing music with roots in the Appalachian brother bands of the s.
Indie, of course, would continue to live, through festivals like Glastonbury in the UK and Coachella in California.
Last year, Sleater-Kinney reformed not just for a tour but for a very strong new album, No Cities Left To Love , its first in a decade.
But like the vinyl reprints that became totems to Gen X-ers, all of this cultural action was retrospective: There were good things happening everywhere, but a certain story was now over, or being celebrated for its historical role, like the British craze for Dixieland jazz.
Indie had begun as a subculture — and a subgenre — and it became one, once again. The spotlight moved on, and in a world of Kanye and Kim and Taylor, indie seemed backward-looking, retro, private and small. The Columbia University philosopher Arthur Danto used to talk about visual art reaching the end of its history — the conclusion of a master narrative that began with Renaissance painting.
The dream of indie rock, that it could somehow become the vanguard and the mainstream at the same time, is now as dead as Caravaggio. But in the hearts, minds, and record collections of more than one generation, the reality of indie lives on, noisy and sublime. Our mission has never been more vital than it is in this moment: to empower through understanding. Financial contributions from our readers are a critical part of supporting our resource-intensive work and help us keep our journalism free for all.
One of the many jangle pop scenes of the early 80s, Los Angeles' Paisley Underground was a revival of 60s sounds, incorporating psychedelia, rich vocal harmonies and the guitar interplay of folk rock as well as punk and underground influences such as The Velvet Underground. The albums, as well as the follow-up material, were critically acclaimed and drew attention to the burgeoning alternative genre.
That year SST Records also released landmark alternative albums by the Minutemen and the Meat Puppets, who mixed punk with funk and country, respectively. By the end of the decade, a number of alternative bands began to sign to major labels. Some bands like the Pixies had massive success overseas while being ignored domestically. By the start of the 90s the music industry was abuzz about alternative rock's commercial possibilities and actively courted alternative bands including Dinosaur Jr, fIREHOSE, and Nirvana.
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