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Indie music is known for its DIY, low-budget approach to music. Independent music (also commonly known as indie music, or simply indie) is a broad style of music characterized by creative freedoms, low-budgets, and a do-it-yourself approach to music creation, which originated from the liberties afforded by independent record labels.
Independent record labels are small companies that produce and distribute records. [1] They are not affiliated with or funded by the three major records labels.According to SoundScan and the Recording Industry Association of America, indie labels produce and distribute about 66% of music titles, but only account for 20% of sales.
SST Records is an American independent record label formed in 1978 in Long Beach, California by musician Greg Ginn. The company was first founded in 1966 by Ginn at age 12 as Solid State Transmitters, [ 2] a small business through which he sold electronics equipment. Ginn repurposed the company as a record label to release material by his band ...
Special LP releases, live performances and at least one giant block party are scheduled around the U.S. Saturday as hundreds of shops celebrate Record Store Day during a surge of interest in vinyl ...
Among the releases by Daydream Library, the music label, are Moore’s own work of recent years and two records by Miami bands that reflect the local rock scene’s diverse roots and influences ...
Dischord Records is a Washington, D.C.-based independent record label specializing in punk rock. The label is co-owned by Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson, who founded Dischord in 1980 to release Minor Disturbance by their band the Teen Idles. [1] [2] [3] With other independent American labels such as Twin/Tone, Touch and Go Records, and SST Records ...
Anyway Records is an independent record label based in Columbus, Ohio, which specializes in a Columbus brand of indie rock. It was established in 1991 by Bela Koe-Krompecher, called an "indie stalwart" by Entertainment Weekly. During the 1990s, the label was considered the most well-known and prolific label in Columbus.
Indie pop (also typeset as indie-pop or indiepop) is a music genre and subculture [1] that combines guitar pop with DIY ethic [3] in opposition to the style and tone of mainstream pop music. [8] It originated from British post-punk [ 4 ] in the late 1970s and subsequently generated a thriving fanzine , label , and club and gig circuit.