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Originally Posted by avantgarde1
you know, i never really cared where a band was from as long as they sounded good. that's what mainstream rap is for. and stop saying elephant 6, it's getting really annoying.
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"Modern psych-folk indie music" (examples: The Arcade Fire, Bright Eyes, The Polyphonic Spree, Devendra Banhart, (all hugely popular)) is derived from the Elephant 6 Collective bands (examples: Olivia Tremor Control, Neutral Milk Hotel, Elf Power, The Gerbils) just as surely as "modern ALTERNATIVE rock" (ex: Coldplay, Death Cab for Cutie, The Hives, Dashboard Confessional (all hugely popular)) is derivative of the Sub Pop bands (Nirvana & Mudhoney especially NIRVANA of course) and Seattle '90s grunge bands on other labels. Anyone with ears to hear can tell the same. And it just so happens that Athens and Seattle were homes to the two biggest indie music scenes in the nineties raking in the most ching-ching caShe$e.
The Shins are on Sub Pop and even they go the
upbeat folksy route for a huge part.
The Decemberists and their friends have a very E6 thing going on in Portland. The Wipers from the Seattle scene are also a big "godfather" influence in Portland still.
Yeah, Athens started college rock, for this I am proud. People still going ga-ga over E6 doesn't inspire the same respect and it just goes to show how unremarkable and untalented (mostly it just serves to expose the pretentious lie that they are all that original) so many of the "indie" bands are today.
These are broad strokes, yes, but that's how rock history is usually defined.