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Hello everyone!
I feel that nowadays the term "indie" doens't define what it defined a decade ago. Since Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr. or Beat Happening were true leaders of a compromised scene taht was more similar in their attitude than in their sound, nowadays we call "indie" at any kind of pop-rock band with a hipster look and NME-Pitchfork coverage and that's a huge mistake IMO
IMO, nowadays we could find the truly indie attitude in bands like Lightning Bolt, Hella, Six Organs, Deerhoof and all those bands taht have a distinct sound and attitude, I would even include in taht list doom-drone bands like Earth, Sunn0))) or Boris. Those bands still take important risks and show compromise and they look like no faggots. The term indie is always changing and it reffers to a compromise
Btw: Arcade Fire are a good band and New Pornographers make nice pop-hooks...on the other hand I don't like Shins or BSS
cHEERS
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