It's a list of 10 clichés that most commonly enter into discussions on indie music.

I don't really see much I agree with there except maybe the predictability of revivalism.

Admittedly I skimmed this, but pretty sure he/she is confusing artists that remain Indie as opposed to those that take the leap to mainstream or complaining that they take that leap. So what, don't buy it then. Life is so hard to be an Indie groupie. After all, with the amount of music out there tons are under exposed or have regional sized audiences.

“Selling out” as an accusation has been around for as long as selling out has actually been a possibility. While in the occasional case — The Black Eyed Peas, for instance, or Kings of Leon’s post-Because of the Times left turn towards AOR tedium — it’s justified, it’s largely a load of piffle. We all understand the strange feeling of loss when your favorite band suddenly crosses over into the public consciousness, and they’re not your secret any more. But people have to eat. These days, there seems to be an abiding suspicion of any band that maintains any sort of ambition, be it commercial or artistic. This ties back into the notion that it’s not cool to care about anything; of course, this is fine if you happen to have a heap of money in the bank anyway.

Indie as fashion statement

And now we come to… Lana Del Rey. . . the sudden wash of coverage on the new princess of Pitchfork hype has little, if anything, to do with her music. . .Gaga as well. . . And yes, there have been many style-over-substance indie artists over the years.

But even so, there’s something depressing and unedifying about the spectacle of someone making such an obvious play for mysteriously bankrolled, image-driven blogosphere success. Del Rey has the vaguely exotic name (much more interesting than plain old Lizzy Grant, . . . . Perhaps the most depressing thing about it all is that there was surely no possibility that she wouldn’t get “found out” — she just didn’t care, and saw indie-dom as nothing more than another potential image to tick off in the search for stardom. Is this how you “succeed” in 2011? God hates us all.

And by “indie,” we don’t necessarily just mean music released on independent labels (a term that’s becoming increasingly meaningless these days anyway). These days, “indie” has become similar shorthand to what “alternative” meant in the 1990s Indie.

I was referring to this though:



In the first paragraph he writes:

I get what he is saying, but I almost completely disagree despite Arcade Fire's Grammy. If that's his definition then he can pretty much create his own reality on whatever band fits the definition. As soon as any band gets wide enough appeal it can be lumped in this definition.

everyone knows that shitty blogs are killing indie music.

You're giving me a bigger headache than that article.

1. What Loogar said.
2. I listened to the new Malkmus and The Girls back to back and had the idea that "irony" was something the younger (Girls) eschew in favor of morphine.
3. My country is breaking my heart.

the fuck are you talking about?