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why is Indie rock and other indie genres becoming so popular?

I'm an avid love of indie rock. Now I don't care whether indie rock is popular or not, but it puzzles why it is becoming so. Let me give some examples. Built to spill has been getting higher and higher on the charts. So have the shins. Social distortion's(even though social distortion isn't really indie rock, they are pretty close) newest album charted on many different charts and on high positions. Highest they have ever been. TV on the radio have charted higher. Animal collective's 2009 album was released in really high chart positions. I'm glad this is happening, but why is it happening?

BQ: Why do you think many indie rock artists take years to release more albums. An example is Modest Mouse, The shins, Built to spill, Animal collective, and etc.

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  • ?
    Lv 4
    9 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    things become popular.

    i think indie music and electronic is going to be really big in the 2010s.

  • 9 years ago

    You should be happy that your favorite musicians are becoming more successful. Indie music is generally better than typical, mainstream crap, so this is a good thing, IMO. I like that indie is getting more popular because it means I can talk about music to more people. I hate keeping amazing music to myself because other people think it's weird simply because they aren't used to hearing amazing music

  • hanter
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    I consider the Prof, Indie is a sound to me. that's frustrating to describe yet my ear is conscious it. My appropriate description could be short, candy, melodic, rythmic, properly-stability and properly arranged tunes. efficient song this is appropriate sounding. utilising literature, that's like Shakespeare's wording that on a similar time as short, breif, and to the factor, has complexity. in straightforward terms some random recommendations... ______________________________________... tommymo - undecided i will furnish any satifaction with my answer. yet, once I say "sound" i do no longer advise indie has a certian sound so as that each and every person indie bands sound alike. form of like listening to a trumpet and a tuba. They sound in any different case. even if all those bands you suggested could properly be the comparable in time signatures, melodies, and affiliation in spite of if one be people, digital, rock, punk, or pop. each and every a style of bands you suggested ought to play one yet another's songs. even if, case in point, comparing Vampire Weekend to Van Halen is a competelly distinctive attitude musically. i think of you ought to cmpare Mars Volta to Van Halen, which replaced into the Prof's factor above. certainly one of my favs, the Magnetic Fields, play an excellent form of song some people, some new wave, some punk, some digital, some disco, even if, they under no circumstances completely thoroughly submerge themselves in any of those genres for any particular song. first and optimum they write an indie song then beautify it with another song stylings yet no longer adequate to alter the form. that's rather frustrating to describe. Sorry, yet this clarification has each and all of the similarities of a ghost tale.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    9 years ago

    Because being 'indie' is now fashionable in the mainstream.

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  • 9 years ago

    Indie who? ;)

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