As a novel BBC series charts the era of bands such as Buzzcocks and labels such as Rough Trade,leading figures of the genre discuss how indie evolved – and recommend artists that embody its spirit todayMusic genres these days are tricky to define. Pop lurches from chewy bubblegum to artfully polished gloss. Rock can be dirty or slick, electronica minimal or maximal. And along then comes indie, or your dictionary explodes.
BBC4 is coming to the rescue with a novel,three-part series, Music for Misfits: The Story of Indie. It explores how artists broke absent from the majors in the 1970s, and starting doing it themselves,setting up novel avenues of production, distribution and artistry. It investigates whether that spirit has changed (short reply: steady indie will never die), or what happened when its makers went mainstream,and what form independence takes now in our digital century.
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Source: theguardian.com