‘Indie' or not?
Ever heard of the band ‘Death Cab for Cutie'? Despite their surging popularity, they still have managed to dodge the ‘sell-out' label and retain their long time devoted fans. They are only one of the many Indie bands who have risen to mass popularity throughout the world. Indie music gains more and more exposure daily and will continue to scale the charts, but only depending on whether the bands want to keep their true identity as an Indie band. Although so many bands and artists characterize themselves as Indie, only a part of those truly deserve the title, describing an Independent label.
Indie music exists to have many different interpretations and meanings, yet the original and most accurate being that of having an independent music label. Indie music strives to separate the ‘good' from the ‘popular'. It strives to stand as not simply an ‘alternative to', but ‘independent of' the "economic and political forces, as well as the value systems and......

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