mmm, kind of. Maybe 'alternative' is the wrong word, because it can honestly mean anything, but there's a definite (even if it's narcissism of small differences) genre-in-terms-of-fanbase there - stuff favoured by CTCL-as-was, maybe DrownedInSound as well. Your mathrocks and the like, that can be occasionally co-opted by more mainstream indie or indie-rock (eg biffy clyro), but they exist as their own self-contained world.
Am tempted to call it more... America-facing, or America-centric, by which I mean that not only are more of the bands from the US but also the basic set of accepted influences, the history they're working from, isn't that of british indie or even of the Big Indie Names. It *is* all the Slint and the Fugazi and the whatnot.
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Date: 2005-07-25 12:49 pm (UTC)Am tempted to call it more... America-facing, or America-centric, by which I mean that not only are more of the bands from the US but also the basic set of accepted influences, the history they're working from, isn't that of british indie or even of the Big Indie Names. It *is* all the Slint and the Fugazi and the whatnot.
So, yeah, the indie of indie.