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Just a look at the history of the whole punk,indie,alternative movement.We will broudcast from here soon.
The term indie rock, which comes from "independent," describes the small and relatively low-budget labels on which it is released and the do-it-yourself attitude of the bands and artists involved. Although distribution deals are often struck with major corporate companies, these labels and the bands they host have attempted to retain their autonomy, leaving them free to explore sounds, emotions and subjects of limited appeal to large, mainstream audiences.[1] The influences and styles of the artists have been extremely diverse, including punk, psychedelia, rock and country.[2] The terms "alternative rock" and "indie rock" were used interchangeably in the 1980s, but after many alternative bands followed Nirvana into the mainstream in the early 1990s, "indie rock" began to be used to describe those bands, working in a variety of styles, that did not pursue or achieve commercial success
Before the term alternative rock came into common usage around 1990, the sort of music to which it refers was known by a variety of terms.[3] In 1979, Terry Tolkin used the term Alternative Music to describe the groups he was writing about.[4] In 1979 Dallas radio station KZEW had a late night new wave show entitled "Rock and Roll Alternative".[5] "College rock" was used in the United States to describe the music during the 1980s due to its links to the college radio circuit and the tastes of college students.[6] In the United Kingdom, dozens of small do it yourself record labels emerged as a result of the punk subculture. According to the founder of one of these labels, Cherry Red, NME and Sounds magazines published charts based on small record stores called "Alternative Charts". The first national chart based on distribution called the Indie Chart was published in January 1980; it immediately succeeded in its aim to help these labels. At the time, the term indie was used literally to describe independently distributed records.[7] By 1985, indie had come to mean a particular genre, or group of subgenres, rather than simply distribution status
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_rock
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