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Originally Posted by vanblah
What indie bands do I like? I guess I'll plug my own band here: Chess Club. We recorded our first full-length in a major studio with a major engineer. We paid for it ourselves, we maintain control of our publishing and we're obscure and unsigned. I guess that makes us independent but our sound may not be "indie." |
Hey. . .I grew up in Memphis. Where did you record, Ardent?
As I'm sure you're well aware, many well known "indie" artists have recorded at Ardent: Will Oldham, Jeff Buckley (though his indie status is debatable), and The Grifters come to mind right off hand. The Flaming Lips NEVER spared expense in recording even when they were barely scraping by. Steve Albini continues to record indie bands in his Chicago studio, and post-rock acts like Tortoise actually often build their own studios and spend countless hours flushing out their compositions in the studio.
I agree with you this point: "Indie" was a term used to describe a band whose label was independently owned (if they had a label at all). It has come to describe more of a philosophical approach to how music is composed, and the degree to which you do or do not use slick production effects.
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Originally Posted by punkmusicfan21
"Lazy vocals" wasn't a shot at the genre; the vocal style of the genre for the most part is sung with a stumbled croon.
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"All my favorite singers couldn't sing." -Dave Berman/Silver Jews