History of Indie Rock

Indie rock takes its name from "independent," which describes both the do-it-yourself attitudes of its bands and the small, lower-budget nature of the labels that release the music. The biggest indie labels might strike distribution deals with major corporate labels, but their decision-making processes remain autonomous. As such, indie rock is free to explore sounds, emotions, and lyrical subjects that don't appeal to large, mainstream audiences - profit isn't as much of a concern as personal taste. It's very much rooted in the sound and sensibility of American underground and alternative rock of the '80s. Indie rock separated itself from alternative rock around the 1980s . Mainstream tastes gradually reshaped alternative into a new form of serious-minded hard rock, in the process making it more predictable.The general assumption is that it's virtually impossible to make indie rock's varying musical approaches compatible with mainstream tastes.