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Indie (short for “independent”) began as music made and released outside the major-label system, where a DIY ethos shaped everything from songwriting and recording to artwork and touring.

Indie rock is a subgenre of rock and a branch of alternative rock that coalesced in the early–mid 1980s around independent labels and DIY practices in the United Kingdom, the United States, and New Zealand.

Rock is a broad family of popular music centered on amplified instruments, a strong backbeat, and song forms that foreground riffs, choruses, and anthemic hooks.