As another Decade finally closes its doors, and another one is about to start, let’s take a look at some defining moments of the last Decade. Every Decade has defining moments, whether it is technological advances or something in the Media, or even something to do with the music of the past Decade, namely indie music.
The indie movement actually started over a Decade ago, but its popularity just seems to grow and grow, unlike the alternative rock of the Nineties, or the New wave of the Eighties, which both seemed to just die off at the start of a new Decade.
Started by young up and coming bands that wanted to be different, indie music is still as strong as it was in the early part of the last Decade. Maybe it is because of the wide variety of styles in indie music.
So what do you call indie music? It is generally associated with a band that has no ties to a corporate label, but there are now some bands about that have signed for major labels but still class themselves as indie.
Maybe it is just a case of being more creative with their style of music, and not bowing down to the sort of music that was played all the time in the top 40.
With the Artists getting more creative all the time perhaps the indie scene will be around for a lot longer than we would have imagined.
It is always a good thing for music fans when something new comes along, but in the case of indie, where there is such a wide creative scope, it seems that indie is always going to be a new sound.
Every Decade has its own music Genre associated with it, but this time it may be a case of indie being tied to a couple of Decades.