Indie music (disambiguation)

"Indie music" is a shorthand form of "independent music" that loosely describes music that is produced without the assistance of major commercial record labels or their subsidiaries.

Indie music may also refer to:

  • Indie dance or Alternative dance, a musical genre that mixes alternative rock with electronic dance music
  • Indie electronic, a style of indie rock and electronic music that originated in the 1990s, also sometimes known as Indietronica
  • Indie folk, a style of folk music from the 1990s
  • Indie hip-hop or Underground hip-hop, an umbrella term for hip-hop music that is outside the general commercial canon
  • Indie pop, also known simply as "indie"
  • Indie R&B or Alternative R&B, a style of contemporary R&B music that combines elements of R&B with pop, rock, hip-hop, electronic, soul, funk, indie, and alternative rock.
  • Indie rock, a style of alternative rock from the 1980s
  • Indie rave or Madchester, a style of indie music from the late 1980s and early 1990s

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