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The Next Big Thing
Tom:
The third band is pretty awesome can't so much for the second though.
Shadows Collide:
As long as people don't treat that dance music (Muscles, Daft Punk, Girl Talk etc.) as anything more than it is eg. dumb yet enjoyable electronic sounds that shouldn't be treated on an intellectual level AT ALL. Daft Punk have some really great songs, but it irks me how much music in general is being molded around that kind of music. In 2008 it could "take over" and distract people from good bands that don't follow this trend.
I don't "hate" it but we shouldn't overstate what it really is.
jeph:
Personally I am much more interested in dance/electronic/computery music than in indie rock nowadays. I don't know if it's a sign of the times, I am just one dude. But I feel like electronic music and more extreme things like various metal subgenres are a lot more vital than your average indie rock band nowadays.
Postrock seems to be a genre of ruts: first everyone was aping Tortoise, now they all seem to be aping Mono/Explosions in the Sky/Mogwai. I cannot wait for this to change or for me to be proven wrong.
Those guys who write for tinymixtapes seem to pop huge boners over anything labeled "psychedelic" so I am guessing that is the next big trend within indie rock itself, if it hasn't indeed already happened. Plenty of bands I dislike (Animal Collective*, Devendra Barnhart) and bands I like (Besnard Lakes) are pretty heavily psychedelic.
*Full disclosure: I still like Feels a lot.
mfpole:
Indie (pop) is definately gaining popularity in my area. Feist is pretty popular, as an article was written about her in my school paper (but that's not saying too much, the paper also had an article on Deerhoof, but I was the one who wrote that, hmm).
What NRB said about the labels creating an image of "Indie" is pretty true. Here, its definately treated like its own genre, which makes it pretty hard to explain what kind of music I listen to.
And as for this Indie being a Big Thing, there are some examples. Modest Mouse's latest album debuted at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The Shins and Arcade Fire both debuted at #2. Man, Modest Mouse was even on a Kidz Bop cd.
Jackie Blue:
--- Quote from: jeph on 30 Dec 2007, 19:03 ---your average indie rock band
--- End quote ---
What is an "average indie rock band"? Indie rock is not a genre, and I certainly haven't noticed any trend for there to be an "average" indie rock sound. Out of all the albums I've heard in the past couple of years, relatively few of them could be said to really sound a whole lot like the others. Maserati sounds nothing like Broken Social Scene; Wolf Parade sounds nothing like M83; Boris sounds nothing like Tapes 'n Tapes, etcetera.
I haven't noticed this on a local level, either. Apart from shitty highschool bands, all the local bands here have pretty damn diverse sounds.
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