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Originally Posted by demosthenes2k8
I consider "classic rock" a different genre than "modern rock", because they sound and feel different to me. And I was using indie to mean more like "obscure", since that's how many people I know use it.
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Except "classic rock" comprises of multiple genres of rock that sound and feel different from one another. AC/DC and the Beatles don't sound much alike. Pink Floyd isn't the same style of music as the Sex Pistols. "Classic rock" is a homogenization of several distinct musical genres that all survive to this day, albeit sometimes in evolved forms.
And there are still plenty of bands who play in "classic rock" styles. There are the rather obvious ones, like Wolfmother, Jet, The Black Keys, and Airbourne. And then there are many lesser known choices, usually on indie labels. Stuff like Witchcraft, Monster Magnet, Gov't Mule, Backwoods Payback, Year Long Disaster, Earthless, etc.
"Indie" is another term that has been taken to hell and back. The usage has been so stretched that it really doesn't have any meaning anymore in terms of describing music (and even when it did, it still described multiple genres, as indie-pop isn't the same as indie-folk isn't the same as indie-rock, etc) It's still valid to mean that a band is on an independent label, but that's about it. I'd rather just describe a band with a genre that actually fits them (lo-fi pop often being a valid substitute for much of the music described as indie-pop, for example).
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