Music Genre Research- 'Indie Rock'

As I have chosen to base my magazine on the music genre on Indie Rock I will need a better understanding of the genre therefore I have carried out some further research. I will have to research:

• The background information of the genre; when it was created, what it consists of, instruments used.


• The style, fashion of the genre; what the artists wear, hairstyles.


• Artist of this genre.

All this research will allow me to include codes of the genre in my magazine, which will appeal to the target audience.

Background Information

• Indie Rock is a genre of Rock music.
• It was created in the 1980's in the United Kingdom and then later was taken by the United States.
• Indie Rock, is often used to describe the independence of the artist, their music and the production of it. The artists are typically signed to independent record labels rather than major.
• Other names for Indie Rock or are associated with it are; indie pop, dance-punk, post-hardcore.
• Artists and Bands of this music genre usually use the instrumentation of guitars, bass guitars, keyboards and drums.

Indie Rock Trends and Fashion


To get a better idea of the fashion and style I will need to use for my magazine I have put together a collection of images of the Indie Rock fashion and trends, and some ideas I may include:

Current Indie Rock artists

I researched into current artists of this genre, I may use some of the names on my front cover to attract more people to read the magazine. The artists are:

• The Arctic Monkeys


• Babyshambles


• Bombay Bicycle Club


• Bat for lashes


• Dirty Pretty Things


• Doves


• Elbow


• Feist


• Florence and the Machine


• Franz Ferdinand


• The Futureheads


• Glasvegas


• The Gossip


• Hard-Fi


• Kids in Glass Houses


• Kaiser Chiefs


• The Killers


• The Kooks


• The Pigeon Detectives


• Owl City


• Mystery Jets


• MGMT


• LadyHawke


• We are Scientists


• The Zutons