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October 15, 2024 MUSINGS ON INDIE ARTISTS & HOW PARTY CENTRAL RADIO DEFINES INDIE MUSIC & INDIE ARTISTS

  partycentralradio.net WHAT IS THE BIRTH RIGHT AND GENERATIONAL RIGHT OF INDIE MUSIC? WHAT EXACTLY IS INDIE MUSIC? WHICH ARTISTS ARE INDIE ARTISTS?  Now please do bear in mind I stated above these are musings, so don't blame me for the long and detailed explanation here.  I get asked quite often what is an Indie Artist or more specifically what do you consider an Indie Artist to be?   That's actually an easy answer but difficult answer and this is based on my thoughts and not what the music producers, or the music critics and such in the main stream media have to say.  Indie music started off as Artists that self-produced or paid to produce their own music.   I.E., they were not signed with a label and in the beginning was more of a Indie Rock cultural feel.   A few examples off the top of my head would be would be - The Buzzcocks (The first example in the UK); The Pixies, REM, The Smiths, Fallout Boy, ..  What transpired after the orig...