A sub genre of Indie Rock that includes music that is lighter and less depressing than most indie rock. Typically music you can jump or bob your head to, it is the opposite side of indie than emo. Because of its first-listen appeal, this is the music that your commercial radio listening friends end up buying after they have heard it in your car a couple of times.
Postal Service, Kings of Convenience, Belle and Sebastian, Beta Band, Doves, Polyphonic Spree
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Indy 500, once the greatest spectacle in American racing, now a pale shadow of its previous glory thanks to FTG's vision.
Tony George has mucked up the Indy 497.5 so much that even the terrorists want no part of it.
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A subgenre of the indie/emo music genre characterized by the fashion style of its listeners who often wear scarfs regardless of the weather climate.
Associated bands include Bright Eyes, Modest Mouse, The Postal Service, and Interpol - to name a few.
"Turn down that scarf indie music and take off that ridiculous garment around your neck, it's 79 degrees out here for chrissake", his mom yelled.
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Short for Independent Games. These are games partially or (mostly) fully developed by unofficial game developers.
Hey! check out these indie games I got from the xbox marketplace!!!
Portal is such a cool indie game!!!
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Someone who thinks a band is automatically "bad" or "uncool" as soon as they recieve the tiniest bit of success. They will ignore that "successful" band and then rush to Pitchfork or some other snobby music site to find some obscure band to replace them.
Indie snobs think that Modest Mouse became uncool when "The Moon and Antarctica" was released; when "Float On" became a hit, indie snobs had ignored the band for quite a few years.
However, you aren't an indie snob if you hate Death Cab for Cutie for showing up on the OC. All you have is common sense.
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the next generation of indie music, complete with the synthy background and hipsterriffic clothes. Nouveau indie is the hipster-er approach at indie. Very L.E.S.
Yell, Santogold, Lykki Li, Steve Aoki, and MGMT are all examples of nouveau indie.
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Indie kids are witty, intelligent kids that wear vintage clothing and like to differ from the norm. I'm not going to give examples of what they wear, because that pretty much defeats the purpose. They wear what they want, and don't give a shit what you think.
Indies are generally happy people, mainly because their music makes you feel like spinning around in a cirle while a smiling man in a white suit throws confetti at you. Indies are very un-emo due to this, and are constantly waging a war with the over-styled emo masses due to the fact that emos stole Converse.
Their attitudes are fickle, and can be passed off as pretentious or rude if you don't get to know them. The guy or girl that stands out and acts like he's better than you, occasionally throwing out a sarcastic comment or two, will usually just be a shy indie not used to being around the wave of pop-culture-people.
Pop-kid: Look at her, she's such a bitch.
Pop-kid 2.0: I know. What's her problem?
Indie Guy: Lay off, she's just a shy Indie Kid.
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