A brilliant form of music that was actually founded by music god Lou Reed with this band Velvet Underground (sorry pop-punkers but it was the great Mr. Reed who actually has talent that founded punk, not fucking GC or some other crappy excuse for a band). Other real punk bands include the Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Damned, The Buzzcocks and many more.
Lou Reed and Joe Strummer are excellent musicians. Benji Madden and the guy from Blink 182 are shit. Can't get a better example than that.
by BadLieutenant October 13, 2004
by C IZZLEG22 July 11, 2008
Alternative Rock music that didn't cross over into the mainstream(by choice or not) after the "alternative revolution" of the 90's. Typically, the music is relased on small "indie" labels. Indie Rock bands do music that doesn't necessarily appeal to wide mainstream audiences. There are a variety of reasons for this but some of the more common examples are the sound being to raw and abrasive(i.e to much distortion/feedback), the lyrics being to cryptic and abstract or the production and musicianship being to amateurish. In more recent years however some indie bands such as Modest Mouse, The Shins and The White Stripes have found some mainstream success. These bands however are still considered indie because they still have a decidedly non-mainstream sound.
90's indie rock-Pixies, Dinosaur Jr., Pavement, Superchunk, Archers of Loaf, Neutral Milk Hotel, Fugazi, Modest Mouse, Radiohead(controversially)
2000's indie rock-The White Stripes, The Shins, The Arcade Fire, Death Cab for Cutie, The Strokes, Artic Monkeys, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Subgenres
90's-lo-fi, emo(went mainstream in 2000's), post-hardcore, noise pop, dream pop, neo-psychedelia, shoegaze, indie pop
2000's-garage rock revival, post-punk/new wave revival, freak folk, new weird America, dance punk, indietronica
2000's indie rock-The White Stripes, The Shins, The Arcade Fire, Death Cab for Cutie, The Strokes, Artic Monkeys, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Subgenres
90's-lo-fi, emo(went mainstream in 2000's), post-hardcore, noise pop, dream pop, neo-psychedelia, shoegaze, indie pop
2000's-garage rock revival, post-punk/new wave revival, freak folk, new weird America, dance punk, indietronica
by Devmeister July 04, 2009
by Tila December 12, 2007
by Shane C C Parker August 12, 2007
1. A radio station
2. Short for Korean Rock
3. A rapper who used to be down with Three 6 Mafia/ Hypnotize Minds
2. Short for Korean Rock
3. A rapper who used to be down with Three 6 Mafia/ Hypnotize Minds
Person: Man I love K-Rock
Other person: ??
Person: K-Rock is hot
Other person: ??
Person: Don't front, out of all meanings of K-Rock, the third one is the most important
Other person: Hypnotize Minds BITCH
Other person: ??
Person: K-Rock is hot
Other person: ??
Person: Don't front, out of all meanings of K-Rock, the third one is the most important
Other person: Hypnotize Minds BITCH
by SyntaxE July 16, 2006
by CadiDaddy (AKA Tomas) May 06, 2003