Indie Vs Emo
Many often confuse the modern Emo and Indie music scene, but little do they realize they are completely different. Between the sense of fashion style, the history, and the musical culture these genres are as different as day and night. Emo being derived from the word Emotional has a more sensitive, but commercial style, while Indie derived from the word independent stands for the modern independent music scene. Although emanated from each other, both musical scenes have taken a completely separate path from each other.
The Indie kid often has a disheveled appearance. Their hair has a modified, greasy bed head look. They can be found wearing undersized t-shorts that look as if they could be found in thrift stores, but are not in fact …show more content…
One of the earliest influences of the Emo culture came in the early 90's from the California Bay are. The band was called Jawbreaker. It incorporated the brute force of hardcore music of the west in with the sensibility of the pop punk music in the east. Around this time Fugazi took the Indie underground scene by storm. But the Indie genre of music had been around for many decades before this. It rooted from Velvet Revolver in the 60's. They incorporated social realism in the world and created the element of punk. Punk in the 70's became a bit more mainstream, and broke off from the independent music scene. It left post-punk bands behind to the Indie scene such as Elvis Costello and The Talking Heads. Soon these bands got airplay and soon became old news. In the 80's, Indie turned its ear to music only college radio stations would play such as U2 and R.E.M. These bands then became a bit to mainstream, and the Indie scene took a darker turn and began listening to grunge bands such as Nirvana. That too even became too popular and Indie once again took another turn to Fugazi. Combining Fugazi with post-punk bands at the time such as Mission of Burma, the genre of Emo soon dispersed. Bands such as Sunny Day Real Estate popped into the scene having this mixed hardcore/pop punk sound to them. Throughout the 90's bands related to the sounds of Sunny Day Real Estate, and branched into two different scenes. The Emo bands had a …show more content…
It's basically the Warner or Sony records of Indie music, and it has about 40 bands on its Roster. For the independent music world, this label is huge. Bands of this label include Pavement, Catpower, Neko Case, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Mogwai, and Bella and Sebastian. Other major modern listened for the Indie scene include Aloha, Antelope, Joan of Arc, Owen, The Appleseed Cast, The Afghan Whigs, Architecture in Helsinki, Built to Spill, Girl Talk, and many others. Coachella is major Indie festival that happens once a year in California where one would find many of these bands and
The Indie kid often has a disheveled appearance. Their hair has a modified, greasy bed head look. They can be found wearing undersized t-shorts that look as if they could be found in thrift stores, but are not in fact …show more content…
One of the earliest influences of the Emo culture came in the early 90's from the California Bay are. The band was called Jawbreaker. It incorporated the brute force of hardcore music of the west in with the sensibility of the pop punk music in the east. Around this time Fugazi took the Indie underground scene by storm. But the Indie genre of music had been around for many decades before this. It rooted from Velvet Revolver in the 60's. They incorporated social realism in the world and created the element of punk. Punk in the 70's became a bit more mainstream, and broke off from the independent music scene. It left post-punk bands behind to the Indie scene such as Elvis Costello and The Talking Heads. Soon these bands got airplay and soon became old news. In the 80's, Indie turned its ear to music only college radio stations would play such as U2 and R.E.M. These bands then became a bit to mainstream, and the Indie scene took a darker turn and began listening to grunge bands such as Nirvana. That too even became too popular and Indie once again took another turn to Fugazi. Combining Fugazi with post-punk bands at the time such as Mission of Burma, the genre of Emo soon dispersed. Bands such as Sunny Day Real Estate popped into the scene having this mixed hardcore/pop punk sound to them. Throughout the 90's bands related to the sounds of Sunny Day Real Estate, and branched into two different scenes. The Emo bands had a …show more content…
It's basically the Warner or Sony records of Indie music, and it has about 40 bands on its Roster. For the independent music world, this label is huge. Bands of this label include Pavement, Catpower, Neko Case, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Mogwai, and Bella and Sebastian. Other major modern listened for the Indie scene include Aloha, Antelope, Joan of Arc, Owen, The Appleseed Cast, The Afghan Whigs, Architecture in Helsinki, Built to Spill, Girl Talk, and many others. Coachella is major Indie festival that happens once a year in California where one would find many of these bands and