Indie Rock Genre Information

Genre Info

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Indie rock was formed as a sub-genre to alternative rock and was established in the 1980s. The creation of the genre has helped to create further genres such as; indie pop and jangle pop. As grunge and punk bands in America became mainstream, British bands also began to break through onto mainstream music. The bands that broke through in the UK were deemed to fall into the indie rock category. In the mid-1980s the term “indie” was being more commonly used to describe the music produced on punk and post-punk music labels. Indie rock began to grow in the US through college radio playlists, bands such as the US’ R.E.M. and the UK’s The Smiths. The 1990’s saw major changes to the rock scene. Bands such as Nirvana and Green Day in the US and Blur and Oasis in the UK brought alternative rock to the mainstream. In the 2000s the internet allowed underground bands like The Strokes to gain mainstream commercial success. The garage rock revival in the 2000s led to bands such as The Artic Monkeys, The Libertines and Kaiser Chiefs. 

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DigiPaks

Digipaks

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•          A digipak is a patented style of CD or DVD packaging, and is a registered trade mark of AGI
•           Are designed to fold up into a square CD case. They can fold into many different ways and can have different amounts of panels
•           The front and back panels are the main promoters of the CD and are very much used to draw in in the customers
•          The front of digipaks tend to have a large eye-catching picture on them
•          The picture illustrated on the front panels tend to have some relation to the songs or the artist
•          The song/album title is also found on the front panel
•           The back contains the track list, barcode, album artwork, record label and any extra information
•           Inside a digipak there is a plastic holder for the CD itself
•           A lot off plastic holders nowadays are see-through with another piece of album artwork behind which goes with the rest of the packaging
•           Digipaks come in all different styles and designs. They vary in artwork, number of panels and types of fold.

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