Or as Ryan Reynolds so hilariously put it in the movie Deadpool, “I’m gonna do to your face what Limp Bizkit did to music in the late 90s!” So it’s mostly just a style of music these days, but personally, I think it’s a pretty wonderful style.Īnd it exploded with a vengeance with the garage band Rock revival around the turn of the millennium.įeel free to disagree with me, but mainstream Rock music really needed something drastic to happen I could have counted the new Rock bands I listened to then on one hand. Some of those bands include The Cure, The Smiths, R.E.M, and Pixies, all of which have had huge success either underground or in the mainstream. In fact, another term I’ve heard, College ( radio) Rock, might be a little better: music that started in the 1980s that was mostly for young and hip listeners, complete with its own fashion and loads of gnarly attitude.
Indie Rock is a type of music that has really outgrown its name at this point.īecause a moniker that started to describe bands that put out albums through “independent” (small) record labels, doesn’t really fit anymore.
