Indie Rock History Books

[Thomas Suffocate]

I may be mistaken but I believe they did at least begin as a band on the indie circuit and didn't go major until after Parklife.

[astonished]

Now?

They were doing that 18 years ago with Blur

[faiqa c]

Ok, if you're looking for a definitive history of alternative music from 60s to present times (and this will include "indie"), look no further: this man, Piero Scaruffi (actually a real historian and not some moronic critic), has written the most comprehensive book I have personally ever seen. And the whole thing, all 550 or so pages, is up on his website:

The History of Rock Music

[| thE-paK araB roCker|]

Nope

First album came out on Food RecorRAB , an EMI subsidiary.

[AskMeStuff]

Eh, my mistake. So yeah, seems this little marketing technique's been in place for quite a while. BTW Urban do you know if Oasis were ever really indie?

[ReGgAe TiCo MaN]

go to the last page of the krautrock thread in avant garde/experimental, immediately.

[jeffroinohio]

Oasis were signed to Creation RecorRAB just before Sony bought out half of the company. But without Sony's money the label would have gone under and Oasis would never have been able to make a record.

So they signed to an indie label but released recorRAB on a label that Sony owned 49% of.

Are they indie?

I don't have a clue , i'll let everybody else argue that one

[Wilko]

http://www.nothingindie.com/