Indie rock

 Alternative rock
Stylistic
 indie pop
origins
 post-punk

 college rock

Cultural Late 1970s to early 1980s, United

origins States and United Kingdom

Derivative
Chillwave
forms
chamber pop

Subgenres

 Emo

 math rock

 noise pop

 post-punk revival

 sadcore/slowcore

 shoegazing

Fusion genres

 Alternative dance

 alternative R&B

 grindie

 indie folk

 new rave

Other topics

 Britpop

 DIY ethic

 hipster

 jangle pop

 lo-fi

 noise rock

 post-rock

 timeline of alternative rock

Indie rock is a genre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom in the 1970s.
Originally used to describe independent record labels, the term became associated with the
music they produced and was initially used interchangeably with "alternative rock".
As grunge and punk revival bands in the US, and then Britpop bands in the UK, broke into
the mainstream in the 1990s, it came to be used to identify those acts that retained an
outsider and underground perspective. In the 2000s, as a result of changes in the music
industry and the growing importance of the Internet, some indie rock acts began to enjoy
commercial success, leading to questions about its meaningfulness as a term.
Sometimes used interchangeably with "guitar pop rock",[1] in the mid-1980s, the term "indie"
(or "indie pop") began to be used to describe the music produced on punk and post-
punk labels.[2] Some prominent indie rock record labels were founded during the 1980s.
During the 1990s, Grunge bands broke into the mainstream, and the term "alternative" lost
its original counter-cultural meaning. The term "indie rock" became associated with the
bands and genres that remained dedicated to their independent status.[3] By the end of the
1990s indie rock developed subgenres and related styles including lo-fi, noise
pop, emo, slowcore, post-rock and math rock.[3] In the 2000s, changes in the music industry
and in music technology enabled a new wave of indie rock bands to achieve mainstream
success.[4]