Basics of Indie bands and the Artic monkeys.

Many Indie bands relied on word of mouth and touring in order to get there selves well known and make people want to listen to them. New technology has allowed this easier with Artic Monkeys for example who were an independent band for their first two albums they publicised their selves on the internet. I may therefore in my magazine talk about how the artist had made their sleves big through putting their music on sites such as myspace or other internet sites.

. The history of Indie Music dates long back in 1960’s. The format of the music then was pop, rock and roll and a slight dash of R&B. The lyrics of the songs were inspired by peace, love and anti-war thoughts. 

Indie music has been around much longer than 50 years. The main type of music that was associated with pop, rock and roll and every now and then little bits of R&B. This gave indie music a different type of style to what had been before. The lyrics of Indie songs were often about love, peace and anti war thoughts. This gave the indie style a kind of hippy style who loved many things. This therefore means that they were normally not associated to much with violence. However recent Indie bands such as Artic monkeys have challenged that notion with songs like Balaclava where they talk about doing illegal acts for fun and Ritz to Rubble when they talk about anti-social behaviour of a bouncer.