What is the difference between an indie band and an emo band? Has the definition!
Question: I remember going to punk rock shows in the mid-late 90s and emo then was skinny boys in tight jeans with black-rimmed glasses singing whinily to fast drum beats (like Promise Ring). Someone once described it to me as emotional punk. Is it the same now? And if indie describes a distinct sound, and not just a record label, what is that sound and do you like it? Thanks. :)
Answers: I remember going to punk rock shows in the mid-late 90s and emo then was skinny boys in tight jeans with black-rimmed glasses singing whinily to fast drum beats (like Promise Ring). Someone once described it to me as emotional punk. Is it the same now? And if indie describes a distinct sound, and not just a record label, what is that sound and do you like it? Thanks. :)
A lot of music we refer to as "emo" nowadays technically isn't emo. People tend to assume "emo" is short for emotional punk, but it's actually "emotive punk." Indie music is basically stuff like The Killers, The Bravery, Silversun Pickups, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs and their drummers usually have very limited drumkits, usually 4 peice sets, and the guitars usually have a more clean tone. Indie tends to be very simple musically, which is why critics often consider it as not a musician's genre. Synth is also common in Indie. Personally, I can't stand how popular both emo and indie have become, but there are a few exceptions: The Used is a good live band and their singer is one of the few, if not the only, real modern rock n roll personas in the emo genre; I liked some stuff from The Killers, and their attitude seems to be refreshingly less humble than their fellow indie counterparts. I know that if I looked really hard I might find a few others that I'd like, but I'm very dissatisfied with most popular rock in general now.
emo is an emotional person who changes their mood constantly and cut themselves it is probably different from 1990's
Yes, emo definitely refers to different music than it did in the 90s. In the 90s it was all fast punk-ish Bad Religion, Promise Ring, Pennywise-ish. Now emo is used to describe Fall Out Boy/My Chemical Romance-style music and its resulting haircuts. (There was pre-90s emo too, and I think you could blame most of that on Husker Du.)
An indie band, traditionally, is one that is not signed to a major label. Emo bands can be signed to whatever label will have them. You could have an indie emo band. A band's emo status doesn't necessarily relate to its indie status.
The definition of emo music has definitely changed from the '90s. I think emo is a subgenre of punk, but emotional punk is not it, because it's short for "emotive hardcore".
An indie band has to come from an independent label, and emo bands can come from any label. That's probably the biggest. Indie music doesn't have a specific sound, even though most would assume that rap can't be indie.
Originally, indie music was the opposite of mainstream music, and so just like mainstream music, you can't generalize what indie music sounds like....well, maybe more real in the fact that they don't have all the technology and equipment mainstream music has.
Back in the 1980's "emo" was used to define a genre named "emotive hardcore," which was basically hardcore punk with a more artistic and melodic touch.
Now, "emo" is used to define two things.
1. A fashion style also known as "fashioncore" and "haircore."
2. Pop-punk, metalcore, or nu-metal played by people described in the first defenition.