Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse with sub-genres that include indie pop jangle pop C86 and lo-fi among others. Originally used to describe record labels the term became associated with the music they produced and was initially used interchangeably with alternative rock.
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