Why is indie music popular?
When it was impossible to release a movie or record a song without the involvement of large corporations in the 1970s and 1980s, independent studios - indie studios - emerged, giving rise to the acronym indie. Today, indie rock refers to graceful, mellow, retrospective music without distortion or aggression, such as the American band The Shins. And also almost non-rock performers of melancholic ballads, like the British bands Coldplay and Snow Patrol.