I used to understand what “Indie Music” was supposed to mean: artists that weren’t signed. But I’ve noticed that meaning has changed. Now, indie bands are actually signed to labels. “Indie” has become a sonic and visual signature rather than an indication of the band’s career status.
Why am I thinking about this? Well, it’s because all these “Indie Music” sites are friending Hung Dynasty on MySpace. Obviously, they didn’t bother to listen to the songs or look at the photos.
See, we have guitar solos. Our drummer uses a double-bass pedal (and actually hits his drums hard). None of us wear skinny jeans, guyliner or a silly haircut (aside from my just having plain ol’ long hair). So really, there’s nothing anything “Indie” about us. Except for being unsigned, which is really what “Indie” should be rather than a code word for overly sensitive, lo-fi, jangly, cutesy three-chord semi-rock.
