Indie Bands

As long as there has been recorded music, there have been independent singers and bands working outside the mainstream—recording for small, regional record labels; touring a fringe circuit of nightclubs; sleeping on floors to save money on the road. Devotees claim that their music—made without commercial pressures and free from the control of corporate executives—is better than that produced by bands recording for major labels, even though (or maybe because) it isn't nearly as popular. Few would...