Anything on the radio, or about the radio, isn't Indie rock.
MTV = not Indie rock.
MTV2 = not Indie rock.
Anything sponsored by a radio station isn't Indie rock.
You might as well lump Pink and Lindsay Lohan in there with the Killers, if they're supposedly Indie.
I'm done with my rant.
I love the Flaming Lips. They were indie rock back when indie rock wasn't sponsored by Mountain Dew and the Vans Warped tour.
I'm sorry but I hear this sort of thinking too much. Maybe it is me caving to the reality of Lindsay lohan/Brittany Spears radio but to call them the same is disingenuous and stupid. There IS a difference between Pink and The Killers.
How they came up, what they play, how they sound etc. Actually, I give quite a bit of credit to Pink for doing music she wants to do. In a world where P. Diddy makes up a band on a TV show, they suck horribly then STILL GET PLAYED on VH1, the Killers ARE INDIE.
Maybe the paradigm has shifted, but thinking like that is what made Krut Cobain commit suicide. He laid a trap for himself. He said anything commercial sucked and then suddenly tons of people liked his music. Did that make him commercial? No. He still had cred and his music spoke for itself.
Rant over. BTW: I love the Flaming Lips too but they are in the same category as the Killers (and they've sold their music for advertising) so off the high horse, sir.
It's all subjective, I'm not on any high horse.
Maybe you hear it too much because it's true.
There certainly is a difference between Pink and the Killers. Pink is only played once per hour on the radio, the Killers twice (three if we're lucky!!). Indie rock, by definition, exists in the independant music subculture, I guess I get lost somehow when linking Viacom/MTV's Times Square offices with an independant music scene/subculture.
The Killers and their synthesized music just don't fit into the Indie Rock classification, in my opinion.
You can say what you want about the The Flaming Lips of today, in my earlier post I referenced them in the past, as in the early 90's when I was going to see them, and bands like Husker Du, and Bob Mould, and Dinosaur Jr at the Bottleneck. Those bands, at that time, represented what independant music means to me, so when I hear someone say that the Killers are Indie, it doesn't click to me. Again this is a subjective arguement, my definition obviously doesn't match yours.
