Music Style Research.

I have chosen to use the genre of Indie for my Music Magazine. I very much enjoy listening to this type of music, as well as liking the styles associated with it, from clothes to album covers and magazines.

I hope for my magazine to appear current and modern, but I don't want it to appear to cheap or manufactured  I want it to be authentic and have a genuine feel. Which is why I may use an element of Folk combined with the Indie genre to create authenticity, as I believe that Indie Rock and Alternative can appear fake. 

The Genre- Indie

Indie is the shortened version of Independent Music.The music is produced independently from the major commercial record labels, as well as any of their subsidiaries. This is often achieved by a 'do it yourself approach' to both recording and publishing of music.

However nowadays when Indie is referred to as a genre term, it may in fact be including music which is not produced independently.

Furthermore because Indie artists create a whole variety of music, these can all themselves fit into different genres.

Also people and items are often called 'indie' referring to the individuality of an action or item possessed.

Indie Artists

The Wombats, Two Door Cinema Club, The Vaccines, The Libertines, The Strokes, and Friendly Fires.

The Wombats.

The Genre- Folk

Folk music includes both traditional folk music  as well as the genre that evolved from it during the 20th Century folk revival.

The actual term first came about in the 19th century, though is often applied to some music which is older than that.

Folk Artists

Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Simon and Garfunkel, Neil Young and Eva Cassidy.

 Joni Mitchell.

The Genre- Folk

Indie folk is a music genre that arose within the 1990s from many singer/songwriters in the indie rock community who were influenced by the folk music scenes of the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s, as well as country music and indie rock.

Indie Folk Artists.

Ellie Goulding, Wye Oak, The Lumineers, Fleet Foxes, Noah and the Whale, Mumford and Sons, Of Monsters and Men, Laura Marling, Damien Rice, Johnny Flynn, Ben Howard, Frank Turner, Florence and the Machine, Dog is Dead, Bombay Bicycle Club and Benjamin Francis Leftwich.

The Lumineers.

In Summary

Folk artists are often categorised as Indie Folk and will produced music defined as 'Indie. However Indie artists are unlikely to produce anything of a Folk style. Therefore the Genre's do form a joint genre, however this is Folk Merging into Indie, not Indie Merging with Folk.

Meanwhile the styles of artists from both Genre's may be similar, as of such they are not mainstream.