indie

Meanings

Adjective

• Independent; from outside the mainstream.

Noun

• An independent publisher.
• A work released by an independent publisher.
• A type of rock music, generally soft-style without screaming or aggression, mixed with synthesized music and electronic.
• A person who listens to indie music and follows indie fashion.

Origin

• From independent, by shortening. Used of popular music since the 1980s, and of cinema for some decades before that.