Indie has lost all meaning.  It is like the term “rock ‘n’ roll,” in that it used to refer to something very specific.  But by now, it has become the nomenclatural equivalent of white rice – a catchall term for a style of music, a culture, a mindset, an ethic, and a growing group of record labels that don’t have major money.  However, like hippies before them, indie kids started with a beautiful vision of what music and the music business should be.  This edition of Thriller takes a look at what that vision meant when it started and what it means now through the eyes of three people who should know:  Stephen Malkmus, Steve Turner and Nite Jewel . . .

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Snarky indie kids had been dancing around it for years, but Space Ghost had the balls to say it.  When Pavement appeared on the cartoon show “Space Ghost Coast to Coast ” in 1997, the band was introduced as – and only referred to as – the Beatles . . .

In the early ’90s, a brave new world of music was just beginning to seep out of Seattle, Washington, setting angst-ridden teens ablaze with excitement.  The music was called grunge, and Steve Turner and his band, Mudhoney, were an integral part of its rise . . .