Crossword clues for indie
indie
- Art house film, usually
- Without traditional backing
- Unaffiliated, briefly
- Unaffiliated with any major
- Unaffiliated with a major label, briefly
- Unaffiliated pop group
- Typical Sundance film
- Typical Sundance entry
- Typical film festival entry
- Type of rock or film
- Type of film, e.g
- Type of film at Sundance
- Type of band not supported by a major label
- Trade word for non-affiliated producer
- The movie "Wordplay" is one
- Sundance flick
- Sundance film
- Sundance Festival entry, often
- Small-scale film company
- Small-budget movie, informally
- Small-budget film, usually
- Small studio's output
- Rock without a label
- Privately made film
- Privately financed film
- Parker Posey movie, often
- Out of the mainstream, say
- Opposite of mainstream
- Not signed to a major label, as a band
- Not from a studio
- Nonmainstream, as movies
- Non-studio production
- Non-studio movie, for short
- Non-studio movie
- Non-major-studio movie
- Non-mainstream film
- Many an entry at the Sundance Film Festival
- Many a film festival contender
- Low-budget pic, maybe
- Like Modest Mouse and Cake, at one time
- Like many low-budget horror films
- Like many hipster bands
- Like many films shot on iPhones
- Like many docs
- Like many a low-budget film
- Like bands that aren't on a major record label
- Like a small music or film company
- Label like Matador or Merge
- Killers "It's ___ rock and roll for me"
- Inexpensive film
- Film that's not produced by a major studio
- Film not from a major studio
- Film made on a shoestring budget
- Film festival selection, often
- Film festival flick, often
- Film festival fare, often
- Film festival entry, informally
- Film festival entry
- Film at a film festival often,
- Common film festival film
- Common film festival entry
- Bookstore that's not part of a chain, for short
- Art movie, often
- Any Sundance Film Festival entry
- Alternative music, now
- (Pop group) not affiliated with a major record company
- (Pop group) not affiliated to a major recording company
- (In films or music) group not linked to a major company
- ''Wordplay'', for one
- Unaffiliated record company
- Film not made by a Hollywood studio
- Art film, often
- Not one of the majors
- Film festival film, often
- Nonstudio film
- Sundance entry, often
- Many an art film
- The movie "Wordplay," for one
- Many a film festival film
- Non-Hollywood, say
- Kind of rock or label
- Art house film, often
- Any movie at the Sundance Film Festival
- Sundance Film Festival entry
- A pop group not affiliated with a major record company
- Musical genre that's piano driven on occasion
- Cool stop for non-mainstream band
- Style of music
- Small record company
- Not with a major label
- Not belonging to a major recording company
- Popular bar that's seedy boycotting very non-mainstream company
- Pop music style
- Pop genre
- Peter out to follow popular musical genre
- Autonomous island nations almost free of The West
- Trendy end to this music
- Unruly mob lacking leadership, ending in disarray
- Rock genre
- Low-budget film, often
- Many a low-budget film
- Non-studio film, for short
- Like some films
- Small movie
- Like some record labels
- Private film producer, informally
- Non-studio film, briefly
- Low-budget film
- Unaffiliated, informally
- Sundance Festival film
- Sundance entry
- Not from a major studio
- Non-studio, for short
- Non-studio pic
- Non-studio film, informally
- Many a Sundance Film Festival entry
- Many a low-budget flick
- Hardly major, as record labels go
- ___ Rock Pete (Diesel Sweeties character)
- Sundance showing
- Sundance entry, usually
- Small-studio film, informally
- Small-budget film, often
- Small studio production
- Privately made movie
- Privately financed movie, for short
- Outsider film
- Not from a big studio
- Not a big-studio film
- Non-studio flick
- Movie type
- Many an arty movie
- Many a Sundance entry
- Low-budget film, briefly
- Film with a small budget
- Film fest film, often
- Film at Sundance
- Common Sundance entry
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"independent record company," 1945, shortening of independent (among the earliest mentioned were Continental, Majestic, and Signature); used of film production companies since 1920s, of theaters from 1942; extended by 1984 to a type of pop music issued by such labels.
Wiktionary
a. independent; from outside the mainstream n. 1 An independent publisher. 2 A work released by an independent publisher. 3 (context uncountable English) A type of rock music, generally soft-style without screaming or aggression, mixed with synthesized music and electronic. 4 A person who listens to indie music and follows indie fashion
WordNet
adj. (of pop groups) not affiliated with a major recording company
n. a pop group not affiliated with a major record company
Wikipedia
Indie is a shortform of "independence" or "independent"; it may refer to:
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Independent media
- Indie art, fine arts made by artists independent of commercial fine arts establishments
- Indie design, for handmade products by independent artisans
- Indie literature, a book published outside mainstream publishing
- Indie social action, collections of individuals creating media for change
- Small press, a book or magazine publisher whose publications appeal to small, niche audiences, and are typically not distributed widely
- Indie comics
- Independent business (unique and not part of a chain or larger corporation).
- Independent circuit, professional wrestling independent promotions
- Independent church (disambiguation), a church unaffiliated with a denominational organization
- Independent film, a low-budget film by a small studio
- Independent soda, made by small privately run companies
Usage examples of "indie".
Indie records and sleep til eleven and not think once of hotels or scrums or the weird way your kidneys hurt after jouncing all day on a bus.
But then, he was traveling from one tropical climate to another, and he wouldn't need a shaving kit -- beardlessness was part of what made Indie men seem younger than their years -- and as for papers, those would all have been transmitted electronically.
Indie films, once the refuge of the auteur, have become little more than a farm system for Hollywood.
Nobody cared about musicianship, innovation, structure, experimentation or stagecraft: all it took was three chords and a cheery melody and these fucking morons were getting indie record deals.
At this grand janglathon, a number of unsigned hopefuls would get to share a bill topped by some more established local names, in front of an audience including several invited representatives of indie record labels.