Does "indie music" as a sound still, actually, exist?
No. No it doesn't.
At one point, Indie Music was a sound we all knew. It was a certain definition. Something labels would never touch. Something that, wow, gee whiz, could never be fucking Top40.
You know what happened? Top40 sucked. Record labels became the enemy. And, suddenly, "indie" music was as mainstream as Justin Fucking Timberlake.
Classifying music as indie nowadays is like calling something "pop/rock," This vague, nebulous cloud which, really, could encompass a large amount of things but, in the end, is as meaningless as Barenaked Ladies's…