What makes an indie band

Indie bands have the potential to produce music independently, many indie bands work their way up through doing live gigs, so for an indie music video it is common to include some shots of a live performence, indie/rock are the main audience that attend gigs so including some of this footage gives the audience what they want. Indie music will generically consits of guitars, drums etc, so showing the band playing these instruments in a music video shows that the music matters just as much as the vocals to this genre of music, it creates the image that they are professional about their work and differ from say a pop band, as usually a pop video will not show the band members playing guitars, because pop music does not rely on such instruments, because they make a song recogniseable as indie/rock. Bands such as'Arcade Fire' experiment with instruments generically used in other genres as music, such as the use of harp and vioilins. This is called hybrid genre, however doing this is also quite recogniseable as an indie/rock trate at present as more indie bands are experimenting with this to show their individuality.