noun a vague categorisation within rock music, familiar since the 1980s and identified as 'serious' music that is marketed as independent and non-commercial, in its bid for commercial success. Also used as an adjective UK, 1993.► the Indiethe Independent (the youngest of the UK's national daily newspapers) first published in October 1986. The Sunday edition is less well-known as 'the Sindie' UK, 2003

adjective independent US, 1928