How indie-rock clothing has changed over the past 25 years

Here are four artists that come under the indie-rock category, to the left is 'The Kooks', to the right is 'The Killers', in the bottom left is 'The Kinks' and in the bottom right right is the 'Beastie Boys'. As you may be able to tell medium-long hair styles tend to be the main presentation of indie-rock bands. Clothing changes depending on what sort of style that the band go for. In these examples, the 'Beastie Boys' are all dressed in matching urban street gear (tracksuits, flat caps, high top trainers) This matches the sort of style of sound that was on the album shown where it brought together the best of the 'Beastie Boys'. 
Whereas 'The Kinks' in the bottom right are all wearing matching tailored suits because this was the sort of style that was popular back in the 1960's, although 'The Kinks' are not actually an indie-rock band, some of their songs such as 'lola' and 'you really got me' both have the same sort of sound that was then introduced massively in the 80's. 
'The Killers' really are just a very plain dressed sort of group, same as 'The Kooks'. However because of 'The Killers' success when it comes to selling records, dress sense was not the issue, however what we can pull together from the picture in the top right is that they are wearing dark clothing which was fairly popular when they were first coming in. 
Finally in the top left 'The Kooks' carry the same band representation style that the beastie boys did. However now the clothing style has obviously changed, to a more casual clothing sense. Also with 'The Kooks' they are the only band who have people smoking on the front cover, showing how popular it has now become over the past 10 years.

Storylines In Music Videos

In the indie-rock genre there are two real storylines that stick out. This is either a video of the band/artist when they are playing the song live for example 'Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie' which is a live recording of them on Venice Beach, California. 

Newer artists may go for a completely different storyline which goes with the lyrics, in examples that I have already used for this blog, 'Beastie Boys - Sabotage' tells the story of the band as detectives tracking people down. Because the music is high tempo and edgy, they can use a load of different effects in their video to enable them to make the most of the chase scene in the video. 

The same goes for 'Ed Sheeran's - A-team' This however narrates the story of a girl addicted to drugs, living on the streets of London. She tries to sell magazines for money, only managing to sell one to the artist of the song, Ed Sheeran. The girl struggles so much that she decides to sell her body, to earn money. It provided an income in general for the young woman. Later on, the pain became too much to bear and she just wants to end it all. This goes with the lyrics from the song as well, "...and in a pipe she flies to the motherland." which indicates her giving up and smoking drugs to enable her to end her misery and be free.