landfill indie

landfill indie
 n.— «Not sure how Stone Roses can be called landfill indie. Landfill indie to me means fairly non-descript generic guitar bands that don’t stand out from the others. Hardly the Stone Roses.» —“Landfill indie” by Simon Ford The Word (United Kingdom) July 23, 2008. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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