If someone was a precursor of indie music, that was the Californian Stephen Malkmus, Pavement alias, in the early 90's. Malkmus began his career in independent rock, or alternative, and folk mixed with other ingredients. Without it, presumably others had not taken the same path. Dare, often wrong, and here he is, with one song best of his legacy: Range life, a satire on the concept of the American Midwest to settle down and raise your children in range, ie, in those vast plains of central North America, inhabited by people highly peculiar whose only reading, in many cases is the Gideon Bible, that they have all the hotels and motels in USA so that guests revel. Life on the plains, "the heart of the country."
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