I guess "indie" is such a broad term that you could be swimming in guitars or never hear them. Most/many of the independent bands and artists around me have at

I guess "indie" is such a broad term that you could be swimming in guitars or never hear them. Most/many of the independent bands and artists around me have at least some (if not mostly) guitar-based music in their repertoire. If I just go by the bands I saw at a local camping/music festival this past summer, probably 85% of them at least featured a guitar and more than half were some variant of the typical guitar/bass guitar/drums/keyboard setup. Granted a lot of them do weird, unholy, and awesome things with those traditional rock band setups but they're definitely around in the indie world even while the pop world finds studio samples, synths, sequencers, and DAWs to be more efficient at producing guaranteed radio/club hits.