Lofidelica Ingredients

Indie rock is like pornography in a way: most people can't tell you exactly what it is, but they know it when they see it. Er, hear it. It's loud and obnoxious (or quiet and polite), careless and sloppy (or meticulously composed), complex and pretentious (or simple and unassuming), and, to its fans, cooler and more relevant than any other style of music.(Epitonic)
Lo-fi from "Low Fidelity" describes a sound recording which contains accidental artifacts, like distortion, or environmental noise, or a recording which has a limited frequency response. This stands in contrast to high fidelity or "hi-fi". Lo-fi music is a musical genre which uses lo-fi recording practices. The aim is to sound authentic, rather than over-produced. Many lo-fi artists use inexpensive cassette tape recorders for their music.
During the late '80s and early '90s, lo fidelity became not only a description of the recording quality of a particular album, but it also became a genre onto itself. The term came to refer to a breed of underground indie rockers that recorded their material at home on four-track machines. Initially, lo-fi recordings were traded on homemade tapes, but several indie labels — most notably K Records, which was run by Calvin Johnson, who led the lo-fi band Beat Happening — released albums on vinyl. Several groups in the late '80s, like Pussy Galore, Beat Happening, and Royal Trux earned small cult followings within the American underground. By 1992, groups like Sebadoh, Eric's Trip, Guided by Voices and Pavement had become popular cult acts in America and Britain with their willfully noisy, chaotic recordings. A few years later, artists like Liz Phair and Beck helped break the lo-fi aesthetic into the mainstream, albeit in a more streamlined fashion(Lo Fi music @last.fm).
Anti-folk, on the other hand, is a DIY folk movement, that originated in the mid-1980s in New York City, lo-fi aesthetics combined with lucid lyrics is what characterizes this movement...Some of the more important artists in anti-folk are Major Matt Manson, Moldy Peaches: Adam Green and Kimya Dawson, Toby Goodshank and Jeffrey Lewis, most anti-folk is under the wing of olive juice recordings...
Alt country, is basically country, only it doesn't involve a wife beating redneck (which is the general impression), but cute guys like Conor Oberst(Bright Eyes), and beutiful poetry like Jeff Tweedy's (Wilco)...It often includes experimenting with the traditional idea of what country should be about, best example for this is Howe Gelb(Giant Sand)...
And finally, Shakira is spanish...I think...