Rock is alive and kicking.

[Crikey]

Yeah, that's the trouble with rock/rock and roll/punk/post punk. No one agrees on the definitions.

It's cool. I'm just happy we've got new and interesting stuff coming out, whatever our tastes. There's a lot more than Tay Tay out there now.

my genre is IDGAF

 

[mickeydg5]

You're fuckin jealous !

Nope.
I figured he did not want to look too much like eddie so he decided to don a gay porn stache.

 

[speyfly]

In a world now filled with mediocre new music, rises another true rock and roll machine defining the genre we all loved and grew up on. SRB

YEAH BABY! I was there in the beginning and glad to still be in the game...

 

[mickeydg5]

Rock, rock, never stop.....................

 

[Derrick111]

I thirst for distinctive sounding new rock bands. I like checking out all these new band videos, hoping some of them slake my thirst. Sometimes, it even happens. Love it when it does.

Drink up... You're welcome.

 

[mickeydg5]

my genre is IDGAF

So, you are into synth-pop-electronic-wave-dance-rock like depeche mode?

 

[StrummerJoe]

In a world now filled with mediocre new music, rises another true rock and roll machine defining the genre we all loved and grew up on. SRB

Serious question...

Where can I get pants like those?

 

[Crikey]

So, you are into synth-pop-electronic-wave-dance-rock like depeche mode?

All that And country rap

 

[DreamerDeceiver]

 

[solarburn]

Rock ain’t dead

 

[solarburn]

It’s still rock

 

[Bull Rock]

Excellent guitar work here.

 

[Dogs of Doom]

Country rap.
Like Jelly roll.

 

[mickeydg5]

nope

 

[mickeydg5]

All that And country rap

The "establishment" is taking Country down the swirly hole just like the other main genres.

 

[guitronics]

In a world now filled with mediocre new music, rises another true rock and roll machine defining the genre we all loved and grew up on. SRB

Rock and roll!!!

 

[giblesp]

Would it matter if there were no more innovative bands? With the wealth of music that came out of the 20th C, so what?

I'm just glad I had my youth in the 90's.

 

[Derrick111]

Would it matter if there were no more innovative bands? With the wealth of music that came out of the 20th C, so what?

I'm just glad I had my youth in the 90's.

Um, hell to the yes it would matter. I can't believe anyone would even ask that question...

 

[Lo-Tek]

Um, hell to the yes it would matter. I can't believe anyone would even ask that question...

I heard a local DJ say something very similar the other day. Couldn't believe it.
I really don't envy young bands trying to create music these days- the deck is heavily stacked against them.

 

[Derrick111]

I heard a local DJ say something very similar the other day. Couldn't believe it.
I really don't envy young bands trying to create music these days- the deck is heavily stacked against them.

I don't think of it so much as things stacked against as much as things being quite different. People still like music, but they have always gravitated toward a conglomeration handing/feeding it to them. Until we collectively stop doing that, we are in their house under their rules (read they give you what they think they can make the most/easiest money on - not what's best).

Sure, it used to be that there were some better offerings by the corporations, but there has always been 70 or so percent fluff with that too. Sure you could make money selling records back then, now you do it playing shows and with merchandise. But now a band can record themselves for cheap and sound great, and they have their own platforms to put that music out to the world themselves. Very empowering! Not stacked against so much as different. The problem is, most of us (listeners and bands included) are still trying to navigate today's environment with things like finding good music ourselves, putting it out there and be noticed, and how to survive as a band making a living in the current climate.