I too am disheartened by the current staleness of music, but there are a few shining lights. My buddy turned me on to "The Tallest Man on Earth", and "Florence & the Machine", Kings of Leon seldom disappoint, and though it's not really new, I still can't get Pearl Jam's "Backspacer" out of the rotation.

cage the elephant

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Favorite bands:

Melvins
The Jesus Lizard
Cows
Big Business
R***man
Minutemen
Flight
Minor Threat
Big Black
Shellac
Karp
Scratch Acid
Wipers
Pixies

The Subways.

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Rated "M" for meaty.

I really dig "This is country music" as well. It has a great feel to it and sounds like an oldie. I missed out on a chance to see him a few months back and still regret it myself. The guy is phenomenal. Easily my #2 current favorite guitarist of the younger guys. I'd love to hear him and Joe Bonamassa go back and forth sometime.


As soon as I find some of those tracks I'll be sure to send them your way Bob. I am already looking forward to his next tour, I am going to try to catch 3-4 shows in a row if possible.

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Blues with a feeling.

GUILD GUITARS: MADE TO BE PLAYED!

When we were young we had new music from the Beach Boys, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Zep, The Who, The Yardbirds, The Kinks, The Doors, Allman Brothers Band, Little Feat, The J Geils Band, Jethro Tull, Moody Blues, Grateful Dead, etc. All distinctly their own sounds. It was the golden age of rock.

What artists/bands are going to be still active and out there recording and
gigging to sold out shows, say, 30 years from now?

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Being able to play and enjoy music is a gift that's often taken for granted.

Don't leave home without it!

Its hard to say, the longevity of an artist/band isn't so much to do with talent as it is to do with relationships between involved parties, and how fickle the demographic at which modern music is aimed is.
Art isn't permanent anyway.

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Rated "M" for meaty.

ok i know he's joking but you all seriously have to watch this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWe07krS8_E&feature=channel

It's a refreshing version of a lady gaga song. it will be worth your time, i would say.

aside from that most good label released music died around 1991. even though i'm young the 40's to the late 70's was the best.

Modern Day music, since 2007, has offered me a classic used to save those annoyed everywhere: Suicide

It sure must suck to be jaded and bitter. I'll never know.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTrs6xsdG6c

back to your bridge troll!

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Favorite bands:

Melvins
The Jesus Lizard
Cows
Big Business
R***man
Minutemen
Flight
Minor Threat
Big Black
Shellac
Karp
Scratch Acid
Wipers
Pixies

He's hardly a troll.

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Rated "M" for meaty.

What's the matter Floyd? Things aren't going well in Mayberry? I'll send Opie over with a slice of pie for you.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTrs6xsdG6c

FLASH: We interrupt this disagreement to bring you these salient points . . .

I am so thankful to have grown up in the late '60s and early '70s to experience the great music be made during those turbulent times (and I was too young for the draft ). To Mike's point, there is still some good music out there except you have to be proactive and look for it. They don't play it on the radio anymore for the most part. In this day of the DIY artist, the field is cluttered with wannabes (like me) so you have to look harder. I use YouTube, Amazon, the AllMusic Guide and other sites to discover new music.

Now we return to your regularly scheduled thread topic.

I found Benzos (I found free mp3s on the Gibson site), Three Mile Pilot, Conspiracy of Owls, The Black Angels (I'm getting into neo-Psychedelic), Black Diamond Heavies, Kick the Cat (jazz), Black Moth Super Rainbow, and many more.

I found the Black Keys online about a year before they got popular. You never know what you'll find . . . if you look.

Wolfmother.

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Rated "M" for meaty.

There's a lot of good music about if you get about to gigs and don't listen to chart music shows.

Some favourites of mine from england at the moment....

Frank Turner (I like a dude and a guitar, warning though, there is some very bad language at the start, we're talking the C word so just a heads up, don't wanna shock anyone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeyqN8IEIvg

I also like Enter Shikari, people either seem to love them or hate them, I love them, they have done well for themselves, I remember 5 or 6 years ago playing to 100 people in a local club, then I saw them 6 months ago supporting The Prodigy to 65000 people. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9055NLRl-6Y

I like the sounds of Mumford and Son's too, a refreshing change in the manufactured garbage of the charts. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLJf9qJHR3E

Ok and now to throw a spanner into the works with a music genre almost no-one on a guitar forum is going to enjoy I'm guessing :p DANCE MUSIC. Say what you want about these DJ's and MC's but they have talent, sure not the type of talent many people enjoy. These inner city grime MC's are able to make up song verses on the spot, thats not something your everyday person can manage, that comes from living the music and focusing everything on it. Plus a lot of them are using real drummers and guitarists in the music.

Just because I fancy abusing peoples ears I will now post http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2Uwu5GR3eI



When it comes down to it when you get outside of the manufactured rubbish, you might not like what people are making as music now but they are giving it their all and music has changed. The Beatles have been done, rock and roll is incredible but is there any need for modern music to use the same formula and stagnate itself, after all some of the greatest songs of all time have been written in those genres, surely it's a good thing for music to evolve and try and reach new sounds and write new great songs.

I mean how many times can you write music for the same genre before it's run it's course.

It's easy to look back with rose tinted glasses too and forget the garbage that was written then too.

I guess as I ramble on aimlessly that what I'm trying to say is that because you don't like the music doesn't make the artists devoid of talent, they are trying new things and creating some awesome new sounds, tons of people like it, tons don't, but the talent is there.