One of the main reasons that people think rock music finally reached its end is due to the decrease in the number of bands currently making popular music. Together, they were regarded as gods. Despite the immense fame acquired by the Beatles, none of the band members could achieve that level of notoriety in their solo careers. They each found varying levels of success on their own, but the band is what really drew people in. Over the past 10 years, solo artists emerged as the preferred type of musician.
Meanwhile, the bands that were once so integral to rock music gain less and less popularity. Of course not. Mike Smith May 12, Share on facebook Facebook. Share on twitter Twitter. Share on linkedin LinkedIn. Rock and roll music is dead. Go to mobile version. And yet, with no fuss or bluster, and more than a month prior to the release of their debut album, Anthem Of The Peaceful Army , the young rockers have already sold out two nights at the Kentish Town Forum in November A third night was added, with a slew of other UK dates not far behind.
Could they actually be the saviors of rock that the media, and, indeed, festival promoters, are so desperate to find? With album sales seeing a steady decline in recent years, it may stand that Michael Jackson will never lose the accolade of biggest-selling album of all time. Rock music lives on in spite of cultural trends, which is exactly what all of the above bands exist to rebel against.
Will any of them be headlining festivals in ? If only we had a time machine to find out. Listen to the best rock songs on Spotify. It just names a bunch of mediocre bands of moderate notereity who have identical sounding roots rock sounds with one post grunge band thrown in for good measure.
Rock N Roll creative hights was from, to They were just getting going around the time you said creativity was ending. Rush was creative on every album all the way to the last. Only to close minded Spotify people. There are tons of great rock out there, you have to find it. Judas Priest is still around. You just confirm what I feel about rock music, and I still love it and listen to it. But it hit a creative dead end some time around Musical innovation now comes from genres such as jazz, electronica and hip-hop, and there are signs that hip-hop is running out of creative energy.
How can one leave out Mark Knopfler. He is one of the greatest rock stars alive and ever. Heis so consistent over 40 years and his varied music is so tasteful.
I love the old hard rock the kids today have know idill what real rock is about. I ask someone to play me some ZZ top and then they ask me who. Not surprisingly a lot of musicians have long since retired or died. As mentioned in the article the lack of radio air play has hit the genre hard. There is a lot of rock bands out there on the small gig circuit, all of which are desperately trying to get that big break.
Sadly thee days, a lot of broadcast music is limited to DAB frequencies. And even then they are not all available on just one broadcast. Let it go. Just be glad there are still kids out there trying. Just do it from the heart and not for the money. Uhh, ive played guitar for almost 20 years and while ive accepted im probably not going to reignite the fire of quality impactful meaningful music i also know that none of the pitiful carnival bands listed here will either.
They arent even in the ballpark of good memorable music. This was more of a list proving rock is dead and i mean that with all my heart. With each mention more doom filled my spirit and forced out the last bit of denial. Even as a longtime Gaslight fan I could concede to being outmatched. To a generation raised on Snapchat filters and vape tricks, of course this seemed like the more attractive option.
Even Galantis, who played on the same stage as Gaslight a few hours prior, drew a more substantial crowd, despite being, as far as I could tell, the Hoobastank of EDM.
Their act was two identical, but not biologically related, men with presumably functional microphones hyping the crowd up for 45 minutes while foot high flames shot out of the ground. It sounds like a commercial for a cool product. The coveted youth demo is currently being advertised to more than ever before. Ads are fucking everywhere, and pop music is no exception.
Companies are marketing so aggressively to younger listeners that branding and its feel-good lifestyle pitches seem omnipresent, which explains why popular music, objectively speaking, sucks ass. To borrow a joke from John Mulaney , every song is about how tonight is the night and we only have tonight.
Kids want familiarity. Kids want music to dance and take drugs to.
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