Been listening to ARCADE FIRE, MODEST MOUSE & EAGLES OF DEATH METAL.
I usually hear lots of people complain how terrible music is now but I beg to differ. This is a list of excellent music of the last Decade give or take. Add to the list if you so please::::
(3 previously mentioned)
Jello Biafra w/Melvins
Arctic Monkeys
She Wants Revenge
The Bravery
Interpol
LCD Soundsystem
Placebo
Death Cab For Cutie
Foster The People
Muse
The Lumineers
The Naked & Famous
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
The Shins
Veruca Salt
White Stripes (not exactly new but recent enuff)
The Strokes (same applies here)
The Black Keys
Trivium
Devo (comeback)
Cradle Of Filth
How to Destroy Angels
NIN (yes, not new but still worth mentioning)
Atticus Ross & Trent Reznor Film Scores
Mumford & Sons
Beach House
Queen of the Stoneage (I know it’s not new but they’re still just as vital now as ever)
On the poppier side:::
Katy Perry
Justin Timberlake (yep, he’s not new at all but I love his ass)
Lady Gaga
The Dresden Dolls
Taylor Swift (yes, I know how awfully queer it is to list her but I can’t help it, she’s a sweetheart)
Pink (not exactly new but she recently impressed me so again…)
And although she’s older than God, she still has the goods so I must say: the almighty immaculate MADONNA…she’s indubitably a living legend & Monte Pittman (who was briefly in Ministry) was yanked back into her band when he strayed.
Good going Lady Madonna, you saved Monte from the clutches of mediocrity…God Bless~~
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The Soft Moon
Wild Nothing
DIIV
Caveman (the s/t 2013 album, their first album was too hipsterish)
Cocksure
Geometric Vision
Soft Kill
Ballerina Black
Chain Wallet
Soft Metals
School of Seven Bells
Skeleton Hands
Screen Vinyl Image
White Car
Tropic of Cancer
Parallels
Phosphor
LowCityRain
Lazerhawk (more for a laugh, think '80s video game/cartoon soundtracks)
Hammock
God Is An Astronaut
Legends
A lot of these bands have that early-80s post punk/synth sound. Bands on the Captured Tracks label tend to make good, modern music without getting too folky or hipsterish.
Ahhh, good call.
I only bought the latest new album “Meliora” (found it mis-priced for $1.99) but I like GHOST too.
New albums I buy, as a general rule, are just new albums by bands that have already been around for 20-50 years.
Oh, wait . . . that being said, WARBEAST is from the last decade, and I love them. That’s kind of a cop out, though, as it’s old school buddies of mine from other Texas thrash bands (Rigor Mortis, Gammacide, etc.) that I’d already known and loved.
I just have no interest anymore with staying current or in-the-know regarding current acts. If I hear something on the radio and I like it, great. It’s not likely going to inspire me to buy a CD or anything, though.
Grimes
EODM
Queens of the Stone Age
Skitliv
1349
Khold
Pale Sketcher
Darling Kandie
Cocksure
3TEETH
Clunge
Arbitrational Asshole
Jesus & the Dinosaurs
Did is Dead
Butanna
Flytraps For Supper
Plenty of great new bands out there.
Go to the “best of the year” thread and read my list for a lot of them that I don’t feel like typing in write now.
Ironic as it may be, the broadband internet era was a major setback to my picking up on “new” bands (I’m going to be generous and set the “new” boundary marker for acts that formed around the dawn of the 21st century).
I got back from the Czech Republic + Poland around 2004 and was suddenly struck by how none of us had a good internet connection there - I found out about Soulseek and immediately turned my attention to finding all the cool obscure flashpoints that I missed out on from genres that I like, and also downloaded hours’ worth of stuff like Coil live shows, things that had only been released on cassette and never got into wider distribution, etc…so where I should have been expanding my ‘new band’ repertoire, I was instead getting a more complete picture of those cultures that I’d already determined to be good.
It’s also tough when so many of the people who really helped me find my niche in the mid-late 90s are still making great music. To be sure, a lot of those people have fallen the fuck off, but still plenty of my favorites from that so-called 90s “post rock” boom like Kevin Martin, Robert Hampson (Loop / Main), Mick Harris, Aphex Twin etc. are still going strong and thus lessening my curiosity about true newcomers.
Having said all that, I will admit that I think the genres of techno and metal are more interesting now than they ever have been. I have no idea about current hip-hop; I really liked the way things were going near the turn of the millenium but I think the garbage in the mainstream now is giving me a false impression that there’s not as much good activity in the underground.
I don’t even know what’s new.
Nu-metal, for instance.
I still think of this crap as “new” (I tend to view “awful” and “new” as synonymous terms).
But most of it is 15-20 years old now and I don’t know if the “genre” is even current or relevant anymore.
I always get confused when people (always younger than me, of course) talk about KoRn, Marilyn Manson, or Rob Zombie as “old school” and such . . . . but then I sometimes do the math and realize that they are, in fact, talking about stuff that’s 20 years old.
Anyway, I’m old. I really don’t care to try and be anything else. I’m stubborn and closed-minded, and really don’t have the patience or desire to give anything new a chance even.
If I catch an opening band by accident, or stumble across something on TV or Internet or radio . . . so be it. But I’m not actively looking for anything. I think between 1950 and 1990 there has been quite enough to keep me occupied and happy.
I don’t really listen to any new bands either. My new stuff is usually a band i’ve never listened to before, and i go back and listen to their old albums and whatever they bring out after i get into them. I’m 39 now, and for some reason i just can’t really have any respect for a band with people younger than me. It’s weird that most of the music i like these days is by people aged from their early-mid 40s to their 70s. The damned new whippersnappers have no place in my ears [:)]
Amen.
I’m exactly the same.
Getting into something “new” is not about finding an actual new band. It’s like when I started listening to W.A.S.P. a few years back. “Damn, I didn’t realize how great this was! I need to buy everything now!”
Amen.
I’m exactly the same.
Getting into something “new” is not about finding an actual new band. It’s like when I started listening to W.A.S.P. a few years back. “Damn, I didn’t realize how great this was! I need to buy everything now!”
Kind of new to me, but . . . . certainly not new.
It’s fun to get into a band’s back catalogue too, especially if they have quite a few albums. Much better than hearing an album and waiting 2 years or more for the follow-up, which may turn out to be shite.