I can accept this but it makes me impossibly sad. Rock N Roll is dead. Long live Rock R Roll.

Is rock music still being made? Honestly I'm having a hard time thinking of any recent band of note but maybe that's just my age.

And we wonder why the world is falling apart...

Rock is in the corners now. It's heading the way of Jazz at great speed.

It's certainly a wonder to me. Today was band practice day. "One Headlight" (Wallflowers), "Girl's Got Rhythm" (AC/DC), etc. Rock will never die as long as I'm around, but it looks like it's gradually heading to at least niche status in the face of the kind of music that Millennials and younger folks seem to prefer.

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"Politics is just show business for ugly people."

Oh, it's around and doing just fine. You're just not looking hard enough if you're having a hard time finding stuff.

Is real rock doing as well in the mainstream? Nope, because what you see in the mainstream is heavily curated.

But rock is far from dead.

As long as young kids like these continue popping up and making real rock, then there's always hope: :-)


Greta Van Fleet - Highway Tune - YouTube

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"Politics is just show business for ugly people."

These kids, Dan Auerbach, Royal Blood, Patrick Sweany, Jack White, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Nathaniel Rateliff, and more...rock ain't dead!!

Yeah, I just read somewhere (the internet) that Jay-Z passed the Beatles in record sales or something. I'm not a huge Jay-Z fan, but it just shows you the state of music in the world. The Beatles have been replaced by total garbage.

We used to sale out staduims.

I would have guessed that happened years ago. Its only rock and roll you know.

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I know. But I like it. ;-)

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"Politics is just show business for ugly people."

There is still plenty of good music out there.

USS is a Canadian band. One guy sings and plays guitar, the other guy spins a turntable. I don't know what the hell you classify it as but they're great.

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How does Danny Hart sit down with balls that big?

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In the 90s, the #1 albums seemed to always be rap albums

They are a pale, and poorly schooled, imitation of their progenitors.

Listen to the way these two groups sing with and to each other, and especially the interplay between the Temptations' Dennis Edwards and the Four Tops' Levi Stubbs -- both powerful and talented singers -- toward the end. And they deliver all that rhythm and MELODY with a healthy dose of stage presence, to boot. Plus, that backing band delivers music with a tightness today's rappers and hip-hoppers can't hope to approach without Autotune and a bunch of studio effects.


The Four Tops & The Temptations - YouTube

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"Politics is just show business for ugly people."

To hip hops credit, they are basically putting out YouTube videos with nakeder women than rock did/ does.

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Take a short break from ST and read my blog:
http://tri-banter.blogspot.com/

Check out Greta Van Fleet. I don't think any of these guys is old enough yet to drink in the US... hopefully they will stick around for a while.

Definitely rock.

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Less is more.

So we always have that going for us, which is nice. ;-)

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"Politics is just show business for ugly people."

I introduced them to the LR a few weeks ago. They're definitely RAWK! :-)

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"Politics is just show business for ugly people."

Here we go again. Seems like every summer we get a bunch of people who really are not into music saying rock is dead.

I'm still recovering from last weekend when we had the third annual music festival in town. I was one of the old farts mixed in with some 10k young kids listening to old and new rock acts. One old dude, Charles Bradley, who sang like James Brown and had a great band was my favorite. My second favorite (close call, maybe a tie) was Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats. Last year one of the best was The Arcs (Dan Auerbach).

I can't keep up with all the good new stuff coming out in album form. The music scene is better than ever. I'm fine with pop music being taken over by Hip-Hop. I'm not into pop music anyway. Rock is better now with more acts, with smaller but more devoted fan bases, and with shows in smaller venues with better sound. The death -- or decline anyway -- of the pop-rock stadium tour era is a good thing.

For those that say Rock is dead, I say that Foreigner is touring this summer with Cheap Trick and Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Experience, so go see them. If you want great rock music from the last twenty years, just open your ears.

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It doesn't really matter what Phil is saying, the music of his voice is the appropriate soundtrack for a bicycle race. HTupolev

Oh, and since we've spoken before about St Paul and the Broken Bones (who I saw first three years ago at this recent local festival), I thought Nathaniel R&NS and Charles Bradley were both better. All three have great bands, but the latter two have better lead singers IMO.

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It doesn't really matter what Phil is saying, the music of his voice is the appropriate soundtrack for a bicycle race. HTupolev