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Ska. It's been way too long since the last Reel Big Fish album.
And goldfingers music: "Here I ammm, doin everything thing I cann, pretending I'm a super maaaann!"
There's plenty of 4th wave going on right now. Plus RBF ain't coning back, Aaron got weird. I'm pretty sure he went the way of Dicky Barrett.
Punk, or rather, any genre that will allow younger generations to express any political views. Yes we have Bob Vylan, but this type of bands should be more mainstream (either that or I have lost touch, which I will not deny).
Punk was never mainstream and is still very much around.
Recently caught “grandson” live. Bob Vylan was supposed to be their touring partner but then… facism. They’re not traditional punk in their sound but carry a lot of those ethos lyrically. The more recent stuff is like modern rage against the machine (and the show felt like those did way back)
Anyways, it was really inspiring to see a new generation embracing those ideas and sharing in them communally.
Where's my 4th wave of ska??
Dave Rogers tried to bring it back at one point too, he released bossa nova versions of some of his most popular songs but I don't think they took off as well as they should've
Trip-hop
Swing!!! I don't mind jazz with quirky time signatures, but where's the dance gone?
Electro swing is now (still) a thing. It's out there on the internet. As with most of these genres based on some manner of synthetic zeitgeist, be prepared to be exposed to a lot of anime tiddies in the artwork, though.
I'm with the other comment, Electro Swing is very popular. If you've ever got the chance to go to a Parov Stelar concert don't even think about not going! Top 5 concerts I've ever seen easily.
I've listened to a bunch of Caravan Palace, and I'm sure Parov Stelar is in some playlists. I never thought about going to a gig, I do a bunch of Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox, but they're general jazz.
Edit, I've got All Night- Parov Stelar in my favourites.
Fortunately due to living in Belgium I'm in close proximity to some of the best festivals in the world. I saw them supported by a live orchestra at Dour Festival. But it was very similar to this performance a year later!
The blues
Baroque.
It's bound to come back any day now...
I might like some bluegrass. Iron Horse is a bunch of middle-aged white guys that cover Metallica. Well, that's where they started, but they've expanded.
Creeping Death sounds like something you'd hear in a one-room Kentucky church. Enter Sandman is delightful.
Late-90s/early-00s-style lo-fi indiepop with glockenspiels/Casio keyboards (or similar cheapass-sounding synths with a nicely skronky/angular timbre) and the odd trumpet/brass section
There's some great modern jazz coming out of Japan these days. Check out the likes of:
- Hiromi Uehara (and the Trio Project)
- Takuya Kuroda
- Sinsuke Fujieda Group
Also, UK too, check out the Ezra Collective.
Plenty of modern jazz out there, it's just not mainstream anymore.
Edit - forgot about Ibrahim Maalouf. Dude is incredible on the trumpet. Between him and Kuroda, trumpet jazz is alive and well.
Jazz never left.
Every genre is deeply connected to the time it appeared and the events that shaped it.
I don't expect punk rock to have a resurgence any more than I expect disco music to come back. They had their time and function. They will influence new things to come as did all the stuff that came before.
Having said that, I expect everything will become a mishmash of AI slop, so who knows?
Not really waiting, but it would be nice if people could recognize composers that have been building upon the ideas set forth in the Classical era to this day.
Metal. Actual heavy metal. Not eyeliner and painted nails metal. I guess it was never really mainstream so maybe not a resurgence.
I thought metal was more popular than ever. Maybe my perception is skewed because I've been going to plenty of metal festivals in recent years, but all the subgenres have representation from what I can see.
Actual heavy metal. Not eyeliner and painted nails metal.
No love for Twisted Sister and WASP?
If you have some examples, I might have some recommendations. Mainstream popularity is a weird thing now as there are more listeners for every genre. Metal is where I have spent most of my life being a fan so I may have something in the bank you’d like.
Dope! Thinking music like Death.
Here’s a couple to try!
Gruesome - they fully embrace that era and ape it pretty well.
Cryptopsy - a bit more tech death but lots of that Chuck style guitar work.
Tomb Mold - these guys rip live, are named after a bloodborne item and make sweet ass old school death metal.
Undeath - another band that keeps the classic death metal spirit alive. The production on this album is pure early 90’s Florida. They also fucking destroy live.
Cheers! Hope you enjoy.
Clowncore. We really need to have a clowncore band in Eurovision.
Rock in the west! I don’t mind Japanese though. Jrock is huge right now. Japan picked up what the US dropped and left on the floor. Currently listening to LiSA. Listened to the new Survive Said the Prophet earlier. ONE OK ROCK and The Sixth Lie are my usual go to. And my second favorite singer is ReoNa (behind Enya who is Irish).
Nu-metal & Nu-rave purely to see what they call it
Dubstep. Like, the kind that was super popular in 2010. It'll probably be another 15 or 20 years before it's sufficiently forgotten that the kids can properly rediscover it.
I used to say "indie rock that isn't bland pop music" but then Will Wood came along
Art rock, or something that takes inspiration from art. Everything now mostly comes in a nice palatable package.
It's not really a weird question, is it?
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