What's the most important scene in rock today?
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And where?
Montreal?
Chicago?
American music scene in general?
Britain?
Ireland?
elsewhere?
Montreal?
Chicago?
American music scene in general?
Britain?
Ireland?
elsewhere?
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we're still waiting for something to come along and captivate the world.
Or at least it will be if Godspeed You! Black Emperor ever come off hiatus and the post-rock scene gets some much needed post-explosions rejuvenation.
The most important scene is right under your nose my friend.
Stephen Malkmus
The Shins
Spoon
Modest Mouse
Decemberists
The Thermals
Heliosequence
Menomena
Viva Voce
M.Ward
Chris Walla
Gossip
The Lifesavas
When you see me on the street, yell out "FAVO!!!"
I've been to alot of Pearl Jam shows;So fucking what.
I agree. But I'm in the area so there has to be a bias there.
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2025: Pittsburgh 5/16+5/18
Honestly that is the scene now with Radiohead, NIN, The Raconteurs, and others using it in a new way.
2010: Newark 5/18 MSG 5/20-21 2011: PJ20 9/3-4 2012: Made In America 9/2
2013: Brooklyn 10/18-19 Philly 10/21-22 Hartford 10/25 2014: ACL10/12
2015: NYC 9/23 2016: Tampa 4/11 Philly 4/28-29 MSG 5/1-2 Fenway 8/5+8/7
2017: RRHoF 4/7 2018: Fenway 9/2+9/4 2021: Sea Hear Now 9/18
2022: MSG 9/11 2024: MSG 9/3-4 Philly 9/7+9/9 Fenway 9/15+9/17
2025: Pittsburgh 5/16+5/18
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This Sunday some of Oklahoma's most famous music stars, including Reba McEntire, Toby Keith and Garth Brooks, hit the stage for the 43rd annual Academy of Country Music Awards.
While those country superstars might have found their fame via Nashville, other Oklahoma musicians are finding their success a lot closer to home.
Some consider Red Dirt music country sounding, while others say it sounds like southern rock. Some say if the music needs a label to just use the word Oklahoma.
"You start in the middle, at Stillwater, Oklahoma, and you just kind of branch out in every direction," Stoney LaRue, a Red Dirt musician, said about the origins of the music.
Like many musicians, LaRue cut his teeth in Stillwater, the birthplace of the Red Dirt music scene. Along with LaRue are artists like Mike McClure, the Red Dirt Rangers and Cross Canadian Ragweed, who all got their start there. Despite budding from the same location, each band has a distinctive sound, said Brandon Jackson, guitarist for No Justice.
"The sound is different from each band to band to band. Some guys are more rock, some guys are more country, and there's everything in between," Jackson said.
Cody Canada, front man for Cross Canadian Ragweed, describes the music as a collage of many genres into one.
"It's country, folksy, it's bluesy, it's rock, and it's just blue collar music. It's a lot about the lyrics. It's a lot about the feeling of it. It doesn't have a label, I guess. It's everything from Merle Haggard influence to full blown Rolling Stones," he said.
Many Red Dirt musicians said that before they ever made it to the big stage in front of devoted fans, they were students of the recently departed Bob Childers.
Childers, whose country home was known as "The Farm", lived just outside the Stillwater city limits. He is often referred to as the "Godfather of Red Dirt."
"There were nights they'd open up what they call the ‘Gypsy Café.' There'd be nights that Jimmy LaFave, right off a tour, off a European tour, he'd come in and play the Gypsy Café. It wasn't a venue, it was just a shed. But everybody in town knew it," said Canada.
Eventually Childers left the farm, but the Red Dirt scene survived.
While Nashville has given birth to many profitable musical careers, some Red Dirt musicians are proud to stay here and measure their success in other terms than dollar signs and trophies.
"There's no real need, really I guess to say, to go out there and be out there. I mean, the scene is here, and it's growing from here," Jackson said.
Cooper said he measures success in terms of longevity.
"I measure success by, especially in this business, in art, as longevity. I wish Nashville understood what we do. I don't think that they would. I don't think they could. And if they did they'd just screw it up!" Cooper said.
These Red Dirt musicians feel they are successful without the aid of "Nashville" contracts. Bolan believes at least some of Red Dirt's success has come from the Internet.
"The growth is due in part, to the power of the Internet. It turned out that that gave us the freedom. The power is in the musician's hands again,"
biased or not, we have a truck load of good bands based in BK these days
The Dirty Projectors,The Hold Steady,Interpol,The Forms,MGMT,Yeasayer,The Rapture,LCD Soundsystem,Grizzly Bear, Vampire Weekend, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
just to name a few
When you see me on the street, yell out "FAVO!!!"
I've been to alot of Pearl Jam shows;So fucking what.
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I just got into Explosions and they are really great. Can you recommend me some other bands like them? I'm going to check out Godspeed You! Black Emperor. I'm excited about getting into the post-rock scene. It's really good.
Also check out A Silver Mt Zion, Tortoise, Set Fire to Flames, Do Make Say Think, Shalabi Effect, Hrsta and Red Sparowes.
Portland absolutely should be in the conversation, though no one city seems to be the most relevant right now. Portland is definitely holding its own, however. There isn't a Spin or Rolling Stone I've read in 6+ months that doesn't have at least one mention of a Portland band or something Portland related.
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