Who are the next great ROCK (alternative,pop etc) band in the U.S, today?

Katzenjammer

ScotInAmsterdam wrote:

It's not happened in the last 50 years, and I think it's unlikely to happen in the next 2. Until that crunch of the guitar or bonham esque drum sound stops mainlining adrehnalin or testosterone or whatever it is straight to where it counts there will be a place for that combo. What people do with it is another matter, people have managed to continually reinvent it for 50 odd years and I really don;t see it changing.

Saying that I think you are right about sigur ros etc, as they change what is acceptable to do with the canvas, but wiping it away completely is modernism, which has never sustained success in any art form.

Hear hear: though I would like to see a less vocal-centric trend in rock, the big three instruments (and four if you count keys) will not go out of style for many, many years.

Strangest Tribe

If Meg doesn't tour anymore, WS fans are going to follow Jack to his next project most likely the Raconteurs. I could see them developing a huge following, especially if they incorporate WS songs in their set lists. This could happen in less than 2 years.

tonadax

how many bands from 80's to 00's had combined an good Mainstrean image/public with good music and excellent live perfomances like most of 70's bands? no so many....

PJ, U2, STP, R.E.M, QOTSA, RATM, Others?

Duder5k

It ain't happening this decade. When will the current trends finally die off already? 2011? Are people gonna keep sending this rap/pop/emo shit to the top of the charts well into the next decade? This is like waiting for a show you really hate to get cancelled already. I mean it happend with The O.C., surely it can happen with Fallout Boy!

BinGnarly

ive been wondering this myself. Being only 20 years old ive been waiting for a band to come out during my generation that doesnt suck. I hated school dance because of the music. It was ll horrible music (dont get me wrong I still had fun) But eh horrible crunk rap and just shitty pop tunes...What the hell happened to good music?????

DaytimeDilemma

The Mars Volta.

Anon

i don't get the exposure to new acts like i use to for some reason. maybe i do but i just hate everything out there right now. i am actually very content on discovering bands that broke up in the 90s and the early 00s that i missed the first time around:
Botch
Smile
Hum
Far
Only Living Witness
Milligram
Faraquet
Kyuss
The Refused
Snapcase
Tree

i've read most if not all of the posts in this thread and my take on everything is that in this day and age of Myspace, iTunes, Limewire, SoulSeek etc we'll never have an act as big as the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Stones, Floyd, Nirvana, PJ. the record companies either aren't signing quality acts or are just not promoting them or the public just doesn't care about rock music like they use to. seek out what you like and turn as many people onto them as you can. boards like these are a wealth of information.

JaneNY

tonadax wrote:

how many bands from 80's to 00's had combined an good Mainstrean image/public with good music and excellent live perfomances like most of 70's bands? no so many....

PJ, U2, STP, R.E.M, QOTSA, RATM, Others?

Others = NIN

Rock Fossil

Problem these days seems to be the record companies are run by bean counters and CEO's that want "safe" recording artists rather than nurturing talent or trying anyone the slightest bit risky. Hence they only sign bland artists who all sound the same, and the ones who may present something fresh get no exposure at all.

Take a look back on one of the bands that have been mentioned a few times in this thread: Pink Floyd. They put out a number of rather "interesting" albums especially in the Sid Barrett years before they had the commercial success with Dark Side of the Moon. They would be seen as too much of a risk these days so would be overlooked before they had a chance to develop. Look at the battle that even Uncle Neil had with a record executive that just wanted commercial albums from him.

Geez these clowns who are running the record companies even cracked down on guitar tabs on the net. Surely this was a chance for young musicians to learn from what the big acts were doing and develop their own style from there.

The record companies are run by people who love the dollar not the music, and if they had been running the business in the past many of the great albums would never have been made.