[DoodleBob]

Pop may have peaked and the decline of mega-bands may have ended with the Philadelphia Eagles destroying Taylor Swift’s team in the Super Bowl.

Further, with youths becoming more conservative, rock may start ascending. And yes, old people, there IS great new rock…A few years ago I posted a series of new, unreleased music that caught my ear on Bandcamp, an independent music portal where (generally) unsigned bands can post their music for purchase.

Some FReepers voiced interest in learning about more new, fresh music that isn't what Sony et al want you to hear.

Thus, for those of you who still believe in capitalism, don't like to be told what is good music, and who believe that music isn't a free good and should be purchased to, among other things, prove commerce is greater than communism, this may be a thread/ping for you.

Below is the Original collection of new tunes/bands that caught my ear, with a few updates at the end. I am not employed in the music industry and I don't make money off of these bands. I simply don't want my musical future to be a combo of vulgar pop tunes, whiny singer-songwriters, or any other form of entertainment that wants me to get an ice pick in the forehead.

Enjoy.

Album: Arise
Artist: Dan Sartain
Song: People Throwing Stones At Glass Houses

Trippy old school rock and roll that's contemporary.

Album: Delusions Of Grandeur
Artist: Delusions Of Grandeur
Song: Drinking My Life Away

Power punk guitar-driven rocker with no hope for tomorrow, the way it used to be.

Album: Beyond the Dome
Artist: Sigma Ori
Song: Beyond the Dome

Thoughtful instrumental progressive rock - a lava lamp could enhance your listening.

Album: Intra-I
Artist: Theon Cross
Song: We Go Again

Experimental electronic new jazz from London featuring THE TUBA!

Album: Kites
Artist: This Winter Machine
Song: Pleasure & Purpose

Melodic, lyrical, neo-progressive rock out of the UK.

Album: Imprints
Artist: Simeon Walker
Song: Gleam

New Classical Music! Minimalist yet tasteful piano that demonstrates that the rests are as important as the notes.

Album: Gary Bartz JID006
Artist: Gary Bartz, Adrian Younge, Ali Shaheed Muhammad
Song: The Message

Jazz saxaphonist for 60+ years Gary Bartz teams up with younger players for a contemporary yet traditionalist jazz tune.

Album: From The Basement (full album)
Artist: Delco Detention
Song: The Joy Of Homeschooling (w/ Neil Fallon of Clutch)

Straight-ahead guitar-driven rock from a 9-year old homeschooled guitarist and 49-year old father/drummer, with vox provided by a modern singer who WANTED to be on the track.

Album: Cannonball Run (full album)
Artist: The Gasölines
Song: Autobahn Outlaws

A repeat from last time, punkabilly guitar-driven rocker from Norway. Watch how fast you drive when you play this in your car. And one of the best album covers in ages.

Artist: Cosmic Order Band
Song: Let's Go Brandon

An original from FReeper Rocco DiPippo and the Cosmic Order Band. The Bidet paper mask is spectacular.

Album: Transhuman (full album)
Artist: Max Boras
Song: Absolute Power

Instrumental, progressive hard rock from a young guy who tears it up on guitar. No woke lyrics.

Album: Hang On (full album)
Artist: Scotty Saints and the True Believers
Song: Devil at my Back

Outstanding contemporary punk rock. This sounds like a Charlie Daniel’s punk tune. I’ve seen this band live and they cook.

Album: The Spin (full album)
Artist: Messa
Song: At Races

Italian mixture of prog, ambient, with metal elements yet vocals that don’t sound like the Cookie Monster.

[A Navy Vet]

THE STONES will live forever.

[Brian Griffin]

“cease to be living memories”

I have 2/3rds of a century under my skin.

[bigbob]

Well respected music expert Rick Beato did a video on the disappearance of “bands”. It happened in the early 2000s, when the number of bands on the charts dropped from nearly 150 to 3. There are reasons why.

Worth watching:

https://youtu.be/h_DjmtR0Xls

[Getready]

Who cares? A song can be made by AI. Just add a few changes and some personal tweaks. Songs used to tell stories, ask questions, and express emotions, or be an anthem.
All done already. Only differences is syncopation, layering of sounds, and reactions to things that we didn’t see before. No one has solved the age old philosophical issues. (e.g...why do fools fall in love? Why do I miss her(him) so? You cheated, you lied....etc.)
Derivative and boring, and impertinent. Too bad.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

bfl

[Paal Gulli]

It's not that there aren't any bands, it's that most acts now are solo artists or duets. Bands are being created at a far lower rate and are being increasing less represented on the charts since the 1990s.

Why Are Bands Mysteriously Disappearing?

40 years ago, nearly all hit music was recorded by bands. Now it's single digit percentages.

[Sparticus]

All I can say is I have rarely heard a decent new song on the radio in at least 10 years. Famous pop singers today just make up lyrics and melody to go with the pre-recorded tracks their managers and producers give them. I swear that some of them can’t find a note that isn’t in the pentatonic scale, and... it’s all Auto-Tuned and time corrected until the musicality has been sucked out of it.

[dayglored]

Interesting article.

I was okay with the author's overwrought vocabulary right up until the end, but "...essential soundtracks to the febrile contemporary..." did me in. "febrile"? (overheated)

Anyway, I've played rock and roll in bands for 60+ years, mostly doing covers in clubs and bars and the occasional big theater; no stadiums. 99% of the material my bands covered was originally performed by bands, not solo singers.

The 1% was in the early 70's when one of the bands had a female front vocalist who demanded that we include some solo female vocalist covers. That band didn't last more than maybe a year; she disappeared and went into theater.

[cableguymn]

Had a car come in from auction that the satellite radio still worked in.

New music sucks.

I’ll stick with my old mp3s

[Clutch Martin]

Wouldn’t it be cool if big horn bands made a comeback?

[Revel]

People producing music in their bedrooms without a real band and using auto tune do not qualify as great bands.

[BEJ]

The reason there are no bands is that the writers are all hairdressers now. A whole generation has become hairdressers now. All they can think about is the curls in their hair. I can remember the days when this wasn’t the case.

[ifinnegan]

This is pretty much incoherent writing.

[minnesota_bound]

Only 6 companies control 90% of what we see and hear.
Very few people determine what gets on tv and on the radio and big websites. You really think Taylor Swift would have been a thing in the 50’s thru the 90’s? It is all marketing now with the least talented in many cases as far as music is concern. We also see how bad the tv shows and movies have gotten too. Now throw in the AI music wave a’coming.

Rick Beato
4.97M subscribers
Why Are Bands Mysteriously Disappearing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_DjmtR0Xls

[FLT-bird]

Bands are disappearing? How about Rock? Rock seems to have disappeared about 20-25 years ago. I’d like for Rock to show up again.

[Huskrrrr]

Rock’s older brother the Blues is still going strong.

[MayflowerMadam]

There are bands now?
(There are singers now?)

[DouglasKC]

Mark for later

[packrat35]

I am a fan of The Warning. Three sisters from Mexico that can really rock and their songs are all in english.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97Pxe9KTgJc