Anti facist punk
I am waiting for Country to finally throw off this hick ass pseudo-nationalistic redneck caricature bullshit clown suit and get back to its roots as a genre that tells hard stories about real life.
Those bands are out there, but you won’t see them in the mainstream right now. Check out the Devil Makes Three—sounds like they could be up your alley.
There’s also the part where it all sounds the same because Nashville has figured out some sort of algorithm to sell music.
You can’t tell these are all different songs.
Hayes Carll
Joshua Ray Walker
Jason Isbell
Sturgill Simpson
Tyler Childers
Maren Morris
Probably a hundred more, pretty popular but no radio play because commercial radio is nonsense and mostly commercials. But if you put the above into a streaming playlist, you will find the good country music of today.
hick ass pseudo-nationalistic redneck caricature bullshit
You mean this stuff
Don’t expect it to go anywhere anytime soon. It, sadly, seems to be one of the most popular and probably most profitable genre going right now. As others have said, the others still exist, but you gotta dive deeper. I have hated whatever this country music is forever now.
It’s still out there. For one that’s specifically what you describe try Keep the Wolves at Bay by Uncle Lucius.
My son really likes Colter Wall. He has a fun song about a coyote.
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!”
Jazz
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.
It never left but depiction is quite negative
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.
Symphonic “Electronic” music
Whatever type of music the Little Rascals played.
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.
Grunge
Tang-era Sogdian dance music.
Clowncore. We really need to have a clowncore band in Eurovision.
We had a doll from Luxembourg this year. Close enough?
Dominican street preacher power electronics
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?
no wave
Nu-metal & Nu-rave purely to see what they call it
