is ROCK music DEAD?

Looking at this years album releases/single releases i'd say rock music is dead in the water. Bunch of has-beens releasing albums and Hipster tween rock that doesn't count. What gives?! Anybody recommend me any music? I'm out of songs and i'm sick of listening to old stuff.

kickingcarpet

So rock music is dead because you don't like what it's become?

I think Jim Carrey's comedy skills have gone out the window, but the man is very much alive.

EDIT: How are we supposed to recommend you music when you give NO indication of what you like?

[QUOTE="lightleggy"][QUOTE="mexicangordo"] Well I am not sure if that is the reaction they would give.  But I can guarantee that if I ask a kid if they think rock music is dead.  The reaction I would get would be, "what is rock music?"

 

 

mexicangordo

On the other hand electronica....

[QUOTE="mexicangordo"]

[QUOTE="lightleggy"] Uhm you're totally wrong, most kids today love rock simply because they think it makes them unique and interesting.lightleggy

On the other hand electronica....

Most rock is bad now. Seriously, the stuff I hear on the radio rarely impresses me.

I like The Foo Fighters, The Gaslight Anthem and The Trews. None of them are releasing an album this year (I think), but they are all solid pure-ish rock.

No way. 

Born of Osiris and City in the Sea have new albums coming out tomorrow. Then we got Stray from the Path release one next month. 

And that's just the sub genre I'm keeping an eye on. Doesn't even account for all the other sub genres of rock out there.

Trail_Mix

Also how have these bands not been mentioned yet?

The Gaslight Anthem

Volbeat

Spector

Clutch

Then you have Alice In Chains, QotsA, Rob Zombie, 

Nope. Trivium's next cd comes out soon. It's gonna b epic.

[QUOTE="Trail_Mix"]

No way. 

Born of Osiris and City in the Sea have new albums coming out tomorrow. Then we got Stray from the Path release one next month. 

And that's just the sub genre I'm keeping an eye on. Doesn't even account for all the other sub genres of rock out there.

FrostyPhantasm

Mainstream rock is dead, most definitely. But there will always be a niche market for any type of music, you just have to look.foxhound_fox

Pretty much this ^

[QUOTE="foxhound_fox"]Mainstream rock is dead, most definitely. But there will always be a niche market for any type of music, you just have to look.Amvis

Pretty much this ^

[QUOTE="Amvis"]

[QUOTE="foxhound_fox"]Mainstream rock is dead, most definitely. But there will always be a niche market for any type of music, you just have to look.LJS9502_basic

Pretty much this ^

Looking at this years album releases/single releases i'd say rock music is dead in the water. Bunch of has-beens releasing albums and Hipster tween rock that doesn't count. What gives?! Anybody recommend me any music? I'm out of songs and i'm sick of listening to old stuff.

kickingcarpet

Stop listening to the radio. 

No. CKY came out with an album in 2011.

[QUOTE="FrostyPhantasm"]

[QUOTE="Trail_Mix"]

No way. 

Born of Osiris and City in the Sea have new albums coming out tomorrow. Then we got Stray from the Path release one next month. 

And that's just the sub genre I'm keeping an eye on. Doesn't even account for all the other sub genres of rock out there.

Trail_Mix

[QUOTE="Trail_Mix"]

[QUOTE="FrostyPhantasm"]how would you even explain Born of Osiris as rock.FrostyPhantasm

Actually, that's pretty much it. Rock is meant to be a vaguely defined genre. If you want more specifics, you get into all sorts of silly arbitrary genre names that most people don't care about.

Pretty much, if there's at least one guitar, plus a bass of some kind, and percussion, and there is a rhythmic flow with some kind of melody, coming from an instrument and/or vocal, then it's rock. Just about the only time that definition wouldn't apply, would be for rap music that uses rock styling for the beats. The rapping, if it's the only vocal style present, makes it rap music, and that classification overrules the "rock" title.

[QUOTE="Trail_Mix"]

[QUOTE="FrostyPhantasm"]how would you even explain Born of Osiris as rock.FrostyPhantasm

Not dead yet.

No. CKY came out with an album in 2011.

EagleEyedOne

Ew.

[QUOTE="EagleEyedOne"]

No. CKY came out with an album in 2011.

applesxc47

Ew.

I like CKY they are from around the same area as me in PA. Anybody like Soul Asylum, i always loved that band in the 90s... 

Back on topic. I guess what i'm trying to get at is I feel like rock is a genre for the older folk, it used to be everybody was listening and rocking out to some great tunes, like ac/dc back in the day but now it seems like if u listen to a new rock album ur just trying to relive life in ur old shoes or your listening to "dad-rock"....and the has-beens releasing albums like Alice in Chains, grunge music in 2013 sounds so wrong especially when its sub-par grunge compared to the 90s stuff. Old bands rehashing the same old thing again, you might as well listen to their old albums that sound exactly the same and are better.

I always had a wide range of rock I used to like say 5-10 years ago, loved anything from Slipknot to AFI to Billy Talent and many others...but it seems like all rock is dead and replaced with Auto-Tuned Pop-Rock...Like all songs are Nickelback songs now, Listen to a modern top rock station and TELL me it doesn't all sound like Nickelback rock..

"sick of listening to old stuff." Hell i can listen to the good old tunes all day long. There is always more things to hear, try blues, funk, 60s psychedelia.