ROCK IS STUCK IN THE PAST (and it's killing the genre)

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Rock is stuck in the past, and it’s a huge problem for the genre. Look at the same rock festival lineups with older bands like Disturbed, Breaking Benjamin, and Three Days Grace, or how newer artists like Greta Van Fleet emulate older rock bands. So what can we do about how rock is stuck in the past?
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0:00 Intro
2:46 Rock festivals
5:04 The problem with rock fans
8:01 Why I don’t talk about new music
9:02 Greta Van Fleet & MGK
12:04 Is the industry to blame?
16:01 “Rockism”
18:00 What do we do about it?

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20 thoughts on “ROCK IS STUCK IN THE PAST (and it's killing the genre)”

  2. I get your point, but, honestly, there are so many more rock festivals than the basic radio rock / nostalgia rock (which are basically memes) fests. For example: San La Muerte Fest in southern Texas has been gathering darker sounding rock bands literally from all over the world to perform for three days of the year. A lot of the musicians are in their 20's or so and, for the most part, the bands have been relatively new. In 2016 Belgrado (punk/post-punk band) headlined. In 2018 Canadian band Spectres headlined. The other day I went to a packed venue to watch a younger band called Twin Tribes performing live. A few months ago I saw two back to back packed shows from Nox Novacula. I know some teenage skaters in my area who have their own 80's style hardcore punk band. While touring with a German horror punk band I got to see so many young horror punk bands play with them. You can actually find a lot of great rock music of various genres if you venture away from the trendy mainstream shit that's a lot easier to notice these days thanks to the internet and social media.

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  3. Great take on the current state! From my experience most people dont want to search for new bands and unfortunately get stuck in the past. Since you have a huge platform what if you made a series of videos called "if you like this band listen to these bands" or maybe a series featuring a new artist profile of the month. Would be interesting to see the views on a series like this.

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  10. Looking at the lineup for the mexico city festival the Pantera just announced made me think of this video. Scorpions, KISS, megadeth, mercyful fate… these ppl are senior citizens

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  18. My one savior is that more niche genres like techdeath, deathcore, progmetal, and Metalcore are getting renaissances much like they did in the 90’s, with new bands like Lorna, Archspire, ERRA, and Fallujah doing great things and getting pretty big for it

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  19. This video sums up so good why I lost interest in rock, metal and punk a while ago.
    I discovered rock music when I was 13 years old and it was soooo awesome. It meant all the world for me and I was on dozens of festivals and hundreds of live shows. But now I am 34 years old and every time I listen to rock (or metal or punk) it feels like kinda stuck in the past.
    So more and more I turned my back to this genre and started to listen to techno, hiphop and even pop stuff. Not because I am a traitor but because music is supposed to be fun and I don't really have much fun any more with rock that's frozen in time forever…

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