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?
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.
Iron Horse’s banjo picker is a monster.
Check out the Steeldrivers. They have some really good songs.
Punk, or rather, any genre that will allow younger generations to express any political views. Yes we have Bob Vylan, but this type of bands should be more mainstream (either that or I have lost touch, which I will not deny).
Folk Punk is where it’s at right now. There’s a band named “Doom Scroll” that is quite excellent.
Days N’ Daze are incredible!
Punk was never mainstream and is still very much around.
Elvis is not dead. He just went home.
Recently caught “grandson” live. Bob Vylan was supposed to be their touring partner but then… facism. They’re not traditional punk in their sound but carry a lot of those ethos lyrically. The more recent stuff is like modern rage against the machine (and the show felt like those did way back)
Anyways, it was really inspiring to see a new generation embracing those ideas and sharing in them communally.
Imo music is currently in a cool spot where every genre is viable and people always taking influence in a certain saound and making it their own. I don’t really think any genre need a resurgence. You just listen and enjoy what you like.
It also makes everything sound similar without creating defining albums of a genre. I might sound old, but to me, most new music has a pop shine to it, no matter the genre.
Everything in the mainstream goes through Pro Tools for post-prod, so the fit and finish is pretty homogeneous regardless of genre.
Best take
Get outta here with your respect and tolerance, sanity guy.
Jazz
Jazz never left.
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.
Tang-era Sogdian dance music.
Baroque.
It’s bound to come back any day now…
If it ain’t baroque don’t fix it
Art rock, or something that takes inspiration from art. Everything now mostly comes in a nice palatable package.
Late-90s/early-00s-style lo-fi indiepop with glockenspiels/Casio keyboards (or similar cheapass-sounding synths with a nicely skronky/angular timbre) and the odd trumpet/brass section
Any bands like this you suggest?
Beulah, Eggstone, Lacto-Ovo, Mid-State Orange, a lot of bands on a German label named Apricot Records
The blues
That would be so excellent! I became a fan of the blues going out to clubs: the rock bands would crank volume to painful levels and mumble the lyrics, but I could actually hear the blues, listen to the blues, grow to like the blues
Grunge
Disco
Swing!!! I don’t mind jazz with quirky time signatures, but where’s the dance gone?
Electro swing is now (still) a thing. It’s out there on the internet. As with most of these genres based on some manner of synthetic zeitgeist, be prepared to be exposed to a lot of anime tiddies in the artwork, though.
Great choice. Big Band in general would be nice, too.
I’m with the other comment, Electro Swing is very popular. If you’ve ever got the chance to go to a Parov Stelar concert don’t even think about not going! Top 5 concerts I’ve ever seen easily.
I’ve listened to a bunch of Caravan Palace, and I’m sure Parov Stelar is in some playlists. I never thought about going to a gig, I do a bunch of Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox, but they’re general jazz.
Edit, I’ve got All Night- Parov Stelar in my favourites.
Fortunately due to living in Belgium I’m in close proximity to some of the best festivals in the world. I saw them supported by a live orchestra at Dour Festival. But it was very similar to this performance a year later!
Buffa and other comic opera. More dumb plots, less experimental music!
Symphonic “Electronic” music
