Comments on: Rock Music is a Cultural Wasteland

By: Blackplates

Blackplates — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 23:55:44 +0000

To each his own. I find it telling that you use “Journey” (without steve perry, who is dead)
as an example of how “rock” has fallen. Its not the fault of Bruce springsteen(another pop star). And anyone looking for something inspiring in a superbowl halftime is really quite misguided. Rock is not “dead” any more than Jazz or Classical music is dead-you can listen to the very best of it anytime you want. As for the music indistry? well thats certainly a soul killing piece of capitalist garbage, and the heart of it always was.If you havent noticed, lots of things are “dead”.Things like the US (and western European)manufacturing economy, any sense of Cultural identity (in the West at least i dont know much about asia, or care).The list is much larger and you can add your own entries as you think of them. Art itself has become trite and offensive. Look at any genre, Opera is in horrible shape. There arent any painters anymore. There is no god and the internet is its profit.

By: archetypal_diametric_paradox

archetypal_diametric_paradox — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:35:38 +0000

You need to know where to look buddy…

- Turbonegro would be a good start.

By: vincemillett

vincemillett — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:47:36 +0000

I don’t think it’s quite so bad over here in the UK but it’s still pretty bad. Rock is dead. Has been for a long time. It just doesn’t have anything to say any more that hasn’t been said a million times and usually better. Any new, creative, vibrant music is very rare in rock. To find that here in the UK, you have to move outside rock into less well-known genres of electronic music such as dubstep, where some truly innovative ideas and sound are being explored.

By: armsupdove

armsupdove — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:41:38 +0000

Nice shit analogy Jeff

By: The New Rockstar Philosophy

The New Rockstar Philosophy — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 07:17:54 +0000

Jeff you zen master! As always, you show me the wiser path. Thank you fine sir.
-Voyno

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 02:07:26 +0000

Not that I don’t agree with what you’re saying, Voyno, but the tone of your last two posts has been very negative, crass, and frankly, uninspiring (though not uninspir-ed… and, as always, well written). I check out the new rockstar philosophy to feel good about the possibilities for the future of music when so much of the focus out there is usually on the ‘death of an industry’ and those poor starving musicians and those lousy pirates and blah blah blah, the sky is falling the sky is falling. There’s plenty of negativity out there already.

Tell me about someone that doesn’t fit into the shit mold. Tell me what’s up with some bands and some ideas that aren’t reflective of this stale and dis-eased culture. It looks bad sometimes, friend, but don’t get sucked into this vacuum of negativity, distraction, and ignorance. Just my three cents: take it for what it’s worth.

By: Joe Cassady

Joe Cassady — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:06:25 +0000

I couldn’t agree more! There is good indie music out there, but even that is crowded out by the huge amount of BAD indie music that makes the good stuff really inaccessible. I dream that the music industry will make itself completely obsolete so that no one can make a living at music. Then only those with the calling will continue and we might be able to find the new Dylans and Springsteens and Roling Stones and we can finally let the old ones go!