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.
tells hard stories about real life.
Don’t forget the leftist country music tradition with songs about class warfare.
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.
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.
Can’t vouch for the subgenre as a whole, but it sounds like Alt. Country/Americana largely contains stuff you’d like.
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.
It’s still out there. For one that’s specifically what you describe try Keep the Wolves at Bay by Uncle Lucius.
You might like Ryan Davis and the Roadhouse Band. Country but with clever fun lyrics.
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!”
Trip-hop
Me too!
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.
Actual heavy metal. Not eyeliner and painted nails metal.
No love for Twisted Sister and WASP?
I got love for them, but let’s keep them in the 80’s.
If you have some examples, I might have some recommendations. Mainstream popularity is a weird thing now as there are more listeners for every genre. Metal is where I have spent most of my life being a fan so I may have something in the bank you’d like.
Dope! Thinking music like Death.
Here’s a couple to try!
Gruesome - they fully embrace that era and ape it pretty well.
Cryptopsy - a bit more tech death but lots of that Chuck style guitar work.
Tomb Mold - these guys rip live, are named after a bloodborne item and make sweet ass old school death metal.
Undeath - another band that keeps the classic death metal spirit alive. The production on this album is pure early 90’s Florida. They also fucking destroy live.
Cheers! Hope you enjoy.
Thanks! I’ll check them out! 🤘🏽
Tang-era Sogdian dance music.
Grunge
Anti facist punk
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.
Symphonic “Electronic” music
I used to say “indie rock that isn’t bland pop music” but then Will Wood came along
Dominican street preacher power electronics
Whatever type of music the Little Rascals played.
Nu-metal & Nu-rave purely to see what they call it
Art rock, or something that takes inspiration from art. Everything now mostly comes in a nice palatable package.
