Where are the new kids????

[Intense]

I don't look extremely deep into new music but i do fairly well and there isn't any real popular rock bands coming out . sure bands from the past come out with new albums but theres no new BAND coming out. On my i-pod the newest band i have is Black Tide they just released there first album a few months ago. there are other albums that came out from diffrent bands but no FIRST albums so i am very dissapointed. sure rock is very popular in some places but the rap industry ruined music with the kind of music they put out talking about being in a gang and cursing evry other word its disgusting. theres only so much old bands can do like look at the police they just came back after 23 years and the eagles recently put out a comeback album that boosted the rock charts up a bit but those bands are legends i wanna hear some new kids destened to be Legends!!!!!

[Drama 313]

Actually The New Kids(on the block) just reunited after like 15 years and got another album coming out....lol

[frizzy_bj]

Actually The New Kids(on the block) just reunited after like 15 years and got another album coming out....lol

Are you freaking kidding me?:eek:

[Drama 313]

No actually im not joking,i saw it on the news like 2 weeks ago:

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[Shredder87]

Brendon Smalls is doing Dethklok. There's Muse.

[frizzy_bj]

That takes me back to my childhood, man. I was 9-10 years old, flipping through my massive anthology of New Kids on the Block collector cards, waving the Joey card in my friends faces because he was the freaking hot "New Kid", bugging my mom for the abundant amounts of New Kids merchandise and getting all pissy because she would say no.
Oh man, that is just groovy. I guess I am glad for them. I never saw it coming though...:eek:

[KingofQUEEN92]

There is one band who is partially in my School and they have signed a record deal in less than a year and have music on itunes so they might be climbing up quick.

[Hungryfreak]

sure rock is very popular in some places but the rap industry ruined music with the kind of music they put out talking about being in a gang and cursing evry other word its disgusting.

I wouldn't say that's a fair judgement. It's more the corporate music industry is to blame. They saw rap's growing popularity, and hopped on the bandwagon, infesting it with pop androids. Can't say I like the genre, but there's a reason why so many of those types of rap-ists exists.

[Alright_Computer]

I'd say Muse is the big one you should check out.

[Hungryfreak]

In terms of newer people, you can't really say there are any legends because a band takes years before achieving a legendary status. I think that High on Fire may end up a legend of recent years in metal, eventually. They have already made quite a name for themselves and their music is still consistently great and memorable. I wouldn't call them legends now, but I could see it in maybe 10-15 years. That's just a guess of mine, though, which definitely has some bias since I love the band, haha.

[OldFogey]

I also would highlight Muse.

Keane's first two albums are very good.

Coldplay has definitely made a mark.

Sleeper -- My Morning Jacket. Potential to grow a Dead-like following.

[Spandrel]

I think the problem is that artists are promoted differently than they used to be. In today's ClearChannel/ipod generation, it is more about the single and the artist and single are just commercial product.

It is harder for a band to really establish a unique sound and identity in a music business that is so ADHD. The commecialization of music after the big label mergers of the late 80's has just homogenized the industry to the point that it is hard for a band to release a truly great first album, give it time to slowly release 3 or 4 tracks from it, and let it grow.

Maybe as I get older, I find that I don't identify with artists like I used to, either. There are fewer and fewer artists that I really like, unilaterally and there are more and more just songs or albums I like. Artists, in general, to me, are becoming more and more interchangeable parts in the equation, which kinda' sounds jaded and pretty crappy. Sounds bad to say, I guess.

[Zidane]

Brendon Smalls is doing Dethklok. There's Muse.

It's Brendon Small not Smalls. And the man is a genius.

[Pennsylvanian]

I don't know. You have to keep in mind how music tastes change over the years. In the 50's most of the rock that achieved the most popular status was the watered-down songs that white people stole from blacks. In the 60's there was still a manufactured popular mainstream rock/pop that was still more popular than many now "legendary" bands at the time. Even if you look at some of the "legendary" bands from the 70's, almost every band then was basically copying off of Black Sabbath with the pre-metal blues rock idea, with very few artistically talented people sticking out. Almost all popular 80's music was unartistic schlock. Even the short wave of innovative 90's music was killed off pretty quickly by both imitators of the time, and by the pop/rap craze of the latter half of the decade.

Ultimately, a lot of bands aren't fully appreciated until a little bit later. People are again starting to appreciate good bands like Foo Fighters, Smashing Pumpkins, and others that seemed to be on the road to eternal obscurity. I think time and talent both play the part in a band's legacy. I ultimately expect a few bands of today going to obscurity, then 5-15 years later there is a new-found appreciation later on. It's hard to imagine bands like Fall Out Boy and Panic becoming "legendary" in a few years, but there have been worse who have achieved the title.