OT: what new bands rock??

[AngryScientist]

The dinos of Rock thread got me thinking. The classics are cool and all, even today, and "classic rock" is still what plays on the old Sony boom box in my garage, but what's the current state of rock? Who going to be playing the Super Bowl half time show in 35 years?? I've lost track of new music, I used to drive a ton and play lots of music in the car, but I've moved away from that. Who's barely legal and rocking your playlist?

[Cicli]

Ever since Sirius XM I have no idea whats on the radio.

I am still stuck in the 80's.

[OtayBW]

Not exactly new, but I like Whiskeytown (e.g., Stranger's Almanac) for a kind of rocking alt.country sound. Ryan Adams continues to cut it up pretty good with good songs on the edgy side. Of course, I'm still happy listening to the Allman Bros, Jimi, the Byrds, etc., etc., so what do I know.........?

[awdwon]

Ty Segall is the future of rock and roll.

[gomango]

Plague Vendor.

Amazing live act.

Playing here this summer at Rock the Garden with Flaming Lips etc.

[thirdgenbird]

I guess if the yardstick is 80s or older rock, my list is sorta new (but really 10-20 years old)

Brand New
Thrice
Dustin Kensrue (lead singer for thrice)
Jack White

All have been around a while, but they are all evolving and making new stuff. Thrice has an amazing live sound. Brand New does an unbelivible show that usually sells out in minutes.


Wax on Radio did one album 10 years ago (goodness, I am getting old) but it is spectacular. These guys were in their teens and twenties.

[sandyrs]

Beach Slang should appeal to fans of the replacements.

[false_Aest]

I spent an afternoon listening to the radio. My god, the radio has gotten worse than it was when I was 15.

Lately, my morning rides have been spent listening to:

Caspian (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCbDtgbWZAs)
Pelican (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xck7KdRXdaU)
Wussy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0jNr6_sS8Y)
Titus Andronicus (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08fqHr_KGPY)
Screaming Females (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm1-bVYio1k)
Eastern Youth (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13lWmHY-nLA)
Wugazi (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA9F6FF64315A175A)

Caspian has a new album out but they're not new.
Pelican is all about imagining how to kill Orcs on horseback.
Wussy is really new to me but they've been around for a while.
Titus Andronicus is Bright Eyes mixed with east coast garage.
Screaming Females does the best cover of Taylor Swift E V E R.
Eastern Youth: I don't know what they're saying but I like it.
Wugazi: Came out in 2013 or so. Fugazi and Wu Tang Clan mashed up. This is what happens when Bernie has sex with Lil Kim and produces an album.

[flog00]

Radiohead just put out some new stuff.

[pjm]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V_ZbiN6K8NM

[jtakeda]

King gizzard and the wizard lizard (serious)

Lecherous gaze

Witch

Hank wood and the hammerheads

[gomango]

Beach Slang should appeal to fans of the replacements.

Thanks for the tip.

I toured with the Replacements on their first East Coast swing bitd.

[gomango]

Radiohead just put out some new stuff.

I'm a big fan, but I wouldn't say they rock on the new one.

Sounds fantastic so far though.

Just streaming it tonight.

[sandyrs]

Also not remotely recent (2002) but Converge's Jane Doe is an extraordinary album. Not everyone's style but it definitely is worth a listen. Probably not with the young ones around though. It's my rollers workout music.

Gleemer is pretty good for people who like Jesus and Mary Chain and other shoegaze but also appreciate "rock" guitar fills.

Mogwai continue to make really cool mostly instrumental music many albums in.

Envy is a rather intense Japanese band. I wish I understood their lyrics because I like every other aspect of their style and they were incredible live.

Lightning Bolt is probably the highest energy band I've ever had the pleasure of seeing live. Just a drummer/vocalist and a bassist.

[Dead Man]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V_ZbiN6K8NM

that was the antithesis of "rock"

[Louis]

Of course this is showing my age big-time, but for me, Queens of the Stone Age is a "new" rock band. And they've already been through a number of iterations. (don't know if they're even still together in any form these days)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkH2i0fyowc

[gomango]

If you haven't hopped on the Benjamin Booker train, I'd try his first as well.

There are some live versions of "Violent Shiver" floating around that are amazing. Imho

[malcolm]

since Merle Haggard died I've been listening to some country. I'm digging Stirgil Simpson some Paul Thorne and Margo Price.

[thermalattorney]

If you haven't hopped on the Benjamin Booker train, I'd try his first as well.

There are some live versions of "Violent Shiver" floating around that are amazing. Imho

+1 killer song from a great debut album.

Disclaimer: The songs below all rock but also all have terrible videos.

Saw Bleached (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hFYgMBDPFE) recently and they put on a solid show.

The Temples (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs4i41cOv0s)

Deap Valley (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kPP6K8SXq0)

Thunderbitch (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Setk29Hogek)

Wyatt Blair (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmN1ctAr16o)

Palma Violets (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6il1Wdqwhs)

[Shoeman]

Not really all that new but I'm kinda liking the Kings Of Leon!!!!

[djg21]

Not exactly new, but I like Whiskeytown (e.g., Stranger's Almanac) for a kind of rocking alt.country sound. Ryan Adams continues to cut it up pretty good with good songs on the edgy side. Of course, I'm still happy listening to the Allman Bros, Jimi, the Byrds, etc., etc., so what do I know.........?

Whiskeytown is not only not new, but hasn't been together for 15 years!

Ryan Adams is great! His just-released remastered Heartbreaker "CD" has some great out-takes. Cold Roses is an absolute classic album that has been likened to the Dead's American Beauty (and some of the songs have been played live by the Dead and Phil & Friends).

If you like Ryan Adam's alt-country stuff, give a listen to Dave Rawlings Machine. Dave played on Heartbreaker and co-wrote "To Be Young (Is To Be Sad, Is To Be High)" and "Touch, Feel and Lose." The other key member of DRM is Gillian Welch, who is Dave Rawling's partner. The two play and tour alternately as Gillian Welch or DRM. They are a must see if you get the chance, and they are among the best singer-songwriters performing today.

The other alt-country/Americana performer that is deservedly huge right now is Jason Isbell, who apparent is very close with Adams.

If you like Ryan's stuff with the Cardinals, the guitarist was Neil Casal, who now is in the Hardworking Americans and the Chris Robinson Brotherhood, both of which are great jam bands.

Another you might like is Luther Dickinson, and his band the North Mississippi Allstars. Lesser known of that same ilk is Anders Osbourne, who frequently plays with the NMA.

Finally, not really new, but Isbell's old band the Drive-by Truckers, which is a smart and literate guitar-driven southern rock band led by Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley, two very good song-writers. Patterson has been called the Bruce Springsteen of the South.

if you like female alt.country performers, Lucinda Willams is the undisputed queen, but there are some great new artists out there. I love Nikki Lane and Margo Price is really good, but a little more twangy.

I'm sitting here wearing my Sweathearts of the Rodeo T-shirt listening to Ryan Adams & the Cardinals. This is still my favorite Ryan Adams tune: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VmGEZDAgtHQ

[Hank Scorpio]

Sam Beam and Jesca Hoop, Iron and Wine Sam Beam so you know
Shearwater - Quiet Americans.
Gangly - Could You F*** With Someone Else
Samaris - Wanted 2 Say
Dr Dog - some hits some misses but pretty solid
Yeasayer - the new album plus the old stuff

Where you are located you should check out the WFUV show The Alternate Side 90.7 FM. They have a fair bit of repetition in their playlist but they do play some decent music. The dj's seem to rip off most of their "finds" from John Richards' John In The Morning show on KEXP.

Also if you happened to had frequented all the crappy North Jersey clubs like Aldo's, Pipeline, The Loop and Tequila Joes you really should listen to the WFMU show The Glen Jones Radio Show Featuring X-ray Burns on 91.5 Sunday afternoon 1-3. Don't bother with the podcast it never seems to work and it only has the music they play which is only about .005% of the show. Most of it is them telling ridiculous stories about growing up in Kearny NJ and the crazy stuff they got into.

[oliver1850]

Thanks for starting this Nick, as I ask the same question to anyone I come across who appears to have a handle on/interest in the subject. So far I've been mostly underwhelmed with the responses. Townshend wrote "Long Live Rock" (Rock is Dead My Friends) some 45 (!!!!!!!) years ago, but there were always new bands coming up that were interesting, even revelatory to me until about 15 years ago, when the pickings started to get pretty slim. I love some of Mogwai's stuff, but they were new in the mid 1990s. Ryan Adams, the White Stripes, and Queens of the Stone Age are in the same category. The Black Keys are probably my favorite band to surface post 2000. That's still a long time time ago. Last week I bought 40 cds of (mostly) unknown to me artists. I haven't heard them all yet, but so far nothing worth mentioning among them. I remain hopeful that there's something going on, somewhere.

[thirdgenbird]

Mark, you are a white stripes fan?!

I'm a big fan. Jack's solo stuff is well worth the listen if you haven't gotten that far. I own it on vinyl.

[exapkib]

Only 'new' in the context of this conversation, but we've been listening to:

--The Kills

(add Jack White and you get the Raconteurs, another great band for noisy music.)

[djg21]

since Merle Haggard died I've been listening to some country. I'm digging Stirgil Simpson some Paul Thorne and Margo Price.

The new Sturgill Simpson album is really good. It's definitely heavier on the country than on the alt. Margo Price too. I also like Elizabeth Cook and Hayes Carll. I spend far too much money on iTunes and Music!

I just found this gem on YouTube: Lowell George was awesome, and he has some pretty good backup singers here! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3z-GwdaKrn8

[djg21]

Only 'new' in the context of this conversation, but we've been listening to:

--The Kills

(add Jack White and you get the Raconteurs, another great band for noisy music.)

Jack White produced Margo Price too. He's everywhere.

[cmg]

pinkshinyultrablast catches my attention. if your a fan of noise. explosions in the sky but they're not a new band.

the foals is another good one. if you stream try kexp kexp.org

[estilley]

Diarrhea Planet

Best live act around. Best name around.

And they have four guitar players...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mnb9cnsA6V4

[FlashUNC]

Iggy Pop's new album is excellent.

But what dominates the pop charts ain't rock these days.

Kendrick Lamar's new stuff continues to be otherworldly.

[buldogge]

Not necessarily new bands...but either "new to me", or their most recent/last/only albums:

WU LYF Go Tell Fire To The Mountain
Nick Cave/Badseeds Push The Sky
Exitmusic From Silence
Judith and Holofernes Canções de Ninar para o Apocalipse
Mariza Fado Em Mim
Pickwick (prefer live tracks)
Kelli Schaefer (prefer live tracks)

Basically, various/odd stuff I've added to my iTunes over the last year...

-Mark in St. Louis

[moose8]

http://pitchfork.com/best/

Lots of good new music worth checking out.

[ptourkin]

Beach Slang should appeal to fans of the replacements.

And Jawbreaker.

https://youtu.be/iwpwqAP4_SQ

[MattTuck]

Lots of great stuff coming out these days, especially this. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ)

[tlittlefield]

DIIV
Grimes
Imagine Dragons
Naked and Famous
Bleachers
Chvrches
Sylvan Esso

[sandyrs]

Diarrhea Planet

Best live act around. Best name around.

And they have four guitar players...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mnb9cnsA6V4

so good. used to play 'ghost with a boner' and 'power moves' in college on my radio show!

[sandyrs]

And Jawbreaker.

https://youtu.be/iwpwqAP4_SQ

Word. When I saw them in Boston I think they played three Jawbreaker covers and two Replacements covers, haha

[pbarry]

Lots of great stuff coming out these days, especially this. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ)

Cruel, cruel set up. :eek:

[feFIFO]

Jason Isbell's Southeastern is pretty darned fantastic, as is most of the Truckers' oeuvre. Someone else to check out in this vein is Hayes Carll.

Whiskeytown is not only not new, but hasn't been together for 15 years!

Ryan Adams is great! His just-released remastered Heartbreaker "CD" has some great out-takes. Cold Roses is an absolute classic album that has been likened to the Dead's American Beauty (and some of the songs have been played live by the Dead and Phil & Friends).

If you like Ryan Adam's alt-country stuff, give a listen to Dave Rawlings Machine. Dave played on Heartbreaker and co-wrote "To Be Young (Is To Be Sad, Is To Be High)" and "Touch, Feel and Lose." The other key member of DRM is Gillian Welch, who is Dave Rawling's partner. The two play and tour alternately as Gillian Welch or DRM. They are a must see if you get the chance, and they are among the best singer-songwriters performing today.

The other alt-country/Americana performer that is deservedly huge right now is Jason Isbell, who apparent is very close with Adams.

If you like Ryan's stuff with the Cardinals, the guitarist was Neil Casal, who now is in the Hardworking Americans and the Chris Robinson Brotherhood, both of which are great jam bands.

Another you might like is Luther Dickinson, and his band the North Mississippi Allstars. Lesser known of that same ilk is Anders Osbourne, who frequently plays with the NMA.

Finally, not really new, but Isbell's old band the Drive-by Truckers, which is a smart and literate guitar-driven southern rock band led by Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley, two very good song-writers. Patterson has been called the Bruce Springsteen of the South.

if you like female alt.country performers, Lucinda Willams is the undisputed queen, but there are some great new artists out there. I love Nikki Lane and Margo Price is really good, but a little more twangy.

I'm sitting here wearing my Sweathearts of the Rodeo T-shirt listening to Ryan Adams & the Cardinals. This is still my favorite Ryan Adams tune: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VmGEZDAgtHQ

[marsh]

Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats - Sabbath fans
Negative Scanner - punk
Twin Peaks - garage

Excellent new stuff from:
- Bob Mould
- Jayhwks
- Band of Horses
- DJ Shadow
- The Libertines

[djg21]

Jason Isbell's Southeastern is pretty darned fantastic, as is most of the Truckers' oeuvre. Someone else to check out in this vein is Hayes Carll.

I'm a big Haye's Carll fan.

Jason Isbell has been one of my favorites since his days in DBT. He writes some incredibly poignant songs. Dress Blues became really important after we lost a nephew at the battle of Tal Afar. It's now being covered by Zac Brown, he changed the lyric to be less political (no longer "somebody's Hollywood War"). We last saw Isbell on Memorial Day and he played it. There wasn't a dry in the venue.

Elephant, and Children of Children have stunning lyrics, and my favorites from his DBT days are Outfit and Decoration Day.

I mentioned Elizabeth Cook above. Cook and Isbell recently performed two Townes Van Zandt classics on David Letterman that now are available to purchase on iTunes. These are really good!

Pancho & Lefty: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R6lmWGkb3UQ

and

Tecumsah Valley: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QP-XcB1qFr8

[Mr. Pink]

Not any particular band, but, here's a suggestion. I just took the plunge six months ago and signed up for Spotify. It has been an awesome medium for finding "new" music. There are playlists, of course, but, if I am listening to other sources of music, like, college radio on the internet, or just read about some band, like, well, in this thread, I just go to Spotify on my phone/IPad/PC and plug in the band name and go to town. It's like having a massive record store in the cloud for ten bucks a month. And the app remembers what you have listened to for future reference.
I am seriously considering finally putting all of my CDs in storage, and maybe soon I'll clear the hundreds of gigs of music off my Mac, although that's not happening tomorrow. Crazy new world we live in. Sure glad I'm not a musician, trying to survive financially, but it sure is easy listening to music these days.

[nate2351]

The Arcs which in Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys new project. Much more sonic than the Black Keys but not as riffy.

Tame Impala is rad.

The Arctic Monkeys most recent album was good, also produced with Josh Homme from Queens of the Stone age so its a got a nice sleazy factor.

[cinco]

Diarrhea Planet

Best live act around. Best name around.

And they have four guitar players...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mnb9cnsA6V4

This should be such a mess, but damn! it works. Good band.

When I heard Ex Hex https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSXZe1C6kw8 about a year ago, couldn't get it outta my head. Great rock.

Recently, I discovered Hey, Colossus! from GB. http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/sep/28/hey-colossus-radio-static-high-exclusive-album-stream Another band with a butt-load of guitars.

Andy in Houston

[false_Aest]

It makes me so happy to know that people on this forum know/like Jawbreaker.


The one time I got to see them I had a 103*F fever and a sore throat (found out 2 days later that I had strep). Pretty much the best show I've ever been to... E V E R.

Even though the tension between band members was pretty palpable.


They broke up about 1 month later.

[pjm]

Man, am I glad I grew up in the sixties and seventies. ;)

[ptourkin]

It makes me so happy to know that people on this forum know/like Jawbreaker.


The one time I got to see them I had a 103*F fever and a sore throat (found out 2 days later that I had strep). Pretty much the best show I've ever been to... E V E R.

Even though the tension between band members was pretty palpable.


They broke up about 1 month later.

You know last Wednesday was Jawbreaker day don't you?

http://41.media.tumblr.com/d1b7b0bb9fcd626b628c83c923211a25/tumblr_mm4m8vGbVF1qffplho2_500.jpg


That tour with That Dog was horrible. They were unhappy and the Haden sisters taunted the young fans that came out to hear Boxcar. The LA Times trashed the tour and the new record the night before they played down here and Blake was clearly bugged.

I saw them many other times though and they did a great live show. So did Jets. I think they'll play together again eventually. Probably at FYF.

[ptourkin]

Man, am I glad I grew up in the sixties and seventies. ;)


https://youtu.be/-JlmvtAHhnc

[adrien]

Well, newish, personally I'm very much into The Airborne Toxic Event (TATE) and Blue October.

A few examples:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2fTAQ_bKuU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch1deS_6J18&list=RDo2fTAQ_bKuU&index=13

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RflGi-8PlaU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO_Iy5f0whc

[pjm]

https://youtu.be/-JlmvtAHhnc

How did you know that was my favorite movie?! :D

[katematt]

more along the Alt country genre

Avett Brothers, Head and the Heart, Phosphorescent

and not but the best band going strong

The National

Enjoy!!

[paredown]

...

Where you are located you should check out the WFUV show The Alternate Side 90.7 FM. They have a fair bit of repetition in their playlist but they do play some decent music. The dj's seem to rip off most of their "finds" from John Richards' John In The Morning show on KEXP.


I'm on a pretty steady diet of WFUV--lots of stuff that I'm not wild about, but the mix is pretty good (though as you say, repetitive at times). I hit a point where I thought I would gouge my eyes out if I heard any more 'classic rock'...

I think there is a boom going on in pop music--not necessarily rock, but all the young bands leaning towards alt-country/slightly precious like Mumford and Sons and the rest. Some of it is pretty good. You can get a sense of this stuff by watching 'Inside Llewyn Davis'--which was the concert film with the bands featured in the film (and some others...).

I liked the breakout song by Gary Clark Jr.--took me back to my R&B loving self, and there are a few more things like that that tickle my ear drums. I like the Black Keys as well--someone on here says 'riff driven'--but isn't that what R&R is all about?

I'll take a listen ot John Richards's show...

...
Also if you happened to had frequented all the crappy North Jersey clubs like Aldo's, Pipeline, The Loop and Tequila Joes you really should listen to the WFMU show The Glen Jones Radio Show Featuring X-ray Burns on 91.5 Sunday afternoon 1-3. Don't bother with the podcast it never seems to work and it only has the music they play which is only about .005% of the show. Most of it is them telling ridiculous stories about growing up in Kearny NJ and the crazy stuff they got into.

I wasn't here for my club days, but that sounds pretty cool as well.

Edit: While I was typing my long post, katematt listed some of the alt-country-pop bands I was thinking about...

[staggerwing]

The War on Drugs
https://youtu.be/jbzV2Y06G-E

Kurt Vile (one of the original members of The War on Drugs)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyiiwNHAC8M

The Bright Light Social Hour ("Space is Still the Place" an apropos album title)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dACcTbb3l8s

The Besnard Lakes (more sonic landscapes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkMWVpDl2iI

Bombino (Toureg guitar wizard from Niger)
This one is actually getting some airplay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEjp71HE6Dg

And finally, some love for local acts:

Wussy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbBKktOSRu0
Chuck Cleaver's second great band to skirt mainstream attention, although, this time, more on his terms. Still love his first outfit, Ass Pony's, and saw them play live frequently in my college days. The AP's feature Chucks twisted midwestern gothic turned up to 11.

Heartless Bastards, although they are no longer based out of Cincy. Who knew somebody that small could have a voice that huge.

Buffalo Killers
Classic swap rock is alive again. Saw them play a smoking free show for about 50 appreciative fans in a small local bar last weekend.

[jmoore]

Priestess

Royal Blood

[alexstar]

As far as new stuff... Babymetal is hard to beat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK3NMZAUKGw

[DFORD]

The dinos of Rock thread got me thinking. The classics are cool and all, even today, and "classic rock" is still what plays on the old Sony boom box in my garage, but what's the current state of rock? Who going to be playing the Super Bowl half time show in 35 years?? I've lost track of new music, I used to drive a ton and play lots of music in the car, but I've moved away from that. Who's barely legal and rocking your playlist?


The Gaslight Anthem
The Go

[okie1kenobi]

Rival Sons, not real new but they rock.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enf8I7atf5Q

[tlittlefield]

Man, am I glad I grew up in the sixties and seventies. ;)


I did as well but that doesn't mean that your music has to come from there :hello:

[ColonelJLloyd]

White Reaper

[adamhell]

mumford & sons
the lumineers
maroon 5

[schwa86]

I struggled with this during early parenting years -- hard to get out to clubs etc. one thing that has helped me branch back in is the "All songs considered" podcast. It's pretty eclectic, the commentary is generally entertaining. It occasionally veers towards the psychedelic pop, but not too often. For awhile, Carrie brownstein was a regular guest -- pretty hilarious. They extensively cover emerging acts at CMJ and SXSW. It's helped me reconstruct the club list, and flag the things to add to Spotify etc. I wouldn't say you'd cover more "classic rock" sounds but you definitely get quite a few of the things mentioned above...

[retrofit]

The Black Keys.

Been around a few years, but still rocking' it.

Check out "El Camino" from 2011 and their most recent (2014) "Turn Blue"

[kitsnob]

Linkin Park - not new but still a great Live performing band
add to that
the Foo Fighters, Dave Grohl can really rock out (saw their last tour a few months ago here in LA)
newer and back together with a new lineup: Breaking Benjamin

[adamhell]

311

[ORMojo]

The All Songs Considered podcast was my very first thought while reading the OP. It has been my go-to source for new music inspirations for over 10 years.

I also support the comments along the lines of "it doesn't have to be new, just new to you."

Along that line of thought:
1. If you haven't listened to Jack White (in any of his many incarnations), then you must. His music has been in our top 5 for many years.

2. Earlier today I was treated to a friend's ~2-hour compilation of "new" Prince music - tracks (live and otherwise) that have surfaced since his death. Truly amazing. Now admittedly, my wife and I are long-time fans (the convener of a national gathering I attended just this Monday, who is also a close friend, noted to the audience that I was once again wearing my purple shirt in tribute, as I have done extensively since his death), but today's session blew even us away. I strongly suggest you search that out.

3. Eminem may be "new" to you...another long-time favorite here.

[ajhapps]

Lots of good stuff already mentioned, but here are a few more:

Cold War Kids
Broken Bells
The Twilight Singers (older, but maybe new to some?)
Bloc Party

Some ladies who I think rock:
Meg Myers
Grace Potter
Halsey (more pop, but catchy)

[greengage]

Wow. This is a great thread. I've got some catching up to do.
I'll just throw in the last two albums I bought that made me wish my stereo went to 11...
Death from above 1979- the physical world
Polvo- Siberia

The last great rock show I went to was Sleater Kinney, for their new tour.

Also, I second (or third) Wussy. Really digging that recently.

I just realized all of these bands are new iterations of old. *sigh* I've got some catching up to do.

[adrien]

Distinctly 80s sound, and not necessarily rocking, but Future Islands is worth a look for folks who like that sort of thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la6Ohm3dobk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK4lD3Uf8_o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lZcJG3AsxE

[1X10]

A bit of Canadian content...

Monster Truck

The Strumbella's

[jmeloy]

more along the Alt country genre



Avett Brothers, Head and the Heart, Phosphorescent



and not but the best band going strong



The National



Enjoy!!



Jumping on the National. Once they crank it up they are incredible. Best drummer around these days.

[djg21]

On the jam band/alt.country/Americana spectrum, the Hardworking Americans new release "Rest in Chaos" came out last week and is excellent. If your not familiar, this is a "supergroup" fronted by alt.folk singer/songwriter Todd Snider, with musicians from a number of well-known jam bands. It's definitely worth a listen.


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[false_Aest]

The new Die Antwoord is TIGHT!

https://soundcloud.com/dieantwoord/dazed-confused-ft-god

[sandyrs]

The new Die Antwoord is TIGHT!

https://soundcloud.com/dieantwoord/dazed-confused-ft-god

Zef

[Dead Man]

Best die antwoord ever

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3YPCdJbZYXo

[Cicli]

The The.

[BurritoGuru]

Sheer Mag (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOt774ekroI)

Definitely second Hank Wood and the Hammerheads (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FlwQwYzd9g)


Baby Shakes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuHU5yAOYik)

[dancinkozmo]

5 neat guys rock da house !!

http://67.media.tumblr.com/a4bfd6992946d9b9e835b356a03d3452/tumblr_nxnm5dnN0K1qdbce2o1_1280.jpg

[crankles]

The Suffers.

[ColonelJLloyd]

T. Hardy Morris and the Hardknocks

[Matthew]

Tremonti. Your search for new rock ends now. You are welcome.

[fignon's barber]

Distinctly 80s sound, and not necessarily rocking, but Future Islands is worth a look for folks who like that sort of thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la6Ohm3dobk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK4lD3Uf8_o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lZcJG3AsxE


This. Great quality 80's style and very interesting live.

[daker13]

New stuff I like these days:

Sleaford Mods

Windhand

[IJWS]

Charlie Megira

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39bpbO6BN1k