Ask Lemmy

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.

Check out the Wood Brothers, Watchtower, Lost Dog Street Band. There's country music that isn't hyper produced Pepsi commercials. Americana/ Alt Country is what to search for.

hick ass pseudo-nationalistic redneck caricature bullshit

You mean this stuff

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.

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.

Punk was never mainstream and is still very much around.

Folk Punk is where it’s at right now. There’s a band named “Doom Scroll” that is quite excellent.

Why hello fellow forty-something.

Me too!

And goldfingers music: "Here I ammm, doin everything thing I cann, pretending I'm a super maaaann!"

I also think music is in a cultural bloom or boom. There is just so much new music, every day, it's crazy.

Get outta here with your respect and tolerance, sanity guy.

Where's my 4th wave of ska??

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.

I thought metal was more popular than ever. Maybe my perception is skewed because I've been going to plenty of metal festivals in recent years, but all the subgenres have representation from what I can see.

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.

If it ain’t baroque don’t fix it