Ok, so I hate social media, reality shows, skinny and low rise jeans (so 80s), vampires, and all the other fads/clothes/music of today, and I hate that I have to use the internet and social media because my generation doesn't know any other way, but it does help find stuff. I mainly just use it for music. Facebook is where I found out that Calamity Jane, the band that toured with Nirvana in South America back in '92 with bad results and broke up shortly thereafter, got back together. http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Calamity-Jane/148181179299 and I found the Doll Squad, another all girl band from Seattle, on myspace, they're back together too. http://www.myspace.com/dollsquad All the music people call alternative today, just sounds like what little mainstream rock there is, and they all sound like weird synthesizery emo 80's synthpop stuff, I don't know why the 80s came back, the whole point of the 90s was to get rid of the 80s, and the new bands on SubPop sound like very light indie pop bands with that weird 2000s sound. I've found several new grunge bands on myspace and things like that. Of course, grunge never stopped or died, it just went back to being underground like it was for a decade before Nevermind came out, kind of where it should be, except that it was so cool that good music was actually played on the radio and in the mainstream in the 90s, so you have new grunge bands forming all throughout the years when it stopped being famous as well, so no one can call them New Grunge bands or anything because grunge never stopped. So the two main newer more mainstream bands I like today are Cage the Elephant, http://www.youtube.com/user/cagetheelephant?blend=1&ob=4 http://www.youtube.com/user/CageTheElephantVEVO who sound like they totally could fit in with the 90s alternative thing, and Violent Soho, from Australia, who sound very grungy, and they were even at Lollapalooza 2010, the one that Soundgarden went to http://www.youtube.com/user/ViolentSohoVEVO . When I discovered Violent Soho last year, I looked at their youtube videos, and people kept writing stuff like "GRUNGE IS BACK!!!", and they still do. They would be great ones to bring it all back.
Cage the Elephant - Back Against the Wall. This one always reminded me of Heart-Shaped box. The singer sort of reminds me of Kurt, especially in their video with the zombie girl, and when I first heard their music, I thought it sounded a bit like nirvana.
Another band is called Mosquito, from Istanbul I think http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=43519246740 Trash Queen are from Australia like Silverchair and Violent Soho http://www.youtube.com/user/trashqueen10 Drunken Hippies make noise from Berlin http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Drunken-Hippies/107296139343675 http://www.youtube.com/user/DrunkenHippiesMusic There was also this band I found called The Vertical, which had a Paradox/Days of the New vibe I think, but I totally can't remember how I found out about them. Soul Pollution sound pretty good too http://www.myspace.com/soulpollution I have more facebooks and myspaces in my bookmarks of old grunge bands and others that I might post one day. So as you can see, grunge is still happening, all over the world., and never stopped, and never will. It's just a matter of if and when it takes over the world again.
EDIT: Check the comments for more suggestions of new grunge bands, and feel free to add your own suggestions.And I just created this new facebook page called "Spread the word of good newer grunge bands" incase you want to check it out. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Spread-the-word-of-good-newer-grunge-bands/192998060774625?sk=wall there are a lot more bands that have been posted on that.
Violent Soho - Muscle Junkie
Pet Salad - Hollywoodland
My favorite new band though is Pet Salad. I found them on myspace. http://www.myspace.com/petsalad http://www.youtube.com/user/PetSalad They are a Swedish grunge band formed in '07 with an ep out. I also found out about this girl led grunge band from Portland called Sick Sick Sister. http://www.myspace.com/#!/2882731 So good to hear girl grunge again. And then there's The Chocolate http://www.myspace.com/#!/thechocolatemusic grunge from France. Sick Sick Sister and The Chocolate are on itunes. http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/my-friend-my-enemy/id284393337 http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/chocaholic/id261414542 Paradox is an Irish grunge band. They remind me of that Days of the New style. http://www.youtube.com/user/paradoxrock http://www.myspace.com/paradoxrock http://www.facebook.com/paradoxrock also on itunes http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/circle-of-growth/id138768888 Pissed Jeans are like the only current band on Subpop that I've found that sound rock related. http://www.subpop.com/artists/pissed_jeans They are really good, sound like grunge, sound like the Jesus Lizard.
Pissed Jeans - False Jesii Part 2
Another band is called Mosquito, from Istanbul I think http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=43519246740 Trash Queen are from Australia like Silverchair and Violent Soho http://www.youtube.com/user/trashqueen10 Drunken Hippies make noise from Berlin http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Drunken-Hippies/107296139343675 http://www.youtube.com/user/DrunkenHippiesMusic There was also this band I found called The Vertical, which had a Paradox/Days of the New vibe I think, but I totally can't remember how I found out about them. Soul Pollution sound pretty good too http://www.myspace.com/soulpollution I have more facebooks and myspaces in my bookmarks of old grunge bands and others that I might post one day. So as you can see, grunge is still happening, all over the world., and never stopped, and never will. It's just a matter of if and when it takes over the world again.
EDIT: Check the comments for more suggestions of new grunge bands, and feel free to add your own suggestions.And I just created this new facebook page called "Spread the word of good newer grunge bands" incase you want to check it out. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Spread-the-word-of-good-newer-grunge-bands/192998060774625?sk=wall there are a lot more bands that have been posted on that.
