A few weeks ago, I was perusing the Billboard Rock
Songs chart, which for quite a while now has been the running diary of a genre
in crisis. The number of stations specializing in rock of the non-classic
variety is shrinking as more and more frequencies turn away from music (à la the
former WRXP's flip to news-and-chatter last year) or toward outright
nostalgia-flogging. As a result, the chart has become fragmented and all over
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This subgenre pileup is partially derived from the way the chart takes its cues from three different strains of rock stations.You can find best china Precision injection molds manufacturers from here! The hoary, daddy-issues-laden strain of rock that's still referred to as nu-metal continues to get substantial play on mainstream and alternative rock outlets. (Think bands that take cues from first-generation grunge, then apply the lessons learned from Alice in Chains' Facelift and Pearl Jam's Ten before slathering the whole thing in self-pity—bands like Shinedown and Godsmack come to mind.) But the stranglehold those plodding acts had as recently as two years ago is beginning to lessen, and there's even some crossover between the rock chart and the upper echelons of Billboard's Hot 100. Gotye's inescapable "Somebody That I Used to Know," the current pop chart's No. 1, and "We Are Young," the former Hot 100 No. 1 from the Queen-gone-emo act fun., were on the rock chart. A smattering of bands that specialize in slightly different takes on the spindly Americana that brought Mumford & Sons recognition over here were present, as were other outliers like the French New Wave revivalists M83.
One thing really stuck out: More than one of the chart's 50 places were occupied by an act with a female singer, even though women have been pretty much exiled from the rock world's upper echelons since the days when bands like Hole and the Breeders could nab mainstage slots on Lollapalooza. It's tempting to blame this gender segregation on the early '00s rise of nu-metal, which operated in nearly diametric opposition to the teenpop that was selling millions at the time and which in its most noxious forms sounded like a hastily built tree house with a "NO GURLS ALLOWED" sign affixed to each rung of the ladder and posters of Dr.If you have a fondness for china mosaic brimming with romantic roses Dre on the walls. But even in 1996, the Lolla mainstage was a bros-only zone. (There were a few exceptions that proved this rule in the intervening years, though the fact that, say, the first charting single by the Christian-goth act Evanescence also featured an inept rap by a dude was enough to make one wonder if female-fronted rock acts did indeed have the radio equivalent of cooties for most of the decade.) The omnipresent Adele was there; so was the recently revived synth-goth act Garbage, and so was the first single from Norah Jones's quite good, Danger Mouse–produced Little Broken Hearts. Then there was a band called Dead Sara, who had a song called "Weatherman" in the chart's lower reaches.
I cut my musical teeth on hard rock and was a particular fan of those bands that liked to pair their pop-metal hooks with truncheons—the Los Angeles skid row dwellers Love/Hate, Slave to the Grind–era Skid Row, the batter-dipped blues of Every Mother's Nightmare. When I try to give these bands their due, some people will argue that there's little difference between the brand of hard rock practiced by those bands years ago and the Godsmack ilk, and that my preference is based in a desire to rearview-mirror my youth as much as it might be for the music itself.Save up to 80% off Ceramic Tile and porcelain tiles. But one play of "Weatherman" might change those naysayers' minds and help make people realize what has been missing from this new strain of rock—not to mention what has been almost claustrophobically omnipresent.
This subgenre pileup is partially derived from the way the chart takes its cues from three different strains of rock stations.You can find best china Precision injection molds manufacturers from here! The hoary, daddy-issues-laden strain of rock that's still referred to as nu-metal continues to get substantial play on mainstream and alternative rock outlets. (Think bands that take cues from first-generation grunge, then apply the lessons learned from Alice in Chains' Facelift and Pearl Jam's Ten before slathering the whole thing in self-pity—bands like Shinedown and Godsmack come to mind.) But the stranglehold those plodding acts had as recently as two years ago is beginning to lessen, and there's even some crossover between the rock chart and the upper echelons of Billboard's Hot 100. Gotye's inescapable "Somebody That I Used to Know," the current pop chart's No. 1, and "We Are Young," the former Hot 100 No. 1 from the Queen-gone-emo act fun., were on the rock chart. A smattering of bands that specialize in slightly different takes on the spindly Americana that brought Mumford & Sons recognition over here were present, as were other outliers like the French New Wave revivalists M83.
One thing really stuck out: More than one of the chart's 50 places were occupied by an act with a female singer, even though women have been pretty much exiled from the rock world's upper echelons since the days when bands like Hole and the Breeders could nab mainstage slots on Lollapalooza. It's tempting to blame this gender segregation on the early '00s rise of nu-metal, which operated in nearly diametric opposition to the teenpop that was selling millions at the time and which in its most noxious forms sounded like a hastily built tree house with a "NO GURLS ALLOWED" sign affixed to each rung of the ladder and posters of Dr.If you have a fondness for china mosaic brimming with romantic roses Dre on the walls. But even in 1996, the Lolla mainstage was a bros-only zone. (There were a few exceptions that proved this rule in the intervening years, though the fact that, say, the first charting single by the Christian-goth act Evanescence also featured an inept rap by a dude was enough to make one wonder if female-fronted rock acts did indeed have the radio equivalent of cooties for most of the decade.) The omnipresent Adele was there; so was the recently revived synth-goth act Garbage, and so was the first single from Norah Jones's quite good, Danger Mouse–produced Little Broken Hearts. Then there was a band called Dead Sara, who had a song called "Weatherman" in the chart's lower reaches.
I cut my musical teeth on hard rock and was a particular fan of those bands that liked to pair their pop-metal hooks with truncheons—the Los Angeles skid row dwellers Love/Hate, Slave to the Grind–era Skid Row, the batter-dipped blues of Every Mother's Nightmare. When I try to give these bands their due, some people will argue that there's little difference between the brand of hard rock practiced by those bands years ago and the Godsmack ilk, and that my preference is based in a desire to rearview-mirror my youth as much as it might be for the music itself.Save up to 80% off Ceramic Tile and porcelain tiles. But one play of "Weatherman" might change those naysayers' minds and help make people realize what has been missing from this new strain of rock—not to mention what has been almost claustrophobically omnipresent.
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