If the original movement in the 70s was in response to political stagnation in the UK and the Vietnam war in the US. And the revival in the 00s in response to the US wars in the Middle East. Between Black Lives Matters, No Kings protests, and far right political parties recent win across the globe, where is the Punk movement? Where is the disenfranchised youth grinding out their anger on an electric guitar in an abandoned industrial building?
Edit: Thank you to everyone who suggested various artists. I’m going to check them all out!
One major punk artist very relevant nowadays that I haven’t seen anyone mention is Jeff Rosenstock. He was very influenced by Ian MacKaye and he’s famous for making the first successful donations based record label.
He first blew up with a ska band called “The Arrogant Sons of Bitches” then moved onto his punk band “Bomb the Music Industry” until moving on to a solo career. His solo stuff have been some of his best albums, and the old ones are still good.
Lots of disenfranchised youths rapping nowadays. I suppose the barriers to entry are lower so there’s a lot of trash but a hardened listener will eventually find some gold.
I’d say UK drill is pretty punk
Tried some youtube but can’t get into it. But that’s okay, where i live society is very different from UK. Trve punk thinks globally and acts locally.
feel free to post links tho
Bob Vylan
Amyl and the Sniffers
Lambrini Girls
Viagra Boys
Mannequin Pussy
Alice Longyu Gao
Die Spitz
Cowboy Hunters
Mudrat
Soft Play
Sleater-Kinney
Teen Mortgage
Kneecap
Screaming Females
Bikini Kill
Destroy Boys
IDLES
The Streets
VIAL
Propaghandi
Deap Vally
Bad Cop Bad Cop
Great list recognize most of them. Excited to check out the rest. How you gonna leave out Ecca Vandal tho?!
1 album from each, 12 hours and 20 minutes. ✊
Hell yeah :)
Enjoy!!
Hell yeah! I knew you would have a kick ass list of great bands ☺️
Off topic: I just used the Venom INLP polish and I love it!
The Bobby Lee’s
Tropical Fuck Storm
Laughing Death in Meatspace still one of the best albums of the last decade.
That’s a few decades put together into one list
They’re all currently making music and playing shows.
That should breathe some life into your algorithm
TRUE fucking slaps so unbelievably hard
It’s out there, it’s just harder to find when everything has to be fed through an advertisement friendly algorithm.
Maybe parts of the problem is that I don’t use an algorithm. The reach of my discovery is limited by what real humans suggest to me.
I mean, Amyl and the Sniffers, PinkShift, Skating Polly (more grungy than punk maybe) BitchKiss, Stray from the path, Blood Lemon, Sorry Mom, etc.
a lot of new punk music is more pointed to RiotGrrl punk these days, but there is a shitload of new, really fucking good punk bands out there. We just lack a main stream outlet/major tour that showcases it anymore.
Great list. Check out the rat utopia experiment if you haven’t already.
Will do!
There is a phenomenal Punk scene still but not always the stereotypical sound. Most have extra notations like Hardcore, folk, post, or some new vibe no genre can define yet etc. Doom Scroll, Chat Pile, Viagra boys, Codefendents, Aquabats, Drain, Scowl, MSPAINT and Soul glo are some vastly different sounds across the spectrum of punk to check out.
It’s still around, there might even be an active scene near you that you could join in with if you’re inclined. Last few shows I’ve seen in the northeast U.S. were for Doom Scroll, Hans Gruber and the Die Hards, Playboy Manbaby, Sister Wife Sex Strike, Bad Cop/Bad Cop, and probably some others I’m not thinking of right this second. They all have songs about the current state of things and how expensive shit is.
Lots of bands in the UK too, offhand Lambrini Girls and Bob Vylan are pretty great. Hell if you want an example of the current state of things Bob Vylan actually had their travel Visas revoked in the U.S. so they can no longer play shows in the U.S.
Where is the disenfranchised youth grinding out their anger on an electric guitar in an abandoned industrial building?
They’re looking at their smartphones.
Also, viagra boys.
They’re using smartphones to hold their charts and tablature nowadays it’s crazy
You mean like MUDRAT, Bob Vylan, shame, or Kid Kapichi? Then there’s the post punk/punk adjacent stuff like Kneecap, Hyphen, Viagra Boys, Warmduscher, Yard Act, Gila Band, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs etc.
You’re not going to find them listening to corporate radio or following the algorithm, but there’s plenty out there.Where is the disenfranchised youth grinding out their anger on an electric guitar in an abandoned industrial building?
Might be a bit of a hot take: the spirit is alive but the common form drifted away from this old-school ideal.
Punk as a genre has stopped being a self-contained monolith, and started blending into other styles. There’s still a pool of traditionalists, but they’re a relative minority.
In the 90s, it bleed into hard rock (Nirvana). In the aughts, the main fork was emo-punk (a la Conor Oberst). The 2010s had a big post-punk wave (Parquet Courts, Viagra Boys). Meanwhile, on a longer timeline, industrial EDM/noise music has been the modern incarnation of the spirit of the hardcore subgenre (Death Grips), and folk-punk has been a consistent niche of its own.
And even on top of these more specific splinters, the standard indie rock genre has grown to encompass more “soft-punk” elements in recent decades (Modest Mouse, Wolf Parade).
Even jazz is punk now
People are tired boss
Bob Vylan
Honningbarna if you’re fine with Norwegian
They’re not terribly political - except for The Price of Smokes has Gone Up Again - but The Chats are the best punk band I’ve heard lately.
The Chats are a solid punk band for sure.
