re: Do you think rock bands will ever make a resurgence?

Sorry. He did mean strange magic but the Pilot Oh it's magic is on the playlist too, which he also likes that song so he was confused

quote:

---

Rock bands/music died in 1992.

---

you mean you stopped listening to new music in 1992

I'll repost it here:

quote:

---

Bands haven't really gone away, but the music industry much prefers to pick off the top talent and then promote that person and just pay session musicians to be the "band."

Bands cost more to support and almost inevitably have interpersonal issues that must constantly be massaged. In other words bigger pain in the arse and less profit.

---

This, it's one of the reasons the indie scene is so big these days.

There is also a new breed of radio stations popping up just for the style you are looking for. In Birmingham we actually have two of them now.

quote:

---

Pop culture started shifting away from rock in the 90s and outright abandoned it 10 years ago. The radio doesn't even play it anymore

---

About the time mainstream country died. Rock and Country were the working mans blues. Life is easy now, people from the suburbs write mainstream music, it's lost it's grit

One of the biggest things that hurt Rock was in the mid 90's with corporatization of all the radio stations through companies like Clear Channel. Through the early 90's most radio stations had completely separate play lists & would go outside the box with play selection(Example. A Cleveland radio station randomly started playing Working Man by Rush in the early 70's & the rest is history). Now all the non-college radio stations go off the same playlist. This did not help new artists at all. When I was growing up the 80's it was so cool to drive to a different city & hear completely different songs on the radio than what was being played in my city.

quote:

---

Mountain Radio and...?

---

Alt 94.9

The long, hard road to rock’n’roll success

quote:

---

For every rock’n’roll millionaire there are thousands of talented artists scratching out a living. The choice is a tricky one: to establish a career takes an enormous amount of work and time and essentially prevents you from having a stable, salaried job. At the same time, especially for new artists, it has virtually no income of its own, meaning it’s impossible to begin a career in music without a second income of some sort, which will always have its own commitments that prevent a musical career progressing. The cycle is difficult to break.

---

quote:

---

Dan Wale, finance manager at DEF, a management company that looks after the affairs of huge sellers like Moby, The Knife and Röyksopp, as well as completely new acts, says artists need to start letting go of the idea of music as a sole occupation in itself. “A ‘career’ in music is a pretty rare thing,” he explains. “It has after all been a fairly small window in time whereby a musician has been able to make very large amounts of money from their craft, and even then it’s only been a fraction of the overall number of people doing it – all of them for the love of it.”

---

quote:

---

Wale believes that by thinking on a more realistic scale, and with advances in technology, it is still possible to make an income from music. “I think now, more so than ever, it’s very possible – especially for a solo artist – to make a cottage-industry scale success without any outside help whatsoever. Obviously this has been facilitated greatly by the internet and the emergence of online networks, fan-supported releases and a number of great discovery platforms. All the tools are really there for someone to go out and do it themselves.”

---

Rock isn't mainstream anymore but it's out there.

Crobot

quote:

---

New music started to suck in the mid Nineties

---

this is so absurd

pop music has sucked for the large part because the only people they can make money off of is teens/pre-teens so that is what you hear.

The late nineties boy bands are a reflection of that shift.

It does suck that we lost the collective experience of a massive rock album coming out. Like you look forward to what niche band you likes new Album but there will never be a Led Zeppelin IV again.