I am waiting for Country to finally throw off this hick ass pseudo-nationalistic redneck caricature bullshit clown suit and get back to its roots as a genre that tells hard stories about real life.
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.
hick ass pseudo-nationalistic redneck caricature bullshit
You mean this stuff
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.
Don’t expect it to go anywhere anytime soon. It, sadly, seems to be one of the most popular and probably most profitable genre going right now. As others have said, the others still exist, but you gotta dive deeper. I have hated whatever this country music is forever now.
I don’t like country, myself, but in a large genre like that, I am absolutely confident that you can find artists of any political position.
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Best Liberal/Left Wing artists
Hey everyone. I’m a big fan of country music and I really enjoy the more stripped-back sound of Zach Bryan and Tyler Childers.
I don’t live in America and there’s a bit of a perception where I live that Country music is for conservatives/Trump supporters. I often find myself having to explain to people that country music is for everyone.
In any case, I don’t want to give my money to any artist who supports Trump. I was a bit disappointed to see Zach Bryan pictured with Trump yesterday. I’m not looking to argue with anyone here and I appreciate that not everyone will agree with me - I just want your suggestions! Do you have any suggestions for liberal or left wing artists to listen to?
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Can’t vouch for the subgenre as a whole, but it sounds like Alt. Country/Americana largely contains stuff you’d like.
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.
My son really likes Colter Wall. He has a fun song about a coyote.
It’s still out there. For one that’s specifically what you describe try Keep the Wolves at Bay by Uncle Lucius.
You might like Ryan Davis and the Roadhouse Band. Country but with clever fun lyrics.
Anti facist punk
Ska. It’s been way too long since the last Reel Big Fish album.
And goldfingers music: “Here I ammm, doin everything thing I cann, pretending I’m a super maaaann!”
There’s plenty of 4th wave going on right now. Plus RBF ain’t coning back, Aaron got weird. I’m pretty sure he went the way of Dicky Barrett.
God I hope not. That was a massive disappointment as it was.
Punk, or rather, any genre that will allow younger generations to express any political views. Yes we have Bob Vylan, but this type of bands should be more mainstream (either that or I have lost touch, which I will not deny).
Punk was never mainstream and is still very much around.
Elvis is not dead. He just went home.
Folk Punk is where it’s at right now. There’s a band named “Doom Scroll” that is quite excellent.
Days N’ Daze are incredible!
Thanks. I’ll give them a listen.
Trip-hop
Why hello fellow forty-something.
Me too!
The blues
That would be so excellent! I became a fan of the blues going out to clubs: the rock bands would crank volume to painful levels and mumble the lyrics, but I could actually hear the blues, listen to the blues, grow to like the blues
My producer, Neigsendoig, and I both want bossa nova to have a resurgence. Neigsendoig had already produced several bossa nova compositions (you can find them on his YouTube channel, [at]Neigsendoig).
That’s the same vein as happy hardcore, which Neigsendoig also produced too. I’m producing a continuation of his HHC album, The VST Test, per his request.
Where’s my 4th wave of ska??
I would love a new wave of happy hardcore.
Neigsendoig and I are trying to bring it back. Sendo (Neigsendoig) even considered DJing a set in VRChat with some HHC group, though we’re very limited in how we can do that.
Dave Rogers tried to bring it back at one point too, he released bossa nova versions of some of his most popular songs but I don’t think they took off as well as they should’ve
I’d have to listen to some of his music, as I’ve never heard of that.
Metal. Actual heavy metal. Not eyeliner and painted nails metal. I guess it was never really mainstream so maybe not a resurgence.
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.
I think metal’s still going strong, but OP said heavy metal. If they meant classic heavy metal, there’s not many new artists doing that.
Grunge
Jazz
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.
It never left but depiction is quite negative
Tang-era Sogdian dance music.
Symphonic “Electronic” music
Baroque.
It’s bound to come back any day now…
If it ain’t baroque don’t fix it
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Late-90s/early-00s-style lo-fi indiepop with glockenspiels/Casio keyboards (or similar cheapass-sounding synths with a nicely skronky/angular timbre) and the odd trumpet/brass section
Any bands like this you suggest?
Beulah, Eggstone, Lacto-Ovo, Mid-State Orange, a lot of bands on a German label named Apricot Records
