This week The Guardian wrote a fake article can be read right here based on false data that claimed rock is dead. Normally might avoid us this kind of shit in the same way as we avoid The only way is Essex - somewhere, some mouthbreathing subhuman derive pleasure from it but we are proud to be different, in this case – but as anyone with half a brain can say, rock is conditions healthier than has been in years.
Paul Gambaccini, which first began working in music radio in 1973 and is best known for presenting sample Classic FM and Radio 2 these days - proclaimed Gallo - as "is the end of the era of rock." "Moreover, as the era of jazz is on". Certain reasons were the proliferation of pop TV the reality that is more to instantly marketable (and profitable) and only three rock songs, becoming it Top 100 best-selling 'hits' 2010; those three be 'Don't Stop Kinko "per trip,"Hey, soul sister"by train and ' dog days are over ' by Florence + the machine.
First off: Florence + the machine is not a fucking rock Act and how that mewler facing the horse in the same lineage as, say, Thin Lizzy, is less a measurable statement and more a fist of God and everything that we have in great ladies. And calling the singles chart, a barometer of the music in 2011 is like saying Metallica are not a big band, because they have not done many tapes that sold this year - singles were ceased to be relevant for nearly a decade and to pretend otherwise is woefully touch.
And now, let's see some real tests based on reality. Download and Sonisphere are music festivals heavy without barracks, T In The Park and Reading and Leeds have been peeling away the indie influences for years now and relatively new events such as Hevy, high voltage, Slam Dunk were very good 2010 health attended at all. Moreover, there are more bands playing 4-5,000 capacity places in the United Kingdom than ever before: bring Me The Horizon, Deftones, bullet for My Valentine, Linkin Park, 30 Seconds To Mars, The Gaslight Anthem, Paramore, you Me at six, Lostprophets, Parkway Drive, day to remember, All Time Low, enter Shikari and all the others are overcrowded my brain now all play very significant sample with ticket relatively hefty sales; What indie / electronica acts can say that regularly throw so many people? And watching the likes of architects, lower than Atlantis, talk trash and bullet for My Valentine all get day playing on Radio 1 shows rock infiltrated the mainstream in a serious way.
In addition, thanks to clothing, such as Drop Dead companies rock has never been more fashion: like it or not, it is now. £ Million spent in the UK every month in band merch, meaning that larger gangs are constantly visible in the nation high streets, and the smaller bands were knuckling down and producing quality music increasingly and direct sales to their fans.
Let's say it loud and clear: there are so many good bands around right now that pretend to rock is dead is sluggish at best and ignorant of pork in the worst steamingly. No, there are no many Bon Jovis around, but that is not a good thing? The music industry revolutionized Internet aims to that if you don't want to play the old games without sense - i.e. the singles chart-, then you don't have to. DIY bands never had chance than today and if you say bands currently stubborn up and down the country in a van - and earn a living doing – who is ploughing a Groove without value is laugh in your face and rightfully so.
Therefore, let's see the evidence once more:
No, we not are buying singles from the iTunes music store: we're buying limited edition seven-inch labels thought and care in what you sell.
No, no we are spending £ 125 to see Bon Jovi in a stadium without a soul, because it feels much more special spending £ 7 see his disappearance tear shit a pub.
No, we do not care about Florence and its tasteless fucking machine.
And as we say, normally we not bother in response to something quite so wrong as the guardian piece. But 2011 is just bursting with amazing sound and is grossly unfair that anyone was assuming the world of rock was more than just a great place to be at this time.
Ben another
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