No can do

So the punks came, and gave us a fuck you stance to you’re normal ethics of a band. Fast, three chords and a punch in the face. Hardcore kids did the same thing, but added the great fanzine, backyard party and D.I.Y of making your own records and selling them you’re self.

Now days you will find it hard to find a band or a record label that isn’t underground that have these ethics. Sub Pop… maybe, but they probably aren’t the label they were twenty years ago. But that’s the United States, and I live in Britain, with the boom of guitar based bands since the start of the millennium every label wanted there own Libertines or Strokes (depends if you’re label was American or British). Who could forget the bands that came after? The Vines, The Datsuns, Kings of Leon to name a few. With that fad gone, and I hope completely forgotten.

That time is over, the radio sadly is still filled with play lists with all these bands on it at some point of the day and then the new breed such as The Killers or (I know they aren’t new) that band with the bassist from that band Sunny Day Real Estate.

But with every fad, something exciting comes out of it. People are fed up of the shit they hear on the radio and see on MTV2. British bands such as Tubelord, Blakfish and Colour are some of these. All equally interesting, but all with there own sound, and edge to there music. American bands such as Abe Vigoda, HEALTH, No Age (who are signed to the Seattle Sub Pop) and Mika Miko. These bands came from The Smell, a vegan under 21’s club in down town LA. Since they were in high school they have been self-financing tours and singles to get their music out there.

These are the bands that need to be heard, these are the bands that are doing what is right for music.