THE LAST STAND.

WHY A COUPLE OF OLD-SCHOOL ROCK STARS AND A BUNCH OF INDIE KIDS ARE ALL THAT STANDS BETWEEN DANCE/POP/CRAP MUSIC AND WORLD DOMINATION----------

The strength of the indie music scene is a hard kick-in-the-balls for the commercial music industry. Bands like Stonefield, Big Scary, Loon Lake, Children Collide, and Calling All Cars are proving just how much depth and range the Australian music industry has to offer. Sick Puppies, a Sydney bred trio and graduates of the Triple J UNEARTHED competition, have gone on to achieve international success with their hit alt-rock singles "All The Same" and "Maybe". All-sister rock outfit  Stonefield were chased after to play at Glastonbury last year after their EP 'Through The Clover' struck a chord with fans. This proves that you don't have to show off Christina Aguilera's boobs whilst ripping off Jagger's moves to make smart, relevant music that people will give a crap about. And indie rock is becoming more important every day in the screwed up music scene.

STONEFIELD - THROUGH THE CLOVER 

Unless you've been living under a rock for the last ten years, you must be aware that the age of guitar-based music is slowly ending. Rock'n'roll, once the only type of music that anybody gave a shit about, has now been reduced to the obscurity of the underground scene. Meanwhile, the plague that is modern pop music (working in conjunction with Nickelback), has been allowed to spread throughout the world, slowly sucking the life out of what once was the core of our society. 


The reason why the indie music is gathering momentum in society is because people aren't stupid. They identify with powerful, creative music and honest, playful lyrics. If you listen to 90% of mainstream dance music, you can tell the lyrics and music were essentially ripped off a hundred similar tracks, and were pretty much all written by some dude called "Dr. Luke."


Let's get something clear: the issue isn't necessarily dance music. It's that commercial dance music has no talent, skill, variation or creativity. The one thing about music's rock age was that there was originality in the market. Rock bands who became household names (See Rolling Stones, RHCP, Silverchair) were defined by their electric guitars, glorified frontmen and catchy songwriting. But now, the lack of variety and mainstream representation in the rock genre is startling. 

Through the decades, every rock sub-genre that rose to prominence had an impressive variety of artists. Rock'n'roll. Underground punk. Grunge Nirvana. The pop-punk resurgence. Pop-rock. The many bands that rose through these genres have come and gone. Though some of these outdated bands are still together, they have all either turned their back on mainstream music (see Blink 182, Radiohead) or are just passed their prime (RHCP, Green Day).  

NOEL GALLAGHER'S HIGH FLYING BIRDS

 - THE DEATH OF YOU AND ME

Dave Grohl (Nirvana, Foo Fighters) and Noel Gallagher (Oasis, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds) are perhaps the only two men left who are both real rockstars, currently relevant, and mainstream successes. Because of their mainstream successes, both will always cop shit from critics. It's called Tall Poppy Syndrome. The perfect example of this is Noel's whiny brother Liam (the voice of Oasis, but not the talent) was critical of his older brother's work.

"One Word. Dido." - Liam Gallagher, Twitter.

 Though some may fault artists like Noel Gallagher, he is one of the only things keeping guitar-led music in the public eye. For without the likes of Dave Grohl and Noel Gallagher, the closest thing we have to a modern rockstar is...


Katy Perry. Because let's face it. She rocks better, harder, and with more dignity than the dude from Nickelback.






JA.








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