Will Garage Rock be the next Grunge?

It seems like I've been surrounded by this stuff for the past few weeks... who knows.

well due to the fact that bands like mooney suzuki and the yeah yeah yeahs are blowing up, i'd say yes. of course my judgement is a little impared because of the two forties of Old English I've had this evening. Don't hold it against me in the morning please ILM!!!

wait till Yeah Yeah Yeahs release their first album... Rolling Stone has already started to hype them, putting the band in the "things to keep an eye on in 2002"

fuck all that

The thing that made 'garage rock' great in the 60s was that it didn't sound 'respectful' of anything at the time, dig?

The problem is that rap-metal sells itself on being raw and angry too (whether it is or not isn't really relevant), and it's got (marginally) fresher-sounding sounds than garage rock does. The new grunge? Nu-metal basically WAS the new grunge except the 'kids' loved it and the critics didn't - so what you're asking is "Will garage rock be the next critic-friendly grunge?"

Anyway to answer it: I doubt it. But it'll certainly, with biz sponsorship, be carving itself out more of a niche over the next year or two. It might even give the impression of having killed or severely dented the mainstream, as publications which have had to focus on hard-to-write-about-well pop and R&B get something piss-easy to cover. But what's also going to happen is that this new raw rock is going to push coverage of other kinds of 'indie' further to the margins, too: it's easier to write about the Mooney Suzuki than some cuddle-glitch crossover project, too.

garage rock already made it's attempted come back last (few) year (s). at least in this part of the world (montreal) but rock is just a fashion fad. get yr studded belt

Sadly enough, I think it will.

One more music to commodify.

I'm just waiting for the day that JapNoise becomes the next "big thing" so I can see ads for Sprite with Eye-lookalikes wearing giant scuba goggles.

It would need to be some kind of hybrid of garage rock with another style, not the straight-up, 60s revival sound that's been a cult for 20 years. And that's what seems to be happening lately, with bands bringing more post-punk, glam, shoegaze etc into a basically garage sound. The image is changing from one of shut-in obsessive males to include charisma and girls and all that. But to REALLY catch on with the kids, I think the hybrid needs to be more off the wall, like electro-garage or something.

I don't care what gets rid of Linkin Park, Nickelback,or most of all Staind. If I hear one more whiney frat boy rock song I'm gonna end up nuttier than a squirrel turd.

weren't mudhoney etc all about reviving garage rock in the first place?

electro garage = madchester/mondays/world of twist, etc. no?

Right, Jess. If it were as easy as any of us saying it, somebody would have done it already.

The Order Of Alt-Rock History:

Blues

Garage Rock

Punk

Metal

Grunge.

...so Grunge was really the next Garage Rock, wunnit?

no no no i think garage rock is gonna be ok

not enough acts, so far no killer singles, and the artists are mostly loners and weirdos.

the next wave of alt-rock to blow up is what the kids call emo. i hate the whole emo thing. kiddies bickering over whether it's emo or not. "is jimmy eat world emo? no!/yes!" etc. NME just did a "big emo" issue etc. and bands like incubus are being called emo by various parts of the media. it might end up like grunge, might not, but although bands like the white stripes and the hives are getting msic mag covers i doubt garage rock is gonna get much bigger.

also mudhoney weren't that exciting imho

i've still absolutely no idea what Emo is. has there been a thread about it, or can someone describe it?

Emo is... um... you figure it out, I give up. A Hardcore Indie Punk Pop Schizophrenic Shoegazer subgenre, I think.

fuck all this shit!....listen and shut up, go on and worry about what you like and enjoy the most, myself, i'd say, bring on the hellacopters, sewergrooves, and gluecifer.....and then i'll be fine, doesnt matter what you call it, it's all rawk to me... I think we need to stop labeling everything that comes along every four years or so.......have your MTV and your corporate radio and whatever brainwashing methods big companies have for you in store, you mindless sheep......i'm in florida and its hot here, but the music that i love comes from freezing vikingland, and its sweet as honey and its got more raw power that iggy and more soul than james brown.....suck on that!

i need labels to stick on my shelves so i find records i want to listen to

emo's going to blow up huger than garage (& has started to already - hasn't saves the day been selling out shows all over the country?) - you can see the straight line connecting the 'woe is me' attitude of staind and nickelback to those 'the girls don't treat me right' bands.

but either way, tom's right, other minigenres of indie are going to be even further pushed to the sides.

No way. All good garage rockers are too ugly to be seen on MTV. (i.e. The Mummies).