The breakthrough of alternative rock acts this year comes has given new life to the genre.
In 2014 the future of guitar music seemed bleak as pop, indie-folk, defused R&B and house music dominated the mainstream. However, huge acts like Kasabian and the Arctic Monkeys were present to hold the forefront of rock music.
Towards the end of 2014 a surge of hard-working British rock bands reinvented rock music once more heralding new life for the genre.
Paul Stokes, Head Editor of Q-Magazine, says: “I don’t really feel rock has been especially resurgent of late…there has been a focus on it’s more established acts.” Mr.Stokes highlights the consolidation of acts such the Arctic Monkeys whose AM album is probably the first acclaimed album of this decade. He says: “while the genre’s more interesting end has being yielding gems from people like Foals or Tame Impala.”
There is now the question of where the next young and exciting rock sound will come from. Mr.Stokes says: “younger fans are looking for the successors to the aforementioned Monkeys: that one band that both defines an era and a scene but also enthuses a whole generation.”
This argument points to a reoccurring cycle of new rock acts breaking through and pushing barriers before the legends of recent rock years come back to consolidate their throne.
“I think this way there is a perception of rock feeling resurgent at the moment, people in the UK at least are looking at band’s like Catfish & The Bottlemen, Wolf Alice, Pretty Vacant – and are asking ‘is this the start of something new.”
Here’s a list of newcomers to the rock/alt-rock game…
Darlia
VANT
The Amazons
Pretty Vicious
The Dead Weather
Wolf Alice
The Bohicas
Royal Blood
Wavves
FIDLAR
Black Honey
Diiv
Drenge
Spring King
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