the 60s are over. i know, i don't like it either.

Okay, I am one of the world's biggest fans of The Kinks, and I love The Who and early Stones, etc etc, The Supremes and many more, but I feel that someone needs to put their foot down now against all these bands that sound like the 60s. With band members no older than 23. I can't handle it, and I'm only 28, so imagine the clear right to outrage my dad's generation has. When I first got past my punk and post-hardcore phase, and discovered to my sheer delight that there were bands popping up everywhere that were Kinks-influenced, I was all for it! There was no going back! Here was melody and nostalgia and just plain good songwriting, etc.

But now, three or four years in, I'm a little tired of it. We need to move on now and stop glorifying our parents' music scenes. I mean, it's even a little embarrassing - they all fought against and rejected the stuff their parents were listening. Are our parents cooler than we are? Our generation needs to find its own sound again, and I'm referring to rock music, I suppose, since we have arguably contributed hiphop and electronic music, which are both genres that in my opinion come in extremes - they consist of either incredibly bad stuff or incredibly good stuff. And yes, we brought the world grunge, but that was still a throw back to punk rock and not totally out of the blue.

Think about The Pixies and how they really didn't sound like anything that had come before them. Think about Kate Bush. Radiohead. At The Drive-In. Bjork. 60s-inspired indie pop and 60s/70s-inspired psychedelic rock needs to take a little rest for awhile. Come on kids, no more retro.

Promising:
St. Vincent
The Mae-shi
Bat For Lashes
Nortec Collective

...I'll get back to this.