

A well documented and self-professed control freak, Parker has single-handedly written, produced, and tracked the entirety of Tame Impala's recorded output, which now includes the band's anxiously awaited and critically lauded third full-length, Currents. Perth's heir-apparent to the psych throne, Kevin Parker, effectively is Tame Impala. 25.Amid the massive resurgence of psychedelia in recent years (though you could argue that it never really went away), no single artist has transcended the confines of the genre the way Australia's Tame Impala has.

True Love Will Find You in the End – Daniel Johnston Just Like Honey – The Jesus and Mary Chain In the Aeroplane over the Sea – Neutral Milk Hotel Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Part 1 – The Flaming Lips Fell in Love with a Girl – The White Stripes Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want – The Smiths So here are some bands that I think you should check out if you want to learn to play some new songs! So The Strokes, The White Stripes, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs were such a fresh and welcome change to many people.īut there were a whole lot more bands that deserve a listen and for guitarists, there is plenty of music to sink your teeth into. Or as Ryan Reynolds so hilariously put it in the movie Deadpool, “I’m gonna do to your face what Limp Bizkit did to music in the late 90s!”

So it’s mostly just a style of music these days, but personally, I think it’s a pretty wonderful style.Īnd it exploded with a vengeance with the garage band Rock revival around the turn of the millennium.įeel free to disagree with me, but mainstream Rock music really needed something drastic to happen I could have counted the new Rock bands I listened to then on one hand. Some of those bands include The Cure, The Smiths, R.E.M, and Pixies, all of which have had huge success either underground or in the mainstream. In fact, another term I’ve heard, College ( radio) Rock, might be a little better: music that started in the 1980s that was mostly for young and hip listeners, complete with its own fashion and loads of gnarly attitude. Indie Rock is a type of music that has really outgrown its name at this point.īecause a moniker that started to describe bands that put out albums through “independent” (small) record labels, doesn’t really fit anymore.
