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mark76 wrote: Sat Oct 08, 2022 3:10 pm Can anyone point to any kind of nascent Neo-Grunge* scene happening anywhere?

*For any given value of "Grunge"

Not to my knowlege, but the “second wave” imitators like Silverchair, Creed and Bush pretty much made it uncool almost immediately.

Don't know about "neo-grunge" (whatever that is), but fuzz pedals, for one, are more popular now than they were in the nineties.

Or at least it sure as hell seems that way.

Easy to manufacture; so a good first product for any budding pedal builder. Easy to use. HARD to use well.

The fuzz pedals are selling because of the popularity of stoner/doom bands and the second wave of shoegaze…which I guess are also part of the same lineage.

mark76 wrote: Sat Oct 08, 2022 3:10 pm Can anyone point to any kind of nascent Neo-Grunge* scene happening anywhere?

*For any given value of "Grunge"

I heard it in the mix when I investigated the rock journalist's critical darling Snail Mail.

My wife listens to FM radio in the car and I heard some strains of grunge-lite in more pop type stuff. Kind of the Avril Lavigne thing where they spice a Britney Spears type person up with some smacky drums and distorted power chords.

I heard something on the local indie station that was new and very Hole influenced. I wish I could say who that was.

zorg wrote: Sat Oct 08, 2022 6:58 pm The fuzz pedals are selling because of the popularity of stoner/doom bands and the second wave of shoegaze…

Yes, and indie rock bands, possibly influenced by these bands, that would like to sound somewhat heavier now.

...which I guess are also part of the same lineage.

If we zoom out enough, sure.

So I saw a few PRF or PRF adjacent bands Saturday night. Great time. Other than a band member's kid, there was one notably young person there. Which doesn't mean anything because this was a tiny show. But they started a conversation with me that I found really funny.

First off they were talking about "the post-punk" scene in Raleigh-Durham area. I don't know why, but the phrase kinda surprised me. Maybe because they were young, maybe because I never heard that term when finding bands that I'd later see termed post-punk long after the fact. I'm not too genre conscious, but some people really latch on to that stuff.

Second, they were struggling to find a delicate way of expressing disappointment that the local "post-punk scene" skewed old. That really cracked me up! They were worried it sounded mean, but I was just like, "hey, don't feel bad about the truth!" Besides, I thought it was cool that younger folks are at all interested in noisy old-man music that I like. If anything it should be flattering to all the aging dads hanging out. I did suggest they forge the path and drag some friends out or start a band. Anyway, cool kid with lots of interesting ideas and interests in the area art and music.

PRF? What is that?

mark76 wrote: Mon Oct 10, 2022 1:09 pm PRF? What is that?

Assuming that you honestly don't know, take a look at the domain name of this web site.

Ah. I'd forgotten.