Where is the current wave of Punk music?

a month ago by Maxxus to c/asklemmy

If the original movement in the 70s was in response to political stagnation in the UK and the Vietnam war in the US. And the revival in the 00s in response to the US wars in the Middle East. Between Black Lives Matters, No Kings protests, and far right political parties recent win across the globe, where is the Punk movement? Where is the disenfranchised youth grinding out their anger on an electric guitar in an abandoned industrial building?

Edit: Thank you to everyone who suggested various artists. I’m going to check them all out!

velma 77 points a month ago

Bob Vylan

Amyl and the Sniffers

Lambrini Girls

Viagra Boys

Mannequin Pussy

Alice Longyu Gao

Die Spitz

Cowboy Hunters

Mudrat

Soft Play

Sleater-Kinney

Teen Mortgage

Kneecap

Screaming Females

Bikini Kill

Destroy Boys

IDLES

The Streets

VIAL

Propaghandi

Deap Vally

Bad Cop Bad Cop

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Maxxus 9 points a month ago

1 album from each, 12 hours and 20 minutes. ✊

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velma 4 points a month ago

Hell yeah :)

Enjoy!!

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picnicolas 4 points a month ago

I loved Propagandhi in the 90s and went to see them live 20 years ago. Back to the motor league with me!

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RudeDuner 7 points a month ago

Tropical Fuck Storm

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Matticus 6 points a month ago

Australian scene is great right now. The Chats and Ratsalad are standouts too

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SpruceBringsteen 1 point a month ago

Laughing Death in Meatspace still one of the best albums of the last decade.

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Fetus 5 points a month ago

IDLES say they're not punk, which somehow makes them even more punk.

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erie09 4 points a month ago

The Bobby Lee's

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dkppunk 4 points a month ago

Hell yeah! I knew you would have a kick ass list of great bands ☺️

Off topic: I just used the Venom INLP polish and I love it!

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velma 3 points a month ago

Ahhhh sh.itjust.works was down for most of the day yesterday and I didn’t see this right away! I love that you love that polish 💕💕

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cheesyxpickle 4 points a month ago

Perfection

Plus RATSALAD

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velma 3 points a month ago

RATSALAD

Oh fuck yeah! Never heard of 'em before, thank you for the rec!! Australia is really popping off with amazing music lately.

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cheesyxpickle 3 points a month ago

I hope you love them as much as I do!!

WE DONT SELL VAAAAAPES 💜

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Nouvellalia 1 point a month ago

I had been wandering around other genres for too long when I stumbled across RATSALAD. They breathed fire into my lifelong love of punk.

It sent me to find

  • split dogs
  • taxi girls
  • shrewd
  • the lippies
  • panic shack
  • lambrini girls
  • the Bobby Lees
  • the venomous pinks
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gothic_lemons 3 points a month ago path: 0 25744626 25754365, hotness: undefined, score: 3, children: 4
velma 2 points a month ago

I’m warming up to her stuff. I recently stumbled on her music this year. It’s a little too pop-punk sometimes for my own personal taste, but I enjoy the hell out of the messaging.

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ExLisper 1 point a month ago

Ecca Vandal

My "discovery of the year" last year. Great album.

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velma 3 points a month ago

That's surprising.

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ExLisper 1 point a month ago

Cause I I I I I I I I I I I I

I bleed but never die ie ie ie ie ie ie ie ie ie ie 🎶 🎶 🎶

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jtrek 3 points a month ago

That's a few decades put together into one list

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velma 11 points a month ago

They’re all currently making music and playing shows.

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CIA_chatbot 26 points a month ago

I mean, Amyl and the Sniffers, PinkShift, Skating Polly (more grungy than punk maybe) BitchKiss, Stray from the path, Blood Lemon, Sorry Mom, etc.

a lot of new punk music is more pointed to RiotGrrl punk these days, but there is a shitload of new, really fucking good punk bands out there. We just lack a main stream outlet/major tour that showcases it anymore.

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BreadOven 13 points a month ago

Great list. Check out the rat utopia experiment if you haven't already.

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CIA_chatbot 6 points a month ago

Will do!

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BreadOven 3 points a month ago

Hopefully you like them. For non-riot gurll bands, check out soul glo if you're into slightly more hardcore stuff.

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Console_Modder 26 points a month ago

It's out there, it's just harder to find when everything has to be fed through an advertisement friendly algorithm.

chase usa - Swipe Story 4

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Maxxus 3 points a month ago

Maybe parts of the problem is that I don’t use an algorithm. The reach of my discovery is limited by what real humans suggest to me.

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SpruceBringsteen 23 points a month ago path: 0 25744836, hotness: undefined, score: 23, children: 1
bizzle 3 points a month ago

TRUE fucking slaps so unbelievably hard

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Pudutr0n 21 points a month ago

Where is the disenfranchised youth grinding out their anger on an electric guitar in an abandoned industrial building?

They're looking at their smartphones.

Also, viagra boys.

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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 4 points a month ago

They're using smartphones to hold their charts and tablature nowadays it's crazy

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dgdft 15 points a month ago

Where is the disenfranchised youth grinding out their anger on an electric guitar in an abandoned industrial building?

Might be a bit of a hot take: the spirit is alive but the common form drifted away from this old-school ideal.

Punk as a genre has stopped being a self-contained monolith, and started blending into other styles. There’s still a pool of traditionalists, but they’re a relative minority.

In the 90s, it bleed into hard rock (Nirvana). In the aughts, the main fork was emo-punk (a la Conor Oberst). The 2010s had a big post-punk wave (Parquet Courts, Viagra Boys). Meanwhile, on a longer timeline, industrial EDM/noise music has been the modern incarnation of the spirit of the hardcore subgenre (Death Grips), and folk-punk has been a consistent niche of its own.

And even on top of these more specific splinters, the standard indie rock genre has grown to encompass more “soft-punk” elements in recent decades (Modest Mouse, Wolf Parade).

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SpruceBringsteen 7 points a month ago

Even jazz is punk now

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Philote 14 points a month ago

There is a phenomenal Punk scene still but not always the stereotypical sound. Most have extra notations like Hardcore, folk, post, or some new vibe no genre can define yet etc. Doom Scroll, Chat Pile, Viagra boys, Codefendents, Aquabats, Drain, Scowl, MSPAINT and Soul glo are some vastly different sounds across the spectrum of punk to check out.

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mbp 4 points a month ago

Gonna see two of them in the next few weeks!

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Simon_Shitewood 12 points a month ago

You mean like MUDRAT, Bob Vylan, shame, or Kid Kapichi? Then there's the post punk/punk adjacent stuff like Kneecap, Hyphen, Viagra Boys, Warmduscher, Yard Act, Gila Band, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs etc.
You're not going to find them listening to corporate radio or following the algorithm, but there's plenty out there.

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qiot 12 points a month ago

dead pioneers, deaf club, petrol girls, Meryl streek, melted bodies

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FreeAZ 11 points a month ago

One major punk artist very relevant nowadays that I haven't seen anyone mention is Jeff Rosenstock. He was very influenced by Ian MacKaye and he's famous for making the first successful donations based record label.

He first blew up with a ska band called "The Arrogant Sons of Bitches" then moved onto his punk band "Bomb the Music Industry" until moving on to a solo career. His solo stuff have been some of his best albums, and the old ones are still good.

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otherbarry 11 points a month ago

It's still around, there might even be an active scene near you that you could join in with if you're inclined. Last few shows I've seen in the northeast U.S. were for Doom Scroll, Hans Gruber and the Die Hards, Playboy Manbaby, Sister Wife Sex Strike, Bad Cop/Bad Cop, and probably some others I'm not thinking of right this second. They all have songs about the current state of things and how expensive shit is.

Lots of bands in the UK too, offhand Lambrini Girls and Bob Vylan are pretty great. Hell if you want an example of the current state of things Bob Vylan actually had their travel Visas revoked in the U.S. so they can no longer play shows in the U.S.

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measureyoucanpleasure 9 points a month ago

Lots of disenfranchised youths rapping nowadays. I suppose the barriers to entry are lower so there's a lot of trash but a hardened listener will eventually find some gold.

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radiofreebc 4 points a month ago

I'd say UK drill is pretty punk

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measureyoucanpleasure 4 points a month ago

Tried some youtube but can't get into it. But that's okay, where i live society is very different from UK. Trve punk thinks globally and acts locally.

feel free to post links tho

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Rhynoplaz 9 points a month ago

I closest thing I ever see is folky acoustic songs or parodies with clear, understandable lyrics so you don't miss the witty anti-MAGA lyrics they wrote.

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can 9 points a month ago

Bob Vylan

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mechoman444 8 points a month ago

Like so many other industries, the music industry has been thoroughly consolidated by massive record labels, publishers, and corporate interests. Much of the music we're exposed to on a daily basis is no longer simply music it’s a commercial product engineered to generate as much revenue as possible.

If you're looking for something genuinely specific, unconventional, or outside the mainstream, you usually have to go looking for it yourself. Unfortunately, basic searches on YouTube or Spotify aren't necessarily going to lead you there. Their algorithms tend to reinforce what is already popular rather than uncovering the deeper corners of the musical landscape.

But that music is out there. There is an enormous amount of incredible, creative, and genuinely original music being made right now. You just have to dig past the commercial surface to find it.

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Semi_Hemi_Demigod 8 points a month ago

They’re not terribly political - except for The Price of Smokes has Gone Up Again - but The Chats are the best punk band I’ve heard lately.

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velma 6 points a month ago

The Chats are a solid punk band for sure.

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Zebrafive 2 points a month ago

Im not hugely into punk. Id say my opinion is that the only 2 punk bands that have ever existed are the Ramones and the Clash and everyone else is some other genre. I understand this is not true but its how I feel.

The Chats, might not the Clash, but I do feel they are competent, creative, and stylistically punk and I do quite enjoy them on occasion.

Specifically, Temperature by the Chats, is largely a large banger.

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velma 3 points a month ago

Punk is arguably more of a mindset than a specific sound these days. The early days of punk certainly set a musical style that’s distinctive though. I’d recommend checking out The Cramps and Dead Kennedys if you enjoy the Ramones and the Clash.

No Dogs in Space is a podcast that does deep dives on some of these bands that you might find interesting.

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bluesheep 8 points a month ago

Apart from all the great bands mentioned by others, here in my city there's a pretty alive underground scene with cheap shows which are explicitly anti fascist

It can be more alive than you'd think

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Malica 7 points a month ago

People are tired boss

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Beacon 7 points a month ago

"History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes."

The fundamental aspects repeat, but the specifics are always different. This time it's not an electric guitar in an abandoned building thing, it's a bedroom rapper going underground viral thing. You're not seeing it because you don't care about that style of music, just like the adults of the 70s and 80s didn't care about punk music

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zout 4 points a month ago

On the other hand, Joey Valence and Brae did a pretty good cover of "Security" by Amyl and the Sniffers.

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AviAdi 7 points a month ago

The majority of kids under 30 are still focused on making enough money to have nice things. They were raised by parents (my generation) to think stuff is the answer to all life's problems. That is the majority of how people think in this day and age. The biggest issue amongst a lot of individuals is not having access to enough stuff (including traveling) to fill the gaping hole inside. Unfortunately, that hole is actually caused by a breakdown in community, family and communication. The kids aren't angry anymore, they are depressed.

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Iseja 7 points a month ago

Big scene in Sweden still with our own subgenre called Trallpunk (basically singalong punk). Lastkaj 14, Småjävlafötter, KSMB, Björnarna, Troublemakers, Just to name a few who are still active. Most bands are connected to a music label which was started in the early 00s to give more swedish punks an opportunity to reach out with their music SecondClassKids

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Leviathan 7 points a month ago

Huge, intense punk scene in Montreal with lots of people from many walks of life screaming about exactly what's going on right now.

We have multiple industrial buildings and hidden spots in the woods where shows happen.

Honestly a great scene.

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ogrrr 6 points a month ago

Not really punk but spot-on political: Jesse Welles. The guy is probably the best song writer of a generation.

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Dadifer 5 points a month ago

Sum41 had shit to complain about for 30 years

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AviAdi 4 points a month ago

Lol so true. That was corporate punk for real. Glad that shit is dead. Let it stay dead

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KC_Royalz 3 points a month ago

I wasn't a big fan of them back at their height of popularity but I've really been digging goldfinger lately. I posed a similar question on reddit a few years ago before ban. Wanted new antifacist punk music.

I wouldn't call them punk, more industrial, but if you have never listened to them before ministry from the 90s is really good. Still make music today and Al hates Trump

Same with KMFDM

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NihilsineNefas 3 points a month ago

Ive got two that come to mind in terms of modern punk

Zeal and Ardor - top tier punk with heavy vibes and a grandiose range

La Dispute - some of the greatest and most emotionally devastating music you'll hear

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Hermit_Lailoken 2 points 23 days ago

The Chats, from Australia fits here.

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fdnomad 2 points a month ago

Honningbarna if you're fine with Norwegian

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HaveMouseWillTravel 2 points a month ago

The Iron Roses. Can't stop listening to the Molotov Nights album.

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ace_garp 2 points a month ago

Hearing about the cancellation of the Great Vegan Festival, gave some excellent band recommendations in the article.

https://www.thecanary.co/...

HAWXX are straight fire.

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JoeTheSane 1 point a month ago

Not punk music, but Ren is a rapper that does a lot of protest music. Very much in the spirit of punk.

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kibblebits 1 point a month ago

We would need people who are willing to stand up in order to have punk. Everyone is on the ground staring at a screen. Punk is dead.

Floorpunk?

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Quazatron 0 points a month ago

I was expecting that the Brexit consequences would bring about a music revolution like the punk in the 70s. Maybe not rock, but hip-hop or something.

I guess it's just not coming. Kids are too busy scrolling and fighting strangers online.

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kurcatovium 5 points a month ago

Maybe it's happening in a genre we don't follow? Who can be sure in this timeline?

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Quazatron 2 points a month ago

I really hope so, because if we can't count on the young to loudly oppose all this bullshit, the alternative is very scary indeed.

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