6/7/2023 0 Comments Slacker radio classic rockTo wit, when Kanye suggested Beyoncé deserved to take Beck’s “Album of the Year” Grammy earlier this year, many accepted Beck’s unworthiness relative to Queen Bey as an uncontroversial truth. Straight-ahead rock bands like Black Keys and Foo Fighters remain strong, while ’00s blog rock refugees like Cold War Kids eke out charting hits.īeck is maybe the most continually relevant legacy artist in the mix, but he’s well on the other side of his career’s hip pinnacle. 1 hits in the format came from briefly successful and critically invisible acts like Imagine Dragons, Cage the Elephant and Bastille. You either get classic rock with the demographic target slightly shifted or dude-heavy synth-pop rendered in meek strokes. The alternative is an increasingly conservative option. Instead, the version of the alternative format that lingers in 2015 provides only a mild contrast to the pop, hip-hop, oldies and country that dominate the rest of the dial. It’s a problem bigger than locale or budget. ![]() Headliners Muse, Death Cab for Cutie and Panic! at the Disco presented a terrifying future Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class, though Florence and the Machine classed up the lineup with left-of-center pop. The lineup for the 2015 Weenie Roast in LA was slightly more current but equally uninspired. ![]() This nostalgia yields only to commercially strong, aesthetically banal newbies like Bleachers and waning blog-poppers Passion Pit.Īnd this is not to pick on a medium market. Openers Live and Blues Traveler could be edited out of the cultural memory entirely. A few lunk-headed gems stand out from the discography of headliners Stone Temple Pilots, but with Scott Weiland perpetually unable to get his shit together, and former Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington now belting out “Big Empty,” even a claim on nostalgia value is tenuous. This year’s Big Shindig lineup is an ill-sitting mix of past-peak ’90s acts and bland contemporary dudes. The best of INDY Week’s fiercely independent journalism about the Triangle delivered straight to your inbox.
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