#2027 Badbadnotgood - III

Rock autopsy pt 3.


You know how an east coast twonce might say St Croix's is the new St Barts?

Is dark, loose jazz the new rock? Nobody wants to be the next Eddie Van Halen. And there's no room to be the next Yes/Rush/Tortoise/Radiohead. If you're a young upstart and you want to make music that makes an impact, maybe rock's not the way to go anymore.

Cause I hear some young upstarts here, and they're sharp and inventive. And they're making jazz, loosely. No slavish devotion to solo structures or modes or conventions, but they're making funky music with piano and horns, lacking backbeats, going all hiphop if not outright broken to bits. I hear effort and effortlessness and grit and heart, bass rolling across the gas and brake, drums with skitter and don't-quit. I feel like these are kids who would be making some really lively,  really tight rock and roll if that was still a thing people did. Call that a compliment 4/5