“ Mind Control” (egg punk) / Golden Pelicans - “ Pissin in a Puddle of Puke” the Achtungs - “ I Don’t Care About You” (chain punk) Further Reading: “ The 10 Best Punk and Garage Rock Albums of 2019”Ĭonsider egg punk and chain punk the yin and yang of underground rock’n’roll. Egg Punk / Chain Punkĭate Range: 2013 to the present Origin Point: Northwest Indiana basement shows Key Artists: The Coneheads, Lumpy and the Dumpers, Warm Bodies (egg punk) / Sick Thoughts, Warthog, Foster Care (chain punk) Crucial Listening: Natural Man Band - “ The Hammer” C.C.T.V. This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. Taken together, they tell a story about culture’s development in the new millennium, with each one inching us a little closer to the gloriously chaotic musical landscape of today. Others, like chillwave, rewired the collective psyche in their own small ways, tweaking how we think about popular music. Some were fleeting ideas that lasted for a season or two before they were replaced by other equally ephemeral notions (looking at you, seapunk). These stylistic dividers, on the other hand, were often fanciful, capricious, even outlandish (though few were as silly as donk or skramz). You won’t find hyperpop or SoundCloud rap or even depressive black metal here-all of those things are more or less stable entities with fixed meanings, however much fans may argue about their nuances. To commemorate Pitchfork’s 25th anniversary, we’ve gathered 25 such microgenres, great and small, that help illuminate music’s evolution over the past two and a half decades. Genre terms came to function almost like memes-totems passed along from mouth to mouth, keyboard to keyboard, text field to text field, both reflecting and shaping the cultural landscape they attempted to describe.
A lot, too, probably has to do with the fact that in the era of forums, blogs, and finally social media, the discourse around music spun giddily out of control. Much of this factionalization is undoubtedly a function of how the internet facilitates like-minded individuals’ ability to seek each other out.
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