Hipster classic metal bands are doing it: Play it loose and a little drunken, but Twisted Tower Dire have the deep-dish metal knowledge that slays trendiness.
The sweep of classic rock’s big-voiced mix of European folk traditions and U.S.-bred country and blues. U2, The Doors, Pearl Jam, and Live come to mind.
Despite and because of the unusual engineering, the room noise and unsafe at any volume recording level, this is the most exciting garage punk in many moons.
They bash simply, with a bit of retro, and so they’re competing with hundreds of bands who’ve emulated anything about The Stooges over the last 37 years.
Joshua English fronted Boston indie trio Six Going On Seven, but by the time they released their swansong, they were abandoning grit and going completely pop.
They’ve not continued on Warnings/Promises’ path, nor returned to The Remote Part’s commercialbility but combined the best of both. As much punk as U2 anthemic.
Hungarian prog metal that hits hard, riffy and rhythmically, with technically brilliant vocals from Zoltan Kiss who pulls it off without sounding too non-Anglo.
Sounds so like Fallen, it could’ve been culled from the same sessions. Not on par with Tori Amos or Kate Bush, but somewhere around Fionna Apple and Jewell.