Yeah, I founded Metal School. What's it to ya?
Before I found Metal, I really loved New Wave and related forms of pop music. (I still love it, just not as much as metal.)
I still have and truly enjoy artists like David Bowie, Siouxie & the Banshees, Adam Ant, Devo, Oingo Boingo, Fishbone, FNM, RHCP, Missing Persons, Bow Wow Wow, Yello, Depeche Mode and Duran Duran. Thanks to VH-1 Classic's resurrection of 120 Minutes, I've also rekindled my love of bands I had forgotten like Love & Rockets, Jesus & Mary Chain and Curve, while reminding me to bands that I (inexplicably) passed over before, like Lush, Blur and Cocteau Twins.
Some bands kept the flame burning in the past few years, like Bjork, Jamiroquai, NIN, and the continued efforts of David Bowie, of course. Siouxie Sioux also kept her hand in the game with her Banshee bandmate Budgie in The Creatures. While Mark Mothersbaugh (Devo) and Danny Elfman (Oingo Boingo) have largely gone on to score movies and TV, they have occasionally still done work with their old bands...like Devo's excellent take on NIN's "Head like a Hole" found on the soundtrack of Supercop.
Now, there seems to be a true resurgence and revitalization of the form. The Vines, The Hives, The Bravery have all had some pretty good releases of late, and I'm loving the Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs "reimagination" of Siouxie & the Banshees' sound. Then there are bands like Maroon 5 and People In Planes who seem quite promising.
So- who else out there is into this stuff, and what are some of the bands that you think are carrying the standard these days?
Before I found Metal, I really loved New Wave and related forms of pop music. (I still love it, just not as much as metal.)
I still have and truly enjoy artists like David Bowie, Siouxie & the Banshees, Adam Ant, Devo, Oingo Boingo, Fishbone, FNM, RHCP, Missing Persons, Bow Wow Wow, Yello, Depeche Mode and Duran Duran. Thanks to VH-1 Classic's resurrection of 120 Minutes, I've also rekindled my love of bands I had forgotten like Love & Rockets, Jesus & Mary Chain and Curve, while reminding me to bands that I (inexplicably) passed over before, like Lush, Blur and Cocteau Twins.
Some bands kept the flame burning in the past few years, like Bjork, Jamiroquai, NIN, and the continued efforts of David Bowie, of course. Siouxie Sioux also kept her hand in the game with her Banshee bandmate Budgie in The Creatures. While Mark Mothersbaugh (Devo) and Danny Elfman (Oingo Boingo) have largely gone on to score movies and TV, they have occasionally still done work with their old bands...like Devo's excellent take on NIN's "Head like a Hole" found on the soundtrack of Supercop.
Now, there seems to be a true resurgence and revitalization of the form. The Vines, The Hives, The Bravery have all had some pretty good releases of late, and I'm loving the Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs "reimagination" of Siouxie & the Banshees' sound. Then there are bands like Maroon 5 and People In Planes who seem quite promising.
So- who else out there is into this stuff, and what are some of the bands that you think are carrying the standard these days?
