Hate to sound like an old fart, but — oh well, maybe i am one already.
From where i am, the situation seems to be quite desperate. In mid-90s, punk became a "new trendy thing" and, as some say, stopped being punk ("pop punk" is one of the terms used, now isn't that an oxymoron? Well, to some extent, maybe not), and today, a group called Tokio Hotel is being called a "glam-punk-grunge-alternative-blah-blah-blah-band". (Well, anyway, who knows? Maybe the emo kids of today, in 10 or 15 years, will be saying that the music of their teenagehood was a real rebellious music, "and what they play today is absolute rubbish, having nothing to do with underground". Well, if anybody is worried — i don't think so, but still, — Mousie is not an emo kid, thank you, thank you, thank you.) A few rock FM stations that existed in my country in the 90s and early 00s were closed, or, as you may say, "re-branded", and now play all the same modern pop tunes that all sound like the same very long song. (The station called "Open Radio" which was claimed to be "a true rock station" was closed, and what appeared on the same frequency is officially called "Pop radio" — funny, heh?)
But it's hard to believe that no one these days tries to find something new and non-mainstreamish. So, the question to all: rebel music of today — what does it look (sound, smell, your option) like?
Toodle pip. I mean, cheers.
