Why is "Post-Punk" even considered "Punk"?

Ol’ Qwerty Bastard · 05-27-2016, 12:35 PM

I completely disagree with that. Go on bandcamp for a minute, and look at all the artists who upload awesome new music there on a regular basis. Or go check out a hip-hop site like Datpiff or Hot New Hip-Hop and see just how many rappers are putting out quality projects while still going unnoticed by the mainstream audiences.

Just because people aren't creating new fads to accompany genres doesn't have anything to do with the so called underground not existing. The internet has made everything available at the click of a finger, so now just because you're a big fan of skate-punk, that doesn't mean you listen exclusively to skate-punk, because you can just as easily find bands that influenced your favourite bands, and have access to a giant catalogue of nearly any band or artist who made up that genre. On top of that, just because teenagers dress a certain way, doesn't mean they listen exclusively to the music you would associate the scene with. For example, I have friends who listen primarily to hip-hop that skate board and dress like skaters. I personally wear band shirts on a day to day basis, and they're usually strictly metal shirts (black metal, death metal, grindcore) but that's a very small portion of the music I listen to, despite what people would assume from my image.

In terms of creating something original, I think that's just a poor statement. There are TONS of acts around now that are blazing their own trails. The difference is that now, you don't need to get on the radio to make an impact, you don't need to be Led Zeppelin, or the Beatles, or the Ramones. You can make great music, and stay relatively unknown to the majority of the music world, and still influence so many acts while keeping a style that is unique to yourself. Just because there might not have been new genres coined, or terms to describe this music, doesn't mean in any way that it isn't being created.