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It's pretty sad and telling that there are no younger rock bands big enough and good enough to induct 90s-era acts. There are good rock bands, but they're not big, and there are big bands, but they don't rock.

Could you have found a worse picture of Elizabeth banks? She looks like she's agreeing to come and see your imrpov group

Where's Rappin' Jake Sisko when we need him?

True, and a big part of that was due to Riley Keough. Her performance took a character that could have been jarringly opaque and made her intriguingly inscrutable instead.
Shame she's not returning for the second season.

Demolition Man was robbed! ROBBED I tells ya!!

Great song. Although I do wish they'd return to their more abrasive guitar-driven early sound. I'm kinda bored of rock bands going electronica.

Some friends and me were discussing what was the first property to feature vampire and werewolves as natural enemies, with dulling secret societies.
That trope is so common nowadays, it's almost taken for granted as being part of both monsters' mythos. But the best were could do to trace it's origin was the 90s RPG Vam…

I'm not dissing jam bands. Frankly, I've never gotten the hate for them.

Yeah, industrial rock is a notable exception.

I'm a huge fan of old-school analogue synth music like Jean Michael Jarre, Tangerine Dream, etc. But I'm also a fan of classic rock, and I think the focus of 'authenticity' has another side to it: that it was also about 'cheating' - or rather, misplaced credit. Drum loops and samples put more power into the hands of…

I don't like drum machines and samples as the basis of rock songs because they just sound so stiff and artificial compared to 'real' drums. Its a totally subjective thing I know, but they just don't create the same ambience or sense of immediacy. They make the song feel 'constructed' in a hard-to-identify way that,…

I think Queen's 'no synthesizers' disclaimer was more about Brian may showing off his guitar skills, and not wanting his unique tones and harmonies to be attributed to synths when they put a lot of work into them.

Not if you're preaching to convert, which is what we should be doing - converting those who insist they voted for Trump in spite of his awfulness, because they're desperate for jobs or whatever. We have to convince them that the progressive left can help them and that minorities and SJWs aren't to blame for their…

It's wonderful that they're raising money for causes, but this - and all the Trump protests so far, including Streep's - feel like textbook examples of 'preaching to the converted'.

I think Bad Boys should be included. Not only does it hold up, IMO, but one could argue that it represents the point that hip-hop culture infused the Hollywood action movie completely.

'Chloe Dancer/Crown Of Thorns' is a masterpeice that I'd stack up against any song from the 70s golden age of rock epics.

I trust the AV Club's taste, so any advice for a Ty Segall neophyte? I like what I've heard of him, but there's Just. So. Much of it. I own Melted and I like it (although I don't LOVE it). What else should I check out? Cheers.

I feel like rap finally has done that, what with To Pimp A Butterfly and Run The Jewels and others. It makes me even more annoyed that any decent rock band these days insists on trying to recapture 70s styles rather than trying to engage with the real world.

As an old white man my self, I agree. But advertisers only seem to care about 'the youth' and publications like The AV Club are only really interested in being ahead of the curve on things like diversity and identity politics (a worthy goal, most of the time). Between these two trends, it's unlikely rock music will…