Name ONE Male Rock Star This Century
 

Please name me ONE (male) "rock star" that's emerged this 21st century. The only one I can think comes close (maybe?) is Jack White but even HE began in the 1990's!

In fact, please name me one rock BAND that's emerged as a "voice of their Generation" since 2000 like U2, Pearl Jam, Nirvana or Bruce Springsteen. Anyone? Fuck, please name me even a single "rock star" of ANY note, male or female, that's emerged during the last 15+ years.

WHAT THE FUCK HAS HAPPENED TO MUSIC? Where are all the BANDS? The friggin' ROCK STARS with their limos, crazy Elton John-esque outfits, frenetic videos, trashed hotel rooms and penchant for sex, drugs and ROCK AND ROLL?

Pathetic. Give me back the 20th Century NOW please.

First you need to define "rock star."

And unless they've thrown at least one TV out of their hotel window, they don't qualify.

If I throw my TV out the window, I wont be able to play Rock Band any more.

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That's like asking us to name one jazz star that has come out this century. Music has moved on, even if you haven't.

music biz learned that marketing music for per-pubesent kids sells better. i can name lots of good musicians putting out good music today but i can't think of any off the top of my head right now that started after 2000. I'm sure there are some however the idea of the excessive rock star lifestyle isn't looking upon with admiration as much anymore. people want musicians to be more real, more like them.

Apple ruined music by revving up the hipster movement and helping make folk shit popular again. What the fuck has happened to alternative rock stations where it feels like every other time I turn on the radio hoping to hear a decent song, it's some piece of shit folk thing that is strictly worse than whatever folk would have come out 40-50 years ago if I were into such a thing?

Music hasn't moved on - it's regressed to feel-good bullshit.

Oh god, the music of today is shit argument. Said every aging person ever.

Closest you have is guys like Nickeback and Kid Rock.

Rap was/is the new 'rockstar'...and so are a lot of Dj's like DeadMau5, skrillex, etc

Rock has taken a backseat to all this rap bullshit. Yo.

name those folk starts of 21st century

no problem.


dan auerbach



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Yeah, I really miss barber shop quartets. You just can't get good f ing music anymore.

Nope, both Nickelback and Kid Rock started in the 1990's.

No RAP, no DJs, no JUSTIN BEIBERS - I mean:

Bono
Eddie Vedder
Kurt Cobain
Bruce Springsteen
Steven Tyler
Slash
Ozzy-fucking-OSBOURNE.


Who? Sounds like an accountant.

Freddie Mercury
Axl Rose
Metalicca
Foo Fighters
Roger-fucking-DALTRY

What, white kids don't like guitars, drums and SINGERS anymore? WTF?

Someone/band I've actually heard of.

Marylin Manson in past 15 years or so. Music sux tho now nothing good comes out hip hop is a disgrace now. I grew up on real hip hop and house. Before that metal and some rock stuff, but now everything sux.

lol, you asked for a rock star, i gave you one who plays guitar and sings, significantly.

just because you haven't heard of him or his name isn't a clever name like roger daltry doesn't mean he's not one.

perhaps the fact you haven't heard about him reveals the problem behind your whining for rock stars.

either way, i participated in your *search* and provided an answer, accept it or not.

welcome to this century


Dan Auerbach is an American musician and record producer best known as the guitarist and vocalist for The Black Keys, a blues rock band from Akron, Ohio. As a member of the band, Auerbach has recorded and co-produced seven studio albums with his fellow bandmate Patrick Carney.
In 2009, Auerbach released a solo album entitled Keep It Hid. In addition to winning several Grammy Awards as a member of The Black Keys, Auerbach received the 2013 Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical for co-producing his band's 2011 album El Camino, and for producing records by Dr. John and Hacienda.

Define 'rock star'? Someone who people have HEARD OF. WHO is this guy? I won't even Google for him. Is he in a band? How many records has he sold? CDs or downloads or whatever? Magazine covers? MTV videos? Tonight Show appearances? Has he hosted SNL? Does he wear outrageous costumes and sells out Madison Square Garden on his 80 night mega-tour?

C'mon man, I'm not asking for good musicians or people with talent, I agree they are out there. I mean there hasn't been a significant, soceity-shifting, generation-changing ROCK STAR to come along since 1990's at the latest, and even THEY were pale imitaters compared to Robert Plant, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.

It's not that I'm old (barely 40), it's not that I'm out-of-touch (I live in NYC, the Center of the Media Universe), it's just that I'm so SAD people seem to have given up on rock music. Those that still create it are in their sixties and seventies!! The Black Sabbath "reunion" is great but those cats are in their mid-SIXTIES. Where's the next YOUNG Ozzy Osbourne?

Maybe your guy is it but he'd better do a better job of reaching Mega-Stardom 'cause I shouldn't have to ask "Who is he?" :)

(Thanks for answering tho! LOL)

PS: The Black Keys ain't "rock stars". At best their alternative musicians but not 'rock stars' in the trad sense. Grammys mean shit. LOL

bro, you asked people to name one rockstar, implication being you don't know any. so why the fuck are you putting me on the spot for posting a rock star you haven't heard of?

that makes no sense and is pretty insulting to someone that simply answered your fucking question.


black keys sell out stadiums bra, sold out madison square garden in 15 minutes, etc. i'm not going to go looking shit up to sell you on whether or not a band has rock star status in your fucking imagination.

I'm sorry man, I was just having some fun. I actually like the song you posted and you're right, I don't know the band but I will educate myself on their music. :)

Again apologies - I thought my thread title implied there aren't any rock stars anymore and I was meaning the Mick Jagger-types (or Eddie Vedder-types). I think your answer is a differant kind of 'rock star' than the type we used to have years ago. Maybe as others mentioned the outrageous seventies-style stars are long gone now being replaced by The Black Keys and others like them.

Sorry if I offended. :) But I still want more Pearl Jams and Kinks. LOL

Yup, the age of the arena rock star is over. Some acts may mimic the mannerisms & whatnot, but it's mostly for kitsch at this point.

I'd also say Jack White's the closest thing nowadays, and since White Blood Cells was released in 2001 he qualifies as more a product of the 21st century (by way of early 20th century blues of course).

The big outsized personalities are in hip-hop now - Kanye, Jay-Z, Beyonce, etc, even Janelle Monae in her postmodern-soul-via-Bowie type deal.

Still an assload of fantastic music being made if you know where to look. And yeah, Dan Auerbach & the Black Keys are pretty darn good, one of those bands you can play for just about anyone and they'll get into it.

you named jack white and dan aeurbach is very much a jack white sort of *rock star*. and he immediately came to mind, so i posted his name.

these guys are still what i would consider indie, but they act like little fucking rock stars and have a gold record :1orglaugh

I'm gonna check them out more for sure. :)

My point is kind of getting lost here tho. You see, I WISH The Black Keys (or Jack White) were as big as Led Zeppelin or Pearl Jam! I WANT there to be big mega-rock stars again because I think they held a very powerful and necassary position in soceity and the lack of them today is contributing to the fragmentation and ultimate dissolution of our soceity (and humanity). But I digress.

There's no music business infra-structure anymore like there used to be to MAKE The Black Keys as huge (and impactful) as Zeppelin or The Who were. It's been dismantled, ensuring NO BAND will ever be as popular as U2 or Elton John were back in the day. And yes it makes me upset. LOL I hope to fuck The Black Keys (and others) prove me wrong cause I'm barely 40 and looking at the next 30+ years of life without another Led Zeppelin or AC/DC sucks balls man.

)Yeah I saw Cage The Elephant at a club in New York awhile back. LOL Good but cocky with little reason I thought. Man, maybe I AM getting old!!)

You probably know them as the Black Keys. El Camino did triple platinum but I can see what he's saying. The funny thing is, "rock" outsells rap by 3x but whatever you think rap is the genre of the 20 somethings.

Rock per se is dead, it just doesn't know it yet. The bad boys are rappers now.

Jazz is alive but tiny, classical is alive only in captivity.

this is prolly why i read your op the way i did and not how you meant it. you're on more about the politics (is that the right word?) of the music industry, which i don't really consider. so i don't really know why the industry doesn't allow for a voice of generation type of guitar band. seems like ilnjscb is right, today is about moguls and all the moguls are rap moguls, i think. not sure how that happened, jay-z pretty much sucks, imo, and i like rap.

If you are looking for big crowds of like minded people, you should check out country.

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justin beiber

according to the wiki on best selling albums, the bottom cutoff being 20million records sold, the last *rock* band to achieve that minimum to make the list was oasis.

that was a long fucking time ago and a long way away from the top bracket, 40million+ records sold.

Man you ain't jokin'!! My girlfriend lives in Georgia and loves country. It's amazing how popular it is in certain regions and how totally ignored it is in others! I personally like a lot of the MUSIC of country cause I like country-rock bands like The Eagles and Buffalo Springfield but the LYRICS to country are sometimes ridiculous:

"She thinks my tractor's sexy."
"My car and my dog are my only friends."
"She left me now I'm thinkin' 'bout drinkin'."

Not exactly Dylan. LOL

CHUMLEE!

MAN I remember Oasis! Quick story: I was a journalist writing for a local newspaper and I went in to interview them at the record company offices. Elevator opens on the floor and people are running around all upset. "They're smoking POT in the conference room!"

So I go "Really? Awesome!" and open the conference room door. "No don't!" the publicist yells at me but I do it anyway and a HUGE plum of pot smoke comes out. I go in, come out 45 minutes later and the ONLY thing I remember is hearing people pounding on the door and somehow leaving with 4 Oasis T-shirts (signed). I still have one somewhere. LOL

1992 maybe? Man, those were the daze. Haha!!

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lolz, nutty, they prolly got the best weed too! :1orglaugh

i see what you are saying now, it's pretty amazing that it's been a couple decades since a rock band has sold big numbers.

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Whatever, always lots of good music being made, check out this band from Perth, Australia:



Beatlesque psychedelia:



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ADG

Speaking of Australia: whatever happened to Men At Work, INXS and AC/DC?

AC/DC put out a cool record recently...INXS dissolved after Michael Hutchence killed himself by hanging from a doorway naked with a necktie while masturbating, but Men At Work? Hmmm....

But seriously, you would think some retro-sounding rock band like The Black Crowes or somebody would come out of nowhere and sell millions of CDs to nostalgic old fucks like me. You'd think.

They are a huge indie/alternative band...most people that follow indie music are very familiar with their music. I'm 36 and I know their music well but that is because I follow the Indie/Alternative scene.

And right there is part of the answer..that these days music is so individualized that people aren't all listening to the same songs on the radio over and over again.

It all comes down to your rule that they needed to start in the 2000's. Otherwise, I would say in addition to Jack White there are/were Liam and Noel Gallagher (they were ginormous in the UK), Dave Grohl and Eminem. Yup, I know Eminem is rap but take that out as a block and tell me he hasn't filled the rock star role.

I most agree with you that there are less 'rock stars' but there is also less collective memory.

They opened for the Foo Fighters the last time I saw them and were pretty good.

I have to say the one name that pops into my head is Chris Daughtry, he's got amazing talent along with his unique voice, plus his albums/songs are superb.

Amy Whinehouse

due to the internet and other resources there is far more selection for music these days. back in the day there was 10-15 big bands and that was really it and people could only focus on those ones because they were the ones on the radio, in the magazines and in the stores and rock dominated the music scene. now there is so many different genres and so many different styles that people are far more spread out across the board. are rock stars dead? no but they're different and that's fine with me. it just makes people work a bit harder. i couldn't care less how popular a band or musician is, i only care about how good the music is.

It's true music is more 'spread out' these days, which is what I meant by the "infrastructure" of the music business changing. Now, instead of everyone hearing the same songs on the radio you thousands of individual 'radio station' on the Internet and people just listen to what they want.

The collective has power, however, and we see a fragmented soceity now. Music has the power to unify yet it is not doing that because of the reasons people have pointed out here in this thread. Sad.

Well Im maybe getting old. In the 80s we had Music!
Pink Floyd, Bruce Springsteen, Madonna, Kiss, Earosmith, Queen, Bon Jovi, ACDC, Status Que, Rolling Stones and the list goes on.

This is 30 years ago and still these bands and artist are on top.

Not sure you can say that about Justin Bieber and One Direction in 30 years.

Just my 2 cents :)

Exactly my original point with this thread (thanks for crystalizing my thoughts LOL).

Put another way: How many of these new rock stars will make it to the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 30 years? I say very few if any.

Theory of a deadman. Lookup "bad girlfriend". Awesome song.

Depends on the definition of rock star.

There's a ton of great bands that no one even knows about, because they didn't win the lottery selection process of record company suits. I understand your point, because there hasn't been a Bruce Springsteen or Mick Jagger in a long time -- but rock is mostly dead. Like I said, there's more great bands than ever, but rock is dead to the masses who mostly only know about top 40 and rap. It's sad.

I see someone posted it but certainly the Black Keys... Middle Class Rut is another but they aren't very well known and think only have one album.

Also Cage

Liam Gallagher

There are so many amazing bands around right now that it is almost impossible to keep up with them. My summer is already almost filled up with concerts and each one of them is a quality band. I live very close to a LA concert venue and I would be there several times a week seeing worthy acts. These days though they don't come to you as much as you have to look at bit for them.

Btw, my uncles used to have near enough the same speech when I was a kid but it was against New Kids on The Block or whoever else was around. Meanwhile, the charts this summer are filling up with albums from bands that were from that era.


Oh...I'd throw Thom Yorke into the mix but again, he started in the 90s.

When New Kids On The Block and N Sync ruled the charts is when I left the music industry. LOL Thank GOD.

BTW: I've been on this 'ain't no rock stars no more' rant since about 1998. :) True, lots of great music but because everything is so fragmented you have to search them out, find them, and then be part of a small community of 'insiders' who know and love this band. In the old days you turned on the radio and heard what everyone else heard and if you wanted more you went out and - gasp! - bought an ALBUM.

BTW: where are all the record stores? :(

I don't give a shit because all my old favorites are still touring and putting out new music.