Tuesday 14 March 2023

THE PUNGE ROCK MOVEMENT

 

A change has arrived in rock music and it's called PUNGE ROCK! Gone are the boy bands and fake X Factor acts, they are dead and buried.

Now what huge crowds of music fans have been craving and flocking to are live bands, and the crazier they are the more they are loved. There is now a massive wave of Punge bands in England where the movement started, with so many exciting new bands such as Iodine, Inertia, Paranoid Alice, The Fakers, Unified Roots, Content Provider, just too many to mention - check out the PUNGE Rock Playlist

Gneration after generation, there’s always a fresh class of kids picking up electric guitars and making an exciting racket – and new rock acts continue to fill clubs (in normal times), rise up the ranks and push the form forward. 

Much like the '90s when bands were penned ‘grunge,’ you had a group of bands that honestly didn’t sound very similar or maybe didn’t even really share the same ethos, but they all were under that umbrella. It was probably frustrating and weird for all of them to be labeled under this one thing together, but they were better off for it in the end. It became a movement.

This type of sound is finding popularity as a kind of backlash to what we’ve been fed over the last 10 years. Things move in cycles, and new rock ‘n’ roll – not alternative or metal, like a real rock ‘n’ roll sound – has been very hard to find over the last decade.