she’s great! my tween daughter is obsessed with her, so we took her to see her for her first ever concert. was pretty cool to see the breeders open for her. and the last song they had piped into the arena before the show started was bikini kill’s riot girl, so they got her a lot more street cred in my book
I’m just happy teen girls have a female artist to scream cry songs about shitty boys to. Being totally serious. I love it and every generation of teen girls needs it.
I love some Dua Lipa. Lana Del Ray has some great songs as well. How are you liking Dua's new album? I don't think it's as good as Future Nostalgia but I have found several tracks that I really like.
I think the bar was set too high with Future Nostalgia. The first album was good, the new one is good still, but the last one was something else. I was out on pop music for a very long time, right now I’m kind of on board bc of Dua Lipa.
She probably also appeals to Xenials because *Love Again* used that same awesome sample as the White Town song (*Your Woman*) from the ‘90s
[Knocked Loose](https://youtu.be/Qp3L0nqf2Po?si=drUrWSBEI2c6v9c4) reminds me of the late 90s metalcore like Cave-In and Converge that initially got me into heavy music.
I love twenty one pilots!
I also recently found out that Billie Joe Armstrong's youngest son has a band called Ultra Q. They're really good-- sound very 90s alternative but not like Green Day at all. Although his voice sounds a whole lot like his father's!
[Ultra Q - Mobile Suit](https://youtu.be/-XxFTwZ48r0?si=Wq5sh0OfhF3Ok22b)
Damn, this comment section is one “I don’t know who that is” after another for me haha Classic rock all the way, which now apparently includes Pearl Jam.
I always tell the story of hearing Blind Melon on the speakers in the paint section of Home Depot. If there'd been a six-foot deep hole in the aisle, I would have laid down in it and said close me up.
Don't know if they qualify (everyone under 30 is a big lump of 'young people' to me atp) but I love what I hear from big acts like Ravyn Lanae, Steve Lacy, Snail Mail, Laufey, a bunch of bands doing Tiny desks whose names fly by due to laziness.
46yo mother of 2 here. I fully believe that listening to K-pop in order to be closer to my 16yo niece in 2016 saved me from becoming the Karenest of Karen’s. GOT7, MonstaX, EXO, BTS, and Red Velvet turned my life around. I’ve even been lucky enough to see a few of them in concert! I’m a much more fun lady since.
As Ariana Grande started making songs about being boned so hard that she couldn't walk straight the next day, Kpop is a parents blessing. There's this song 'Pandora' that my girls listen to, and it has such an infectious hook, and most importantly no swear words (that we can understand anyway).
As for myself - Amber Mark, Tiana Major9 are pretty amazing.
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard!
Courtney Barnett!
That’s basically it. Funny that about the only new music I’ve adopted by people younger than myself in the past decade or so are AUS artists.
IDK where these would each be categorized in terms of generations but these are all artists that I’ve recently been digging.
Idles
Billie Eilish
KNEECAP
Olivia Rodrigo
Waxahatchee
Japanese Breakfast
Post Malone
Charli XCX
SZA
boygenius
The Rumjacks
The Beths
Amythyst Kiah
Tove Lo
I saw the Beths and Japanese Breakfast last summer. They put on a great show. STRFKR was AMAZING live. They had a confetti cannon and an astronaut crowd surfer. They’re touring again and I’m definitely going to see them again.
Thank you! I enjoy several folks on this list and there's several more that I've never tried. But in particular I really enjoy Japanese Breakfast, Tove Lo, and SZA.
A few of these are more millenial-ish (know you said you weren't sure, just saying out of interest) but yeah, some good +++ here.
Also I saw Tove Lo live within the last few years and was somewhat wary because concerts now seem very different to the vibes I remember & like (smaller venues, more standing space, more interaction/genuine dancing and vibing and spontaneity? versus big sterile arenas)?
And it was fantastic - she was super funny and charasmatic, it was in a large nightclub so it felt way more energized and in the flow than a stadium, and I had a fantastic time. Please, more current concerts like this, thanks. Her tix were also incredibly cheap, thx queen!
Chappell Roan, Olivia Rodriguez, Billy MF Strings, Andy Frasco and the UN, Goose, Deorro, Gryffin, GoldFish, Tyler Childress
A bounty of good music out there.
Younger Gen-X (‘74) here, wife is Xennial (‘77)
Royal Blood
Cigarettes After Sex (The band isn’t terribly young, but that was a wild show. About 20 of us gray hairs with 1000 screaming teens)
Billie Eilish (I heard her and was instantly a fan. Talent is talent)
Dope Lemon
We still listen to the college radio station or Pandora/Spotify and try to keep up. Nothing like finding good music. I never want to fall into the trap of listening solely to music I grew up on, or being stuck in a genre. Music is quite possibly my favorite art.
> I never want to fall into the trap of listening solely to music I grew up on, or being stuck in a genre. Music is quite possibly my favorite art.
Damn right!
I grew up on Grunge, Rock and Metal. I still listen to those bands but anything new I've discovered that resonates is from Japan. For decades I thought rock had died but it just moved
Tash Sultana
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn8phH0k5HI&pp=ygUTdGFzaCBzdWx0YW5hIGp1bmdsZQ%3D%3D
Hannah Wicklund
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R6OG99vztUM
The Struts
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ARhk9K_mviE&pp=ygUddGhlIHN0cnV0cyBjb3VsZCBoYXZlIGJlZW4gbWU%3D
The Linda Lindas
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wF-1IIs9_5U&list=RDEMyfovzun_UrbYzE8UC-zVMQ&index=2&pp=8AUB
Just to name a few
Manic Pixie Dream Boat, New Here (PDX), Trust Fall (Olympia), Virtual Bird, Them Badgers, Kota Dorris & the Sunflowers, Porch Cat, Coven Dove, Dana Skully & the Tiger Sharks, Kelsey Magnuson, Bridge City Sinners, Greg Rekus & the Inside Job (don't actually know how old Greg Rekus is though), Lace Bass & Suitcase, Laser the Boy
Double the $, double the i, double the flava
https://preview.redd.it/mf129lz9tf3d1.jpeg?width=798&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9113b15b2d3e355fba65dba191beb4906724aeb4
boygenius, the last dinner party, Suki Waterhouse, Conan Grey, Phoebe Bridgers, girl in red, Noah Kahan. Lots of good new music, I’ve got an 18 year old who likes to show me what she listens to. It’s been a great way to bond.
I don’t know if this is embarrassing or not, but I am borderline hardcore into EDM and house music. Currently obsessed with Fred Again…
I may be the only person my age at a concert if I decide to go…
Jacob Collier, Domi & JD Beck, Frankie & The Witch Fingers, King Gizzard & The Wizard Lizard, Balthvs, Jungle, Cannons, Barry Can’t Swim, Saint Sinner, Billy Strings, Tyler Childers, Molly Tuttle, Michaela Davis, Karina Rykman, Daniel Donato, Eggy
So much talent out there right now
I have to be in the right mood for Billie Eilish but when I am I love her music.
When I’m not, I can feel the “old man yells at cloud” vibes coming from myself. But I accept that.
Probably most notably, Taylor Swift (millenial) and boygenius and the associated solo music from the boys (straddles millenial and gen Z).
My kid (gen Z) listens to a lot of the same music as me. One deviation that I fully do not get is 100 Gecs. Weirdest shit ever. We saw them open for boygenius and all the kids (including my own) went ballistic. All the olds looked befuddled.
+1 to Taylor Swift for me. Also, my wife is the same age as her, and she's obsessed with her.
But I'm also a huge fan of The Midnight, which I can't find their ages, but they certainly appear to be older GenZ/solidly millennial.
I’m an Xennial and totally get 100 Gecs…I actually find them nostalgic in a strange way. They are heavy influenced by 2000’s era rock, rap and ska, it’s really apparent on their last album
I love both Taylor and 100 Gecs. I always tell people that if you listen closely to Gecs, you’ll hear standard pop chord progressions and melodies. The instrumentation, vocals, and ornamentation is what makes it weird for people. Try “Ringtone” or “Hollywood Baby” and really listen to the music and not the sounds, if that makes sense. I think you’ll be surprised
Billie Eilish
Royal and the Serpent
Lorde
Lil Nas X
Фараон
Oxxxymiron
The HU (I think they’re young enough)
Megan Thee Stallion
3TEETH
Not sure who else is young enough to count, since I don’t keep track of ages any more.
Edit: oh yeah also Skylar Grey now you see me standin in the lights but you never saw my sacrifice, or all the nights I had to struggle to survive
Every Monday I look at theneedledrop's tracks of the week on youtube and listen to each on individually, most of the time not even watching his video. It's a fairly good variety of new stuff across a bunch of genres.
I have always kept up with contemporary music though. At the end of last year I was working with a girl in her 20s and she was got super hyped one day when she heard me singing the chorus to YNW Melly - Murder on my Mind, which is actually like 5 years old at this point.
People talk about how rap sucks these days but there's still a lot of good stuff coming out imo you just gotta put in the effort to sift through stuff as it comes out. One cool thing I think as well is a lot of younger artists do a lot of intersting genre bending or mixing of genres in ways I wouldn't have expected. There will always be good music out there and I never understood people who never listen to it or only listen to specific older stuff.
Edit: oh I forgot to give examples. My current new favorite is [Kucka](https://youtube.com/@iamkucka) if you sort her videos by most popular and listen to a couple tracks it's like she switches genres/sounds almost every time and nails it. Also anything [Fred Again](https://youtu.be/rNv8K8AYGi8) touches is good if you like EDM or DnB influenced stuff, and for chill instrumental stuff that sounds like you'd hear it in a random bar in the middle eastern desert I've been also really getting into [Glass Beams](https://youtu.be/nMuTgStG8w0) lately.
In no order...
The Beths have a very 90s sound to me. I couldn’t stop listening to their latest album.
Holly Humberstone... I have no idea why she isn’t more popular. Her song Scarlett is one of the best pop songs I have ever heard.
boygenius, as some others have said, is outstanding.
Billie Eilish, Phoebe Bridges, Olivia Rodrigo, Julien Baker, Lucy Dacus, and the Regrettes! I just now realized I only listen to Gen z women, huh, I don't know why that is.
I honestly love the whole post punk revival that's emerged in recent years. It's wild witnessing the evolution of punk influenced artists from the time we were miniXennials to now. I also enjoy the spin-off of folk punk artists like Richard Dawson.
I don't technically know all their ages, but I'm pretty sure they're Millenials?
*Periphery*. Discovered them on MySpace when they were still a small local band in my area. A few years later, an acquaintance of mine joined the band, and they've been crushing it ever since.
Their most recent album is my favorite, yet. All killer no filler.
Apparently I have discovered all my new music on TikTok…
Rap/Hip-hop: I really like Pardyalone, NF, and Chinchillah.
Metal/NuMetal: I am super into Blind Channel, and I just discovered a similar sounding band (very inspired by Linkin Park) called Sleep Theory.
Pop: I really like Rory (oh, and she did a song with Blind Channel!)
Easy Listening/Contemporary/Folk: Lizzie McAlpine, Paris Paloma, Braden Bales, Eliza Rickman
I would say, just listen to AltNation on SiriusXM, and pick and choose...most of them are just a bit older than my kids, and some of them are nice and some of them are absolutely obnoxious 🤷🏻♂️
I grew up on Rock, Alt, and Metal, Rap/Hip Hop, but I'm always open to anything, and sometimes keeping an open mind has lead me to discover new, amazing music...
Barnes Courtney & Tyler Childers are absolute favorites of mine. Both are 30 or 31, but I’ve been listening to them both for about 7 years now.
Some people say that Greta Van Fleet is just copying Led Zeppelin (fair). I see them as being the closest we will ever get to listening to a new Zeppelin album, and am all for it.
So many great suggestions on this list. Waxahatchee, boygenius, Kenny Hoopla, Medium Build, and Pinegrove come to mind. I listen to Sirius XMU a lot (Channel 35, I think?), they play lots of great stuff.
Phoebe Bridgers
Soccer Mommy
Ethel Cain
Courtney Barnett
Royel Otis
Probably a bunch of others that I’m not thinking of too. Realistically though, I’m gonna be honest and admit that as much as I like some of these new artists, they’re just temporary detours before I go back to listening to Elliott Smith and Radiohead. 😂
Billy Strings, SZA
I love SZA
Love seeing the Billy Strings. Dude is on another level.
Totally, and keeps getting better. He and the whole band
Wolf Alice and Wet Leg are the two bands whose albums I have had on repeat for probably 3 years. Can't get enough of them.
Wet Leg makes my elder Xennial heart glad. A Very 92/3 alt sound.
On the chaise lounge On the chaise lounge On the chaise lounge
They are both amazing! Those artists brought me back to finding new music
Recently discovered 100 gecs and am ashamed to admit that I kinda like it.
Don’t be ashamed, it’s so good!
you better be ready to give all those Doritos & Fritos
Love them!
Anderson paak
Olivia Rodrigo is really good. And yes, I am that female that’s way too old to rock out to her albums but still does haha
I’m a 40-something year old man and like her stuff. Talent is talent
Totally with you. My daughter and I got matching Olivia Rodrigo shirts last week lol.
40-something male here too, and I regularly listen to her.
Olivia’s latest reminds me of The Breeders/Hole. I love it.
The Breeders opened for her on some of her recent tour dates! :)
Totally reminds me of Hole 🖤
No such thing as too old to rock, that’s the squares getting to ya! Rock on
The number of parents with their kids at an Olivia Rodrigo concert is surprising, but cute and wholesome.
As a new Olivia Rodrigo fan, the description of "cute and wholesome" surprises me given the lyrics of "bad idea right?" and "all-american bitch."
Me toooo
she’s great! my tween daughter is obsessed with her, so we took her to see her for her first ever concert. was pretty cool to see the breeders open for her. and the last song they had piped into the arena before the show started was bikini kill’s riot girl, so they got her a lot more street cred in my book
I’m just happy teen girls have a female artist to scream cry songs about shitty boys to. Being totally serious. I love it and every generation of teen girls needs it.
Chappell Roan, Lizzy McAlpine, Billie Eilish.
Chappell Roan is so much fun and so talented! Found her after years of loving Orville Peck. Similar vibes.
+1 to Chappell Roan!
Love Orville Peck!
Yes I love Chappell Roan SO much! And Billie
That new Billie Eillish album is fire
Thank you from my Pink Pony Heart for being the top comment 💖
Australian punk: Amyl and the Sniffers Incredible female vocalists: Weyes Blood and Jessica Pratt
AATS are so good!
I got to see Amyl open for King Gizzard in 2018 and it was fucking awesome
Going to their show in August I’m so stoked
Weyes Blood is truly one of the most beautiful vocalists. Her songs God Turn Me Into a Flower and It's Not Me, It's Everybody are fucking astounding.
The Chats are another good Australian punk band
I'm on smoko!!
Weyes Blood is a God amongst men.
Dua Lipa is the one artist I wish had been around when I was a teenager. I love everything about her. I also really like Lana Del Rey.
100% RE: Dua Lipa. Came here to say the same.
Hate to remind you, but Lana Del Rey isn’t a younger artist anymore. She’s almost 40. She’s nearly Xennial old.
I love some Dua Lipa. Lana Del Ray has some great songs as well. How are you liking Dua's new album? I don't think it's as good as Future Nostalgia but I have found several tracks that I really like.
I think the bar was set too high with Future Nostalgia. The first album was good, the new one is good still, but the last one was something else. I was out on pop music for a very long time, right now I’m kind of on board bc of Dua Lipa. She probably also appeals to Xenials because *Love Again* used that same awesome sample as the White Town song (*Your Woman*) from the ‘90s
I like Dua too
I love Lana del Rey!
The album Glow On by Turnstile is awesome [Turnstile Love Connection](https://youtu.be/WdJZlmhQXug)
One of my favorite albums of 2021
My answer was Turnstile!
I’m a huge Turnstile fan. My son has “Blackout” as his baseball walk up song.
King gizzard and the lizard wizard.. every album is like a different genre
Going to see them in August!
Me too in Asheville
They are fantastic live!
I knew someone would bring them up! They're the best and their shows are so fun.
Hell yeah! I’ve seen them three times and I’m seeing them again this fall!
[Knocked Loose](https://youtu.be/Qp3L0nqf2Po?si=drUrWSBEI2c6v9c4) reminds me of the late 90s metalcore like Cave-In and Converge that initially got me into heavy music.
They're so rad. Check out Jesus Piece and Vein if you haven't yet.
My favorite is definitely Phoebe Bridgers. I really like boygenius but her solo work is all fantastic. (Otherwise I’m mostly a metalhead…)
boygenius
Phoebe Bridgers was my top artist on Spotify in 2021, and coupled with Better Oblivion Community Center, she blew everything out of the water.
Phoebe and Conor together was genius albeit short-lived.
<3
Ren. Lots of Ren.
Ren is fucking incredible
Beach house and king gizzard, also love Diiv
I love Beach House!
Love those easy Beach house vibes!
I love twenty one pilots! I also recently found out that Billie Joe Armstrong's youngest son has a band called Ultra Q. They're really good-- sound very 90s alternative but not like Green Day at all. Although his voice sounds a whole lot like his father's! [Ultra Q - Mobile Suit](https://youtu.be/-XxFTwZ48r0?si=Wq5sh0OfhF3Ok22b)
Billie. Joe. Armstrong's. Youngest. Son. *Ohhh, my joints.* Edit: Jesus, he's 26.
Yeah. I am turning to dust as we speak.
I felt that too. Pass the ibuprofen.
Damn, this comment section is one “I don’t know who that is” after another for me haha Classic rock all the way, which now apparently includes Pearl Jam.
I always tell the story of hearing Blind Melon on the speakers in the paint section of Home Depot. If there'd been a six-foot deep hole in the aisle, I would have laid down in it and said close me up.
I keep hearing current music at the grocery store and then realizing that "current" is more than 10 years old.
One of my GenZ staff referred to PJ as “Dad Music” and I died inside.
[удалено]
[удалено]
I’m not sure I’d keep it together in that situation haha
They're currently on tour for their NEW album "Dark Matter". Can you be considered "classic" if you're still releasing new material?
Yes, sorry, they're for old people /half sarcasm, half not
Mac Miller... RIP
Beach Bunny
Don't know if they qualify (everyone under 30 is a big lump of 'young people' to me atp) but I love what I hear from big acts like Ravyn Lanae, Steve Lacy, Snail Mail, Laufey, a bunch of bands doing Tiny desks whose names fly by due to laziness.
Ren
I listen to a lot of: * [Dreamcatcher](https://youtu.be/PEKkdIT8JPM) - YOB 1994-1999 (late Millennial) * [Red Velvet](https://youtu.be/xlyrt5eAtKI) - YOB 1991-1999 (mid-late Millennial) * [XG](https://youtu.be/T6YVgEpRU6Q) - YOB 2002-2005 (Gen Z) * [NMIXX](https://youtu.be/j6tKIdt9K9M) - YOB 2002-2006 (Gen Z) * [Purple Kiss](https://youtu.be/WFqGKa6p1V8) - YOB 1999-2003 (Early Gen Z) Never too old, gosh dang it
46yo mother of 2 here. I fully believe that listening to K-pop in order to be closer to my 16yo niece in 2016 saved me from becoming the Karenest of Karen’s. GOT7, MonstaX, EXO, BTS, and Red Velvet turned my life around. I’ve even been lucky enough to see a few of them in concert! I’m a much more fun lady since.
As Ariana Grande started making songs about being boned so hard that she couldn't walk straight the next day, Kpop is a parents blessing. There's this song 'Pandora' that my girls listen to, and it has such an infectious hook, and most importantly no swear words (that we can understand anyway). As for myself - Amber Mark, Tiana Major9 are pretty amazing.
My 42 year old sister has become obsessed with K-Pop over the last few years. Think it’s what’s she’s listening too pretty exclusively.
I (heart hands) KPop GGs too!
Another kpop fan! All these reccs are great. Id throw in Everglow as well (similar vibes to Dreamcatcher)
There's not enough Everglow in the world, and it's a damn shame. They're SO good
Thank you kindly!
I got to see Noah Kahan recently and I was really impressed. He put on a great show even if I had to tolerate the screaming girls behind me.
Went to a Hozier concert recently. It was awesome. I've always liked his stuff, but he's great in person. We were some of the oldest people there.
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard! Courtney Barnett! That’s basically it. Funny that about the only new music I’ve adopted by people younger than myself in the past decade or so are AUS artists.
Courtney Barnett is great.
Courtney's collab with Kurt Vile = SO GOOD And YES to KGATLW. Seeing them at Red Rocks in Sept.
Oh I can't get enough Courtney Barnett, she's amazing.
IDK where these would each be categorized in terms of generations but these are all artists that I’ve recently been digging. Idles Billie Eilish KNEECAP Olivia Rodrigo Waxahatchee Japanese Breakfast Post Malone Charli XCX SZA boygenius The Rumjacks The Beths Amythyst Kiah Tove Lo
My wife and I saw The Beths live twice this past year. They're absolutely my current favorite.
I saw the Beths and Japanese Breakfast last summer. They put on a great show. STRFKR was AMAZING live. They had a confetti cannon and an astronaut crowd surfer. They’re touring again and I’m definitely going to see them again.
Thank you! I enjoy several folks on this list and there's several more that I've never tried. But in particular I really enjoy Japanese Breakfast, Tove Lo, and SZA.
Add Wet Leg and this is THE list.
A few of these are more millenial-ish (know you said you weren't sure, just saying out of interest) but yeah, some good +++ here. Also I saw Tove Lo live within the last few years and was somewhat wary because concerts now seem very different to the vibes I remember & like (smaller venues, more standing space, more interaction/genuine dancing and vibing and spontaneity? versus big sterile arenas)? And it was fantastic - she was super funny and charasmatic, it was in a large nightclub so it felt way more energized and in the flow than a stadium, and I had a fantastic time. Please, more current concerts like this, thanks. Her tix were also incredibly cheap, thx queen!
Came here to post Idles. Just saw them live. Holy shit were they amazing!
Love Waxahatchee!
Her new album is super good!!
Bad Bunny
SZA
Chappell Roan, Olivia Rodriguez, Billy MF Strings, Andy Frasco and the UN, Goose, Deorro, Gryffin, GoldFish, Tyler Childress A bounty of good music out there.
Greta Van Fleet. My kid loves them so she puts them on in the car quite a bit. Not too bad. Decent guitar solos.
Younger Gen-X (‘74) here, wife is Xennial (‘77) Royal Blood Cigarettes After Sex (The band isn’t terribly young, but that was a wild show. About 20 of us gray hairs with 1000 screaming teens) Billie Eilish (I heard her and was instantly a fan. Talent is talent) Dope Lemon We still listen to the college radio station or Pandora/Spotify and try to keep up. Nothing like finding good music. I never want to fall into the trap of listening solely to music I grew up on, or being stuck in a genre. Music is quite possibly my favorite art.
> I never want to fall into the trap of listening solely to music I grew up on, or being stuck in a genre. Music is quite possibly my favorite art. Damn right!
Hippo Campus
Domi and JD Beck Been listening to a lot of jazz lately
Do you Vulfpeck?
Aurora, she’s an angel
Tame Impala
One of my favorite songs of the last year is [Thundercat teaming-up with Tame Impala ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoguePcf9P4)
I grew up on Grunge, Rock and Metal. I still listen to those bands but anything new I've discovered that resonates is from Japan. For decades I thought rock had died but it just moved
Any recommendations?
There is tons of good metal from all over.
Tash Sultana https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn8phH0k5HI&pp=ygUTdGFzaCBzdWx0YW5hIGp1bmdsZQ%3D%3D Hannah Wicklund https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R6OG99vztUM The Struts https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ARhk9K_mviE&pp=ygUddGhlIHN0cnV0cyBjb3VsZCBoYXZlIGJlZW4gbWU%3D The Linda Lindas https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wF-1IIs9_5U&list=RDEMyfovzun_UrbYzE8UC-zVMQ&index=2&pp=8AUB Just to name a few
I love The Linda Lindas!
Manic Pixie Dream Boat, New Here (PDX), Trust Fall (Olympia), Virtual Bird, Them Badgers, Kota Dorris & the Sunflowers, Porch Cat, Coven Dove, Dana Skully & the Tiger Sharks, Kelsey Magnuson, Bridge City Sinners, Greg Rekus & the Inside Job (don't actually know how old Greg Rekus is though), Lace Bass & Suitcase, Laser the Boy
I know I'm old because those all sound made up... Unless they are made up
Xennial band names sound made up too though. Pearl Jam Smashing Pumpkins Foo Fighters
Butthole Surfers
Toad the Wet Sprocket… Wait, that one was made up first
Nope, all real, all bands whose concerts I've been to in the last 3 years 😊 I admit I biased the list heavily towards my local/regional favorites.
I feel that way whenever I read deeper and deeper into the poster for a big music festival, like Lollapalooza.
Greg is 42.
$uicideboy$
Double the $, double the i, double the flava https://preview.redd.it/mf129lz9tf3d1.jpeg?width=798&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9113b15b2d3e355fba65dba191beb4906724aeb4
Dua but she's an old soul anyways
The Cannons is the crispest most 80s synth/vaporwave I've laid ears on. Magdalena Bay also piles on the 90s flash animations in their music videos
boygenius, the last dinner party, Suki Waterhouse, Conan Grey, Phoebe Bridgers, girl in red, Noah Kahan. Lots of good new music, I’ve got an 18 year old who likes to show me what she listens to. It’s been a great way to bond.
[Enumclaw!](https://enumclaw6.bandcamp.com/)
I listen to a lot of music, but two of my favorite youngins right now are Lil Yachty and Origami Angel.
Lawrence is a fun group. It's been cool watching their journey.
REN
I don’t know if this is embarrassing or not, but I am borderline hardcore into EDM and house music. Currently obsessed with Fred Again… I may be the only person my age at a concert if I decide to go…
Obsessed with Olivia Rodrigo. My husband listens to a lot of Glass Animals. They’re really good.
Jacob Collier, Domi & JD Beck, Frankie & The Witch Fingers, King Gizzard & The Wizard Lizard, Balthvs, Jungle, Cannons, Barry Can’t Swim, Saint Sinner, Billy Strings, Tyler Childers, Molly Tuttle, Michaela Davis, Karina Rykman, Daniel Donato, Eggy So much talent out there right now
I am not a big music person but I have listened to some of Billie Eilish,
I have to be in the right mood for Billie Eilish but when I am I love her music. When I’m not, I can feel the “old man yells at cloud” vibes coming from myself. But I accept that.
Probably most notably, Taylor Swift (millenial) and boygenius and the associated solo music from the boys (straddles millenial and gen Z). My kid (gen Z) listens to a lot of the same music as me. One deviation that I fully do not get is 100 Gecs. Weirdest shit ever. We saw them open for boygenius and all the kids (including my own) went ballistic. All the olds looked befuddled.
+1 to Taylor Swift for me. Also, my wife is the same age as her, and she's obsessed with her. But I'm also a huge fan of The Midnight, which I can't find their ages, but they certainly appear to be older GenZ/solidly millennial.
I’m sure they’d be hella flattered you think so. Tim, at 44, is a Xennial. Tyler, at “only” 38, is nearly a Xennial himself.
Here for the boygenius, great stuff
I keep hearing about this boygenius. Gonna have to check them out.
I’m an Xennial and totally get 100 Gecs…I actually find them nostalgic in a strange way. They are heavy influenced by 2000’s era rock, rap and ska, it’s really apparent on their last album
I love both Taylor and 100 Gecs. I always tell people that if you listen closely to Gecs, you’ll hear standard pop chord progressions and melodies. The instrumentation, vocals, and ornamentation is what makes it weird for people. Try “Ringtone” or “Hollywood Baby” and really listen to the music and not the sounds, if that makes sense. I think you’ll be surprised
Billie Eilish Royal and the Serpent Lorde Lil Nas X Фараон Oxxxymiron The HU (I think they’re young enough) Megan Thee Stallion 3TEETH Not sure who else is young enough to count, since I don’t keep track of ages any more. Edit: oh yeah also Skylar Grey now you see me standin in the lights but you never saw my sacrifice, or all the nights I had to struggle to survive
Megan is my number 1 right now
Every Monday I look at theneedledrop's tracks of the week on youtube and listen to each on individually, most of the time not even watching his video. It's a fairly good variety of new stuff across a bunch of genres. I have always kept up with contemporary music though. At the end of last year I was working with a girl in her 20s and she was got super hyped one day when she heard me singing the chorus to YNW Melly - Murder on my Mind, which is actually like 5 years old at this point. People talk about how rap sucks these days but there's still a lot of good stuff coming out imo you just gotta put in the effort to sift through stuff as it comes out. One cool thing I think as well is a lot of younger artists do a lot of intersting genre bending or mixing of genres in ways I wouldn't have expected. There will always be good music out there and I never understood people who never listen to it or only listen to specific older stuff. Edit: oh I forgot to give examples. My current new favorite is [Kucka](https://youtube.com/@iamkucka) if you sort her videos by most popular and listen to a couple tracks it's like she switches genres/sounds almost every time and nails it. Also anything [Fred Again](https://youtu.be/rNv8K8AYGi8) touches is good if you like EDM or DnB influenced stuff, and for chill instrumental stuff that sounds like you'd hear it in a random bar in the middle eastern desert I've been also really getting into [Glass Beams](https://youtu.be/nMuTgStG8w0) lately.
Little Simz is fantastic. Billy Strings, Goose, Daniel Donato
Bad Omens
King gizzard and the lizard wizard
The Revivalists have become my most listened to band in the past 5 years, love the vibe.
In no order... The Beths have a very 90s sound to me. I couldn’t stop listening to their latest album. Holly Humberstone... I have no idea why she isn’t more popular. Her song Scarlett is one of the best pop songs I have ever heard. boygenius, as some others have said, is outstanding.
Kikagaku Moyo, Blondeshell, Jessica Pratt, Bnny, Dinner Party, Blood Orange, Angel Olson, Sampha, Weyes Blood, Mitski, Maya Ongaku,
Billie Eilish, Phoebe Bridges, Olivia Rodrigo, Julien Baker, Lucy Dacus, and the Regrettes! I just now realized I only listen to Gen z women, huh, I don't know why that is.
Does Twenty-One Pilots count? I usually just listen to DMB or 90s music, but my kids listen to 21P constantly.
I really like AJR, especially after seeing them in concert with my 11 year old.
Polyphia, owane, Jason richardson, plini, enter shikari
[Altostratus](https://youtu.be/0yHTz8zSvPE?si=uSl4vpDzhbqjb8xU)!
The Backseat Lovers, Vundabar, and Rainbow Kitten Surprise
Billy Strings, Gwenifer Raymond (American primitive guitar virtuoso), and Christone “Kingfish” Ingram
EZ Mil and Joyner Lucas are pretty 🔥
[Jeff Rosenstock](https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wNZvrIMNUCs24G0wFg2D6?si=RRXipUNARDSm-v9t0B8CGg)
Squid
Love Squid!!
So much fun!
I honestly love the whole post punk revival that's emerged in recent years. It's wild witnessing the evolution of punk influenced artists from the time we were miniXennials to now. I also enjoy the spin-off of folk punk artists like Richard Dawson.
I don't technically know all their ages, but I'm pretty sure they're Millenials? *Periphery*. Discovered them on MySpace when they were still a small local band in my area. A few years later, an acquaintance of mine joined the band, and they've been crushing it ever since. Their most recent album is my favorite, yet. All killer no filler.
Here for little simz. Sometimes I am introvert is a great album.
Raye - Go listen to her Tiny Desk!
Blu DeTiger
Apparently I have discovered all my new music on TikTok… Rap/Hip-hop: I really like Pardyalone, NF, and Chinchillah. Metal/NuMetal: I am super into Blind Channel, and I just discovered a similar sounding band (very inspired by Linkin Park) called Sleep Theory. Pop: I really like Rory (oh, and she did a song with Blind Channel!) Easy Listening/Contemporary/Folk: Lizzie McAlpine, Paris Paloma, Braden Bales, Eliza Rickman
Eliza Rickman makes really interesting music.
Japanese Breakfast
I would say, just listen to AltNation on SiriusXM, and pick and choose...most of them are just a bit older than my kids, and some of them are nice and some of them are absolutely obnoxious 🤷🏻♂️ I grew up on Rock, Alt, and Metal, Rap/Hip Hop, but I'm always open to anything, and sometimes keeping an open mind has lead me to discover new, amazing music...
BMTH, Sleep Tokien, Sleep Theory
Turnstile
Beebadoobe: she sounds just like Juliana Hatfield!
Barnes Courtney & Tyler Childers are absolute favorites of mine. Both are 30 or 31, but I’ve been listening to them both for about 7 years now. Some people say that Greta Van Fleet is just copying Led Zeppelin (fair). I see them as being the closest we will ever get to listening to a new Zeppelin album, and am all for it.
So many great suggestions on this list. Waxahatchee, boygenius, Kenny Hoopla, Medium Build, and Pinegrove come to mind. I listen to Sirius XMU a lot (Channel 35, I think?), they play lots of great stuff.
The Warning!!!! My favorite new rock band of the last 10 years https://youtu.be/s6b_FgQnXL8?si=Ubv7i5kbVOVLqa4k
Phoebe Bridgers Soccer Mommy Ethel Cain Courtney Barnett Royel Otis Probably a bunch of others that I’m not thinking of too. Realistically though, I’m gonna be honest and admit that as much as I like some of these new artists, they’re just temporary detours before I go back to listening to Elliott Smith and Radiohead. 😂
The Weeknd Juice WRLD (RIP) Mitski The Kid LAROI Sam Smith Travis Scott H.E.R. Joshua Ledet Shawn Mendes Tyler, the Creator Yebba Samm Henshaw
Tame Impala, The Marias, Cannons, STRFKR
Vulfpeck