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CRASH COURSE ON EXISTING MUSIC GENRES :: POP EXPERIMENTAL ROCK
As the name suggests, Experimental Rock is a rock style based upon experimentation and exploration of all the endless musical boundaries and music pushed to its limit, far removed from the classic pop sensibilities of before and is typically the diametric opposite of standard "verse-chorus-verse" music.. Because the whole point is to liberate and innovate, no hard and fast rules apply, but distinguishing characteristics include improvisational performances, avant-garde influences, odd instrumentation, opaque lyrics (or no lyrics at all), strange compositional structures and rhythms, and an underlying rejection of commercial aspirations. Among the long list of excellent experimental rock artists are Faust, The Velvet Underground, Beck, David Bowie, Kraftwerk, Radiohead, Marc Ribot, Sonic Youth and Stereolab
There are three sub-genres of Experimental Rock:
Progrock, also called progressive rock deals with creating music as art - not as short-lived 3-minute hit list tunes. Progrock is often mixed with classical, jazz or/and folk inspired material (The main difference between jazz influenced Jazzrock and symphonic, Progrock is that Jazzrock is built upon improvisation whilst the latter one is built upon composition).
Symphonic rock is much of the same kind as Progrock, but the compositions and arrangements are often based upon sophisticated chord progressions, rather than experimental rhythmic feelings and themes.
Artrock is often used on Progressive Rock and Symphonic rock of the two above-mentioned rock styles. The expression Artrock is mostly related to symphonic progrock from the 70's.
HARDCORE PUNK
Emerging in the early '80s, Hardcore Punk was the most rigid and extreme variation of punk rock as it took the ideals of punk as far as it could go -- impossibly fast music, screaming vocals, simple riffs, and records that looked and sounded like they were made in someone's basement. Primarily an American sensation that was concentrated in Los Angeles and New York, Hardcore Punk was scattered into small, individual scenes across the country and kept going into the '90s without breaking into the mainstream, though bands influenced by the hardcore aesthetic -- including Nirvana and Green Day -- became major rock stars, and former hardcore punkers like Bob Mould, Henry Rollins, Mike Watt, Ian McKaye, and Dinosaur Jr.'s J Mascis became alternative icons.
INDUSTRIAL METAL
While pure industrial takes its primary cues from experimental music and electronic dance, Industrial Metal makes the distorted noise of electric guitars a crucial part of the music. Industrial metal lyrics also mirror the darkness and aggression of standard heavy metal, although the sensibility is filtered through the personal alienation of punk and alternative rock. Whether its rage is turned inward at the self or outward at society, industrial metal is unremittingly bleak and angst-ridden, using its pounding walls of noise as expressions of near-hopeless alienation from the rest of the world. Though Ministry was the first band to popularize industrial metal in the late '80s, basing their signature grind on countless repetitions of jackhammer guitar riffs, as well as electronics, samples, and distorted vocals; it was, however, Nine Inch Nails that brought the sound to the mainstream during the early '90s, thanks to Trent Reznor's flair for melodic songwriting and multi-layered production. In the wake of NIN's success, a number of similar-sounding bands popped up on alternative radio, and toward the end of the decade, a number of popular alternative metal bands that included Front 242, Marilyn Manson and Godflesh appropriated industrial metal's electronic production touches into their hybrid of aggressive music styles.
GARAGE ROCK
Inspired by British Invasion bands like the Beatles, Kinks, and Rolling Stones, Garage Rock was a simple, raw form of rock & roll created by a number of American bands in the mid-'60s. Since they were usually young and amateurish, the results were much cruder than their inspirations but that is what made the sound exciting. Emphasizing their amateurishness, playing the same three chords, bashing their guitars and growling their vocals, in many ways, the garage bands were the first wave of do-it-yourself punk rockers. Hundreds of garage bands popped up around America and a handful of them -- the Shadows of Knight, the Count 5, the Seeds, the Standells, The Chocolate Watchband and The Music Machine -- had hits, but most were destined for obscurity. Halfway through the ‘80s decade, Garage Rock was revived, and retained a dedicated cult that remained loyal into the ‘90s. The White Stripes, The Lyres, Billy Childish, The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Fleshtones are among the many bands that fall under this genre.
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GARAGE PUNK