Sounds From The Junkshop #91 - Robin Black & The Intergalactic Rock Stars
"It's time for the rise of the freaks, the geeks, the individuals and the weirdos! And it's about goddamn time too!" - Robin Black - Over You We're nearing the part of Sounds From The Junkshop now where a sea change would become noticeable in the music scene. By 2002, I think it's safe to say that most people were getting a bit bored on nu-metal's whinging and frat-punk's decidedly less-than-crucial juvenilia and were looking around for new thrills. Hell, when the music scene's been reduced to the tedious likes of Alien Ant Farm, Wheatus, Drowning Pool and Disturbed, you know that a change has gotta come, right? The wave would break in 2003 thanks to two things. Firstly, the rise of the Darkness (more of whom in a future SFTJ) and secondly, much as I'm not a fan, the publication of Motley Crue's biography The Dirt . I suppose looking back the time was pretty much right for an '80s rock revival as these things tend to happen when the...