Rock is dead

You have 10 seconds to name a rock band from the last 25 years that is both critically acclaimed and culturally relevant. Please note that commercial success is not synonymous with cultural relevance.

Impossible Mode: No Nirvana.

Oh wait, you can't.

R.I.P Rock

Please note:
>The Strokes, Arctic Monkeys, Queens of the Stone Age, The Mars Volta, Franz Ferdinand, The Smashing Pumpkins, Oasis, Bloc Party, The Libertines, Blur, Pulp, Suede, and Interpol are not culturally relevant, all of them are fad artists associated with a certain 3-5 year timespan with no real longevity or standing cultural relevancy. You're not going to hear their music being played at a high school dance or have a large number of normies sharing them on Facebook the way you would a contemporary hip hop artist like Drake or Kendrick Lamar
>Jack White is not a culturally relevant artist. Seven Nation Army may be a culturally relevant track but having only one culturally relevant track indicates a lack of longevity and thus a lack of cultural relevance as artists.
>Muse, Foo Fighters, Coldplay, Tool, Kings of Leon, The Black Keys, Pearl Jam, Green Day, My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, Blink-182, Brand New, Taking Back Sunday, Mumford & Sons, and Red Hot Chili Peppers are not critically acclaimed.
>The Flaming Lips, Sufjan Stevens, Tame Impala, The National, The Hold Steady, Dinosaur Jr, Deerhunter, Mac DeMarco, Porcupine Tree, Beach House, Ween, Titus Andronicus, Bon Iver, Pixies, Spoon, Pavement and Modest Mouse are far too niche to be considered culturally relevant. This is also true for all metal.
>R.E.M., Bruce Springsteen, and U2 have not been critically acclaimed in the last 25 years.
>LCD Soundsystem, Radiohead and Arcade Fire are not rock bands

>it's this pasta again

Good thing neither of those things matter

Wings

The Killers

Jason Aldean

Please note:
>for every valid answer that REKT me
>I have to make up a strawman argument to disqualify it

Still at it huh?

Blur, The White Stripes, etc.

rem has definitely been critically acclaimed in the last 25 years
you ever heard of automatic for the people?

Panic! At The Disco

>You have 10 seconds to name a rock band from the last 25 years that is both critically acclaimed and culturally relevant
>But you're not allowed to say any of the 3 that are relevant
kek user

The Strokes, Arctic Monkeys, Queens of the Stone Age, The Mars Volta, Franz Ferdinand, The Smashing Pumpkins, Oasis, Bloc Party, The Libertines, Blur, Pulp, Suede, Interpol, Jack White, Muse, Foo Fighters, Coldplay, Tool, Kings of Leon, The Black Keys, Pearl Jam, Green Day, My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, Blink-182, Brand New, Taking Back Sunday, Mumford & Sons, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Flaming Lips, Sufjan Stevens, Tame Impala, The National, The Hold Steady, Dinosaur Jr, Deerhunter, Mac DeMarco, Porcupine Tree, Beach House, Ween, Titus Andronicus, Bon Iver, Pixies, Spoon, Pavement, Modest Mouse, R.E.M., Bruce Springsteen, U2, LCD Soundsystem, Radiohead, Arcade Fire

isn't that a 70's band?

This is a meme, but Pop Country is probably the closest answer considering op's special brand of autism. Guys like Brad Paisley, Toby Keith, and Tim McGraw are both critically acclaimed and culturally relevant. Their instrumentation is much closer to popular rock and blues styles than traditional country.

Mercury Rev

>R.E.M., Bruce Springsteen, and U2 have not been critically acclaimed in the last 25 years.
Wrong

Hey buddy, I think thats against the rules

this again?

pasta people, nothing to see here

Car Seat Headrest

>Radiohead and Arcade Fire are not rock bands

LCD Soundsystem, Radiohead and Arcade Fire are the answers

My Bloody Valentine...

epic meme will

>R.E.M., Bruce Springsteen, and U2 have not been critically acclaimed in the last 25 years.

What is your definition of "Critically Acclaimed"? Because ZOOTV and "Actune Baby" is in your 25 year time span (barely)

jesus christ fucking kill yourself

>Tame Impala
Normies all over Australia eat that shit up.

Define "culturally relevant". I see you think it means "it's played at high school dances". It's not what it means.

>You have 10 seconds
NIGGA IT TOOK ME LIKE AN HOUR TO READ ALL THAT SHIT
FUCK.

The Gerogerigegege

Which typeface is used in the background of that? I need it.

>Brand New
>Not critically acclaimed

I didn't create it so I don't know. sorry

this

Weezer

>ctrl-F
>no Death Grips

Disgraceful.

Didn't read past the first paragraph, but Alabama Shakes

also:

>implying Say it Ain't So, Island in the Sun, or Buddy Holly are ever going away

Tony Molina Band

florence and the machine literally fits the OP's criteria

I also wanna say,

>who gives a fuck about rock living on for fucking ever

the times they are a changing, OP

>Radiohead and Arcade Fire are not rock bands
they literally are
The answer is Vampire Weekend btw

Alright.
I ask because that font is used in the Whitehouse music videos (wriggle like a fucking eel & why you never became a dancer).

Fuckin' Nirvana

Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Critically acclaimed across the board and won the Polaris Music Prize.
Other acceptable answers are Weezer, Radiohead, and Arcade Fire.

All these newfags falling for this bait

>Radiohead
>"Radiohead are an English rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, formed in 1985. The band consists of Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Ed O'Brien, Colin Greenwood, and Phil Selway."

Google is your friend.

who uses newfag unironically anymore

Pixies aren't exactly niche

Acid Mothers Temple

Mastodon /thread

out of all the bands you pick mastodon? jesus christ

This

leaving out some other people's dubious ideas of what critical acclaim and cultural relevance mean, let alone what the acceptance of a mass audience usually means, these ones:
>Dog Faced Hermans
>The Ex
>Fugazi
>Lightning Bolt
>Shellac
just to start

Rock died in 1996. It was then that the most relevant and cunning rock bands at the time were starting to abandon the genre, and a lot of rock veterans were starting to go longer without putting out work. Rock and roll never progressed past that year. Neil Young had a four year gap in his discography following 1996's Broken Arrow, and when he came back with Silver and Gold, for the first time, he sounded old. I guess I sot of see Neil Young as an artist who's always been a sort of reflection of the state of rock and roll.

Hardmode; You can't give the most accurate answer. Haha, you can't!

coheed and cambria

Arcade Fire. Suburbs was their swan song though, that last album sucked hard.

reminds me of SOAD, with a bit more metal

What is wrong with mastodon?

their song A Favor House Atlantic sounds like a heavier Panic at the Disco song. this is pop music

>far too niche to be considered culturally relevant
>Tame Impala

I take it you aren't Australian then, one of the biggest rock bands over here

King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard :^)

rock in its pure form will start in the garage and end in some piss smelly bar

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>high school dances and sports events are the "culture" that deems something culturally relevant

grow the fuck up OP