"New" music?

I don't know if it's the influence of The White Stripes or what, but there seem to be a lot of good, loud two pieces lately: Royal Blood, The Black Keys, Death From Above 1979, Japandroids... Not complaining. They're all pretty great. Just observing.

Earliest two piece I can remember were The Inbreds. Great 90s Canadian band.

Not sure if they predate Local H, now that I think of it.

 

A two piece from 1987: House of Freaks. These guys were really good. I saw them open for Midnight Oil back when this came out.

Terrible side note to this: Bryan Harvey, the singer and guitarist, was murdered along with his wife and two young daughters during a random crime spree in 2006. The Drive-By Truckers song "Two Daughters and a Beautiful Wife" is about them.

 

The new Japandroids record is excellent. In heavy rotation for me right now.

 

Killer was just executed a few months ago.

 

Do you dig Wolfmother?

 

Liked some stuff I heard a while back. Been off my radar, though. They put out anything new?

 

Wolfmother put out something early last year.

 

They released an album in 2016.
Not their best work, but still very good.

 

New ZZ Ward is very good:

 

How about Joan Shelley?
A selection from NPR's Tiny Desk series:

More evidence of the death of guitar music.

 

She's no Joan Baez, but at least tolerable, and that's more than I can for most post-2000 music.

 

I don't know how to feel about TSP winning this thread.