Well, there's "bandom" in the sense that you see most often on livejournal which is sort of 6 degrees of Fall Out Boy and My Chemical Romance and includes Panic at the Disco, Cobra Starship, The Academy Is..., Gym Class Heroes, The Used, Paramore, The Hush Sound, The Sounds, Straylight Run, Taking Back Sunday, All-American Rejects, Brand New, Plain White T's, The Cab, give or take a few others. A lot of these bands are on the Fueled by Ramen label and they've toured and played together. I've also seen fic for AFI, Avenged Sevenfold, Good Charlotte, Cute Is What We Aim For, Green Day, My Bloody Valentine, Placebo... and a lot of other rock bands I can't think of right now. Some people consider all of them bandom while other people just use it to mean the FOB/MCR-related bands.
My problem with most of this music is that it seems so homogenous
No, I agree... I mean they're not all the same but most of the bands have a pop-punk sound and collectively they comprise a tiny, tiny fraction of the music I enjoy. I think it's the combination of this set of bands all knowing each other plus the context of the "scene" in general (plus the "stagegay") that's made it so popular.
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Date: 2008-04-06 08:43 am (UTC)My problem with most of this music is that it seems so homogenous
No, I agree... I mean they're not all the same but most of the bands have a pop-punk sound and collectively they comprise a tiny, tiny fraction of the music I enjoy. I think it's the combination of this set of bands all knowing each other plus the context of the "scene" in general (plus the "stagegay") that's made it so popular.