Modern Punk
 

Why do all new punk bands sound whiny and like poorly executed indie music? Fidlar and Wavves are the ones dominating the scene (if it can even be called a scene). That just tells me punk is dead. Anyone know of some new but authentic punk bands?

I don't agree with your stance on Wavves and FIDLAR but garage punk revival is only the most saturated form of the moment, there's tons of authentic bands coming out; be that skate, ska, hardcore, and whatever else.

Try your hand at:

Stabbed in Back
The Big Ups
Young Widows
Spraynard
Abraskadabra
DC Fallout
Jump Street
Banner Pilot
Bomb the Music Industry!
Hate for State
Cave State
Crime Desire
Title Fight
Pissed Jeans
Ceremony
METZ
World's Scariest Police Chases
Pears
Self-Defense Family
Lumber Lung
Daniel Striped Tiger
The Hotelier
Streetlight Manifesto
Flesh Wounds
Skemata
Atlas Losing Grip
Loma Prieta
Basement
Tiger's Jaw
The Front Bottoms
Weekend Nachos
Code Orange Kids
Foxmoulder
Pup
Cerebral Ballzy
The Pine
KEN mode

Thanks; will explore your list. What I find is that often the seemingly "authentic" sounding punk bands emulate 90's punk bands and were just late to the game. Other than the garage punk that you mention, there doesn't seem to be much of a punk scene among young people. Maybe, they've transferred their rebellious, anti-establishment energy toward rap and (god forbid) pop.

This would be interesting indeed. If anything I'd like to hear artist's philosophy on how they maintain being an anti-establishment band while still making music with the mind of being popular.

There's always going to be genuine punk at the high school level at least, imo. It'll carry over with the diehard enthusiasts, but I feel like teenagers are a market that punk will always find a fanbase in. There's some solid punk coming out on the noisier side of things these days, and that seems to really generate scenes because that's more closely related to live experiences (which noisy punk qualifies as one of the funnest live genres).

Punk scenes still going strong. Still loads of it coming out, not sure if your looking for it right. I frequent punknews.org, because they know their stuff about it and have spectacularly written reviews and editorials.

I think the main problem your facing is that you can't find the scene it's at, which is understandable. While there are tons of groups, there's no current trend other than garage revival, and Epi-Fat has been pretty low-key since the mid-2000's. I assure you that there are many great bands on these labels still, but they really aren't making an impact like in the late 90's.

One scene that does come to mind is "The Wave", a tight-knit group of post-hardcore bands. They don't really sound all that similar but they all play variants of the progressive hardcore sound. Included in this movement are La Dispute, Touche Amore, Make Do and Mend, and Pianos Become the Teeth. Title Fight, Tiger's Jaw, and Balance & Composure ate also seen as members of this group. It's not straightforward punk, but it's good nonetheless.

Skate Punk also has a huge following still, I included some of those in the above post, but also see The Fest line-up from recent years. The way I see it, punk is more or less an extension of college radio at this point, so you mainly see these bands popping up around college scenes (like they usually have in the past)

Before I forget, check out Edward in Venice as well.

I forgot to add a lot of noise punk bands to my list. I've failed everyone.

The Pine are more Post-Hardcore/Emo than "Punk."

Yeah a few of these are. I'm trying to familiarize him with the current scene.

They're not too modern, their last album was ten years ago. The OP was looking for "modern Punk." Which I don't know of any. Most indie bands are mostly in Garage, Psychedelia, lo-fi & somewhat super Twee, and Post-Punk revival phases. If you wait long enough it'll come around again.

Really? I thought that came out in 2013. Guess I wasn't too well-informed on that.

Yeah, I'm aware of current punk bands too. The rest in the list fit that label, and I could name more if I wanted. At least where I am I hear a lot of these bands on college radio, I don't think it necessarily out of style right now.