Originally Posted by Janszoon

I think as rock continues to fade from dominance over the popular musical landscape it's going to split into two distinct camps. One will be backward looking, traditionalist styles of rock and the other will be very experimental and avant-garde. Neither camp will be big the way rock used to be but the traditionalists will have hit songs from time to time. I'm basing this on what has happened with jazz over the years, because to me rock seems to be following a very similar evolutionary path.

Originally Posted by Pobodys_Nerfect

I think we're already seeing this trend come into fruition with the increase of indie-garage sounding bands, which I think are the "traditional" garage bands of the '60s.

Originally Posted by Janszoon

I totally agree. A band like the Strokes, for example, fit right into the kind of traditionalist mold that I'm talking about. I think the rap-rock bands from the late 90s were last evolutionary gasp of mainstream rock. Like jazz fusion before it, it was an an older popular style of music's attempt at staying current by drawing from a popular style that was starting to eclipse it.