Dudes Rock
Ian Cohen defined it as " Critics like myself had to get more creative in 2012, whereas nowadays, I can just say "dudes rock" and be done with it -- "dudes" as either an adjective and a noun, "rock" as either a verb or a noun. It's a non-toxic masculinity, where a constant chorus of whoas, yeahs, high-fives, and bear hugs aren't deflections from sharing deeply held emotions to friends and partners but expressions of them in their purest form -- something closer to a purifying primal scream than the oversharing and self-deprecation and buzzwords that have arisen alongside the mainstreaming of therapeutic language."
If the classic examples are Japandroids, Menzingers, Titus Andronicus, etc, who else is in the category, and who's making it now?
Also, what are your thoughts on these of bands?