What’s In and What’s Out for 2001
Published 7:00 am Monday, October 9, 2006
| IN |  |
OUT |
|---|---|---|
| Keith Richards hair | Those damn Curious George haircuts all the emo kids have | |
| Pippi Longstocking hair | Those damn Sleater-Kinney haircuts all the indie-rock chicks have | |
| Grindcore | Emo | |
| Ghetto tech | Trance | |
| Bands with two members | Bands with six-plus members | |
| The White Stripes | And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead | |
| Bands with “the” in their name | Bands with more than five words in their name | |
| Tribute bands | Cover bands | |
| Listening to MP3s on your cell phone | Cell phones that play songs instead of ring | |
| Recording onto PCs | Recording onto 4-tracks | |
| Indie-rock songs as Gap jingles | Indie-rock songs as Volkswagen jingles | |
| Soundscapes by rock bands | Soundscapes by electronic/dance artists | |
| Songwriting by electronic/dance artists | Songwriting by rock bands | |
| Drooling over the drummer | Drooling over the lead singer | |
| Rock bands with onstage sequencers | Rock bands with onstage DJs | |
| Scotch, Budweiser, Red Bull | Apple martinis, Rolling Rock, Cosmopolitans | |
| Karaoke (duh) | Poetry slams/open mic night | |
| Using dive bars for all-ages shows | Closing dive bars for condos/retail | |
| Weezer’s return | Bands mimicking Weezer | |
| Chris Walla | Dave Fridmann | |
| Merle Haggard | Johnny Cash | |
| Radiohead’s next album | Kid A | |
| Underdog | “Who Let the Dogs Out” | |
| Burning CDs | Mix tapes |
