Listening to a music podcast recently, I was frankly astonished to learn that there is a music genre called dubstep. How the hell did that one pass me by? I just can't keep up.
Frankly, I think all these new music genres are getting out-of-hand. I could never understand why R&B nowadays contains hints of neither rhythm nor blues, nor why drum and bass briefly became the in-thing in the 1990s, when the Fall had been doing little else since 1976 (and long may they continue to do so!).
Anyway, be that as it may, it seems to me that naming a music genre dubstep really is scraping the barrel. Have all the good names gone? So, I've been giving it some thought, and have come up with my own list of brand-new music genres. Please feel free to take your pick and start trying to market it, as if it's something exciting and new:
- greenhouse
- shap
- torpid rock
- plak
- sumo jazz
- pastry
- R soul
- placid house
- morris tap
- drum 'n' bassoon
- irritant beat
- acid reflux
- tep
- igneous rock
- spoontronica
- heavy gospel
- stepladder
- dog groove
- psychodelica
- pump house
- tench
- street silo
- sanctuary blues
- Q ball
- delhicatessen
- failhouse
- dubbin
- parasite clog
- churchill
- bedspread mash
- patio heat
- e-zee cowboy
- lump metal
- acoustic trawler
- woe is uh me bop
- def nob
- sulfa
- thermos grime
- avant post
- hedge metal
- synthetic hip
- techtonic
- M 'n' S
- kick beat
- new hat
- smooth cog
- skunk blues
- lip sink
- junction 8
- office tempo
- cake mix
- cardboard jazz
- drizzle beat
- garage folk
- saline drip
- Jamaicana
- tone def
- glam chop
- rocket patch
- numb biscuit
- butt ska
- T break
- techno mince
- bathroom fuzz
- roach box
- cheese bung
- shed nouveau
- snuff trot
- alcaline mix
- brew romantic
- flux bypass
- greengrass
- krautpop
- new trad
- kitchen punk
- tandem clutch
- pump rock
- ambient pap
- trance iberian
- alco pop
- garden swing
- c rap
- hypno phaze
- mid-Pacific
- born-again skiffle
- beat roots
- urban jungle
- plastic grunge
- northern retro
- sweat metal
- gangsta croon
- cornershop jank
- postmetal
- dub whelk
- folkabilly
- thrash disco
- tap gunk
- spank
- gene hackman
- basement tub
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