We undoubtedly live in pretty crappy version of cyberpunk. For already quite some time. Authoritarianism and techno-feudalism are on the rise. Cristo-fascism is blooming. Rights and freedoms are being taken from us every single day. Tech is transformed purely into means of data extraction, surveillance and control. However there does not seem to be any counter-culture forming, no music or art genres with strong messages rising up against all of this. Where is the punk of today?
Jesse Welles would be the modern cycle.
Distorted guitars carried the torch from the protest songs of the 70s through punk and peaked with prog metal in the late 00s. We’re snapping straight back to the 70s protest songs and doing it all over again.
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War isn’t Murder the hit that got him known
I’d say he’s imitating the 60s more than the 70s, but he writes some good tunes nevertheless. :)