So what actually is Post Grunge?

Post-Grunge

A style of alternative rock that evolved from grunge in the mid-90's. Post-grunge employs the distorted guitar, vocal dynamics, and lyrical tone of traditional grunge music, albeit in a more radio-friendly manner.
Post-grunge can be plain hard rock or edgy alt-metal. A few post-grunge bands, like Chevelle, Breaking Benjamin, and Godsmack cross over into Nu-metal.

Types of Post-Grunge:
Traditional Post-Grunge:
Bush
Candlebox
Creed
Foo Fighters
Matchbox Twenty
Silverchair
Nickleback

Heavy Post-Grunge:
Three Days Grace
Breaking Benjamin
Seehter
Chevelle
Staind
Trapt
Puddle of Mudd
Godsmack
Cold
3 Doors Down


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Grunge
I remember way back in the early 90s in fact in 1990. the uprising of bands like Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, and in the underground post-punk, gothic, alternative club scene where everyone would get together and talk about these bands because we didn't have the internet back then. everyone I knew called them Alternative rock or Alternative metal. these bands were played in the club scene like a whole year before Nirvana came into the picture. once Nirvana came along with overnight success with Nevermind like so many other different elements in these bands there just had to be a name for this sub-genre. the term "Grunge" came out of Seattle Washington to categorize this new wave of bands coming out of the Seattle area.

here on the west coast states California, Arizona, New Mexico etc, everyone I knew just called these bands Alternative rock or metal. then just over time the term "Grunge" dominated this wave of bands. the same thing can be applied to the term "Screamo" in my opinion.

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Band Profile Hand-Outs

This is the template for the band profile hand-out which we will be handing out for our pitch. This hand-out talks all about our band and gives a brief history into the band and tells about their outlook on life. This allows for a different form of media to be used and makes it easier and less monotonous for the audience.

Breakdown of Tear Down

Who are Tear Down?

Tear Down is the name of our post grunge band. In the group we have three member one vocalist, one on guitar and the other on drums. Tear Down are a British made band who are hoping to make it big in America.



Brief History:
They first met when they picked up Music studies for GCSE and were placed in group based on their preferences on music. They were placed in their small group of alternative and began to play as a band for the first time with their first choice of song Nirvana-Smells like teen spirit. They continued to play in their band and eventually left school and achieved their first pub performance and continued from their eventually claiming their name in the music industry.

Influences:
The band had such influences as many classic grunge bands such as Sound Garden and Nirvana. In recent years they have found their aspirations from bands such as Seether and Staind. This has allowed them to adjust their style  in a way fitting to the times but adding their own unique twist to the music industry. By doing this it has allowed them to gain much more success within the industry and get to the point to which they are now, even now they are gaining more fans.

Tear Down love the going on tour and thats the reason why they started in the music industry, their sole purpose was to entertain people with their unique lyrics. They never intended to get as far as they did but they did and now they have started selling merchandise to their fans.

The genre of grunge and post-grunge is very simple... its all related to depressive and angry feeling music. However, Tear Down want to break away from this genre convention and make their own. they feel what's better than to take that feeling of depression and make people feel the opposite with relatable lyrics and a similar purpose. People find reasoning within the genre of grunge, that feeling that you are not the only one who has suffered. Tear Down want to show it is not the only way but in order to make someone feel better you ned to show them that there is an alternative and that is the one aim of Tear Down.

What we want Tear Down to look like:

This is the appearance of post grunge. This is what we intend for every member of our group to look like. In order to do this we need the continuos theme of long hair, piecings and checkered or band t-shirts.  

History

There is a relatively long past to the music video and it is still being debated today what the first music video actually was. Some claim it to be the blues of the deep south in America where the blues videos were shot more like movies however some others say that it was Bob Dylan’s short documentary don’t look back where the song Subterranean Homesick Blues.

Here is Bob Dylan’s documentary don’t look back with the song Subterranean Blues:

This is undoubtedly the first music video and definitely not the last. Since then the music video has been adapted to accommodate all genres of music and where the famous quote taken from the song "Video killed the radio star". The videos have just been getting more innovate and more unusual since then. Here are a couple of examples:

This is the first ever video to be shot entirely in space:

Here is another fun and inventive video:

The idea of the music video has changed so much since the first ever screening of one. This has given it time to adapt and change to latest trends making the video in some cases more popular than the actual song. This means for any project that an artist undertakes has to be a big one and for one simple reason, if you remember the video you will remember the song.


Throughout the years the music video has changed considerably and with it come re-inventions of original videos which is known as post-modernism. This means that many videos which have been made have had remixes of them made. This means that everything will eventually be copied or remixed since there isn't an unlimited source of new ideas and some will have to be based loosely on previous pieces of work.

For example -Weezers video "Pork and Beans" 

This video made by Weezers features the entire previous internet stars from YouTube making this video one big remix. The video tasks the concept of Post-Modernism and changes it, meaning that all of the famous videos from YouTube have been taken and remade in order to feature within the music video. This video takes everyone's view on Post-Modernism and turns it on its head by showing sometimes remix's can make a video look better and not just a cheap imitation. The idea of this video is appealing to a wider audience since it has taken everything which people have liked and even loved in some cases into a single video attracting lovers of all of them YouTubers, Weezer and even that genre of music making it a very versatile music video.