You should check out Giant Haystacks.
http://home.earthlink.net/~gianthaystacks/ (mp3 samples)
Political post-punk, 2006.
The thing is that there is good music out there now, political as hell, but it's often harder than ever to find. Though I am unsympathetic to the attitude that all good music stopped being made after 1980, or 1985, or after 1993, etc., I am sympathetic to the fact that it is harder than ever to track down the real gems nowadays, harder than probably even in the 80s, which is somewhat ironic given how much more accessible everything is via SoulSeek and MySpace.
In other words, it's there, you just have to know where to look. It's also very bizarre that people who liked, say, Killing Joke or Rudimentary Peni or Wire back in the day, don't even realize the bands are still going, putting out new stuff (Killing Joke -- 2 LPs and 1 EP in the past 3 years; Rudi Peni 1 EP in 2004, WIre's "Read & Burn" and "Send" in the past few years, etc.) and that these bands' new stuff is really not bad at all.
-B.
wrobert at uci.edu wrote:
> On the topic of post-punk, I am happy about the
revival to get all
> these great reissues, but the contemporary acts are
really boring.
> What happened to politics and experimentation?
There are a couple
> things worth listening to, but they're primarily
from a couple years
> ago and were generally released on Dischord (Black
Eyes and Q and not
> U's last release.) It's all boring songs about
going to the disco and
> no free jazz.
>
> robert wood