Hey, it's Alan, and I just wanted to let you know that you can now listen to the ongoing

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Music is always evolving and mutating and modifying itself.

Start with something, and then maybe enough people will agree on a certain direction for this

new sound to become a full-fledged

new subgenre. And in time, sub-sub-genres may spring from that offshoot, multiplying things

even more. Now think about it. In the 1950s, you had rock, pop, country, and R&B. Most everything

that was released back then could be classified under one of those four headings.

Today, though, Spotify has organized things into nearly 2,000 different categories.

There's music with names like Dark Sightrans, something called Stomp and Flutter.

You might be into Vapor Soul or Fustball, Jim Corps, or Cat Step, footwork, or Slees Rock.

Seriously, these are all actual Spotify genre classifications.

Now let's circle back to the Alt Rock of the early 2000s.

After a decade of things staying fairly close to a certain set of specs,

alt rock began to mutate again.

Now, yes, guitars were still important, but not essential.

And there were certain shifts in attitude and outlook created by world-shaking global events,

because as we've learned, the sound

of an era's music is always just a little downstream from what's happening in society at

large. Let's deconstruct this concept a little further. This is Alt Rock in the Oates,

part four. This is the ongoing history of new music podcast with Alan Cross.

Hi there, I'm Ellen Cross, and this is chapter four of our look at alt rock in the

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