connected spiritually to that moment. wake up hold your mistake up arcade fire was this big anthemic rock band that made these songs you just wanted to holler along with. and to me it felt like the moment indie rock crossed over into something bigger. holiday, oh holiday and the best time of the year it s the first time you had indie bands soundtracking commercials for mainstream national products. in part because everyone is trying to figure out how do i make money now that no one will pay for my albums. one two three take my hand and count to p because you look so fine i really want to make you mine historically there had been some wariness about selling your
in the 2000s rock itself becomes known and weirdly apolitical for a time when the country was at war. post-9/11 some believe familiar music will sell well this holiday. i ve been down to the bottom of every bottle nickelback, they had bigger hits than everybody. everybody s welcome in the nickelback club. we ve got a big club. yeah, yeah a lot of rock is not really doing what it used to do, and it s almost like it lost its will to fight. unless you re talking about green day. don t want to be an american idiot you can t undersell how shocking it was that the definitive statement on george bush s america came from green day. all across the alien nation everything s meant to be okay it was kind of like a rock