Buckcherry lead singer Josh Todd says the 2000s of rock music has been “forgettable” and “faceless,” two adjectives he used while talking to Australian journalist Steve Mascord. He said in part, “There's no rock stars, there's no guitar stars, there's no rock singers. If you look in the Nineties, look at all the great frontmen. You had Chris Cornell and Layne Staley and Eddie Vedder and Zack De La Rocha and Jonathan Davis and so on. And then the 2000s and on? I couldn't even tell you who a singer is. It's so weird.”
Todd said that bands over the last couple decades all sound the same. He explained, “You listen to Active Rock radio and it sounds like the same band for 45 minutes. There's no dynamics between bands. There's no, 'Oh, that's this band and that's that band,' and they all have their own little flavor. It's just not that way anymore. And I think that's why nobody is talking about rock music in the mainstream.”
Todd thinks there is one group that managed to make an impact. He said, “There's literally one band that they go to commercially if they wanna fill that rock slot on some awards show or anything, and it's the Foo Fighers. That's it. That's what you get for the entire rock genre. And that's good for them, but if you are a rock musician, it's tough.”
Buckcherry released their new album, Hellbound, last month.
