She was excellent on SNL last night. I don't think you can embed video from the NBC site, but it should be easy enough to find her performances online.

http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/05/c ... nce-watch/

Ha, she's wearing a Life Be In It tee, awesome

LOL

This is the one I was looking for!

Wow, that performance of Pedrestian at Best was fucking stellar.

Outstanding performance.

fucking hell that was great

probably a stretch, but their performances remind me a lot of Nirvana

I thought the same thing during the second song. Definitely some Nirvana influence there.

For sure. But going back to the "rock is dead" comments made by someone somewhere on RM this morning, does anyone else feel like for all Barnett's obvious passion and sincerity, there's something inescapably retro/throwback about this sort of music now?

Yes, absolutely.

Her song on the new Grateful Dead cover album is pretty great.

I don't know if it's purposely a throwback, it's just that we're seeing people creating music who are influenced by the same bands we grew up with. So inherently it will remind us of 'the glory days'

I think it's more than that. The music, from what I heard, feels like its looking backwards. It doesn't feel like any kind of evolution from things I've already heard. It doesn't sound new or different - just solid rock music. It doesn't feel exciting or vital to me. Which makes it seem like it's dwelling in the past.

Yea, I don't think her music is intentionally retro in the same way that Jack White or Black Keys are intentionally retro; those guys go to great ends to make their music sound completely unoriginal. I think BS is right on the money here.

passion will always be vital.

Hmm. Maybe. I'm not sure if this is true of everything. Those performances felt passionate, but not vital. At least to me. I think passion is just one component of artistic vitality.

It's vital to someone somewhere precisely because of her passion. But it will fail to have a deep impact with a broader, older audience who's already been exposed to musicians of her ilk.

That's an interesting point. When you frame it that way, I could see how artists like her could lead to a larger resurgence down the road. It seems inevitable that at some point kids are going to start rebelling against what's popular now and looking for something different they can identify with, and a passionate, analog rocker like CB might look like a pretty appealing alternative to all the heavily-produced, electronic-based stuff that's in right now.