When this page moved to Vancouver seven years ago, one of the things I greatly enjoyed was being able to hear new, original rock music again. CFOX and the long-defunct XFM duked it out for an audience that had grown weary of their parents classic rock, and had a few years to wait before they could shuffling their own playlists inside their Ipods and MP3 players.
At that point, the highlight of local music scene was the rivalry between Coquitlam's Matthew Good Band and Alberta expatriates Nickelback. I saw both acts in concert and bought their albums. In this page's opinion, Matthew Good wrote some the most haunting, thought-provoking, Gen-X anthems this side of Douglas Coupland, kind of a more articulate Kurt Cobain. On the other hand, Nickelback's music was an insipid porridge of redneck arena-rock cliches and rock star posturing.
Which brings us to the obvious question of "where are they now?" Well, Nickelback now seem to be aware of how much they suck, since Chad Kroeger just happens to be around bar fights when somebody says so. Meanwhile, Matthew Good, who saw rock as a means to say something important rather than self-promotion, still has something to say.
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