Music

TL;Dr: Long, rambling old man shit incoming.

You're absolutely right. The DIY landscape is so incredibly different. Now you can get an electric guitar with reasonable QC and an amp with modeling and a hundred presets that plugs directly into your computer to record. There's loads of free lessons online that show people how to play instruments. There are tabs for almost every song put out by any semi-popular artist so you don't have to try to reverse engineer them anymore. There are backing tracks. We didn't have any of that shit. We had a solid state amp with two channels, one of which was poorly distorted.

And I'm here for it. It's not my dad's punk. It's not my punk and pop punk. It belongs to new people and I'm excited for them to look back at it the way I look back at the bands that excited me when I was a kid. They'll have new genres built upon the shoulders of the ones I listened to, which stood on the shoulders of those that came before.