HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 4/17/21

HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 4/17/21

Each week on HardRockDaddy.com. The HRD Radio Report digs deeper into the weekly Active Rock charts, providing commentary, reviews, recommendations and predictions. It also features opinion pieces on chart action and the music business in general. The following is the Active Rock Mediabase Chart for the week ending 4/17/21. All exclusive HRD content is featured below the chart:

THIS LAST WEEK WEEK ARTIST SONG TITLE SPINS 1 2 PRETTY RECKLESS And So It Went 1907 2 1 FOO FIGHTERS Waiting On A War 1879 3 4 POP EVIL Breathe Again 1576 4 5 SEETHER Bruised And Bloodied 1492 5 3 CHEVELLE Self destructor 1471 6 6 OFFSPRING Let The Bad Times Roll 1376 7 7 BRING ME THE HORIZON Teardrops 1313 8 8 ARCHITECTS Animals 1275 9 9 AC/DC Realize 1165 10 11 AYRON JONES Mercy 1127 11 10 COREY TAYLOR Samantha’s Gone 997 12 12 A DAY TO REMEMBER Everything We Need 971 13 15 GRETA VAN FLEET Heat Above 866 14 13 ESCAPE THE FATE (f. LINDSEY STERLING) Invincible 863 15 14 DEFTONES Ceremony 845 16 19 RISE AGAINST Nowhere Generation 818 17 16 ZERO 9:36 Adrenaline 762 18 18 BLACK STONE CHERRY Again 684 19 20 BLACK VEIL BRIDES Scarlet Cross 650 20 21 DIRTY HONEY California Dreamin’ 606 21 22 BADFLOWER F The World 565 22 25 ROYAL BLOOD Typhoons 420 23 24 ATREYU (f. TRAVIS BARKER) Warrior 407 24 23 DES ROCS This Is Our Life 394 25 31 MAMMOTH WVH Don’t Back Down 360 26 28 10 YEARS The Unknown 317 27 30 EVANESCENCE Better Without You 302 28 27 MYLES KENNEDY In Stride 302 29 29 ALL TIME LOW (f. BLACKBEAR) Monsters 299 30 36 BEARTOOTH The Past Is Dead 257 31 26 LOVE AND DEATH Down 244 32 33 TETRARCH You Never Listen 240 33 34 KEITH WALLEN Dream Away 208 34 40 DAUGHTRY Heavy Is The Crown 198 35 32 MACHINE GUN KELLY Bloody Valentine 197 36 35 A KILLER’S CONFESSION Remember 167 37 41 BAD OMENS Never Know 162 38 37 PLUSH Hate 161 39 38 FOUNDRY Not This Time 159 40 42 CORE Save Me 140 41 39 3 DOORS DOWN The Better Life (2021) 138 42 43 OH! THE HORROR Tears Of Gold 123 43 76 ALL GOOD THINGS For The Glory 100 44 44 WEEZER All My Favorite Songs 86 45 46 TEENAGE WRIST Earth Is A Black Hole 73 46 47 DEAD POET SOCIETY .CoDA. 70 47 45 OF MICE & MEN Anchor 66 48 53 PSYCHOSEXUAL Devil From Hell 61 49 52 ANY GIVEN SIN The Way I Say Goodbye 61 50 48 KINGS OF LEON The Bandit 59

PUBLISHER’S PICK OF THE WEEK (By Adam Waldman)

RISE AGAINST – “Nowhere Generation”

Back in the heyday of punk rock, there was a clear anti-establishment message that bonded fans together. Though we live in a divisive era with constant political turmoil, there aren’t too many bands that capture the “us-against-the-world” mentality that was once so pervasive. Rise Against is one of those bands. However, unlike the pure piss and vinegar of songs like “Anarchy in the UK,” Rise Against delivers their message with a thought-provoking observation of society today.

Frontman Tim McIlrath is a late Gen Xer (often times referred to as a Xennial), but his insight on “Nowhere Generation” is not about his personal experience, but rather the collective experience of Millennials and members of Gen Z in America.

In an interview with Revolver, McIlrath shared the inspiration for this brilliant anthem…

“This song was sort of inspired by a lot of the younger generation telling me about their anxieties, their concerns and worries about the future of the world around them. At first I treated those accounts as ‘well, yeah, that’s every generation.’ We’re all swimming upstream against the tide, trying to overcome it. But the tide nowadays has been manipulated. It’s driven by a lot of external forces, which create things like the rise of the one percent, concentrated wealth, the decay of the middle class, and exploding college debt. I realized that a lot of the issues that these generations are facing are unique to them.”

Personally speaking, I don’t envy the younger generations. They are inheriting the mess that has been left behind by the generations that came before them. Though that includes Gen X to some degree, I feel like we are a part of the “nowhere generation” as well. Sandwiched between the larger Baby Boomer and Millennial generations, we are often treated as an afterthought. But we at least got to enjoy the carefree days of youth before face-to-face interaction was largely replaced by the virtual world. In many ways, we were blissfully ignorant about the ills of society. The younger generations have no such innocence.

Like their previous single, “Broken Dreams, Inc.,” “Nowhere Generation” takes an unapologetic look at what society has become, and the death of the “American Dream” happening right before our eyes. Though the message is fairly bleak, there is an uplifting quality to the song that binds people together the way that punk rock used to back in the 1970s.

HRD SPIN CONTROL (by Adam Waldman and Jon Loveless)

The following is a list of songs that we feel deserve to be added to Active Rock playlists…

THE DAMN TRUTH – “This Is Who We Are Now”

SMITH/KOTZEN – “Running”

TAKE THE DAY – “Burning Alive”

CRASH MIDNIGHT – “Killing Time”

GEMINI SYNDROME – “IDK”

DANKO JONES – “I Want Out”

FOOLPROOF – “Violent”

DANNY WORSNOP – “Love You More”

CAVO – “Come Undone”

THE DEAD DAISIES – “Holy Ground”

THEM EVILS – “Coattails”

I FIGHT FAIL – “Here”

SILENT THEORY – “Shaking Cages”

SORAIA – “Tight-Lipped”

SMASH INTO PIECES – “Real One”

PAUL BARTOLOME/KELLIN QUINN – “Set Fire To The Rain”

THE RELENTLESS – “Disarm”

GREATEST GAINERS…

SPIN ARTIST SONG TITLE INCREASE RISE AGAINST Nowhere Generation 156 MAMMOTH WVH Don’t Back Down 124 POP EVIL Breathe Again 108

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