The Woods: Rock is Dead; Long Live Rock

Matt keeps the rock theme going and checks in on life after the extinction (read: reunion tours) of the dinosaurs. Sleater-Kinney lambast and reinvigorate rock all at once in The Woods, a totemic and virile nearly-closing statement from the band. Rock is always on the verge of death in the magazines yet forever vital in our hearts, and Matt looks to Queens of the Stone Age and The Darkness that, like Sleater-Kinney, carry the perpetually fading torch of rock music in the 21st century.