Compressive Rock

Compressive Rock is a musical genre that is used to describe bands that play music heavily influenced by Classic rock such as The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, or The Rolling Stones, but play modern music, with a modern sound. Music can have a very diverse sound and style, but in short, the idea of the genre is to revamp older rock music and to show a harder rock style to older rock songs.
Though ideas like this have been used through out the 90's, Compressive Rock is more of a recent term. Most bands that consider themselves Compressive Rock or are considered Compressive Rock, are garage bands that are not yet signed, although you can make the argument that bands like The Vines, The Hives, and Jet are Compressive Rock.

Compressive Rock has grown into a widespread idea in areas with strong teen and young adult music scenes. Areas like Long Island and New York City, Chicago, L.A. and Seattle are filling up with locals that are using the term Compressive Rock.
Because of the increasing use of the term, and the significant lack of "Big" bands that "Made-it" calling themselves Compressive Rock, the term is becoming very loose. It is starting to use more as a term to describe music that compresses a type of Rock with a modern sound. It could be era's of rock, like The 60's or 70's, or it could be a genre or subgenre from those times such as Progressive Rock, Psychadellic, Fusion Rock, or Blues Rock.
Most bands that classify themselves as Compressive Rock add their modern sound to music from 1979 or earlier. Later time periods are too 'modern' to be really considered Compressive Rock. THere are many bands that use 80's Metal as their strongest influence to add to their modern writing, but this is not Compressive Rock. However, bands that take a mixture of Grunge from the 90's with older hard rock and the modern sound can be called Compressive Rock.

These bands started to use this term to separate themselves from modern bands that play Emo, Screamo, or Hardcore music.

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