{"id":683980,"date":"2026-06-04T13:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T13:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/683980\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T13:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T13:47:08","slug":"29-bands-we-need-to-admit-are-dad-rock-now-and-it-hurts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/683980\/","title":{"rendered":"29 Bands We Need to Admit Are ‘Dad Rock’ Now (And it Hurts)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Age comes for us all, including the bands we love, which means that, eventually, most of your favorite rock bands will become “dad rock<\/a>.” It’s the designation given to music preferred by older dads who tend to only listen to the songs from their youth even as they age.<\/p>\n

Your dad probably had his music that you thought was lame, even though it was popular before you ever made your entrance into this world.<\/p>\n

But here’s the thing, and I say this as a dad myself, it’s okay to embrace the dad rock tag. What’s wrong with being a dad who likes rock, anyway?<\/p>\n

READ MORE: The Best Album From 5 Big Millennial Dad Rock Bands<\/a><\/p>\n

We found 29 bands that should most certainly be considered “dad rock” these days. And this isn’t about classic rock acts\u00a0such as\u00a0Led Zeppelin<\/a> or Journey<\/a>. We’re talking bands that you probably love that those younger than you consider to be dad rock.<\/p>\n

Blink-182<\/a>‘s first album arrived more than 30 years ago. Dads love ’em.<\/p>\n

Some members of Korn<\/a> are about to enter their late 50s. They’re all a bunch of dads, too.<\/p>\n

Here are 29 bands we all need to admit are dad rock, no matter how much we don’t want to.<\/p>\n

29 Bands That Are ‘Dad Rock’ Now (And There’s Nothing You Can Do About It)<\/p>\n

Dad rock comes for every band sooner or later.<\/p>\n

Gallery Credit: Rob Carroll<\/a><\/p>\n

The Best Album by 11 Dad Rock Bands<\/p>\n

We picked the best album by some of the greatest dad rock bands of all time, ranging from the 1970s to 2000s.<\/p>\n

Gallery Credit: Lauryn Schaffner<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Age comes for us all, including the bands we love, which means that, eventually, most of your favorite…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":683981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,172740,1739,216,3,1740],"class_list":["post-683980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-link-in-bio","tag-metal","tag-music","tag-news","tag-rock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}