[Glice]

I like this subject - first of all, there's hundreds of surf-punk bands out there, it just happens that Man or Astroman? are among the best.

Second, it's very difficult for bands to explore some genres - I don't think a lot of Sonic Youth's ideas should remain entirely in their control, and there's a few bands who take a few of their ideas and run with them sucessfully (early Blonde Redhead, ...Trail of dead, etc) but I don't think ideas like those on DDN have quite been explored enough to constitute a genre, where they really could and probably should.

The other problem I can think of is that some genres run themselves out so quickly that it's quite right they should disappear - I think a lot of lower-case improv is getting really stale now... Taku Sugimoto & Radu Malfatti have disappeared into a conceptual cul-de-sac; Nmperign are still excellent... Berhard Gunther has done some exquisitely beautiful things, but generally I think the genre's pretty much a dead-end.