Guess who’s back again

Older bands make a comeback to the music industry and fans get excited.

Alanna Wyatt staff reporter

“My favorite Christmas movie is Home Alone. I watch it every year so it brings a sense of nostalgia,” Stella Tucker said.

Warming up their voices and gathering their guitars, old hit bands Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, Metallica and Green Day all are making a comeback from their time away. In the month of October, Smashing Pumpkins made an appearance on stage at the Amalie Arena. Students Emily Wise(‘24). Michael Pekarek(‘24), and Mark Hynes(‘23) roam the halls with gossip and excitement as they talk about the band’s comebacks and their favorite bands as they make an appearance. Wise scrolls through TikTok early Aug. 2021, she realizes that one of her favorite bands, The Smashing Pumpkins, was trending on her feed page.

Die Hard

“ My favorite christmas movie is Die Hard of course, I know people debate on whether it’s a christmas movie or not, but i really like die hard because I love the fact that there is action and Its got some really cool christmas movie in it,’ Mr. Burnes [FAC] said.

How The Grinch Stole Christmas

“ My favorite Christmas movie is How the Grinch Stole Christmas because it’s a classic Christmas movie that my family watches every year. The movie plays all Christmas long in my house.” Jessica Scura (‘26) said.

White Christmas

“My favorite christmas movie would probably be White Christmas. It is special to me because I would always watch it with my grandparents, and now my grandpa is gone. So watching White Christmas is a really nice way to remember him,”Mrs Henry [FAC] said.

“Because of social media, people’s music is trending on stuff [social media] and reaching out to the teenage audience. If you want to be more specific, for example, The Smashing Pumpkins, I feel like they are becoming more mainstream now because number one, Target [store] had their shirts and people thought it was cool, so they decided to listen to them. But also, TikTok trended their songs 1979 and Today, so I think those songs are making more of a comeback.” Wise said.

After hearing music trending on social media for months, Pekarek talks on how musicians’ songs are being put into highly streamed movies and shows and then becoming recognized from there.

“Bands I’ve seen back are more rock or metal like Metallica and Nirvana after their songs got added to shows and movies and then blow up.” Pekarek stated.

Although Hynes is a fan of older bands, he elaborates his thoughts on how bands making a comeback is not always the best thing that could happen.

“Some of them, I’m all here for it. then sometimes there are some bands that I really like their old stuff

On November 18 2022, Wise looked through vinyl records at Rock’n Records in the Tarpon Springs Sponge Docks. Wise has a hobby of collecting records and cds from all of her favorite bands and artists. Photo by Alanna Wyatt and they make stuff now and it’s like oh come on. Like Green Day, their last album sucked so bad, and it made me sad. But there are some bands like Bad Religion that put out an album a couple of years ago that was actually pretty good. So, I mean it’s a hit or miss for the most part. But if they can keep making good music, I think they should.” Hynes said.

In the coming year bands Paramore and Blink-182 will be playing at the Amway Center and the Amalie Arena. Other bands like Sum 41 are still unknown of their comeback but have awaiting fans who are willing to support.