Nominees for The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Class of 2019 were announced today and include The Cure, Devo, Kraftwerk, MC5, Roxy Music, and Radiohead.
MC5 have been eligible for the Rock Hall since 1991; Kraftwerk 1995; Roxy Music 1997; Devo 2003; The Cure 2004; and Radiohead 2017.
The inductees -- selected by a different committee -- for the Class of 2019 will be announced in December with the induction ceremony scheduled to take place March 29th in Brooklyn.
The full list of nominees is available to view here.
The Rock Hall is notorious for snubbing true classic alternative artists. Despite a few legendary bands managing to somehow get inducted into the institution, the Rock Hall and its various committees have overwhelmingly proven themselves to be incredibly lame and out of touch for years and years. Sure, it's great they've nominated (and even at times inducted) some deserving bands, but the Rock Hall is pretty much a cringeworthy joke at this point.
Below view the t-shirt Jeff Ament wore when Pearl Jam got inducted in 2017 as a nod to all the highly influential bands shunned and disregarded by the Rock Hall over the years. [note: Oasis' first LP was released in 1994 thus making them ineligible until 2019. The Cars went on to be inducted in 2018.]
Published October 9th, 2018
