I've Seen Rock and Roll's Future...

...and its name is Frank Turner.

Did I get your attention? The Springsteen reference is apt, if perhaps a bit premature. Englishman Turner has the pedigree, and he has the chops. After playing in a hardcore band in the early 2000s, he was inspired to make his brand of folk-punk after listening to Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska. That should pique the interest of one of the Discordants. (Another one would be happy to know that he opened for the Gaslight Anthem on the European tour.)

So now, some music.

Here's "Recovery", the radio-friendly first single off his current 2013 album Tape Deck Heart:

The second single is called "The Way I Tend To Be". It's more of a love song, but I could see it getting airplay on American country radio despite being far more literate than the usual Nashville tripe.But I am loving the mandolin.

Here's 2011's "Peggy Sang the Blues", which he wrote for his grandmother. Lots of message, here, and some themes about living life that he tends to revisit in his work.

And from 2008, something a little more political, with a little more bite.