Thoughtfully enough, it wasn’t “Dad Rock” 20 years ago. But the years go by, trends change, and finally, what is cool today, will be the stuff of dads in about 20 years.\
According to the Pew Research Center, members of the Gen Z generation were born between 1997 and 2012. Thus, the first of the Gen Z’s became teenagers in 2010, and the youngest only become teenagers this year — in 2025.
Scroll below to see the four bands we chose to represent dad rock of the Gen Z generation.






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