Danya

The classic 70's stuff was best. But there are a couple of new ones I like...such as Disturbed and Linkin Park.

Secular Elation

Yes, Disturbed and Linkin Park are both good. "Remember" is a great song by Disturbed.

Danya

I like the remake they did of Shout.

Mad Lion

Metal and hardcore are the only cds I seem to be buying lately... I want to find some decent hard rock with some melody damnit! I haven't yet picked up Audioslave though, which has Christ Cornell and the band members from Rage Against the Machine. It couldn't be ALL that bad...

RED DAVE

White music be dead. Rap and R&B lives.

RED DAVE

Xeluan

The whole angst thing in rock has been done to death. In a just world whiney frat boys such as Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit and the rest would all be working at your local McDonalds intead of polluting ears.

There is good rock out there. You have to simply dig deeper than what the corporations want you to hear. And they bands are not neccesarliy male. The Donnas, Pj Harvey, Sahara Hotnights are all female and rock in their own way.

Remember that rock used to be fun. I've had enough of self-pitying, introspective songs about how everyone hates me. And while the press may laud pretentious posers such as The Strokes and The Vines (and I have no clue why) there are bands that understand the ethos and mythos of rock. I see a return to when playing rock was supposed to be fun not hours of boring angst.

Except Henry Rollins. He is angry but at least he does something about it and has a band that can play.

I reccomend www.emusic.com for finding out about bands that lurk outside the mainstream.

And the new Audioslave album is worth a listen.

Xeluan

Sakpo

There was plenty of crap rock in the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s. We just tend to forget the bad stuff that polluted the airwaves and remember the good stuff (except for the 80s, where all the bad stuff is remembered and the good stuff is forgotten). People who grew up during a certain creative peak in the good music will then elevate the music from this period as "the best" (its may be hardwired into the brain, the musical and memory related bits of the brain are probably closely related). When there is a lull in the supply of new decent rock supplied by the mega corporations we proclaim rock is dead. Possibly, rock will really move forward and once again become a higher form of art (as it did in the 60s, when it became more typically complex both musically and lyrically). Then, old fans will feel abandoned and a popular resurgence of the older form will come along as the new sound progresses and then eventually stagnates. Rock is a relatively young art form and it will be interesting to see where it is 30 years from now (if it still exists in a recognizable form).

Monkeybot

I feel your pain - I remember one local (and actually fairly mainstream - they'd be playing top 40 in the daytime) radio station used to have a special hour late at night devoted to "alternative" rock (back when it was still "alternative" anyway!). I mean, bands I had never fucking HEARD OF either way, mixed in with some of the more mainstream alternative like Soundgarden, etc. It was pretty amazing now that I look back. Now I really can't stand the radio, even the hard rock station plays stuff that mostly came out 10 years ago or before.

At the same time, that just means you have to dig a little deeper to find music you like. I don't feel at all guilty about using file-sharing services to find new bands that I would never hear of otherwise. Mainstream radio (at least where I live -- where my grandparents live there's a terrific metal station) is choked with crap, it's certainly not bringing new ideas to the masses, and those few acts that do hit it big are played and replayed into oblivion.* The good music IS out there, it's just making you work for it nowadays

*College radio is a different story, at least sometimes

lisarea

I'd expect this has less to do with there actually being no good new music, and more to do with the lack of places to find it.

In recent years, a couple of bigassed corporations (Clearchannel and one other one, I think) have all but completed their monopoly on radio stations, so what you're hearing now is likely carefully selected by a committee.

In order to pass the muster and be played on the radio, music has to conform to a specific genre, have an established market, and otherwise fit in with some corporation's mission statement.

If you're lucky, you'll be able to find a local college or other independent radio station like the one here:

Radio 1190

If you're not lucky, you have to get a good always-on connection and listen to it via the internet.

Sicarius

you just need to pick up the right bands. "Indie" still has a strong, quality scene going.

Pick up some Modest Mouse, Ugly Cassanova, Bright Eyes, Built To Spill, Badly Drawn Boy, Dismemberment Plan, Hot Hot Heat, or Flaming Lips...quality music that will revive your faith in rock.