[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

Popular music has been crap since the 70s. But what passes for pop music today is definitely the worst music our species has ever produced. Gaga, Lil Wayne, Katy Perry, Ke$ha... this stuff is pure, undisguised evil. It's not music. It's weaponized audiotoxin.

But there is some really terrific music being made right now, too. You'll never hear it on mainstream radio, but it's out there. Here are a few of my personal favorites from recent years:

Fleet Foxes "Grown Ocean"

Radical Face "A Pound of Flesh"

Explosions in the Sky "Postcard from 1952"

The Helio Sequence "Downward Spiral"

[Norm Lenhart]

If you like Explosions, check out God is an Astronaut
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMEGJ-Jk58Q

[dfwgator]

I will admit that good music is out there if you look for it.

But part of the fun with good music not being so obscure, was that it was good to bond with others who also knew the music, instead of now being the only one on the block that ever heard of the artist.