[Major Matt Mason]

Can't really argue his point. There is no rock band of consequence right now, but there are a lot of boy bands and poseurs. Hip hop is girly music, too, as it is dumbed down and strictly based on a beat. The "angry" hip hop (rap) is just swearing to a beat - there is no intelligence there whatsoever.

[Cecily]

Muse is a good rock band, but I tend to get tired of Matt Bellamy’s singing voice pretty quickly.

[GCFADG]

IMO, the guitar has gone the way of the clarinet, and will not come back from it. It’s played out. Some various forms of retro music may survive, but as a vibrant source of anything new? Ain’t gonna happen. All things come to an end at some point.

[Mariner]

Mettalica is a rock band of consequence.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

There is no rock band of consequence right now

Sad to say, rock and roll is pretty much dead. I'd love to be proven wrong and I keep looking for proof that I am, but most of the rock bands making music on tour are the same ones doing so when I was a kid in the '70s. After they're gone there's absolutely no one to take their place.

Even hip-hop has gotten stale and seems past it's prime.