Rock? Dead? Hardly. My wife is modern country only, therefore my kids grow up fans... Until Dad gets them on the road and bombards them with The Beatles, Stones, Led Zep, The Who, etc. By the time they get their own vehicle its 90% rock in their CD case. Drives my wife crazy.
Our sons are in their early 20s. They think Led Zepplin’s music is one of the ultimate of rock-n-roll! Both share with me how the music changes, and I do not “hear” it - each of them has a gift for music that I can only appreciate.
very little decent new rock
just look at sales
older bands like RHCP or U2 or whomever does something decent and it sells like nuts
otherwise it’s Taylor Swift or Rhiannon
music made for girls in Middle School
or hip hop but it ain’t what it was
I hear little modern snippets here and there I like on occasion...sometimes a band...sometimes just a vocal single like Rolling in the Deep
look at Billboard’s Hot 100...guess that woulda been Top Forty in my day...
http://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100#/charts/hot-100
I mean retch...this is worse than when Bubblegum had a foothold in 1970...with Tommy Roe or Bobby Sherman
why do so many under 30 rock boys today look gay?...frail..like Russel Brand
I looked at rock chart too...http://www.billboard.com/#/charts/rock-songs?begin=11&order=position
lol...the bands I like like Foo Fighters, Nickelback, Bush my older kids would call commercial
I do like Switchfoot
but in 40 years nobody will be waxing about any of them like are now about STH..like it or not
as for country...I do like Jason Aldean..he’s a neighbor sorta...goes to the church my wife attends more than I do but should...guys like him are carrying on what I like
last night my two oldest boys and I drove around the county late in my Dodge Ran of course (by Aldean’s red white and blue barn) and listened to Laid Back since mommy is on a Gregg Allman kick after seeing him on CMA show the other night...the kids didn’t like have apoplexy or anything but they prefer something thrashier...they do love Black Sabbath and Led Zepplin though...a lot...and loud