Yeah, I listened to XMU the other day just to see if I could glean any gems from the current college/indie scene.
Not much joy at all, and a lot of stuff that sounded like it was made by people who (a) can’t sing, (b) have an extremely limited sense of melody and/or harmony, (c) are going crazy playing with ACID or Fruity Loops software and don’t really know what they’re doing, (d) are just really depressed and want to die, (e) all of the above.
OK, I did like a few songs by Nada Surf, a song by My Morning Jacket was mildly intriguing, and Blitzen Trapper’s “Furr” is a weirdly catchy folk ditty. But other than that..GONG!
Haven’t bought any CDs lately because I can’t find anything I’d really like to listen to for 12-14 songs.
LOL! Probably that's the correct answer. ;-)
The real problem here is that all of the good band names were used up by about 1985.