Good Modern Rock Bands?

Well, I guess it depends on what you mean by modern. All these bands are pretty recent, but some of them are no longer together. Regardless, they're all really good and rather unknown.

A Silver Mt. Zion

At the Drive-In

Beirut

Bright Eyes

Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band

Cursive

Desaparecidos

Do Make Say Think

Dredg

Elliott Smith

Explosions in the Sky

Godspeed You! Black Emperor

the Good Life

Heatmiser

Interpol

Low

mewithoutYou

Mogwai

Murder by Death

PJ Harvey

Quasi

Radiohead

Ryan Adams

the Smiths

Wilco

No, but Pearl Jam does sound like a Platypus slowly drowning in a sea of melted crisco. They suck B@lls dude, You can do way better than that. If You want 90's try Alice In Chains, they were the best, nvm what these poor Nirvana & Squirrel Jam fans think. If You want the 2000s try Wolfmother or Airbourne.

Von Bondies

Nice Device

The Dirtbombs

My favorite modern rock band is Blacklist Union. They kinda sound like a club rock band like Buckcherry mixed with 80s hard rock.

http://www.myspace.com/blacklistunion

Anoher good one is Catherine Wheel, but they're not as modern (1990-2000). They're a shoegaze band. The lead singer (Rob Dickinson) has a new solo album out that has more of an indie style.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg7-mRXg5wk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsxCPMpRRK8

Breaking Benjamin

Skillet

Muse

Scary Kids Scaring Kids

Puscifer

Here are some of my favorites

Interpol

The Strokes

Spoon

Muse

Does it Offend You Yeah

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Travis

Rilo Kiley

Bloc Party

Bright Eyes

Nada Surf

Sufjan Stevens

The Postal Service

The Shins..........and I could keep going for many hours

*And Oasis released their first album in 94 and formed in 91

The Arctic Monkeys the drummer is a modern day John Bonham

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQhBoR_Jv-U

focus on the drummer (matt helders)

wolf parade

handsome furs

okkervil river

new pornographers/neko case

of montreal

decemberists

metric

elbow

glasvegas

arcade fire

ra ra riot

matt & kim

grizzly bear/department of eagles

fleet foxes

kaiser chiefs

blitzen trapper

animal collective

deerhoof

deerhunter

my morning jacket

the national

peter bjorn and john

destroyer/swan lake

franz ferdinand

interpol

spoon

sunset rubdown

frog eyes/blackout beach

tapes n tapes

the week that was

andrew bird

pinback

midlake

tv on the radio

mates of state

m ward

dirty projectors

black kids

mgmt

sigur ros

clap your hands say yeah

the yeah yeah yeahs

Tool

Velvet Revolver are awesome. They're in the media & stuff, yet they're still brilliant, IMO.

Slither

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vewm5l-i-yw

American Man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umrWZ16Nxqk

For A Brother

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giu6acKTTNI

Fall To Pieces

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwQg2smopwg

So...there you go :)