Why do Rock as artists suck nowadays? Especially here in America? It seems as if rappers are the new Rock stars?

Well, let me be the first to tell you that if you're listening to the radio, I can almost certainly tell you that you are never gonna find any good rock music. Rock just doesn't get the monetary investment from record companies like Pop and Rap artists do, so they don't get the same amount of attention on the radio. The Internet is gonna better for finding. This website has helped me find plenty of great rock bands, but I also found a crap ton just by doing simple searches on Google. You can just ask the people on this site, some of us may answer in a cynical manner, but we can still help you find new music. If we can't help, try sites like Sputnikmusic or Musicbanter.

Also, the 2010's hasn't been a crappy decade, plenty of rock/metal bands, both old and new, have been making great music. Clutch, Queens of the Stone Age, and Royal Blood being some examples.

It's a shame. My favorite music is punk rock from the 2000's. The 2010's music is just for the most part total crap. I think it's because if a song is even remotely aggressive or angry, it gets ZERO radio air time. It's been quite a few years since a song with a prominent electric guitar has gotten decent radio play too. There are great rock bands today, but with the exception of fallout boy and paramore, none get any radio air time. And even fallout boy and paramore had to change to be much more pop sounding to get any radio time at all. It is heartbreaking to me, I want rock to come back, but we will have to wait and see

Its not that bands today are necessarily afraid to say things, its that there are more ways to get their words twisted. Its very easy now days to do that. It does not take a lot to do. There are artists and bands out there that do speak their minds. But for whatever reason the media is either not picking up on it or its to early for the media to say anything. It only takes a small thing to spark the media. So there is an attitude just a different one. Music is way different than it was even 5 years ago.

Well, we made it happen. Going all cerebral on ya, as I got nothin' better to do (it cold & I'm old):

- Diversity, too many choices, diluting the market. When I see a big grocery superstore's "cereal" aisle, then remember just having like corn flakes, "Cheerios", and "Wheaties", it makes sense. (Any, with maybe sliced bananas, and a load of sugar on it, it was all "good". "Frosted" stuff came in, 'doomed.) (Oatmeal didn't count.)

- Loss of ability, in the explosion of electronic media, to "delay gratification". I want what I (think I) want right now, gotta be an ap for that, etc. Fueled by the marketing machine that powers that media.

- They don't, the good ones are just harder to find. Like the difference between trying to find a friend you heard was in the mall, vs. in a pub/club with say fifty people in there.

More OG opinions on request, but I'd have to go all non-PC, 'ain't hap'nin. For the relatively few that are also trying hard to learn how to play rock, the inside secret: Go see live music, not the huge-hall hundred-dollar ticket stuff, but the ten-dollar cover stuff. Let these people die by our neglect, and we hurt the future.

Don't know about you, but I listen to artists because of their music, not their attitude.

If you're looking for new artists just look around. Radios won't play stuff that isn't popular. There's some decent artists over on Napalm Records' channel.

Who needs cokeheads when you can have activists? These guys aren't known for their activism but due to a outburst of B.V.S. they have made it their mission to rid the world of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8whzjVNnhQ

I knew these guys were jokers but fuсk me they weren't kidding about B.V.S. becoming a common disease. It's spreading like crazy in the rock/metal community, luckily for women it's treatable, the men however are pretty much....Fuсked. Quickly visit your G.P. to try and catch it early before you turn into one big giant whinny pussy.

You probably feel this way because you made the mistake of listening to mainstream radio.

You have the internet yet you listen to obsolete radio??? And you call yourself a music fan. lol. Amazing!

Because indie is in and too hard is metal