Rock music is dead because that formula couldn't sustain itself commercially or creatively.

maybe try dream theater

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZZF-2dZ5cM

When I think about kids watching a TV show like American Idol or The Voice, then they think, ‘Oh, OK, that’s how you become a musician, you stand in line for eight fucking hours with 800 people at a convention center and… then you sing your heart out for someone and then they tell you it’s not fuckin’ good enough. It’s destroying the next generation of musicians! Musicians should go to a yard sale and buy and old fucking drum set and get in their garage and just suck. And get their friends to come in and they’ll suck, too. And then they’ll fucking start playing and they’ll have the best time they’ve ever had in their lives and then all of a sudden they’ll become Nirvana. Because that’s exactly what happened with Nirvana. Just a bunch of guys that had some shitty old instruments and they got together and started playing some noisy-ass shit, and they became the biggest band in the world. That can happen again! You don’t need a fucking computer or the internet or The Voice or American Idol.

What genre will die next?

Rock music is very stagnant because there are so few bands doing anything genuinely fresh getting any exposure, and the ones that do get exposure are recycling sounds from the past across the board

Obviously there are bands on the fringes still doing great stuff but it is pretty hard to find rock music that feels inspired at this point in time

>>65121080

i know you're "meming" but what you say is half true

It's not rock music that's dead: it's the rock album

You're never gonna get a huge production like The Wall or Mellon Collie again because there is no money to be made. Also, the amount of bands who just opt to record themselves and put out music on the internet or whatever means no more rock stars

it's not nessicarily a bad thing, but as somebody old enough to remember rock stars (marilyn manson etc.) i kinda miss it

And no, Kanye West isn't a rock star

>>65121185
Have you not heard The Astonishing?

>>65121168
>genres dying
>misunderstanding how artistic ideas work this hard

>>65121168
oppressive nightmarefunk

>>65121168
Hip Hop is on life support
going down the same route that Metal did

>>65121270
>being this poopy

>>65121270
genres dying is a meme my friend

>>65121168
music

>What ever happened to authenticity in rock music?
That's basically been dead since grunge blew up.
>What happened to the days of arena rock?
I'm actually pretty glad that stuff's not around anymore, it was pretty lame for the most part. And I don't know how you can blame commercialism for the death of rock music and then praise arena rock as if arena rock wasn't a huge cause of the increasing commercialism in music.
> I turn to the college radio station
Are college radio stations even relevant anymore? I feel like the internet has sort of fulfilled their purpose even better by this point.
>I don't hear a single 5 min guitar solo or songs about babes and cars
Do you really need to? And I mean it's not like that's all really died or anything, you just have to look further than the radio for it.
>>65121182
>Rock music is very stagnant because there are so few bands doing anything genuinely fresh getting any exposure, and the ones that do get exposure are recycling sounds from the past across the board
Agreed. I would say this is more or less because of the limiting nature of what people generally consider to be rock music. The guitar, bass, drums and vocals setup can only do so much. Like >>65121127 said, that can't really sustain itself creatively now that various electronics and computer tools allow musicians to create pretty much any sound they want.

I would love to see some sort of new style of traditional guitar/vocals/bass/drums alternative rock, but I can't really imagine what it would sound like.

>>65121080

So basically old people are behind the times and annoyed that they don't sell as many records any more?

Okay, I would of assumed that anyway.