re: Why is there no "great" music anymore?

I have found only a handful of newer bands that I appreciate.

I like some of Arcade Fire, but do not get the worship that they receive like they're Pink Floyd or something. I like some of their songs...but some just irk me.

Modest Mouse....errr...I tried to get them, but I don't care for them. Don't know why.

I have tried to hear a lot of new stuff, but a lot of it is that "sing like a little girl and then scream through the chorus", with the same overly cooked, trite "heavy" guitar sound. I'm talking about bands that re in the mold of Good Charlotte. I'm not into listening to music about depression and hate and breakups. The days of the 90's sound of rock, where there were actual creative and heavy, mind-blowing riffs (remember the first time you heard Man in the Box by AIC?), have been transformed into hashed up engineer-flooded noise.

Also, the bands who are mimicing the older "shoegaze" outfits like My Bloody Valentine, Ride, Swerevedriver, and Hum (among many more) have turned it into garbage.

Maybe I am my father...maybe I am basically saying "There hasn't been any good music since the 60's." I, however, love music from the 60's through the early part of the 2000's. I guess the last "modern" band that I discovered and dug was in late '97 when I saw Sevendust in concert when they opened up for Coal Chamber. By 2001, I was over them, too.

I would love to discover a new band that I could really dig. Wolf and Cub is one that I am currently experimenting with.