re: Question for the 35+ crowd

I committed to trying to find new music a few years back. It takes quite a bit more searching than when I was younger, but there's some good stuff out there. Good, not great.

Modern music has a tendency to be very derivative, one note and lazy relative to prior decades, so if you grew up in those prior decades, you have to approach it with a very forgiving ear. Personally, I just ran out of interest. "Bands" are often just one or two people that rarely if ever tour and eject to the next "project" with little warning. And local music scenes - outside of the major metros - are largely small or dead altogether...because most music is made in someone's bedroom in garageband or something similar. God bless those poor bastards trying to make a living in it these days.