i agree, you have to dig. it is the assholes in charge who decide what is popular. most people listen to what they are told.

meaning, there is better rock than nickelback
there is still real country music being recorded, not pop shit like rascal flats
there are metal bands far above the commercial shit like slipknot
im assuming this all holds true for the kinds i dont here a lot.


also, this generation at long last has a guitar god who can stand shoulder to shoulder with hendrix and srv
www.myspace.com/jbonamassa

but yes, you have to look. people decided that money was more important than soul somehwere along the line, and realized they could easily market shit, some people would like it because they were told to, then the rest would like it cause they saw that is what everyone else did. that is my theory, why else would dogshit become mainstream. really to me it is like if all of a sudden one day eating your own waste was suddenly cooler and more popular than eating a juicy steak

and dont blame the music, blame the culture, the music never made the culture listen to it, the culture was just too damn lazy or stupid to say no