What Happend to My Rock & Roll?

Rock music is dead to me now. It has lost it's excitement. There is no rebellion in rock music anymore. The majority of new music is unlistenable. This generation has no good music. Nobody does new and exciting things anymore (with the exceptions of a few I can think of: Xiu Xiu, Deerhunter, Antony and the Johnsons, TV on the Radio, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Franz Ferdinand, Kings of Leon, MIA, to name a few). Everything has been done. It's history. All the new music is fucking boring. Rock music is now "pop-punk" (what a regurgitating term) and shit I've heard over and over and over again for the past 15 years. and mainstream hip-hop is disgusting. At least my generation spewed out some good music (Nirvana, The Smashing Pumpkins, Nine Inch Nails), and a few bands before my time are still writing good music (Bob Dylan, The Cure, Neil Young to name a few).

The state of music nowadays makes me sick. We have such atrocities as "Guitar Hero"--don't even get me started on that. People don't buy CD's anymore (though vinyl is making a slow comeback), causing many stores to close their doors. People don't even care if their music sounds like shit or not, they'll just download everything.

I don't care about any new music, except the artists I listed earlier. I can't even listen to anything anymore. I cannot stand Pink Floyd, Radiohead is dull and boring to me, and Coldplay makes me want to slam my head into a blender. The majority of music I listen to nowadays have broken up when I was in diapers, or their singers have died before my parents were even married.

I still enjoy making music, but I want to make something that is so anti-music, so anti-rock.

I like music that is ART. Music that makes you think. Music that makes you say "Hey, I've never heard anything like THIS before."