Are there any other people in their 40s or early 50s who are into music from this century? By which I mean released since 2000. Everybody is stuck on 'classic rock' and 80's retro. When did you abandon your vow to never become like your parents?!?!?! Is there any clearer indication that you have boarded the train to Geezerville than allowing your musical taste to calcify?
Are you the stereotypical old fart that complains that 'the music kids listen to now-a-days is garbage!' 'Back in my day... Now THAT was music'?
Don't get me wrong, I don't mind going retro from time to time, but while the past is a nice place to visit, I don't want to live there?
We live in an age where every type of music imaginable is on demand 24/7 with the click of a mouse or app icon. I'm not a fan of the current pop/rock radio fare, but that is just the tip of the music iceberg.
Put your Pandora, iTunes Radio, or whatever on the Bell X1 channel or the Bastille channel for a couple days.
It does seem that a lot (though not all)of the better pop/rock music today is imported. Some of my favorite imports are: Bell X1, Bastille, Snow Patrol, Elbow, Dirty Vegas, Gotye, Pendulum( they might be a bit much for some people) plus a lot of different Vocal Trance music. I cheat and just download Armin Van Buren's SOT each year and pull out what I like.
Some home grown bands are:
Walk the Moon, Silversun Pickups, & Sara Bareilles, are a little more 'normal' lol AWOLNATION, Celldweller, & Macklemore might take a little more getting use to.
I really like going to concerts and am looking for someone to go with. A date would be great, but friends would be fun too.

Depends what you call modern music? As I am a Brit I can only speak for UK pop music today which is garbage, Sam Smith, Ed Sheearan or whatever his name is. The list is endless I have to listen to pop music at work and it does my head in. I listen to modernish metal. I listen to Darkness, Jobs for a Cowboy, Soulfly, Satirycon, Battlecross, motionless in white,Cavallera Conspiracy, some of them might have been going a bit but its beter than listening to old dinosaurs like Maiden, Bon Jovi Foreigner. I am 53 and the older I get the more growly and sreamy I like it although Its the riffs and drumming I go for mainly. Mastodon and Slayer are my favourites of newer metal though I will always have a soft spot for Queen with Freddie. Ferddie was quite simply a genius,!

Yes, I love a bit of the modern stuff - drum and bass eg, Chase & Status, Disclosure, Deadmau5 - Alternative dance and rock like Purity Ring, Hermitude, Tame Impala, Japanese Wallpaper, Arctic Monkeys, Flight Facilities - I could go on and on. Also listen to some great modern hip-hop. Totally addicted to bass

At the same time I enjoy the old rock classics as well as 60's psychedelia, soul, 90's dance, acid house, Neil Young, David Bowie and lets not forget Reggae and Dub.....

Well really I am still into a lot of 90s stuff, RAM, Creed and Pearl Jam... but I listen to the Deftones, Foo Fighters, Incubus too I think they are decade 2000 or later but not sure. I haven't heard much from recent rock n roll that tells me to look elsewhere.

I only listen to rock n roll maybe 50% of the time anyway

Honestly...if it has a good beat to it and isn't like a lot of popular music (I do like some Katy Perry, but come on....I don't need to hear "Firework" like 87 gazillion times in a day). Thanks to Sirius I can keep up with the progressive/modern scene.

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Oh golly I must be ancient. When I was a kid tolerated rock. Kids made fun of me so I loved rock. When I got older hated rock, BORING!!! and went country. One of the songs though by Guns and Roses was totally awesome November Rain. The first couple of minutes before the singing and guitar. Now I totally love classical, especially the German music after the mid 1700's. I do love some movie soundtracks, that were made in the 90's especially and the early 2000's. I love church hymns, but hate listening to contemporary Gospel. Which is weird being a Christian. I do agree with the thread author though. Old rock and roll is well old.

I'm good at stealing someone else's thunder.

In my life I have gone to concerts when I lived in different areas. Tickets are way too expensive now. I'd have to travel a big distance too since Idaho seems to be one of the least music loving states.

What a shame...I know how you feel

Nothing wrong with being a brit, but our pop music is stale, I blame the dark lord himself Cowell. It says a lot when a dog won Britain's got talent again and even he used a stunt double cos he didn't like heights?? There's a lot of brilliant new metal albums coming out all the time, mostly by American bands I grant you but the new Darkness album is ace but they will never beat their first album, its a clasic

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If music be the food of love are boybands the indigestion?

I like George Ezra Paloma Faith James Bay Kasabian The Killers. kings of Leon though I love 80s music As it takes me back to my youth