Good riddance.

Fuck all music! I'm tearing my ears off right now!

Fuck everybody else and their music! I'm tearing their ears off next!

HAHAHAHA! FUCK THE SILENCE!!!!! GAAAAAAAAAW!

Only slightly interesting.

Jeepers. Rock is dead, you say? People have been lining up to dance on the casket of rock & roll from day one.

How does an idiom "die"? People die, bands fall apart/blow up, but a genre just is. I suppose we could say that it dies when new work is no longer being created in that style. I think it would be safe to say that under that definition the madrigal is dead, but I couldn't guarantee it.

It is true that rock & roll no longer enjoys cultural hegemony. So what? By that light, country & western was stillborn.

If the article were just about the soul-death of the Rolling Stones, the author might be onto something. He'd be thirty-some years late, of course... ethically they shit the bed at Altamont, creatively sometime around It's Only Rock & Roll. It's a shame and a sin, but to tie the health of an entire genre to one band is laughable. And look at all the venal shit that's been done over the years by hip hop artists. You're not gonna call that dead too, are ya?

There has been corporate rock, for good or ill (that's an arguement for another day) since the 70s. There have been, for lack of a better term, underground bands for just as long. As long as there is electricity and guitars to plug in, there will be disaffected young people who will plug in and turn it up to 11. Maybe not in the numbers there once were, but it's gonna happen. Rock may smell bad, it may pass out in the corner, nod off with a cigarette burning in ti's hand. It may even need a full-on blood change everynow and again. I won't go so far as to say that it will never die, but it's not dead yet. Come to Seattle and let me show you around if you doubt me.

I HOPE EVERYONE HAS SEEN THIS!