Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler just released his first country single

[DaneMcCloud]

Originally Posted by RollChiefsRoll

Maybe I'm playing semantics here, but "lost its appeal" =/= "dead."

Check out the Billboard charts or Soundscan sales. New rock bands aren't selling millions of units or even hundreds of thousands of units, it's more like low five figures.

Check out touring receipts. New rock bands aren't playing stadiums or arenas, they're playing little clubs, if it all.

Millennials don't care about rock music. They're into to EDM, Indie/Folk and singer/songwriters like Ed Sheeran.

Mainstream rock is dead.

[ChiefsCountry]

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

Check out the Billboard charts or Soundscan sales. New rock bands aren't selling millions of units or even hundreds of thousands of units, it's more like low five figures.

Check out touring receipts. New rock bands aren't playing stadiums or arenas, they're playing little clubs, if it all.

Millennials don't care about rock music. They're into to EDM, Indie/Folk and singer/songwriters like Ed Sheeran.

Mainstream rock is dead.

Radio stations as well. Mainstream rock stations are being shut down and replaced all across the board.

[Saccopoo]

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

Check out the Billboard charts or Soundscan sales. New rock bands aren't selling millions of units or even hundreds of thousands of units, it's more like low five figures.

Check out touring receipts. New rock bands aren't playing stadiums or arenas, they're playing little clubs, if it all.

Millennials don't care about rock music. They're into to EDM, Indie/Folk and singer/songwriters like Ed Sheeran.

Mainstream rock is dead.

Corporate rock is relatively dead because it sucks.

Indie/Folk is rock. And it's really ****ing good right now. Amazing music being put out in that genre.

Times change, flavors change. Anyone still listening to the Andrew Sisters or Glenn Miller?

I think listeners have become increasingly more adept at identifying quality music versus stuff that the corporations have shoved at them for decades through their mass owned radio networks.

Bandcamp is utterly fantastic for finding some amazingly good music that you'd never had a chance of listening to on the corporate radio stations as are the music services such as Spotify, Rhapsody, Pandora, etc.

[DaneMcCloud]

Originally Posted by Saccopoo

Corporate rock is relatively dead because it sucks.

Indie/Folk is rock. And it's really ****ing good right now. Amazing music being put out in that genre.

Times change, flavors change. Anyone still listening to the Andrew Sisters or Glenn Miller?

I think listeners have become increasingly more adept at identifying quality music versus stuff that the corporations have shoved at them for decades through their mass owned radio networks.

Bandcamp is utterly fantastic for finding some amazingly good music that you'd never had a chance of listening to on the corporate radio stations as are the music services such as Spotify, Rhapsody, Pandora, etc.

Radio is about advertising. Stations want to appeal to audiences that purchase items being advertised and do their best to appeal to people that will spend money on said products.

Radio has nothing to do with music or album sales or singles.