To the people that say there is no good music being made

Gaz Coombes
Ron Gallo
Angel Olsen
Greta Van Fleet
Kevin Morby
Rose City Band
The Sheepdogs
Big Thief
Courtney Barnette
Low Cut Connie
Black Pumas
flipturn
Boygenius
Caroline Rose
The Bones of JR Jones
The Murlocs

2023 was a great music year.

I like a lot of the artists mentioned in this thread, and they do put out "good" music.

What people are missing is "great" music IMO, and I don't think there is a whole lot of that being put out nowadays.

Dirty Honey
Southern River Band
Moon Fever
South of Eden
True Villains

And that’s just a handful of bands specifically in the “new but sounds like classic rock” genre.

I think there may be a lack of a definitive great unique new genre of music, but there is depth of quality being made in many major subgenres of rock n roll right now.

Brothers Comatose - Sugar Please

Brother Comatose- Stuck In The Middle (cover)

I know this type music won't appeal to a lot of you, but this band is legit and really makes some great music.

Here's another video from the singer of the band. Love the guitar at the end !

Ben Morrison - Old Technology

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The War on Drugs
St. Paul & The Broken Bones

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Only two I'm familiar with. The first is more or less a loop of the same song over and over again. The second, a talented mimic.

There's lots of talent out there, there's just very few good songs and even less good albums. I listened to a bit of EJ's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road the other day. Nothing today even comes close and it wasn't necessarily the best of it's time.

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Are you unaware of bands such as:

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I have literally never heard of any of those bands.

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If you can't fine good new music, you're not looking in the right place

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not that long ago, you didn't have to look. It was everywhere.
no searching whatsoever. It just came on the radio.

a new song came out, and it played on the radio. If you liked it, you went buy the album and heard the rest of that band's music.

everything switching to streaming ruined how people discover music.
if you don't already know a band's name, you're likely to never stumble upon them.

and if every time you click on "what's new" it sucks arse, eventually you're going to quit clicking on it and you won't find it when something actually good comes up.

If you like lo-fi/indie I can't recommend David Dean Burkhart's YouTube channel enough. It has nothing but the newest releases, and I've discovered a lot of artists that way over the years. Not every song is my style, but the good thing about this over the radio is the next song is just a click away. Compact Cassette is his Spotify channel. Not updated as frequently as the YouTube, which has new songs every day.

I second whoever rec'd Caroline Rose. She has some great stuff. Some I've been digging a lot recently:

R Missing
HighSchool
PRESSYES
A Beacon School
Butter Bath
Blondshell
Djo

Your list confirms it…

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there is no good music being made

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I have seen no one say that. Saying that the state of current music is shite is not the same as saying there is no good music being made.