I think it's not that 'rock is dead,' ... It's that, maybe like film, it's just marketed that way, if it isn't what they wanna force-feed you.
Even in my punk-rock days, I was always a semi-closeted Springsteen fan.
And the only thing that ever stopped me from rocking was this trifling little thing called 'really not having musical talent.' Fronted a short-lived band or two, anyway.
But if I can rock to this, as of 2007, *you can rock to this:*
"I was trying to find my way home
But all I heard was a drone
Bouncing off a satellite
Into the last lone American night
This is radio nowhere
Is there anybody alive out there
I was spinnin round a dead dial
Just another lost number in a file
Dancing down a dark hole
Just searching for a world with some soul
This is radio nowhere
Is there anybody alive out there."
--Bruce Springteen.
If I can belt that out to the Stars, you can rock to this.