Those bands are out there, but you won’t see them in the mainstream right now. Check out the Devil Makes Three—sounds like they could be up your alley.

tells hard stories about real life.

Don't forget the leftist country music tradition with songs about class warfare.

Check out the Wood Brothers, Watchtower, Lost Dog Street Band. There's country music that isn't hyper produced Pepsi commercials. Americana/ Alt Country is what to search for.

hick ass pseudo-nationalistic redneck caricature bullshit

You mean this stuff

Hayes Carll

Joshua Ray Walker

Jason Isbell

Sturgill Simpson

Tyler Childers

Maren Morris

Probably a hundred more, pretty popular but no radio play because commercial radio is nonsense and mostly commercials. But if you put the above into a streaming playlist, you will find the good country music of today.

Recently caught “grandson” live. Bob Vylan was supposed to be their touring partner but then… facism. They’re not traditional punk in their sound but carry a lot of those ethos lyrically. The more recent stuff is like modern rage against the machine (and the show felt like those did way back)

Anyways, it was really inspiring to see a new generation embracing those ideas and sharing in them communally.

Punk was never mainstream and is still very much around.

Folk Punk is where it’s at right now. There’s a band named “Doom Scroll” that is quite excellent.

Why hello fellow forty-something.

Me too!

I also think music is in a cultural bloom or boom. There is just so much new music, every day, it's crazy.

Get outta here with your respect and tolerance, sanity guy.

And goldfingers music: "Here I ammm, doin everything thing I cann, pretending I'm a super maaaann!"

There's plenty of 4th wave going on right now. Plus RBF ain't coning back, Aaron got weird. I'm pretty sure he went the way of Dicky Barrett.

That would be so excellent! I became a fan of the blues going out to clubs: the rock bands would crank volume to painful levels and mumble the lyrics, but I could actually hear the blues, listen to the blues, grow to like the blues

There's some great modern jazz coming out of Japan these days. Check out the likes of:

• Hiromi Uehara (and the Trio Project)
• Takuya Kuroda
• Sinsuke Fujieda Group

Also, UK too, check out the Ezra Collective.

Plenty of modern jazz out there, it's just not mainstream anymore.

Edit - forgot about Ibrahim Maalouf. Dude is incredible on the trumpet. Between him and Kuroda, trumpet jazz is alive and well.

Jazz never left.

Where's my 4th wave of ska??

I would love a new wave of happy hardcore.

One new artist I like who produces with this type of sound is YDG