When people complain about the quality of “music these days” they are almost always complaining about the most popular stuff that’s being endlessly promoted, which, yes, is mostly garbage. But the sheer quantity and variety of non-top-40 misic available today is mind boggling. I thought as I got older my musical tastes would calcify like my dad’s and his dad’s, remaining stuck in one decade, but the opposite has happened. I’m over 40 and am listening to more new (and new to me) music than at any time in my life. It’s just not the endless barrage of Drake and Taylor Swift.