There’s still plenty of new rock music though. Olivia Rodrigo is selling out stadiums, Chappel Roan isn’t far behind and The Crane Wives are still knocking out incredible album after album.

"You don't need to have a great voice or vocal training to spit bars worth listening to."

No, you also need something to say, worth listening to, which is increasingly missing to me with modern rap.

And a good artist would be a good poet at the same time. Able to play with words and rhytm to get across his message.

So yes, rap might be easier to get started with - even before the time of smartphones, you just made the beat with your mouth.

But it is still not easy to make a good rap song.

The "rock is dead" take will never cease to confuse me. As if I can't go out and find several venues to listen to live rock music on any given night in $major_city...

What are some prominent new rock artists?

Would, to generalize, heavy metal be considered part of rock genre? If the answer is "yes", then oh boy, does it have quite a stream of new bands...

I don't think so, in my mind heavy metal is pretty distinct. I do agree that that's not dead.

Dirty Honey, The Black Tones, Greta Van Fleet.

It's easy to find more with modern music streaming services.

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard are both popular and novel.

Love these dudes

The 1975 are huge, and The Dare are getting huge.

And there’s a thriving middle class of rock artists: Alvvays, Future Islands, Fontaines DC, MJ Lenderman, Yves Tumor, Alex G all play large if not stadium-sized venues.

You can find classical orchestras everywhere too, but the earshare of classical music isn't much in the non-musician population (and even that is probably artificially propped up by forced exposure in schools).