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More like the day this author’s preference for how rock should sound died. There are plenty of good rock bands that followed and that are still coming out.

• mojuba 7y ago
  I think what the author meant to say was to blame copyright (he literally mentions it in the first sentence) and commercialization of the music industry. Something similar happened in the movie industry too. I don't think the divide between commercial and independent has ever been so prominent and deep as it has become in the past few decades, again, both in music and cinema. Rock music is an indie phenomenon. That said though, I'm not sure if it died its natural death like jazz music did, or it was the result of said commercialization. Or maybe both. Yes there's still indie rock music alive and marginally thriving, but can an indie rock musician beat your typical commercial pop star in terms of fame and popularity? No chance. Marketing money beats everything and everyone. It destroys genres and whole cultures. A lot of the times underground music is better and more interesting than what the industry will try to sell you and yet it remains underground with relatively little exposure. That's the change that happened sometime in the late 1970s and into the 1980s.
  • asplake 7y ago
    But jazz isn’t dead either...
    • mojuba 7y ago
      As much as I love jazz music, it's not evolving anymore. So it's dead in pretty much the same way as baroque music is. It's beautiful, it's great but it's not evolving, no new big names like J.S.Bach or Miles Davis. That's a typical sign of no life in the genre.