Is rock music dead?

Who needs rock when you have Sam Smith?

Shut up Franck.

As Neil Young once sang ''Hey hey, my might! Rock and roll will never diieeeeee''

To reference the very same song, it's not burning out, it is fading away.

No-one listens to the radio anymore; what are we, in the early 2000's?

Rock is still very much alive

If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? If only the most evangelical fans still pay attention, is rock music really alive?

It's not just that it isn't played on the radio any more, I don't meet any young people who listen to it these days and while I've never been much of a clubber, it seems like the rock/indie club scene is dying.

Since you're so certain it is still alive, what great new acts have come the last few years? Which are the best albums from recent years?

Are you Swedish or Danish? If Swedish, didn't Dungen release something this year? If Danish, I'm sorry that Junior Senior dominates your airwaves, Bobber has shared his grievances with me many a time.

Meanwhile, "mainstream" rock is doing fine I think; I'd look to acts like Hozier, Muse, Fall Out Boy, Imagine Dragons – their trade is still on the radio, not that I'd listen to them, of course (Hozier is fine).

Yeah, it's true, the early 00's wave of standard-serve rock music on radio has since plummeted pretty hard. I do miss the days that the Strokes and Franz Ferdinand were playing. Then again, that too was kind of a phase; What were you guys listening to before that? Michael Learns to Rock? Which songs defined the 90's? I'd say "Nothing Compares 2 U", "Truly Madly Deeply", hell, even "Gangsta's Paradise": Two ballads and a hip-hop song. Don't let your rock-tinted lenses trick you; Foo Fighters, Oasis and Blur aside, rock was already being ushered underground, subterranean below the pop music stratosphere. Arctic Monkeys, Blink 182 and Muse are literally blips in a sea of messy four-to-the-floor synthpop.

Where did "rock" go, then? I'd argue it's still on the radio, in fact – just in different forms. Kanye West's Graduation was as rock as rap albums go, structure-wise, rhythm-wise: It just seems built for that all-American big-stadium stage sound, like many classic rock records do. And where would 5 Seconds of Summer be without Green Day? If rock wasn't taken to be just guitar and drums, but instead the elements they essentially are: rhythm, lead, bass and beats, you'll see rock still pervades the radio, just in different forms.

Otherwise, my favourite rock (as in, rock rock) album of the year hit No. 8 on the US Billboard 200. I'm pretty excited that they're also doing a concert all the way in Singapore (where I stay). My friends are too, we're all stoked; maybe you just need to talk to other people about it.