There isn't one modern rock band that even comes close to Radiohead, Nirvana, PJ etc..
No artist that comes close to MJ
No new Bob Dylan, no new Jeff Buckley etc...
Funny, almost your entire list of artists (except MJ) are to me dull as dishwater. Never clicked with me at all.
There's nothing more foolhardy than making pronouncements on how current music is dross. It's been the road to embarrassment for countless critics. Reminds me of ABBA - reading some of the original scathing too-cool-for-ABBA critiques, boy did they utterly miss what was right beneath their noses (and missed why ABBA endured so long and with so much influence).
I admit though, to have hit that wall not long ago. I've kept pretty current and ear-to-the-ground to the extent I've often been the one to introduce my boys (19/23) to interesting contemporary music. So I tried to put off the Old Man Yelling At Cloud as long as I could.
But they finally got me. They beat me down. Did it mostly with the new hip hop/Rap music, my eldest son being a huge fan. I can't help but be utterly gobsmacked that this...THIS!!...is the state of so much popular music. I have a crazy eclectic range of taste and certainly listen to some indefensibly weird stuff. But the, to use a charitable word, "minimalism" of rap music in what it seems to require from the artist drops my jaw.
There has been this race to the bottom of "cool" where the more aloof you can sound, the more cred you have. So now you have guys literally mumbling in to a microphone, over the same-damned-trap-beat, with the occasional triggered sound or two dropping in and out of the song.
And then there is the "singing" that some rappers half heartedly break in to, which would make even the most sauced street wino croaking tunes wince in embarrassment.
There's my granpa moment. But I won't make some objective pronouncement about it's worthlessness or compared to the music I grew up with. It's simply that I hit a wall, for the most part, where I can barely listen to much popular music at this point. (Though in fact I can appreciate some rap, even some challenging rap).