Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIn 1999, the nominees for the Best Rock Album Grammy Award were John Fogerty, Garbage, Hole, Dave Matthews Band and the winner, Sheryl Crow.
In 2009, it was Kid Rock, Kings of Leon, Metallica, the Raconteurs and the winner, Coldplay.In 2019, the nominees were Bring Me the Horizon, the Cranberries, I Prevail, Rival Sons and the winner (for the second time in four years), Cage the Elephant.With no disrespect to those artists, traditional rock music has fallen on hard times.Arguably, the last galvanizing artist to arise in that style was the White Stripes, 20 years ago — or even Nirvana, a decade before that.
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