Do you really hate new music?

I fucking love new music, anyone who says that modern music is rubbish doesn't have a leg to stand on because it's all around you, in mainstream music but mostly in the underground scene, but let's not forget that a lot of older bands who have become influential weren't well received at the time and were underground back then.

Also a lot of music in certain scenes are influenced by the past from post punk revival like the national and Interpol to new wave influenced bands like LCD soundsystem and la roux,

Yeah, you have shitty hip hop on The radio, people rapping about fake criminal personas but you have Kendrick's, rapping about social issues and Saul William's rapping about the human condition
I'll give 5 albums by 5 different bands

To pimp a butterfly-Kendrick lamar

Soul and jazz inspired hip hop, inspiring without being preachy, tackling issues of race and discrimination without being incendiary while taking a look at both sides

Benji- sun kil moon

Slow, lathergic and personal indie folk, it's probably the most personal and brutally honest album I've ever heard, sad but strangely uplifting in it's honesty

The money store-death grips

Experimental, glitchy, confrontational, industrial and abrasive, you either love it or you hate it, the pure imagination, strange instrumentals and aggression keeps me hooked because it manages to be aggressive yet catchy

The suburbs- arcade fire

Baroque indie rock influenced by people like Neil young and Bruce Springsteen but it manages to sound unique and modern not just a throwback, a modern masterpiece from start to finish

Allelujah! Don't bend ascemd- Godspeed you! Black emperor

Dramatic and atmospheric post rock, intricate instrumentals and incredible atmosphere, one of the only instrumental bands that manage to keep my attention

"Party Cannon".

Only five? Damn, you make this difficult...

CHON - Woohoo! (2014)

Chevelle - La Gargola (2014)

Volbeat - Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies (2013)

Trivium - Vengeance Falls (2013)

Russian Circles - Memorial (2013)

Well, those were the first five in my music library. Hope somebody can appreciate them :)

I'm not really a fan of most modern day mainstream music. Makes me sound like a hipster. I switch to any music channel on TV and all I get is "I love you, baby!" music or "Look how hot I am!" music.

Not all modern music is bad, a lot of it is good.

and my brothers back at home with his beatles and his stones we never got it off on that revolution stuff
what a drag too many snags

now i drunk a lot of wine and im feelin fine
gotta race some cat to bed
oh is there concrete all around or is it in my head

Florence and the Machine
Of monsters and men
Hozier
Fitz and the Tantrums
Megan Trainor! Hehe

Some others you wanna look at are circa survive, Alexisonfire/city and colour, and minus the bear. All three have incredible variety in their music.

PVRIS (Paris), our last night, miss fortune. All new bands formed and signed within the last five years. Paris might be 6 years old. Paris is synth heavy pop-rock with a female front, lynn gunn has quite the set of pipes on her, she'd give hayley Williams a run for her money any damn day. Our last night has been around a bit longer, the just celebrated their tenth anniversary, but they're like THE quickest rising band right now. They are a rock band that has some metalcore influences. Miss fortune is only a year old however. Dropping a full length EP on signing to Sumerian records. A band born of social media, frontman Mikey sawyer looked long and far for his horsemen. I've never seen a group of more talented young men. This band is a bit heavier than the fist two. Down tuned With some killer guitar solos.

I like modest mouse's new album, strangers to ourselves.
I like war on drugs "lost in the dream"
I like peter bibby's "butcher, hairstylist, musician"

They're all albums from the last year that I like, I chose them because they're the most recent of the albums I have loved.

Favorite artists:
Porter Robinson
Foster the people
Years & Years

Favorite artists that I like:
Foster The People
Porter Robinson
Majid Jordan
Years & Years
CHVRCHES
Panama
Sohn
Nero
Kid Cudi

Challenge? Past 5 years? Surely this is sneaky way to get new music isn't it? *squints at OP* a lot of modern music is obviously still pretty good. either way, here are a few recent songs that I've penetrated repeatedly into my ears

do or die - 3stm
bloody mary - silversun pickups
your body is a weapon - the wombats
bullet - franz ferdinand <<< if you can learn to sing along to this one, we'll b gr8 m8s 4lyfe
does someone have your baby now - mazzy star
home - jack johnson
why try to change me now - fiona apple
R U MINE? - AM
handshake - 2dcc
meant to be - parachute
grow up - paramore
get around this - safetysuit

okay I'll stop there

Metallica _ Enter Sandman
Breaking Benjamin _ Angels Fall
30 Seconds To Mars _ Conquistador

Man I dont blame you. After the 2000 everything went to shit in the media department.

Ummmmm there's a big difference between "new music" and "new crap they play on the radio". You just have to know where to look.

The Living Tombstone
Ken Ashcorp
Wooden Toaster
DJ Alex S.
General Mumble
Chris Christodoulou
DM Dorkuro
Equilibrium
Of Monsters and Men
Gregson Williams
John Dreamer
Killer Tracks
Two Steps From Hell
Omni(pony)
Nero
Pendulum
Storm Wolf
Rise Against
pimp code!
The Distillers
TuXe
Tomas Danko

The list goes on and on.

My diagnoses is tone deafness. I prescribe The Rolling Stones.

The Trashmen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Gc4QTqslN4

Chistina Perry - Human
Bruno Mars - When I was Your Man
All of me - John Legend

I generally don't like today's music though as you mentioned that you've heard many people say OP

Depends on the genre.

I love old-school rock - believe me, it's 90% of what I listen to, but all is not lost. I like Fun., Lana Del Rey and Muse.

Modern music doesnt exactly suck but it doesnt realy do anything for you as well compared to old tracks.
I listen to rock mostly and the best hits i know were made in the mid 90's to around 2008/2009 thereabouts.A good e.g is the hit single by joan osbourne 'What if God was one of us' ....no matter how many times i hear that song it still 'feels' the same way.
I'd say the same is true for other genres of music.
House is the only modern music i can say isn't that bad.

I will post more and links after work but:

Toro y moi
Fathers john and misty
Modest mouse
Grizzly bear
Das racist
Foxygen
Dr. Dog
Okkervill river
Arctic monkey
Yeasayer
M.I.A.
White rabbit
The wombats
Oberhofer
Santigold
Rival suns (or sons)
Just off the top of my head

I like songs by Wolfmother.

1. White Unicorn
2. Dimension
3. Love Train

Also, the Arctic Monkeys. Pretty much the entire album, Whatever People Say I am, That's What I'm Not.