Best American music of the last 25 years?

     what?     .No Billie Eilish?

A little outside of the time frame but they’re still making music- pixies and early Frank black. Band of horses, beach house, interpol, Luna, metric, Pete yorn, the strokes, QOTSA. 

For shame...nobody mentioned The Turnpike Troubadours?  Good foot stomping music and lyric imagery up there with Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell and Stevie Wonder.  I mean, Gotdamn;

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"Empty As A Drum"
 

Well two old red-nosed whiskey drunks were talkin politics
It was time to hit the bricks, it was time for me to go
And I was right there on the verge of pullin' out my hair
Actin as though I could not care less and hopin' she would show

Well my bags are packed and ready, I was feelin' like a wreck
Some clothes and personal effects, I left everything I own
And the last I laid eyes on her, we were in a hotel hall
Holdin hands like paper dolls, aw but here I sit alone

[Chorus:]
Well I'm gonna give it one more minute, give me one more round of rum
Well I'm as empty as a drum, I'm as empty as a drum
Could you spare a cigarette, I hate to be a bum
But here's to hopin' she'll still come, I'm too old to be this dumb, well I'm too old to be this dumb

Well I tell you that bartender, she's a site to see
Aw you'd be envious of me, least you would if she was here
And the kid there in the corner has been spoilin' for a fight
And it feels like that of night, aw buddy instead pour me a beer

[Chorus]

When you darkened up the doorway, I stood up from the bar
Well I said hey now here you are, damn it darlin how are you and you kissed me
Said I can't say that I'm great oh lord I hate it that I am late
Oh what a mess we got into

Many great artists listed above. I’m a fan of Americana - Folk - singer-songwriter, but also some of the newer bands that don’t quite fit into a genre - which is the music I love best.

My Morning Jacket

Bon Iver (Justin Vernon)

Fleet Foxes

The National

Bright Eyes

Big Red Machine

Modest Mouse

Yola

Okkervil River, Sonvolt, This is the Kit, The Weather Station, River Whyless, The Low Anthem, Monsters of Folk and of course Wilco.

Those who say there’s no good music in the last 25 years are either stuck in the safe past or just not listening hard enough. Good music doesn’t always fall in your lap. You have to seek it out amongst the multitudes of crap - but it’s there. The kids are alright.

I know I have missed a lot of Pop and Rock bands over the past 25 years, so I know there are more.

Greg Porter

Charles Lloyd

Wilco

Bad Plus

Jack White

Nels Cline

John Zorn

Jason Isbell / Drive by Truckers

Julian Lage

Mattlew Shipp

Rene Marie

Rosanne Cash

Chick Corea

Beach House

Bob Dylan

Aaron Brooks

Bill Frisell

John Hiatt

William Parker !