Define modern music. Try not to generalize, because someone can just complicate the issue. Yes, commercialized modern music tends to suck (Nickelback clones, Blink 182 clones, etc.) but I know of plenty of bands that are good, and play "modern" music. Granted, they don't get much radio play, or publicity as commercialized music, but they're way better than the people on radios.

Punk suffers from this effect a lot. Good punk bands have gone underground, leaving listeners with crappy pop/emo-punk that isn't worthy of my ears. And no, Blink 182 is not hardcore for anyone that thinks so.

"Modern music" is a very subjective term. I do not feel that one person can define it, and have everyone else agree with them. As for me, "modern music" is pretty much anything after the classical era. There are exceptions though to nmy broad statement of disliking modern music, but that is my personal semantic definition.