well when I notice how much rock and roll from the 60s/70s/80s/90s that my 15-yr old daughter listens to I know for certain that rock and roll is very much alive! The music lives on way beyond the people...…..and the newer stuff is good too....not all of it but all music has never all been good. There has always been crappy music. Listen to Courtney Barnett and tell me rock is dead. There are so many others.