I am a *younger* person 29 and a few days. I think Nickleback sucks, really bad. Generic, faux rock for the masses can work for me, but it has to at least make me tap my toes or something. I don't see their music as 'good', just below average. When I try to think of this genre it is really hard to pin down a band that doesn't suck overall (Pearl Jam, Trapt, Creed, etc.).

I also kind of follow what B-run is saying, but there are relatively un-known bands out there that are really pretty interesting to listen to, they just will never cross over to the mainstream because the sound does not fit the market. I have been on a bunch of different music kicks, and found out there are lots of bands out there only heard by small minorities of folks.

Lately, I've been into som 70's California Psychedelic type music, really digging this group 'The Shocking Blue', Send me a Postcard . They apparently had a popular song called 'venus' but that 'Send me a Postcard' is better, really energetic. I got into them through Pandora.com searching Jefferson Airplane.