Nothing against these particular artists, but the implicit dismissive judgment on today's music implied by that article is ridiculous. There are many many artists making great music today, in many areas of rock/pop/dance/hip-hop/whatever, and the idea that someone would make a list of 10 across the entire pop/rock genre and not call it something like "the 10 greatest" but actually "10 great acts", as if there were only about 20 or 30 but this guy wanted to highlight 10 -- that idea is quite light-years away from the way I judge today's music scene. Although I do acknowledge that in the rock genre the more quality interesting and/or innovative stuff that's out there today is almost never getting played on the radio (less true with dance-pop, but definitely true with rock these days), it is out there, and quite often it even sells a bunch of records (e.g., Flaming Lips, Radiohead, The Strokes).