Last year, KISS front man Gene Simmons declared rock was “finally dead,” snuffed out by file sharing sites that devalued music to the point where no one wants to pay for it any more. As a result, rock musicians are now giving up on their dreams — or working behind the scenes to prop up the next Top 40 hit. “The craft is gone, and that is what technology, in part, has brought us,” he told Esquire magazine.
While there’s certainly a lot of truth....