Our Culture Mag - The Top 10 Rock Albums of the Decade (2010s)

"When Billboard released its Top 10 Rock Songs of the Decade list, it felt like a depressing confirmation of a long-prevailing sentiment in popular discourse — that rock music was, in fact, dead. The saddest part was that the list, which featured not one, not two, but three Imagine Dragons songs, was probably an accurate indication of the kind of rock music that dominated the mainstream in the 10s: uninspiring, inoffensive, barely rock, and barely any of it – a testament to the fading relevance of the genre.
But that would be unfair to the countless legitimately great rock albums that were released during the past decade. If the 2000s were the golden age of indie rock, much of that sound echoed into the first half of the 2010s, sometimes in its most elegant and mature form. On the other end, you had bands both old and new revisiting rock n' roll's classic sounds, revolutionary spirit, and raw energy while some of its greatest pioneers came out with the best material of their careers".