Well, there are loud noises and loud noises. There are clone bands doing Oasis shit, and frankly the Dave Clark 5 were both more original and more intelligent - but there are (as I said above) many creative young electric bands who don't get a look in because of A&R obsession with urban MoBO. And of course the plethora of tired old punk rehashes who mostly specialise in DoS (Drunk on Stage) - the mould they were trying to break was vaporised 20 years ago (example, the Inbreds).   And the jazz-funkers who still think the key to sounding like Sly Stone is to toke like him (example, Kingskin). There is lots of crap - but there is also lots of good stuff (example, Arch-Enemy, or, if you can find one of their rare live shows, Sons of Alpha Centauri) if you remember the only good line George Michael ever came up with "Listen without Prejudice". I'm currently tipping a band in rehearsal called Datura.

But none of that is folk song, although I have a sneaking feeling that some of Arch-Enemy's stuff could be re-written as neofolk.