unfortunately about half of the people at my school love nickelback/hate breed, and the other half can't get enough of 50 cent. I don't claim to know a lot about music either, but most of the "popular modern" music that people enjoy have retarded names and even worse lyrics, like "Fear's Remembrance" or "Night time and long goodbyes" or whatever the hell these bands are named.
I can't really think of any recent or new music that I actually find appealing, not saying that there isn't any out there. I can think of Pantera, Primus, and Oingo Boingo are maybe the newest stuff I listen too, whenever someone shows me a "cool new song" it ends up being popular for a week then they deny ever liking it. I'll stick with the older stuff, there's plenty of it to keep me entertained for a while.
In the mean time i'll take suggestions of music that is newer and still appealing if anyone knows of some.