Right. If you don't think there's innovative music, you're just looking in the wrong place. I hear new bands every month that sounds unlike anything I've ever heard.
I highly reccomend this blog for a lot of new (and old) bands unlike anything I've ever heard before:
http://killedincars.blogspot.com/
...for example, I didn't realize to live and shave in la's "wigmaker in 18th century..." was released in 2002. I thought it was older. See, right there, that album is EXTREMELY innovative.. holy shit.