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Sam Phillips: Breaking the Music Industry Mold

The music industry today is overridden with mediocre artists pumping out clichéd, meaningless music that sells records but fails to do what all good music should, at the end of the day, do: touch people’s lives and help them connect with each other and their individual realities. I, personally, have had no personal, deeper experience […]

Old Genre, New Facade

Anyone with a keen eye on the music industry will know that there are some genres that are doomed to extinction and others that are only going to be truly appreciated by people at the periphery. Classical music is one of these genres. Although it was all the rage in the centuries of old, it […]

My Problem With Taylor Swift

I admit: I am not a staunch Taylor Swift fan. To be frank, I have very little respect for her music in general. Numbers, however, are numbers and Taylor Swift swept 2010 like a tornado. An article I read today stated that her album ‘Speak Now’ sold more than 4.4 million albums and her songs […]

Don Kirshner: One in a Million

They don’t make music executives like they used to. The music executives of old had an ear for music. They were often songwriters themselves. And they also had the knack of recognizing talent and many a music career owe it to the keen ears and eyes of dedicated music executives. Don Kirshner was one of […]

Chroniclers of our Age

Some of the most colorful, spirited and controversial figures in music history were active during the 1960s and most of them hail from the United States. The 60s was a decade of social unrest. The baby boomer generation had entered their 20s and an unpopular war was raging halfway across the world. Young men and […]