I remember when my family bought our electric keyboard. I must have been about ten years old, and I remember thinking that our family was going to be the coolest one on the block. All the different sounds it could make! All the different beats it could produce! I was sure that I’d be producing [...]
When Neil Young wrote the song ‘Hey Hey, My My’ in 1978, he would have had no idea of the implications that one of the lyrics would have on music and society. Spoken in full only in the acoustic version of the song, Young states the infamous citation that still resonates today – ‘it’s better [...]
The act of ‘selling out’ involves a musician/group rejecting their principles and morals to pursue a more lucrative path. This could involve leaving an independent record label in favour of a major label or a change in musical direction in attempt to achieve higher record sales. There have been various examples of so-called selling out [...]
