Get your own Free Home PageThe year is 2009. Everything is in shambles in the music industry. All the labels sign are preppy boy acts and no real talent. The mega-corporation grip is beginning to loosen and independent labels are becoming more prevalent. It is sort of a baptism, a fresh new start for music. Acts coming out are showing more talent, but it is masked with money. Gimmicks like light shows and fireworks, staples of the 1970s, have returned.
Electronic music is all the rage and alternative is now referred to as classic or old-school rock, it has almost been forgotten except for a select group who always keep music fresh in their minds and so try be artists, no music’s of pro wrestling.
Was it the major label takeover that ruined music or was it the artist themselves? The answer is both.
Currently people are listening to retro and old-school rap mixed in and sampled over to give it a sound that is new with an old beat. Greensboro continues to support bands on independent labels.
Meanwhile, Nirvana and Sheryl Crow are long forgotten. New acts such as Brainstorm Manifesto and The Kates lead the Billboard charts.
We need to get back to small bars where the acts mingle with the crowd and actually care about the fans. The college bands all sound the same. Where is the diversity we once celebrated? It got lost and was replaced with the almighty dollar. Everything sounds the same and there is little hope for change.
Country music sounds more like the rock of old with harder beats and catchier grooves, but it still shares the distinction that it always did, the twang of the singers and the steel guitars. Little bars are becoming more accepted as opposed to stadiums. The fans want to be able to interact with the artists on the stage.
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