The British Invasion

Throughout history, plenty of British acts have been thought of as the pinnacle of musical greatness. Some of the past greats include the likes of The Beatles, Queen, Elton John, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Spice Girls and, yes, even One Direction … and that just begins to scratch the surface. It has been a number of years, however, since the UK has produced such a top tier group of...

Music Is In Its Re-recording Era (Your Version)

The concept of an artist re-recording their music has been around for decades and usually comes about due to conflicts with record labels. In order for artists to gain control of the master recordings of their past work, they record songs again when they are legally allowed to do so. Some of the earliest recorded examples of this can be seen with the Everly Brothers switching to a larger record...

No Free Samples

Following in the footsteps of fashion, music is now in its 2000s era, making use of prominent songs from the early to mid ‘00s in modern music production. This process is known as sampling — taking an existing song and incorporating it into a new record. “The sample can be anything that you’ve ‘sampled’ from another track; a rhythm, a melody, a beat, vocals or speech, which you then...