So many genres!!!
Phew! Good piece, and very knowlegeable. But so many genres! And so many arguments we could all have about where each act crossed the genre boundary. My favourite story of crossing borders is the one about David Gray (welsh chappie with a guitar who writes great songs and then sings them whilst waggling his head a lot). When he started out he was classified by the mainstream stores and media as 'Folk/Acoustic'. As things picked up for the welshman, he was then moved into 'Alternative/Indie'. As soon as success started to happen, his records were moved into the 'Pop' section. And finally he ended up in the 'Charts' section.
Genres are dead. Long live genre.
Of course at indie label MVine we don't bother with genres at all. You can just listen and decide if you like it.
Cheers
Kerry
MVine.com
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