
It's no secret that the music industry has changed significantly in the last ten years. There are so many contributing factors – piracy, blogs and myspace being the biggest instruments of change – but the end result is simple. Music lacks icons . No longer do talented musicians tower above us, living the lives we only dream of. As musicians trade emails with overzealous bloggers, any sense of mystique is removed and we all realize that most musicians are just awkward people and more like us than we'd like to admit. It's hard to imagine a rock [...]