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RIP Rock and Roll? Featuring Gruff Rhys live set: win tickets to this Guardian Live event on Thursday 26 March EXPIRED RIP Rock and Roll? Featuring Gruff Rhys live set: win tickets to this Guardian Live event on Thursday 26 March
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From Beatlemania to the battle of the Britpop bands, music once captivated a nation and defined the decades. But fifteen years on since the dawn of a new millennium, the rock and pop landscape is almost unrecognisable. With an industry decimated by downloads and streaming, festivals routinely headlined by pensioners, and social media the new outlet for hero worship, should we lay out a wreath for rock and roll? Noel Gallagher recently said 'it's gone at the minute, but it'll never die because Neil Young said so.'From Beatlemania to the battle of the Britpop bands, music once captivated a nation and defined the decades. But fifteen years on since the dawn of a new millennium, the rock and pop landscape is almost unrecognisable. With an industry decimated by downloads and streaming, festivals routinely headlined by pensioners, and social media the new outlet for hero worship, should we lay out a wreath for rock and roll? Noel Gallagher recently said 'it's gone at the minute, but it'll never die because Neil Young said so.'
But is music really in such ill health? Is there a generation of talented musicians and groups out there, just struggling to be heard over the digital noise of the 21st century?But is music really in such ill health? Is there a generation of talented musicians and groups out there, just struggling to be heard over the digital noise of the 21st century?
We have tickets to give away to a panel discussion with the Guardian's Alexis Petridis, BBC 6 Music's Tom Robinson, singer-songwriter Emmy the Great, Domino Records' John Dyer, and chair Harriet Gibsone. The event, which takes place at London's Hippodrome, will include an intimate acoustic set from Super Furry Animal, Gruff Rhys, author of American Interior. For more information visit american-interior.com.We have tickets to give away to a panel discussion with the Guardian's Alexis Petridis, BBC 6 Music's Tom Robinson, singer-songwriter Emmy the Great, Domino Records' John Dyer, and chair Harriet Gibsone. The event, which takes place at London's Hippodrome, will include an intimate acoustic set from Super Furry Animal, Gruff Rhys, author of American Interior. For more information visit american-interior.com.
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