I'm sure each generation of musicians feels they've lived through a time of tremendous change, but the shifts I've witnessed in my relatively short music career-- from morphing formats to dissolving business models-- do seem extraordinary. The first album I made was originally released on LP only, in 1988-- and my next will likely only be pressed on LP again.

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The only non-musicians populating the ten most followed Twitter accounts are President Barack Obama and reality megastar Kim Kardashian. And not surprisingly, the top five trends of 2011 were all music related, according to Twitter's head of music industry relations Tatiana Simonian.