Music has taken a lot of forms over the course of its vast history.  From Gregorian chant to modern hip-hop, jazz, rock and classical, music’s evolutionary tree is in many ways more complex than that of any animal.  Fortunately for us listening, playing and composing today though, music has taken its evolutionary course in a fraction of the time, and continues to do so before our very eyes and ears.

These days it seems there as many genres and sub-genres in the musical kingdom as there are genera and species in the animal kingdom.  The question those of us who play an active role in the continuing evolution of music – whether as avid listeners or composers, musicians or critics – now face is, Where does music go from here?  Does the tree continue to extend its many branches independently in all different directions, or will branches intertwine with one another creating entirely new branches (read: sounds) and blur the lines between genres?  50 years from now, will jazz and classical, rock and hip-hop still be distinctly identifiable genres or will they have cross-bred with one another to the point that genre becomes an utterly useless way of describing and talking about music?

Many have opinions on the future of music, but no one knows for sure what it holds.  What is exciting though, is that where music goes from here is entirely up to us.  This site is dedicated to examining the continuing evolution of music.  It is focused on music that embraces the past, without ever taking its eyes off the future; that is new and innovative yet recognizes itself as yet another branch on the tree that is the vast musical canon; and of course, the culture that surrounds, shapes and reshapes music every day.