If you are sitting in a cafe and someone starts playing piano, it takes roughly 150 milliseconds for your brain to isolate and identify the sound and decide whether to focus on it or not.

Mark Knopfler composed this song in a beautiful way. There are no beats accompanying the lyrics, just piano, guitars and saxophone.

Kendrick Lamar made history when he won the Pulitzer prize for music. Lamar is one of the most popular hip-hop artists today. Being a die hard classic rock fan, it pains me to admit this but rock is passé. Hip-hop and R&B are the most popular musical genres in the US today. This is the…