by Erik Kain on February 9, 2012
The Civil Wars talk about music and piracy in the age of the internet and social media. The Civil Wars have lots of videos up on YouTube, many of them nicely shot amateur stuff in color and black-and-white. John Paul White and Joy Williams have a captivating look about them as they stare into one another’s eyes, [...]
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by Erik Kain on November 14, 2011
Because no tech conference is complete without a performance from a music legend, Lyle Lovett performed last night at Techonomy here at the Ritz-Carlton in Tucson. The video above is an interview between Lovett and Elevation Partners’ Roger McNamee. It touches on some of the questions surrounding the way technology has revolutionized the music industry. While [...]
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by Erik Kain on October 6, 2011
I’ll be blogging about the ‘Golden Age of Music’ a series dedicated to post-Napster-era music and musicians. This time I’ll be talking about The Avett Brothers, pictured below. The Avett Brothers are far and away the best thing that’s happened to music (or at least to the music I listen to) in years. Prolific, energetic, and astonishingly [...]
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