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 February 3, 2012
Imagine you had a time machine that could only take you back in time ten years. The two towers had already fallen ten years ago in the horrifying September 11th attacks. George W. Bush had only been president for about a year. Everyone had the internet already, though it was significantly slower than it is [...]
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by Erik Kain on January 26, 2012
David Thier takes issue with my piracy post, writing that my argument over the nature of most piracy is “nothing but economic apologism. It says that we’re allowed to steal because it doesn’t really matter. Because we didn’t like that song anyway, we just wanted to hear what it was all about. Because it’s all [...]
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by Erik Kain on January 15, 2012
Lost in the discussion of internet censorship, anti-piracy measures, and the politics of the internet is a simple question: does piracy actually cause economic harm? Tim O’Reilly read the White House statement on the SOPA / PIPA legislation and came away with mixed feelings. “I found myself profoundly disturbed by something that seems to me [...]
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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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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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I’ll be blogging about the ‘Golden Age of Music’ a series dedicated to post-Napster-era music and musicians. Elvis Perkins hasn’t come out with anything in a couple of years, but both his albums so far – Ash Wednesday and Elvis Perkins in Dearland – have been fantastic. Ash Wednesday is more of a traditional melodic folk album, [...]
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E.D. Kain is a blogger and freelance writer. Currently he serves as Editor-in-Chief of The League of Ordinary Gentlemen and writes a policy blog at Forbes. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The National Review, The Washington Examiner, and the now-defunct True/Slant.
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