Ten years ago, David Bowie predicted the death of copyright – in ten years. Like other 2012 end-times predictions, he was wrong. “The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it,” he said. “I see absolutely no point […]
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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. 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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