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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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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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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