Minneapolis’s Walker Art Center features Rock the Garden 2004 (June 18). Looks like fun! Featuring David Byrne | Tosca Strings | Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra among others.
Category: Music
Battle of Information & Ideas
Verlyn Klinkenborg nicely summarizes recent news in the recording industry’s battle against file sharing:
But this isn’t just a legal battle, of course. It’s a battle of information and ideas. A new book from Lawrence Lessig called “Free Culture” makes a forceful, cogent defense of many forms of file sharing. And ? perhaps worst of all from the industry’s perspective ? a new academic study prepared by professors at Harvard and the University of North Carolina concludes, “Downloads have an effect on sales which is statistically indistinguishable from zero.” This directly counters recording industry claims that place nearly all the blame for declining CD sales on illegal file sharing.
“innovative radio for independent minds”
Nice to see student radio back on the air…. [91.7FM Madison] [xml feed]
Song of the Day
Annie Lennox’s Into the West from The Lord of the Rings – Return of the King.