Terribly Poetic

Eigenharp Alpha, the future of music

RELEVANT Magazine – Why Music Should Be Free

“By now, we can admit that most observers would be lying to themselves if they thought that downloading music for free is ever going to go away. This isn’t to say that the debate is over or that artists are wrong to want money anytime someone gets their grubby little hands on their music. It is just to say that the future of music—in fact, the future of most everything in the cultural world—is going to be FREE. Yes, free.”

Just read this article over at Relevant Magazine. Does a great job of summing up the great debate about file sharing and as it relates to music. However, most of the same principles apply to things like TV, Movies, Books, etc. Very insightful and worth a read.

Announced this week the Barenaked Ladies and singer, Steven Page will be parting. For those that don’t know. I am a huge BNL fan. I have seen them 3 times in concert and loved each one of them. These guys have more talent than so many of today’s “pop” stars. Thankfully, the rest of BNL, we stay together and are going back into the studio in April. I am very excited to see what they churn out, without Steven. Steven is launching his own solo career, which I’m slighty leary of. While he is a great lead to BNL, I’m not sure he has the whole package to go it alone. Time will tell I guess.
I am alittle sadden to see them parting ways, but I trust that the remaining members, Jim Creeggan, Kevin Hearn, Ed Robertson, and Tyler Stewart will not disappoint me, as they are all very talented musicians. I know I will be seeing them in concert next time they are in Saskatoon.