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Posted in music on October 4, 2006

Pop Montreal, David Byrne, & The Future of Music

POP MONTREAL IS UNDERWAY
"Byrne will be at McGill University on Thursday to talk music-business issues as part of The Future of Music Policy Summit, produced with the Pop Montreal festival. Titled Record Companies: Who Needs Them?, Byrne's presentation will examine such topics as how the fall of recording and distribution costs have tilted the economics of the industry in the artist's favour." [Canada.com]

AN INTERVIEW WITH DAVID BYRNE
"...Even if they put themselves on the Web site – MySpace, or whatever – that’s only great, I think, if you ... you have to put on either a good video or .... I mean the Arctic Monkeys were out there touring. People forget that it wasn’t just their MySpace page that got them out there. They were out there touring incessantly. And I guess they were good..." [David Byrne to the Gazette]

Previously
David Byrne bringing "Freak Folk" to Carnegie Hall
David Byrne duets with Sufjan Stevens
Pop Montreal is October 4-8, 2006

Posted on October 4, 2006 9:58 AM

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