Get ready to plug this in your bookmarks, iCals, sticky notes, and religious shrines, because the ultimate guide to free summer concerts in New York City is here! Seriously, scroll down and don't be stingy - share with your friends. Concerts aren't fun without friends. Just ask the lucky gal above enjoying the magic of friendship and free things at our own free 4Knots Music Festival.

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by hibino

A Tower Records in Japan that probably still exists.

By Dan Moore

This would have surprised me no matter who had turned it up, but there was a special irony in learning that illegal music downloads "aren't hurting the music industry" from a beleaguered print magazine's free-news arm:

Illegal downloads aren't hurting the music industry, new study claims | ti.me/10371Ow (via @timeculture)

— TIME.com (@TIME) March 21, 2013

I am a sucker for newsweeklies, which is why--against all odds--I follow TIME magazine on Twitter. They're my own personal twee affectation: Some people smoke a pipe, or only listen to music on vinyl; I read a hundred-page summary of the news once a week on paper. But something about the headline didn't sit right with me, which is why I wasn't surprised to learn that their tweet is a misreading of both the study and their actual article about the study. In their defense, I probably wouldn't have clicked on "Illegal downloads are hurting the music industry, new study claims."

See also: Does Spotify Mean the End of the iPod and Your Music Collection?

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Author Chris Ruen

Tonight, in the main branch of the New York Public Library, the long-running conversation about artist copyright, piracy in the digital age, changing (and disappearing) artist revenue streams, and illegal downloading continues with two people who've added much to that discourse of late: Talking Heads vocalist and all-around interesting fella David Byrne, who recently penned How Music Works -- a wide-ranging treatise on how music is crafted, distributed, monetized, listened to, and regarded -- and Chris Ruen, the 31-year-old author of the fascinating new book Freeloading: How Our Insatiable Hunger For Free Content Starves Creativity, which, as you can tell by the title, argues that illegal downloading not only hurts the artist's bottom line, but ultimately threatens to choke off the supply of great music that, for many of us, helps make life worth living.

See Also:
- David Byrne and St. Vincent - Williamsburg Park - 9/29/2012
- David Byrne Would Like to Sell You a Bicycle
- David Byrne Is Suing Florida Governor Charlie Crist For A Million Bucks

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