Our Lady Peace Say Industry Needs A Philosophical Shift

While showcasing their music at one of Canada's biggest music festivals, Our Lady Peace didn't refrain from speaking their mind.

According to Blare Magazine, when the band was asked about how they will distribute their music, they stated they have to be flexible in a time where people rarely pay for it.

"People want to hear a definite radio hit right now or they’re not gonna put money on it," said bassist Duncan Coutts. "The danger is there needs to be a philosophical shift. I don’t know what it is, but there needs to be that shift of thought that music needs to be paid for and protected or people are going to have to make music between flipping burgers or being a lawyer or whatever it is you do."

Coutts went on to relate the issue with the ideas created by fellow bands such as Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead, saying artists will have to deal with new models.

"Nine Inch Nails is on the forefront, but they’re in an enviable position," explained Coutts. "So is Radiohead. Their fan base is so huge now. They couldn’t have done that with Pablo Honey."

With the success of Virgin Festival in Toronto, Canada, last weekend, the members of Our Lady Peace hope to continue touring and promoting their latest record, Burn Burn. The band stated that future albums are definitely a possibility and will hopefully be released in less than four years time.

Comments

[shoebox_of_lies]

I'm a pretty big OLP fan, not so much their new stuff, but after seeing them last weekend in Sudbury...well, they really went downhill...

[JimBonJovi]

Without Mike Turner, they aren't any good.

[JPizzle23]

I enjoyed the Sudbury show.. I like how they played more old stuff than new stuff.

[Santeria420]

All the industry needs to do is die. They used recording technology to steal folk music from the people and sold it back to us diluted. Its the artists and audiences that need a philosophical shift. Here we are at the dawn of a new age in popular music and everyone is still thinking in terms of the old model. Let the industry die, and let young musicians like us carve our own niche in the economy.

[Axl_Tyler]

Our Lady Peace were, and still are, awesome. Even though Burn Burn has a very different sound, in my opinion to their older stuff, it's still a great album if you actually give it a few plays. I just wish they'd come to Australia for once. Although I think I could be waiting a long, long time givern how hard it was for me to get Burn Burn here.

[Anjohl]

OLP had one great album, and one medicore one...In Repair, and Naveed, respectively.

[the99thaisle]

IMO, Our Lady Peace have a large enough following (at least in Canada) to have a shot at success if they try a NiN/Radiohead pay-whatever-you-want scheme for new material. I don't think it's destined for the record books, but it might not fail completely.

OLP are still my favorite band after all these years. To the teary-eyed Mike Turner faction, open your mind for a moment and you'll find that Steve Mazur is a more skilled and more emotionally-invested guitar player than Mike ever was, although Mike was arguably a better songwriter. OLP's newer albums show changes in the same way as recent material by all sorts of established bands (U2, Dave Matthews Band, etc), with a greater emphasis given to the texture of the instrumentation, and simplification of lyrics to make them applicable and relevant to a wide range of listeners. With age comes maturation; and thank goodness, Raine won't write Dirty Walls ever again. They've grown up, and hopefully so have we.

[SameOld]

Steve Mazur definitely puts a lot into the music, but it just doesn't come out as well as it did with Mike Turner.