People

Part of Sour Grapes Winery's original journalistic philosophy was that as a magazine, it would focus on normal people. That is to say, rather than interviewing celebrities or people who might be identified as the elite of society, SGW chooses to explore and discuss the ideas that everyday people have. SGW does not reject the ideas of the "elite," instead it believes that more than enough exposure is already given to these individuals, thus any further interviews of such individuals would be redundant and unnecessary from a journalistic standpoint.

SGW will seek to find individuals who have an interesting or unusual experience from which they have developed their opinions and ideas. While some of them may be somewhat unorthodox or deemed "fringe," SGW wants to create a soapbox for said individuals to contribute to the discussion. The opinions and comments of the interviews that can be read below cannot be assumed to represent those of SGW, its editor, or its columnists. Please enjoy!

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Friday

Jul082011

Monk Turner: Free Music, Creative Commons, and the Home Studio

Friday, July 8, 2011 |

Jacke Karashae

- San Francisco, California - The independent recording artist Monk Turner has earned a reputation as a leader in the free music movement and as the Galactic Defender of the Concept Album. His latest album, a joint project with Fascinoma titled Emergency Songs, has been downloaded thousands of times and has received dozens of positive reviews, including my own on Sour Grapes Winery. I had a chance to sit down with Turner over Skype and learn about the experiences that brought him to his current level of popularity and success as an independent artist as well as his involvement in the Creative Commons project and his views concerning music in today’s society.

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