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January 29, 2005
Why Wilco Is the Future of Music
Great things happen when a band and its audience find harmony. Especially with Wilco, one of the most legitimate and real bands in the battle between the record industry and technology.
Wilco's story is quite interesting. When the record label told them their newly recorded album sucked - Wilco dumped the record label and turned to the Internet. . .
From the article:
"They (we) demand an end to the war, and the attack on innovation that it represents. Yet there's something hollow about the earnest rage on both sides of this debate. Hollow, as in inauthentic. It is artists who make music, not the industry that markets it or the technologies that take it.
"Wilco's Net-based experiments continue: the first live MPEG-4 webcast; a documentary about the band in part screened and funded via the Net; bonus songs and live recordings tied to CDs. Its latest album, A Ghost Is Born, was streamed in full across the Net three months before its commercial release. And when songs from it started appearing on file-sharing networks, the band didn't launch a war against its fans. Instead, Wilco fans raised more than $11,000 and donated it to the band's favorite charity. The album has been an extraordinary success - and was nominated for two Grammys."
Posted by Don at January 29, 2005 09:19 AM
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