At Least Someone Is Trying
Wired has an interesting interview with Wilco the chicago based band who fell-out with their middlemen and decided to go it alone...through the web.After being dropped from Reprise Records in 2001 over creative conflicts surrounding Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, the Chicago-based band committed what some thought would be suicide -- they streamed it online for free.
It seems that this was a rather successful tactic...