New issue of Wired features the future of music + Pitchfork article

Imagine my surprise when I opened the September copy of Wired (cover shot of Beck) — there’s a big article on indie music site Pitchfork. It basically talks about how the site helped the career of Broken Social Scene, among others, and destroyed Travis Morrison’s solo debut. It’s not a bad article, actually.

There are also articles on various ways musicians and labels are planning to distribute new music to consumers. The Barenaked Ladies, whose management is Nettwerk, plan to release their album in the ProTools format — actually, more than 200 formats (45 of which, the article indicates, will be distributed via a small USB drive).

Also, Beck plans to again let his new album’s songs be available for fans and other musicians to diddle with at will.

It will be interesting to watch how things like this affect the future of music and how it is distributed.

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