Why Wilco is the future of music

Oh, I'm already convinced. But you might read an article from the February issue of Wired magazine.

Lawrence Lessig says:

Great things happen when a band and its audience find harmony.

Lessig interviews Jeff Tweedy, and discusses Wilco's recent success, despite the record company canning them. It's all down to the internet, and a new paradigm:

"Music," he explained, "is different" from other intellectual property. Not Karl Marx different - this isn't latent communism. But neither is it just "a piece of plastic or a loaf of bread." The artist controls just part of the music-making process; the audience adds the rest. Fans' imagination makes it real. Their participation makes it live. "We are just troubadours," Tweedy told me. "The audience is our collaborator. We should be encouraging their collaboration, not treating them like thieves."

Also, it does help that they have made an extraordinarily good record in A Ghost is Born.