And perhaps more timely enough, today's NYT asks
The Many Futures of Music, Maybe One of Them Real... Like some articles in NYT, this is hopelessly a bit late in the game - ClearChannel and it's evils are last year's news (but still this year's villian's)... I esp love the cynicism behind the release from the Industry "No one can compel an artist to record" - yeah, if you're forcing them to tour and inevitably concentrate on generating cash, that's probably the last priority - but those are the rare few. Everyone else has day jobs and has only about 2 seconds a day to think/dedicate to being a potential star...