{"id":990,"date":"2005-01-29T00:03:04","date_gmt":"2005-01-29T00:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=990"},"modified":"2005-01-29T00:03:04","modified_gmt":"2005-01-29T00:03:04","slug":"why_wilco_is_th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=990","title":{"rendered":"Why Wilco is the Future of Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lessig <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/13.02\/view.html?pg=5\">summarizes<\/a> Wilco&#8217;s unique role in the online music wars:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The band Wilco and its quiet, haunted leader, Jeff Tweedy, is something different. After its Warner label, Reprise, decided that the group&#8217;s fourth album, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, was no good, Wilco dumped them and released the tracks on the Internet. The label was wrong. The album was extraordinary, and a sold-out 30-city tour followed. This success convinced Nonesuch Records, another Warner label, to buy the rights back &#8211; reportedly at three times the original price. The Net thus helped make Wilco the success it has become. But once back in Warner&#8217;s favor, many wondered: Would Wilco forget the Net?<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lessig summarizes Wilco&#8217;s unique role in the online music wars: The band Wilco and its quiet, haunted leader, Jeff Tweedy, is something different. After its Warner label, Reprise, decided that the group&#8217;s fourth album, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, was no good, Wilco dumped them and released the tracks on the Internet. The label was wrong. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}