Hypebot’s New Music Industry Briefing For Tuesday August 29th, 2006

– The current issue of WIRED takes a look at the future of the music industry from a number of angles including profiles of Pitchfork, eMusic, Nettwerk and much more. (WIRED)

– New Orleans musicians continue to struggle one year after Katrina. (Billboard)

– KCRW’s Nick Harcort, XM’s Eric Logan and the importance of "new music tastemakers". (Baltimore Sun)

– The increasingly confusing maze of modern revenue streams and royalty payments. (Chicago Tribune)

Talk about viral…An anonymous and unknown guitarist uploads a video onto YouTube that gets viewed 7 million times and featured in the New York Times.