“Live Albums Are Dead, and Music Is The Loser”, The Independent 6/27/08

It is time to say farewell to some of the greatest albums ever made, albums that made careers, defined genres, and celebrated the raw power of music. Because the live album, once a rite of passage for every act of substance, is dead.

While you’re at it, you’d might as well see if you can cram the “Compilation Album” into that coffin with it, because you’d have to be HIGH ON SOME AMAZING CRACK to that think anyone is going to plunk down money for a comp in the era of file-sharing and rabid personal playlist making.

On the other hand, the health of the “Remix Album” is reportedly stable.