Now that Wilco has left Nonesuch, how will you release new music?
I don’t see it being drastically different from the way we put out music in the past. It seems unlikely that we will be under the umbrella of a major label or a major-label group. It doesn’t make sense for us to pay somebody three-quarters of the pie for a lot of things that we’ve been doing ourselves. On the other hand, I don’t know if it makes a lot of sense for a label to upend their entire historical precedent to make things work for us when a lot of other bands really do need a lot of the things that a label provides. But we worked hard to do more and more. We do all of the publicity, a bulk of the promotion, all the marketing. All of that stuff has predominantly been done in-house for quite some time. When did you start doing more things in-house? We were forced to do that early on. Even when we were with Reprise, there wasn’t that much interest in promoting Wilco. We learned how to do it with what we had available to us. A lot of it has grown out of our touring-obviously, that i
