Sasha Frere-Jones has been a pop critic for the New Yorker since 2004, and his Web site (www.sashafrerejones.com) collects his photographs, writing, and music. Frere-Jones is known for exploring issues of race in music, specifically indie rock and hip-hop. He appears in the bands The Sands and Ui. This 2013 essay examines the ways that the Internet is changing the music industry.