This Week On Hypebot: The Future Of The Album

All this week Hypebot will be exploring the future of the album format. 

We'll be asking industry thought leaders, those in the trenches and you our readers if in this age of iPods, single track downloads and sort attention spans, if there is still a place for the multi-track collection know as the album. We begin our exploration with:

•  "In Defense Of The Album" – A commentary that we ran last week by Scott Perry of The New Music Tip Sheet.  It's was this opinion piece and readers comments on it that inspired this week long feature.
• "End Of The Album As The Organizing Principle" – This guest post by Gang Of Four founding member Dave Allen explains his view of the the reasons behind the demise of the album.
• POLL:  Vote and tell us, "Does The Album Have A Future?"
• COMMENT: Leave your opinions wherever you're inspired to.  The best will be selected for feature in a full roundup post.