- cross-posted to:
- texas@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- texas@lemmy.world
Multiple bands and musicians scheduled to perform at the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival are pulling out because of the U.S. Army’s “super sponsorship” of the event, and America’s ongoing support of Israel’s war on Hamas.
“Kneecap joins other slated SXSW performers like Lambrini Girls, Scowl, Gel, Okay Shalom, Squirrel Flower and Sprints in pulling out of the event to protest.”
Wonder how many of them will lose their recording/publishing contracts and/or be blacklisted by the LiveNation/Goldenvoice/Ticketmaster oligopoly, effectively ending their careers.
Scowl and Gel are on hardcore labels so I doubt their label is going to be upset at the protest
Who does their distribution? Also, where do they play when they tour? A lot of US cities have no venues now controlled by LiveNation or similar.
A lot of it is independently produced and distributed. The labels the two bands I mentioned are on are small independent labels as well. Depending on where you live there are a decent amount of venues that aren’t run by a large corporation like live nation.
Has that happened since
DixieChicks? I haven’t really paid attention.Most of them are not even really pulling out.
They’re still performing during SxSW. They’re just removing the label from their gigs.