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.
Greg Abbott defended SXSW. Austin is no longer weird.
That abbott tweet was the death knell of SxSW.
I don’t care how “weird” Austin is, it’s still in the middle of Texas.
“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.
art and military go together like cat poop on the bottom of my doc martens.
Yeah, although the military pumps a ton of money into Hollywood movies. And it works. They love the fact that there are two hit Top Gun movies glorifying the Air Force.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military–entertainment_complex
As a former service member (w/ the majority of important adults in my life having served as well) it for sure fuckin works, you’re 100% correct.
…did you join the military because of Goose
Nah, because of duck duck.
Top Gun is the Navy.
Those in power don’t give a shit.
No one gives a shit, these are no body acts who are shooting themselves in the foot with this. I’m all for people putting their priorities over profits though so power to em, I suppose.
I care, but I’m in the gross minority.
The only time people care is when they tell me not to care.
Ya, the rounding error of people who care about this are inconsequential. It’s the headlines trying to drum up conflict that are more of the problem. This is less than a nothing burger.