DeadLabour

[New York Magazine @NYMag]

No, SXSW isn’t getting rod of music. But the Austin festival is paring back its 2026 schedule, following reduced sales and last year’s boycott due to ties to the military-industrial complex. https://t.co/rAEMhvSQH7

[Rosy Overdrive 🏳️‍⚧️ @RosyOverdrive]

New blog post! Wrote about @wearebigups' reissued debut LP and its companion remix album (@DeadLabour), plus new albums from Nina Ryser (@Dearliferecs/@palberta5000), Weak Signal (@mvbones1980/@12XUrecs), and Otis Shanty (@reliefmaprecs/@ryan_dilello):

https://t.co/NLvU4pDQSt

[DeadLabour @DeadLabour]

@notthegiraffe @bfurnas Yes, but bc of AMI unless you build in areas where the rent is higher than the city average, it’s only going to push rents higher citywide. As the other guy’s graphic shows, we’re at the a vacancy rate the same as 2017 but rents are 50% higher. That is the reason.

[DeadLabour @DeadLabour]

@DukeandDukeCB @bfurnas Ah yes, the famous retort about public housing, which only became a “money pit” once the feds switched to privately subsidized methods (like 421a, vouchers, section 8) which - coincidentally - is also when rents started spiking higher than the normal 2% rate of inflation

[DeadLabour @DeadLabour]

@bfurnas “Just build more housing and costs will come down” they say.

But the 80/20 421a split has caused AMI rents to soar across the city, locking most families out of eligibility for both market rate and affordable units.

+ rent concessions still means leases signed at gross rate.

[DeadLabour @DeadLabour]

@bfurnas She’s absolutely right, all the constraint is below-market rate units. There is no plan that addresses this very simple mathematical equation. A 421a that’s mandatory 80% affordable might do it, but with AMI’s it’s all a scam anyway. Public housing is the only true answer.

[United Musicians and Allied Workers @UMAW_]

BREAKING: Austin Parks and Rec Board unanimously passes a recommendation that @SXSW be required to pay fair rates to musicians. This is a massive victory and a huge step.

[DeadLabour @DeadLabour]

@ScottforFlorida I’m warning Rick Scott, DO NOT OPEN the Arc of the Covenant.

[Tiffany Cabán @tiffany_caban]

Ok, hear me out. One on one. I win, Yang drops out of the mayoral.

[RVNG Intl. @rvngintl]

also, greg is partnering w/ @kickstarter to crowdfund the construction of a new recording studio, and a tangible testament to music's endurance ~
read more about the initiative, and if you're able to, please consider supporting studio te:
https://t.co/eWdjbY4rMK

[David Grubbs @blackfaurest]

Please take a minute to read this Public Letter of Concern by Working Artists for Ethical Cancellations, sign, and share:
https://t.co/nEeBWWzSCD

[Brandy Jensen @BrandyLJensen]

“We’ve been able to operate under a mass delusion that our country actually has good health care because so many people are blocked from ever encountering it.” https://t.co/514aKC9BEs

[CASCINE @cascine_]

we have made our digital discography on @Bandcamp "pay what you wish." our hope is:

~ those who are most financially impacted right now can still download music at no cost

~those who have more to give right now can support our artists with a donation

https://t.co/n8rvRSwigS

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Right about now would be a great time to weigh emergency measures like:
- Extending Medicare/Medicaid coverage to all
- Eviction freezes
- No-strings UBI programs
- Eliminating work requirements for SNAP &other assistance
- Humanitarian provisions in prisons & decarceral policies

[bbb @brauds]

had a great convo on @nothing_urgent with shiraz (@DEEPERCHI) abt being indigenous in 2020! appreciated the chance to share our perspectives + learn from a fellow native creative 🌱

[Nothing Urgent Podcast @nothing_urgent]

> @DEEPERCHI drummer @ShirazBhatti and @indigezine editor @brauds on reconciling and reclaiming their Native American identity and how it influences their contemporary art. Episode 37 is now available wherever you listen to podcasts > https://t.co/A1UfSJieBR