Appropriate that he ordered the strike with American bombs from American soil. Our tax dollars helped murder Lebanese & Palestinian civilians again today, rather than pave a road or hire a teacher.
Did you know the CEO of Spotify is wealthier than any musician in history—and has 4X the net worth of Paul McCartney?
Now you do.
There’s more money in disrupting music than creating it.
I met Steve Albini probably 15 years ago in the UK at ATP, a big festival with a ton of sick bands. An effect pedal of ours had broken and Steve appeared at our door with a little tool kit, announced he was here to fix the pedal and quickly, successfully, went to work
RIP to Steve Albini, a wizard who would hate being called a wizard, but who surely made magic.
Here's the Electric Audio layout for 'Magnolia Electric Co', just sketched out simply, on paper, like it's not poised to shift time and space and all our hearts.
The only reason Deerhoof can afford to continue is bare-bones touring, one crew, tiny equipment, self-produced records, and we didn't have kids. Even so, our income hovers near the poverty line every year. I don't understand how newer artists do it.
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BREAKING: The Justice Department plans to sue Live Nation/Ticketmaster for running an illegal monopoly over the ticketing industry.
This corporate monopoly charges too much for tickets, exploits venues, and hurts fans and artists.
The antitrust lawsuit is expected within weeks.
In Gaza, "every person, the first thing they want to tell me in English or Arabic is 'We need food,’" says @UNICEF spokesperson @1james_elder. "They are saying that because their assumption is the world doesn’t know, because how would this be allowed to happen if the world knew?"