Bands pull out of SXSW over U.S. Army sponsorship, Gaza war
Bands pull out of SXSW over U.S. Army sponsorship, Gaza war
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.
I don’t care how “weird” Austin is, it’s still in the middle of Texas.
Yeah. It's a bastion in a terrible place. There's lots of them like Raleigh/Charlotte in NC, Birmingham/Huntsville in AL, etc. They can be as progressive as they want but when the state legislatures force fascist laws and try to curtail their freedoms there often isn't much they can do. Oh and the cities are still surrounded by the rest of the people from that state so it's not like they're entirely insulated.
Pretty familiar with the Raleigh one since that’s where I live. We recently moved further out to buy a house and it’s a world of difference just 30 minutes away from NCSU (where I work).
I don’t think NC is as bad as Texas … yet… but they seem to be trying real hard to play catch up.
I mean, I'm not ever gonna defend Texas. They need to stop cutting their noses of to spite their faces before anyone does that. Thing is, that description is true of all 50 states. Even California. We actually have more Trump supporters in this state than anywhere else in the Union, they're just such a minority that they can't be fascist outside of their little tiny towns well inland from the coastal cities, and then there's Orange County.
My point is that though they make up little more than 30% of the population, they are everywhere, as soon as you step outside of the liberal cities.
Is there a city that could be considered leftist? San Francisco is definitely out of that category, as us San Diego.
Austin is absolutely not a bastion.
It's a crappy city just like most of them. They only care about others until it fucks with their money.
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%E2%80%93entertainment_complex
“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
Has that happened since Dixie Chicks? I haven't really paid attention.
Kneecap said backing out will have “a significant financial impact” on the group.
“But it isn’t an iota of hardship when compared to the unimaginable suffering being inflicted every minute, every day on the people of Gaza,” Kneecap said.
Most of them are not even really pulling out.
They're still performing during SxSW. They're just removing the label from their gigs.
Fuck Israel.
Those in power don't give a shit.
SXSW has always been consumerist garbage.
They will no longer be complicit in Genocide.
one band?
Greg Abbott defended SXSW. Austin is no longer weird.
That abbott tweet was the death knell of SxSW.
Yeah... because its patrons can't realize they're being herded like sheep on their own.