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Don't worry, she's being charged with attempted murder because she was holding a gun near a cop and not for actually attempting murder. The LAPD is just so damn fragile while they're out of there murdering folks and being bastards. God forbid there's a Mary Tyler Moore lookalike standing in her own yard with a Beretta. She only survived this encounter (wounded but not life threatening) because another cop probably said, "Wait, is that the wife of the guy in Weezer, we plug her and we could get into some real shit, so just wing her rather than blasting her to hell with 23 hollow points."

And this gem:

He really tried "the acting casual and just being a regular guy officer" routine. Mad respect, give the man community service and call it a day. Everyone involved has suffered enough.

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30 years since richey edwards disappeared.

i reimagine the steps you took, still blinded by your intellect.

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The music industry has a funding problem

Earlier this month, Newcastle-based indie singersongwriter Sam Fender released his fourth studio album, People Watching, and embarked on a week of media duties talking about what influenced the new album. In an interview with the Sunday Times, Fender talked about his working class upbringing, and how difficult it was for an artist without a moneyed background to make it in the music industry today.

Sam Fender. Hannah Victoria Kenyon for Strong Island.

“The music industry is 80 percent, 90 percent kids who are privately educated,” he said. “A kid from where I’m from [North Shields, Newcastle, UK] can’t afford to tour, so there are probably thousands writing songs that are ten times better than mine, poignant lyrics about the country, but they will not be seen because it’s rigged.”

It was like a lit match to tinder. Many artists spoke up confirming that they were currently facing challenges staying afloat in the music industry despite hitting many of the milestones that traditionally looked like success in the music industry. Many talked about how funds were the main things separating them from their peers who had ‘made it’. Many others have talked about how money has hindered them from taking steps that would greatly advance their music careers.

Beloved artists like Little Simz and Rachel Chinouriri have over the last few years had to cancel international tours that would never add up for an independent artist without the backing of a major label, or great personal expenses. Songwriter Kate Nash, who was in the news recently for turning to OnlyFans to sell pictures of arse to fund her upcoming tour in a campaign she called ‘Butts For Tour Buses’, estimated that the production cost of each show she puts on a single night, costs her about $10,000. A cost even half of that would be devastating to a kid starting out in music with no savings.

Little Simz. Dave J. Hogan/Getty Images

There is another aspect to this discussion. Last week, British indie songwriter Ellie Dixon was asked on her social media about the phrase ‘industry plant’, a highly contentious word meant to indicate that an artist has not authentically reached the level of success they are at, and instead owe it all to some undisclosed industry connections that were allowing them access to avenues of career growth unfairly.

On surface level, this would seem to be something that only adds to the woes of independent, hard-working musicians, once again locked out of opportunities that should’ve rightfully been theirs if only some golden child with the right connections hadn’t swooped in and snatched their livelihood right out of their hands. In reality, who and what this ‘industry plant’ really is, is less clear. Often, it is used as a catch-all phrase to indicate that you don’t think someone deserves the plaudits they are receiving. But whether or not a certain kind of music is inherently deserving of success or not can only ever be a matter of subjective taste, and so something as concrete as having insider connections, becomes a matter of opinion where stylistic preferences become equated with worth, and the word loses all meaning.

Rolling Stone magazine, in a recent article defending the rising rap star Doechii, wrote a good piece about how the phrase is being misused to discredit artists who have put in all the work themselves over the years, only to be unfairly torn down by people’s fundamental misunderstanding of the phrase.

Doechii receives her Grammy for Best Rap Album. Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for The Recording Academy.

Money in music is a really important conversation to have, namely in that it is simply not possible to sustain a career in this (or any) industry without it, and that artists, the backbone of the industry, have seen increasingly diminishing returns on it. We find ourselves returning to the music industry of old, where as rents go up and incomes for independent artists dry up, many musicians find that it makes sense for them to rely on traditional record label deals.

This has been enough for many people to start lobbing the accusations of ‘industry plant’, somehow mistaking having a label put any investment into an artist as some sort of insideous and undeserved, unfair advantage, as if the music industry was exclusively meant to be run from bedrooms of one and from behind YouTube and TikTok accounts.

If anything, artist development is only a recently neglected area by labels, opting to let artists themselves be the creators, marketers, publicists, cinematographers, bookers, promoters, merch and poster graphic designers and much more, all on that lucrative label budget of $0.00.

Who can afford to do all that? An artist that can either afford not to have a full-time job outside of their self-employed music career, or someone who can afford to pay others.

Which brings me back to the discussion about wealth in music. Sam Fender was completely right when he spoke out about how hard it is for working class artists to break through. The Dublin-based singer CMAT (incidentally, on tour supporting Fender at the moment) talked about how she wanted to write a guide on how working class musicians can make it in this treacherous industry, because to realise that everyone living your dream is doing it on the back of wealth you can never cough up is quite demotivating. Working class artists slog for a decade before being recognised at the level that the backing of a label could achieve in a year, there is no hiding from this. (Also, CMAT only half-jokingly said this but she is right: rich kid music also just lacks bite. There’s an urgency and potency to working class music that genuinely holds up a mirror to society that an artist who doesn’t have to face every aspect of the world sometimes simply cannot put into words in the same way. It is absolutely crucial that we do not lose working class voices in art.)

CMAT live. Sean McMahon

So really, we need to focus less on tearing down working class artists with unfounded accusations of being ‘industry plants’, something that also seems to disproportionately be levelled at women, musicians of colour, queer artists and other marginalised communities by men who cannot understand their success, and focus more on preserving the funding and pathway programmes that have historically tried to place working class artists on the same footing as richer artists.

The problem with the music industry isn’t so-called industry plants— it’s that funding in music stays at the top while grassroots artists suffer. Spotify CEO Daniel Ek is reportedly worth 7.5 billion USD, while Canada has lost 15% of its small music venues since the beginning of 2020. The UK, where the Music Venue Trust keeps clearer track of the state of grassroots music venues, reports that the UK loses a grassroots venue every two weeks currently. When burgeoning young talent don’t have the venues to hone their talent, make their mistakes and develop their sound and stage presence, future stars are lost forever, working class or otherwise.

So good on Sam Fender. Himself a working class kid, he’s done something good for working class musicians everywhere even just by starting this important conversation with a platform as large as he has built for himself.

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first new release from kate bush in like 14 years and it’s a silent album

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On Tuesday, December 19th, Paul McCartney performed in London. It was his final concert of 2024, so the audience was in for surprises.

In particular, first of all, how to use "Get Back", he shared his memories of the bass guitar, which was more than 50 years old.

McCartney got the musical instrument back in February 2024. And at a concert in London, he showed this guitar and said that this was her first appearance on stage since she disappeared.

One of the options was the appearance of Ronnie Wood, who joined the performance of "Get Back".

And during the encore performance, Sir Paul invited Ringo Starr on stage. Together they played "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (reprise)" and "Helter Skelter".

‘A Hard Day's Night’

‘Junior's Farm’

‘Letting go’

‘Drive My Car'

‘I Want You To Come into My Life."

‘Come to Me’

'Let Me Do It’

'It's getting Better‘

’Let Them In’

‘My Valentine‘

'Nineteen Eighty-Five'

'Maybe I'm Amazed'

'I Just Saw a Face'

'Despite all the Danger'

‘Love me’

‘Dance tonight'

‘Blackbird’

‘Here and now'

‘From time to time’

‘Lady Madonna’

‘Jet’

‘Be for the good of Mr. Kite!'

‘Anything"

‘Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da’

‘A group on the run'

‘Wonderful Christmas’

‘Come Back' (with Ronnie Wood)

'So Be It’

‘Live and let die'

‘Hey Jude‘

’I Have a Feeling‘

’Sergeant' Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (reprise) (with Ringo Starr)

'Mess' (with Ringo Starr)

‘Golden Dreams’

‘Carry this load’

‘The End' #ringostarr #beatles #Paul McCartney

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heterophobia in her eyes 🤩🤩

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Friends In Real Life - Buckeye (Official Music Video)

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Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr Performed Two Songs Last Night

Last night at Sir Paul McCartney's final concert of his current Get Back Tour in London, he was joined by a special guest his old Beatle bandmate Sir Ringo Starr, who sat in on drums on "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" and "Helter Skelter". As if that weren't enough, Ronnie Wood of The Rolling Stones sat in earlier on "Get Back".

Various times over the years the two remaining Beatles have joined each other for a song or two at one of their concerts. Back in 2010 when I saw Sir Ringo in concert at Radio City Music Hall on his 70th birthday, the big finale was Sir Paul joining for "Birthday". Very cool to see these two still performing together!