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Your Guide to Bristol’s Misery Loves Company Music Festival
23Sep By Ambur MasenNo Comments
Features, Music

Your Guide to Bristol’s Misery Loves Company Music Festival

"We're all sad, so let's be sad together." This time next week, a curious new UK-based alternative music festival, Misery Loves Company, will be taking place. A celebration of diversity, inclusivity, and of course, great live music, MLC is definitely worth considering as a late edition to your summer festival schedule. Why? For starters, the festival has 5 stages across 4 venues and features a line-up of over 40 bands hailing from all points on the heavy metal-alternative rock-emo-and-beyond spectrum. So listen up, all you current and "former" emo kids-- you lot in particular are going to want to pay attention to this. Below, you will find all the need-to-know information about the festival. You will also find a list of a few artists that we feel are particularly notewo...
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Fair Pay at SXSW: Please Pay These Brilliant Brits!!
31May By Ambur MasenNo Comments
Features, Music

Fair Pay at SXSW: Please Pay These Brilliant Brits!!

Despite the fact that it’s held in March, SXSW is still on a lot of minds–especially right now. Before I dive into a recap of the incredible artists I saw live in Texas, I want to bring your attention to something important that is happening today: a protest outside of the Penske Media Corporation NYC Offices that is demanding fair pay for artists at SXSW.  This protest is led by the Union of Musicians and Allied Workers, and is made up of a coalition of music workers organizations, music industry unions, local organizing groups, and more. Protesters are gathering in front of Penske HQ because the media conglomerate is the festival’s largest stakeholder, as of 2021; after similar protests were held in Austin during SXSW this year, the festival made a pledge to reassess the situation, b...
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