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The Economics Are Broken: How Touring DJ Fees Are Killing Clubs (And Why Residents Are The Answer) Bring back resident DJs to the nightclubs

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How to Survive as an Independent Festival · Feature ⟋ RA Running small festivals has never been harder. We profiled resilient, brilliant events in the UK, Australia, Mexico and Germany to find out how they persevere against the odds.

At 26, Venezia Hardcore co-founder Giacomo Gobbato was killed while protecting a stranger on the streets of Venice – a death that’s become a rallying cry for a city in crisis

‘He left an incredible mark’: how a festival organiser’s murder galvanised Venice’s underground music scene

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Beauty on paper by Steve Albini. RIP to a Titan of sound.

“You can’t have a healthy music ecosystem where at one end you’ve got people going ‘we’ve made more money than we’ve ever made’ and at the other end you’ve got relatively successful artists that are sofa-surfing while signed to a major label.”

‘The working class can’t afford it’: the shocking truth about the money bands make on tour As Taylor Swift tops $1bn in tour revenue, musicians playing smaller venues are facing pitiful fees and frequent losses. Should the state step in to save our live music scene?

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The Hilarious Foo Fighters Illustrated Tour Rider Image courtesy of The Smoking Gun   The Smoking Gun, the Masters of obtaining documents of interest, have produced a 25-page excerpt from the Foo Fighters’ 52-page 2011 Tour Rider. The d…