Israel

“Two hours before the show was set to begin,” a statement from Meow Wolf reads, “we found ourselves without adequate staff to safely manage the sold out crowd.”

“Our latest statement is a call for immediate ceasefire, an end to the illegal occupation of Palestine and routine violence enacted against the Palestinian people,” they write.

“We are working tirelessly, day and night, conducting search and rescue operations, helping identify the victims, and updating their families,” organizers write.

”We are sorry to those we hurt with the recklessness and naivete of our original statement on playing in Israel and we hope those who were planning to attend the shows understand our choice to cancel them,” Big Thief write in a new statement.

Rare vinyl pressings by a handful of screamo and post-hardcore bands, including Infant Island, For Your Health, Shin Guard (aka Hazing Over), Heavy Heavy Low Low, and more, are being raffled off to raise money for Palestine aid.

”I simply could not treat my Israeli fans with the necessary contempt to do Brian Eno’s bidding.” – Nick Cave

Lana Del Rey dropped out of the Israeli festival last week, and now so have of Montreal, Shlohmo, Leon Vynehall, and others…

”It’s important to me to perform in both Palestine and Israel and treat all my fans equally. Unfortunately it hasn’t been possible to line up both visits with such short notice and therefore I’m postponing my appearance at the Meteor Festival.”

“Nick thinks this is about censorship of his music? What? Nick, with all due respect, your music is irrelevant to this issue, so is mine, so is Brian Eno’s so is Beethoven’s, this isn’t about music, it’s about human rights.” – Roger Waters.