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Yo La Tengo, Julia Holter, more playing UMAW shows to support Living Wage for Musicians Act
Shows in Los Angeles, NYC, Detroit, Washington DC, and Ypsilanti will support the new bill, which is cosponsored by Congress members Rashida Tlaib and Jamaal Bowman.
120+ artists call for higher pay from SXSW in new open letter
”The costs of touring and the overall cost of living have soared over the past decade, but SXSW has continued to offer the same disrespectful deal to artists,” UMAW organizer Joey La Neve DeFrancesco said in a statement.
call Congress for COVID-19 relief on new Musicians' Union's Day of Action
The newly formed Union of Musicians and Allied Workers (UMAW) have set up a ”Day of Action” hotline today ”to demand that Congress acts on COVID relief measures” for musicians and music workers. Speedy Ortiz’s Sadie Dupuis voices the hotline.
