VICEMusic VICE - Hosting Concerts During a Pandemic Puts the Future of Live Music at Risk VICEBack in June, rising country artists Chase Rice and Chris Janson performed controversial outdoor shows to hundreds of fans. Rice played to 954 ticket buyers at Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary in Petro,
VICEMusic VICE - The Union of Musicians and Allied Workers Just Made a Comp to Support Immigrants VICEBack in May, artists organized to form the Union of Musicians and Allied Workers (U.M.A.W.). In its first action, the union got several hundred signatures from performing acts, recording engineers, road
VICEMusic VICE - Concerts Are Canceled, So Musicians Are Heading Back to Risky Day Jobs VICEWith the pandemic stimulus package set to run out by the end of July and no signs of live music coming back any time soon, independent musicians are facing a difficult decision: either continue waiting
VICEMusic Artists Are Ditching Their Racially Insensitive Band Names. Who's Next? VICE - Drew SchwartzNo matter how slight a band name's connotation to slavery in America may be, now is the time to change it. Two weeks after country-blues trio Lady Antebellum became "Lady A," distancing themselves from
VICEplayMusic Noname's Response to J. Cole and 12 Other Songs We Loved This Month VICE - Kristin Corry and Josh TerryWhile much of the industry was shaking to keep up with the revolution, artists like Noname, City Girls, and Shamir continued to make the music we wanted to hear. In the last month, the Black Lives Matter
