Los Campesinos! Opens The Books Again, For Their US Tour

Stereogum: By now it’s widely accepted that the live industry is fucked for 99% of us. Be it artists struggling to cope with growing costs, or fans with diminishing disposable income being met with ever increasing ticket prices at arena and stadium gigs, from a gouging music industry. Bands and Music Biz Insiders are often keen to express their plight, but so often what they say falls short of being interesting because it doesn’t include any detail or tell us anything we don’t already broadly know as music fans. In conversations like these, artists and others within the music industry are happy to express general frustration and worry at the state of the business, but are too shy to be specific. Part of the issue is that a lot of bands of a certain size don’t know the full reality of their finances because they are shielded from these details by management and labels (who are very often making more money from the project than those that are creating it). But another significant factor…