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The two also accuse Robinson and Goldenvoice of failing to do their due diligence to research Oakland’s existing festivals: a Google search would have yielded media coverage for their festival in the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>, the \u003cem>East Bay Express\u003c/em>, KQED Arts, \u003cem>MaximumRockNRoll\u003c/em>, AJ+ and elsewhere. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID=\"arts_13838574\"]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of our frustrations is that the entity Porter Robinson is working with is a multimillion dollar corporation. It’s a subsidiary of the second-largest producer of live music events in the world,” says Fair, referring to AEG. “They somehow didn’t have the market research, or didn’t think it was necessary, to see if anyone in Oakland was operating under a similar name doing a similar thing. That negligence is part the reason we’re so upset.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just because people don’t have a lot of money doesn’t mean their creative ideas can be trampled on, reimagined or taken away,” says Scroggins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scroggins explains that she, Fair and their co-founders Sharmi Basu and Titania Kumeh originally conceptualized the Multivrs is Illuminated as a way to uplift artists from marginalized communities in the face of gentrification. Scroggins says Multivrs “was our love letter, our way of giving back to a city [where] so many people come to take what they can and not think about who they’re displacing, what was there before. We wanted to pay homage to the long line of radical and revolutionary music, events, organizing that has taken place [in Oakland].” The fest is due to return in the summer of 2020. 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And as independent venues such as the Hemlock Tavern and Elbo Room San Francisco closed in 2018, Goldenvoice took control of talent buying at the previously locally booked Slim’s and Great American Music Hall, a move Bay Area musicians and promoters say means fewer local opportunities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In my eyes, [it’s part of] a whole chain of events taking away opportunities from people who don’t have major funding or major resources to create cultural spaces,” says Scroggins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it would be cool if Goldenvoice would give the means and backing to the amazing art collectives and party collectives that already exist [in Oakland],” she continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13852496\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13852496\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/multivrs-081018-Delish-Da-Goddess-SHOTBYGUERRILLA-PROARTS-DSC00686-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Dalish Da Goddess performs at Oakland festival the Multivrs is Illuminated in August 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/multivrs-081018-Delish-Da-Goddess-SHOTBYGUERRILLA-PROARTS-DSC00686-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/multivrs-081018-Delish-Da-Goddess-SHOTBYGUERRILLA-PROARTS-DSC00686-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/multivrs-081018-Delish-Da-Goddess-SHOTBYGUERRILLA-PROARTS-DSC00686-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/multivrs-081018-Delish-Da-Goddess-SHOTBYGUERRILLA-PROARTS-DSC00686-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/multivrs-081018-Delish-Da-Goddess-SHOTBYGUERRILLA-PROARTS-DSC00686-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/multivrs-081018-Delish-Da-Goddess-SHOTBYGUERRILLA-PROARTS-DSC00686.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dalish Da Goddess performs at Oakland festival the Multivrs is Illuminated in August 2018. \u003ccite>(Guerrilla Davis)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In their open letter, Fair and Scroggins requested that Robinson and Goldenvoice publicly apologize and donate to the Multivrs is Illuminated to support their next festival, in addition to the name change. 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"content": "\u003cp>In 1988, Bill Graham’s former assistant Queenie Taylor hired Tanya Pinkerton to help publicize events and distribute concert listings for a new venue called Slim’s. In 2000, when Slim’s acquired the Great American Music Hall, Pinkerton gladly added the historic venue to her client list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a year after Slim’s and the Great American Music Hall inked a booking agreement with corporate promoter Goldenvoice, Pinkerton was recently told her work is redundant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was let go in January, shortly after manager Dana Smith and promoter Tracey Buck were also laid off. Goldenvoice, Pinkerton was told by email, already had concert listings covered. “What’s funny is, after 30 years I decided to increase my price, by about $15 a month,” she said. “So finally I got the chutzpah to ask for a raise, and I was fired instead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The layoffs came one year after Slim’s and GAMH, for years considered two of the city’s flagship independent venues, \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/will-corporations-ruin-live-music-in-the-bay-area/Content?oid=14129707\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">outsourced booking\u003c/a> to Goldenvoice, the Coachella promoter that, like competitor Live Nation, has dramatically expanded in the Bay Area. [contextly_sidebar id=”M02WlLvasLOY4Nr5liulnoTByM8DUWqb”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based in Los Angeles, Goldenvoice first entered San Francisco when it \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Battle-of-the-Bay-Area-concert-promoters-3278473.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">took over\u003c/a> the Warfield and the Regency Ballroom in 2008. Last year, it launched the Blurry Vision music festival in Oakland. Recently the company also announced a concert series at Stanford University’s Frost Amphitheater. With Slim’s and GAMH, Goldenvoice now runs concert promotions at every level—from a small club to a large festival—in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company is not without controversy. AEG, Goldenvoice’s parent company, is owned by Philip Anschutz, a multibillionaire conservative philanthropist with \u003ca href=\"https://pitchfork.com/news/coachella-co-owners-latest-charitable-filing-shows-deep-anti-lgbtq-ties/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an anti-LGBTQ record\u003c/a>. Corporate saturation of the local concert market is also detrimental, critics say, to a healthy local scene of independent venues and promoters, as well as local bands and fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jamie Zawinski, the owner of Slim’s neighbor DNA Lounge, is among the local music industry figures sounding the alarm about Goldenvoice and Live Nation. In response to the Slim’s and GAMH partnership, he wrote a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13846754/in-2018-corporate-monotony-seized-san-francisco-music-venues\">widely shared blog post\u003c/a> arguing that the companies’ expansive concert and ticketing holdings are monopolistic and “bad for our culture as a whole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13846954\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13846954\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/JamieZ.dna_2-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Jamie Zawinski, the owner of DNA Lounge, wrote a blog post about corporate promoters' expansion in San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/JamieZ.dna_2-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/JamieZ.dna_2-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/JamieZ.dna_2-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/JamieZ.dna_2-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/JamieZ.dna_2-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/JamieZ.dna_2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jamie Zawinski, the owner of DNA Lounge, wrote a blog post about corporate promoters’ expansion in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pinkerton likened her relationship with Slim’s and GAMH workers to a familial bond, calling them friends and a steady source of referrals. It was a tight-knit operation that \u003ca href=\"http://www.ampthemag.com/the-real/dawn-holliday-im-not-retiring-im-resisting/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">until 2017\u003c/a> was overseen by talent buyer Dawn Holliday, who last year \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/will-corporations-ruin-live-music-in-the-bay-area/Content?oid=14129707&showFullText=true\">called\u003c/a> the Goldenvoice partnership a “great source of sadness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Goldenvoice took over the calendars, venue management left its SoMa office. Anthony Bedard, the junior talent buyer and longtime Hemlock Tavern booker, was let go early last year. The most recent layoffs, according to Pinkerton, reflect Goldenvoice’s regional workers taking on more promotions and marketing duties for the venues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pinkerton said Buck and Smith, who declined to be interviewed, were laid off Monday, Jan. 7, and cleared out that day. The next Tuesday, Pinkerton received an email from Kent Jamieson, the venues’ new general manager, saying the partnership with Goldenvoice made her company, Bay Area Entertainment Listings, a “redundancy.” [contextly_sidebar id=”PK16JBKPiZNgDb9e5ewQLNLkdKFK9QEA”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was crappy,” she said. “After 30 years I would’ve liked to have been told in person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jamieson declined to discuss the cutbacks, calling the layoffs “unfortunate decisions.” Previously the manager of long-running punk band NOFX, Jamieson said the venue owners, a group including Boz Scaggs, hired him last year. “I was brought on separate from Goldenvoice,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scaggs, the famed musician and songwriter who founded Slim’s, appears to be stepping back from the venues himself. In a 2017 document he was listed as the sole director of his company, Big Billy Inc. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company is not without controversy. AEG, Goldenvoice’s parent company, is owned by Philip Anschutz, a multibillionaire conservative philanthropist with \u003ca href=\"https://pitchfork.com/news/coachella-co-owners-latest-charitable-filing-shows-deep-anti-lgbtq-ties/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an anti-LGBTQ record\u003c/a>. Corporate saturation of the local concert market is also detrimental, critics say, to a healthy local scene of independent venues and promoters, as well as local bands and fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jamie Zawinski, the owner of Slim’s neighbor DNA Lounge, is among the local music industry figures sounding the alarm about Goldenvoice and Live Nation. In response to the Slim’s and GAMH partnership, he wrote a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13846754/in-2018-corporate-monotony-seized-san-francisco-music-venues\">widely shared blog post\u003c/a> arguing that the companies’ expansive concert and ticketing holdings are monopolistic and “bad for our culture as a whole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13846954\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13846954\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/JamieZ.dna_2-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Jamie Zawinski, the owner of DNA Lounge, wrote a blog post about corporate promoters' expansion in San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/JamieZ.dna_2-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/JamieZ.dna_2-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/JamieZ.dna_2-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/JamieZ.dna_2-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/JamieZ.dna_2-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/JamieZ.dna_2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jamie Zawinski, the owner of DNA Lounge, wrote a blog post about corporate promoters’ expansion in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Sam Lefebvre/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pinkerton likened her relationship with Slim’s and GAMH workers to a familial bond, calling them friends and a steady source of referrals. It was a tight-knit operation that \u003ca href=\"http://www.ampthemag.com/the-real/dawn-holliday-im-not-retiring-im-resisting/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">until 2017\u003c/a> was overseen by talent buyer Dawn Holliday, who last year \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/will-corporations-ruin-live-music-in-the-bay-area/Content?oid=14129707&showFullText=true\">called\u003c/a> the Goldenvoice partnership a “great source of sadness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Goldenvoice took over the calendars, venue management left its SoMa office. Anthony Bedard, the junior talent buyer and longtime Hemlock Tavern booker, was let go early last year. The most recent layoffs, according to Pinkerton, reflect Goldenvoice’s regional workers taking on more promotions and marketing duties for the venues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pinkerton said Buck and Smith, who declined to be interviewed, were laid off Monday, Jan. 7, and cleared out that day. The next Tuesday, Pinkerton received an email from Kent Jamieson, the venues’ new general manager, saying the partnership with Goldenvoice made her company, Bay Area Entertainment Listings, a “redundancy.” \u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was crappy,” she said. “After 30 years I would’ve liked to have been told in person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jamieson declined to discuss the cutbacks, calling the layoffs “unfortunate decisions.” Previously the manager of long-running punk band NOFX, Jamieson said the venue owners, a group including Boz Scaggs, hired him last year. “I was brought on separate from Goldenvoice,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scaggs, the famed musician and songwriter who founded Slim’s, appears to be stepping back from the venues himself. In a 2017 document he was listed as the sole director of his company, Big Billy Inc. But his name doesn’t appear on the corporation’s most recent statement of information, which lists directors Jamieson plus David Fortune and Alexander Levy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pinkerton said she still has plenty of clients, and added that losing Slim’s and GAMH gives her more time to spend with her husband during his second bout with cancer. She also stressed her sympathy for Buck and Harrison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were professionals,” she said. “They were also warm and kind people, which is rare these days in the music business.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When news broke in January of corporate promoter Goldenvoice assuming control of booking concerts at both Slim’s and the Great American Music Hall, Jamie Zawinski was dismayed. The DNA Lounge owner had long looked to Slim’s, his neighbor on 11th Street in SoMa, as a model independent music venue in San Francisco. “They were the example,” he said of the 500-capacity club founded in 1988. “If Slim’s can’t make it work anymore, who can?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zawinski also realized that few people, not even his own employees, knew the extent of local music venues’ corporate consolidation, or of its effects on the remaining independents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2018/01/31.html\">blog post\u003c/a>, Zawinski tallied the rooms controlled by Goldenvoice, Live Nation and local competitor Another Planet Entertainment, arguing that the companies’ “vertically integrated” club and festival holdings, along with ticketing services, provides a monopolistic advantage. Zawinski also included a list of 18 independently owned and operated clubs, hoping to encourage readers to patronize venues that aren’t what he recently called “fronts for chains.” [contextly_sidebar id=”ZMlm6piZqqTvtCF9CH62CaDbK8rKOpHO”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But less than a year later, three of those 18 independent clubs have shuttered or announced impending closure. (The co-owner of another, Brick & Mortar Music Hall, was \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2018/06/14/jason-perkins-of-parish-entertainment-group-dubbed-valenciavigilante-accused-of-accosting-homeless-man\">accused\u003c/a> of threatening and assaulting homeless people.) The closures of the Hemlock Tavern, Elbo Room and Mezzanine all involve plans for redevelopment—the latter venue’s landlord plainly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13845305/san-francisco-nightclub-mezzanine-will-close-in-2019-after-16-years\">told\u003c/a> KQED that Mezzanine doesn’t earn him as much as offices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13816998\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13816998\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/12/Hemlock_Banners194-1024x926-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"The longtime bar and live rock venue is being sold to a developer with plans to reopen a new, unrelated 'Hemlock Tavern.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/12/Hemlock_Banners194-1024x926-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/12/Hemlock_Banners194-1024x926-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/12/Hemlock_Banners194-1024x926-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/12/Hemlock_Banners194-1024x926-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/12/Hemlock_Banners194-1024x926-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/12/Hemlock_Banners194-1024x926.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/12/Hemlock_Banners194-1024x926-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/12/Hemlock_Banners194-1024x926-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/12/Hemlock_Banners194-1024x926-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The longtime bar and live rock venue is being sold to a developer with plans to reopen a new, unrelated ‘Hemlock Tavern.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy Hemlock Tavern)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To Zawinski, Slim’s and GAMH ceding to Goldenvoice is practically the loss of two civic treasures. Other industry figures agree, lamenting the takeover as if the venues had shut down outright.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It isn’t that San Franciscans aren’t interested in concerts; corporate promoters taking over clubs and launching new festivals itself illustrates tremendous demand. But stakeholders say the erosion of the independent venue ecosystem, which follows the virtual disappearance of the city’s underground DIY spaces, diminishes the concert experience for attendee and performer alike. [contextly_sidebar id=”B5Qqcmv9noLlwMFVR5jPGj5XhaR6wgY2″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, the 1960s counterculture pioneered multimedia concerts, presaged the modern music festival, and birthed the nationally recognized Bill Graham Presents, which trained a generation of local promoters. Today, though, Live Nation owns what was once Graham’s flagship venue, The Fillmore. And Slim’s and the Great American, long booked by a Graham protégé, are run by a company, Goldenvoice, whose corporate parent is owned by a \u003ca href=\"https://pitchfork.com/news/coachella-co-owners-latest-charitable-filing-shows-deep-anti-lgbtq-ties/\">right-wing philanthropist\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goldenvoice and Live Nation’s diversified businesses—the latter made $2.1 billion in ticketing \u003cem>fees\u003c/em> last year alone, according to its shareholder report—are so anticompetitive, they’ve prompted criticism from legislators on antitrust grounds. Artists, too, have cried foul: In the 2000s, indie singer-songwriter Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes boycotted venues affiliated with Live Nation predecessor Clear Channel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13846930\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 789px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13846930\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Great_American_Music_Hall_April_1976.jpg\" alt=\"This year Goldenvoice assumed control of booking at the Great American Music Hall, seen here in the 1970s.\" width=\"789\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Great_American_Music_Hall_April_1976.jpg 789w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Great_American_Music_Hall_April_1976-160x137.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Great_American_Music_Hall_April_1976-768x657.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 789px) 100vw, 789px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This year Goldenvoice assumed control of booking at the Great American Music Hall, seen here in the 1970s. \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With national venue infrastructures, the companies can book entire tours, or entice groups away from competitors with the possibility of future festival appearances, effectively shutting out independents such as DNA Lounge. For example, Zawinski said he lost an act he’d booked several times previously to what he called a “corporate-owned” venue just a week before we spoke. “They reluctantly made it clear it was about getting a shot at a festival,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Undercutting independent venues’ in-house talent buyers also tends to deprive show-goers of a well-curated slate of local openers, not to mention lessening all-local lineups. As a talent-buyer since 2002, Anthony Bedard built the Hemlock’s reputation as a rocker haunt, and early last year he landed a job booking the Great American Music Hall. This past year, though, he lost both gigs: first after Goldenvoice’s GAMH partnership, and then ahead of the Hemlock’s demolition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10746787\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10746787\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/06/TonyBedardMain-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Anthony Bedard booked the Hemlock Tavern for 16 years. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/06/TonyBedardMain-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/06/TonyBedardMain-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/06/TonyBedardMain-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/06/TonyBedardMain-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/06/TonyBedardMain.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anthony Bedard booked the Hemlock Tavern for 16 years. \u003ccite>(Julie Michelle)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bedard’s work is inflected with fandom. At the Hemlock, he took risks promoting emerging or underground acts, building a record of ear-to-the-street discernment and prescience that landed him roles at Great American, however short lived, and Hardly Strictly Bluegrass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His corporate successors at Great American Music Hall, by contrast, aren’t even pretending to support grassroots music scenes in San Francisco. Earlier this year \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/will-corporations-ruin-live-music-in-the-bay-area/Content?oid=14129707\">I asked Danny Bell\u003c/a>, a Goldenvoice talent buyer in San Francisco, if Great American patrons should expect the sort of local programming that Bedard brought to the venue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is it a priority? It’s tough to say,” Bell said. “I think it just naturally happens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Chicago, local club owners recently rallied to oppose the inclusion of several Live Nation-run venues in a new waterfront development, saying city tax incentives on the project effectively subsidized their corporate competitors. Bedard and Zawinski aren’t sure political organizing is a solution. “Even if a venue is thriving, there’s the looming question of how much more the landlord can make by redeveloping the property,” Bedard said. “It’s bigger than the music industry.” [contextly_sidebar id=”nTimG1VOgOCzHFYgnzRjwmQgTsdDMHVj”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even the San Francisco Entertainment Commission, a government body tasked with regulating and promoting nightlife, sounds defeated by the cascade of closures and corporatization. Discussing news of Mezzanine’s ouster at a hearing last month, the commissioners bemoaned “greed,” and wondered if some other city officials could “put some pressure on the landlord.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13831544\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13831544\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/MG_8562-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The crowd at Mezzanine on May 5 during night three of the 2018 Mutek festival.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/MG_8562-1.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/MG_8562-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/MG_8562-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/MG_8562-1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/MG_8562-1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/MG_8562-1-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The crowd at Mezzanine on May 5 during night three of the 2018 Mutek festival. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For music venue success stories, you’d have to expand the definition of “music venue” to accommodate the broader performing arts. Counterpulse, the Center for New Music, The Lab (which is currently \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/mission-nonprofit-seeks-buy-historic-redstone-building-keep-tenants-place/\">rallying\u003c/a> to buy its building), and the Grand Theater have all opened or reopened since 2013, and this past year provided crucial outlets for improvised, experimental, and electronic music. But their shared nonprofit status, involving heavy reliance on grant support, illustrates the difficulty of subsisting on a traditional mix of ticket and drink sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are reasons for optimism. Noise Pop, the booking outfit with close ties to Another Planet, will bring dozens of shows to independent venues—including the Swedish American Hall, Rickshaw Stop and Bottom of the Hill—as part of its decentralized annual festival in February and March. And Bedard, rebounding from the loss of two jobs, months ago launched Talent Moat, bringing choice lineups to independent venues including Thee Parkside, the Chapel and the Knockout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for another in-house talent buyer position, Bedard had to make the bittersweet transition to the East Bay. (Likewise, the Elbo Room this year opened an Oakland location.) He recently started booking the Ivy Room in Albany, where the new ownership’s enthusiasm, along with the service-industry worker clientele, reminds him of the Hemlock in the mid-2000s. “The takeover hasn’t done me in,” he said. “My shows hit the calendar in January.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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And Slim’s and the Great American, long booked by a Graham protégé, are run by a company, Goldenvoice, whose corporate parent is owned by a \u003ca href=\"https://pitchfork.com/news/coachella-co-owners-latest-charitable-filing-shows-deep-anti-lgbtq-ties/\">right-wing philanthropist\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goldenvoice and Live Nation’s diversified businesses—the latter made $2.1 billion in ticketing \u003cem>fees\u003c/em> last year alone, according to its shareholder report—are so anticompetitive, they’ve prompted criticism from legislators on antitrust grounds. Artists, too, have cried foul: In the 2000s, indie singer-songwriter Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes boycotted venues affiliated with Live Nation predecessor Clear Channel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13846930\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 789px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13846930\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Great_American_Music_Hall_April_1976.jpg\" alt=\"This year Goldenvoice assumed control of booking at the Great American Music Hall, seen here in the 1970s.\" width=\"789\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Great_American_Music_Hall_April_1976.jpg 789w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Great_American_Music_Hall_April_1976-160x137.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/Great_American_Music_Hall_April_1976-768x657.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 789px) 100vw, 789px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This year Goldenvoice assumed control of booking at the Great American Music Hall, seen here in the 1970s. \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With national venue infrastructures, the companies can book entire tours, or entice groups away from competitors with the possibility of future festival appearances, effectively shutting out independents such as DNA Lounge. For example, Zawinski said he lost an act he’d booked several times previously to what he called a “corporate-owned” venue just a week before we spoke. “They reluctantly made it clear it was about getting a shot at a festival,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Undercutting independent venues’ in-house talent buyers also tends to deprive show-goers of a well-curated slate of local openers, not to mention lessening all-local lineups. As a talent-buyer since 2002, Anthony Bedard built the Hemlock’s reputation as a rocker haunt, and early last year he landed a job booking the Great American Music Hall. This past year, though, he lost both gigs: first after Goldenvoice’s GAMH partnership, and then ahead of the Hemlock’s demolition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10746787\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10746787\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/06/TonyBedardMain-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Anthony Bedard booked the Hemlock Tavern for 16 years. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/06/TonyBedardMain-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/06/TonyBedardMain-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/06/TonyBedardMain-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/06/TonyBedardMain-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/06/TonyBedardMain.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anthony Bedard booked the Hemlock Tavern for 16 years. \u003ccite>(Julie Michelle)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bedard’s work is inflected with fandom. At the Hemlock, he took risks promoting emerging or underground acts, building a record of ear-to-the-street discernment and prescience that landed him roles at Great American, however short lived, and Hardly Strictly Bluegrass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His corporate successors at Great American Music Hall, by contrast, aren’t even pretending to support grassroots music scenes in San Francisco. Earlier this year \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/will-corporations-ruin-live-music-in-the-bay-area/Content?oid=14129707\">I asked Danny Bell\u003c/a>, a Goldenvoice talent buyer in San Francisco, if Great American patrons should expect the sort of local programming that Bedard brought to the venue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is it a priority? It’s tough to say,” Bell said. “I think it just naturally happens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Chicago, local club owners recently rallied to oppose the inclusion of several Live Nation-run venues in a new waterfront development, saying city tax incentives on the project effectively subsidized their corporate competitors. Bedard and Zawinski aren’t sure political organizing is a solution. “Even if a venue is thriving, there’s the looming question of how much more the landlord can make by redeveloping the property,” Bedard said. “It’s bigger than the music industry.” \u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even the San Francisco Entertainment Commission, a government body tasked with regulating and promoting nightlife, sounds defeated by the cascade of closures and corporatization. Discussing news of Mezzanine’s ouster at a hearing last month, the commissioners bemoaned “greed,” and wondered if some other city officials could “put some pressure on the landlord.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13831544\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13831544\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/MG_8562-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The crowd at Mezzanine on May 5 during night three of the 2018 Mutek festival.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/MG_8562-1.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/MG_8562-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/MG_8562-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/MG_8562-1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/MG_8562-1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/MG_8562-1-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The crowd at Mezzanine on May 5 during night three of the 2018 Mutek festival. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For music venue success stories, you’d have to expand the definition of “music venue” to accommodate the broader performing arts. Counterpulse, the Center for New Music, The Lab (which is currently \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/mission-nonprofit-seeks-buy-historic-redstone-building-keep-tenants-place/\">rallying\u003c/a> to buy its building), and the Grand Theater have all opened or reopened since 2013, and this past year provided crucial outlets for improvised, experimental, and electronic music. But their shared nonprofit status, involving heavy reliance on grant support, illustrates the difficulty of subsisting on a traditional mix of ticket and drink sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are reasons for optimism. Noise Pop, the booking outfit with close ties to Another Planet, will bring dozens of shows to independent venues—including the Swedish American Hall, Rickshaw Stop and Bottom of the Hill—as part of its decentralized annual festival in February and March. And Bedard, rebounding from the loss of two jobs, months ago launched Talent Moat, bringing choice lineups to independent venues including Thee Parkside, the Chapel and the Knockout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In 1991, rock critic Gina Arnold stood under the 115-degree Arizona sun at a stop of the pioneering touring festival, Lollapalooza. The event was in its first year; Nine Inch Nails, Siouxsie & the Banshees and Ice-T headlined; tickets were $27; and the organizers had “this hippyish belief in music to elevate people,” Arnold recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-seven years later, music festivals have swelled into a big business. Save for a few exceptions, two companies run the show: Goldenvoice—whose repertoire includes Coachella, Stagecoach and Firefly—and Live Nation, which produces Bonnaroo, Austin City Limits, Sasquatch! and dozens of other fests around the country. Attendance costs have ballooned to several hundreds of dollars and that hippie spirit has given way to corporatization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arnold, who once wrote for \u003cem>Rolling Stone\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Spin\u003c/em> and \u003cem>East Bay Express\u003c/em>, and now teaches at the University of San Francisco, studies the communal power and changing nature of the rock festival in her new book, \u003ca href=\"https://www.uipress.uiowa.edu/books/9781609386085/half-a-million-strong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Half a Million Strong: Crowds and Power from Woodstock to Coachella\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13845467\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/half-a-million-strong-book-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"334\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/half-a-million-strong-book-cover.jpg 334w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/half-a-million-strong-book-cover-160x239.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A comprehensive history of every American rock festival would be too unwieldy, so Arnold gave herself strict parameters: the events in question couldn’t take place in stadiums and had to draw over 400,000 people in attendance. With these guidelines, Arnold maps out a social history of music festivals in the United States. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rock festival, she argues, sells a promise of utopia. For one weekend, attendees can enjoy a respite from the individualistic, isolating culture of capitalism and the work week’s grind. But more often than not, the promise is doomed from the start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We go to the rock festival with these high ideals,” Arnold says. “It holds out to us things that we really want in life: community and a sense of connection. But when you get there, it’s actually a harsh environment with a lot of crowds, noise and distress. … Sometimes, it extends to much worse things, especially if you’re a non-male, non-white person. What does it mean if our idea of utopia isn’t enjoyable for non-white, [non]-males?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With large-scale festivals, this utopia-for-sale is mostly accessible to the privileged among us. To attend the “best weekend of the summer,” as Los Angeles’ FYF Fest sells it, attendees shell out hundreds for admission, travel and Instagram-worthy outfits. Once there, a “no ins or outs” policy forces the purchase of beer, food and other wares at high markups. The respite is there—depending on your tax bracket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13842831\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13842831\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MG_4552-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The crowd at Treasure Island Music Festival 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MG_4552.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MG_4552-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MG_4552-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MG_4552-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MG_4552-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MG_4552-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The crowd at Treasure Island Music Festival 2018. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>In Half a Million Strong\u003c/em>, Arnold highlights the tension between festivals’ utopian aims and the quest for profit. She examines how heavyweights of the 1960s, like Woodstock, Altamont and the Monterey International Pop Festival, laid the idealistic foundation for the modern-day music festival. Raves get a chapter as the natural extension of those ’60s fests, but Arnold looks at how the capitalistic aims of promoters complicate their ambitions of peace, love, unity and respect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While examining these tensions, Arnold also looks to lesser-known events that have uplifted marginalized communities and advocated for social good. Wattstax festival in Los Angeles in 1972, a benefit put on by Stax records on the seventh anniversary of the 1965 Watts riots, offers an example of a festival that—boasting a bill of Isaac Hayes, the Staples Singers, Richard Pryor and Carla Thomas—carved out a refuge for and by black folks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That human need for a sense of community, Arnold explains, is why festivals are in more demand today than ever. “There’s just a real emptiness in people’s experiences now,” Arnold says of the increasingly private and isolating experience of our technology-driven society. “People just have a huge hunger for what I called in the book ‘listening together’—that sense of being a part of something larger.”[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the changes the festival landscape has undergone, Arnold still believes that sense of belonging to something bigger can exist. She’s seen it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1991, she flew to Olympia, Washington for the International Pop Underground Convention. Only 450 people showed to watch Fugazi, The Melvins, Bikini Kill, Bratmobile and Heavens to Betsy. The small, focused festival took place as an independent music scene in the Pacific Northwest was bubbling. Nirvana was on the precipice of breaking and the riot grrrl movement had begun to gain traction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It changed my life,” Arnold remembers. “It was definitely a moment where you went, ‘There are my people, and I’m going to be with these people for the rest of my life.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That festival worked because it was small and knew its audience. Today, Arnold argues, smaller, niche festivals might be better suited to quench our thirst for a collective musical experience than the carnival-like behemoths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13840941\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13840941\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/MG_1130-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The crowd during Rolling Loud Bay Area on Sunday, September 16, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/MG_1130.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/MG_1130-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/MG_1130-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/MG_1130-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/MG_1130-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/MG_1130-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The crowd during Rolling Loud Bay Area on Sunday, September 16, 2018. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Production companies seem to realize this, too. This year, Goldenvoice put on the alternative, Latinx-focused Tropicalia in Long Beach. Santa Ana venue and promotion company The Observatory has spent the last year or so booking genre-focused events like the R&B-heavy Soulquarius, reggae fest One Love and Day N Night, a survey of internet rap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the way they got out of the trap,” Arnold says of promoters’ move to downsize. “I think that’s the only way that it became sustainable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These specialized events hold the most potential to make good on the philosophical pledge. As for the giants, who knows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t have this belief the that music will make people better,” Arnold says. “They just think of it like, ‘Well. you’ll have a fun weekend. We’ll make money, you’ll have a great time.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Gina Arnold reads from \u003c/em>Half a Million Strong: Crowds and Power from Woodstock to Coachella\u003cem> at the Santa Clara Valley Brewing Company on Dec. 1. Details \u003ca href=\"https://www.scvbrewing.com/event/book-release-half-a-million-strong-gina-arnold/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In 1991, rock critic Gina Arnold stood under the 115-degree Arizona sun at a stop of the pioneering touring festival, Lollapalooza. The event was in its first year; Nine Inch Nails, Siouxsie & the Banshees and Ice-T headlined; tickets were $27; and the organizers had “this hippyish belief in music to elevate people,” Arnold recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-seven years later, music festivals have swelled into a big business. Save for a few exceptions, two companies run the show: Goldenvoice—whose repertoire includes Coachella, Stagecoach and Firefly—and Live Nation, which produces Bonnaroo, Austin City Limits, Sasquatch! and dozens of other fests around the country. Attendance costs have ballooned to several hundreds of dollars and that hippie spirit has given way to corporatization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arnold, who once wrote for \u003cem>Rolling Stone\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Spin\u003c/em> and \u003cem>East Bay Express\u003c/em>, and now teaches at the University of San Francisco, studies the communal power and changing nature of the rock festival in her new book, \u003ca href=\"https://www.uipress.uiowa.edu/books/9781609386085/half-a-million-strong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Half a Million Strong: Crowds and Power from Woodstock to Coachella\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13845467\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/half-a-million-strong-book-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"334\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/half-a-million-strong-book-cover.jpg 334w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/half-a-million-strong-book-cover-160x239.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A comprehensive history of every American rock festival would be too unwieldy, so Arnold gave herself strict parameters: the events in question couldn’t take place in stadiums and had to draw over 400,000 people in attendance. With these guidelines, Arnold maps out a social history of music festivals in the United States. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rock festival, she argues, sells a promise of utopia. For one weekend, attendees can enjoy a respite from the individualistic, isolating culture of capitalism and the work week’s grind. But more often than not, the promise is doomed from the start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We go to the rock festival with these high ideals,” Arnold says. “It holds out to us things that we really want in life: community and a sense of connection. But when you get there, it’s actually a harsh environment with a lot of crowds, noise and distress. … Sometimes, it extends to much worse things, especially if you’re a non-male, non-white person. What does it mean if our idea of utopia isn’t enjoyable for non-white, [non]-males?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With large-scale festivals, this utopia-for-sale is mostly accessible to the privileged among us. To attend the “best weekend of the summer,” as Los Angeles’ FYF Fest sells it, attendees shell out hundreds for admission, travel and Instagram-worthy outfits. Once there, a “no ins or outs” policy forces the purchase of beer, food and other wares at high markups. 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She examines how heavyweights of the 1960s, like Woodstock, Altamont and the Monterey International Pop Festival, laid the idealistic foundation for the modern-day music festival. Raves get a chapter as the natural extension of those ’60s fests, but Arnold looks at how the capitalistic aims of promoters complicate their ambitions of peace, love, unity and respect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While examining these tensions, Arnold also looks to lesser-known events that have uplifted marginalized communities and advocated for social good. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the changes the festival landscape has undergone, Arnold still believes that sense of belonging to something bigger can exist. She’s seen it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1991, she flew to Olympia, Washington for the International Pop Underground Convention. Only 450 people showed to watch Fugazi, The Melvins, Bikini Kill, Bratmobile and Heavens to Betsy. The small, focused festival took place as an independent music scene in the Pacific Northwest was bubbling. Nirvana was on the precipice of breaking and the riot grrrl movement had begun to gain traction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It changed my life,” Arnold remembers. “It was definitely a moment where you went, ‘There are my people, and I’m going to be with these people for the rest of my life.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That festival worked because it was small and knew its audience. Today, Arnold argues, smaller, niche festivals might be better suited to quench our thirst for a collective musical experience than the carnival-like behemoths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13840941\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13840941\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/MG_1130-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The crowd during Rolling Loud Bay Area on Sunday, September 16, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/MG_1130.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/MG_1130-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/MG_1130-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/MG_1130-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/MG_1130-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/MG_1130-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The crowd during Rolling Loud Bay Area on Sunday, September 16, 2018. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Production companies seem to realize this, too. This year, Goldenvoice put on the alternative, Latinx-focused Tropicalia in Long Beach. Santa Ana venue and promotion company The Observatory has spent the last year or so booking genre-focused events like the R&B-heavy Soulquarius, reggae fest One Love and Day N Night, a survey of internet rap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the way they got out of the trap,” Arnold says of promoters’ move to downsize. “I think that’s the only way that it became sustainable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These specialized events hold the most potential to make good on the philosophical pledge. As for the giants, who knows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t have this belief the that music will make people better,” Arnold says. “They just think of it like, ‘Well. you’ll have a fun weekend. We’ll make money, you’ll have a great time.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Gina Arnold reads from \u003c/em>Half a Million Strong: Crowds and Power from Woodstock to Coachella\u003cem> at the Santa Clara Valley Brewing Company on Dec. 1. Details \u003ca href=\"https://www.scvbrewing.com/event/book-release-half-a-million-strong-gina-arnold/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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