It may be the most unkindest cut of all for touring musicians and Cadence Weapon wants it to stop. Rollie Pemberton, has announced an initiative that he hopes will stop an enduring music industry practice: venues taking a percentage of an artist’s merchandising sales, which Pemberton said is undeserved. “The thing that is really frustrating about this is that we (artists) pay for the merch to be manufactured,” he said during a recent phone call. “I played a lot of festivals this year and I had to kick in hundreds of dollars over the summer,” he complained. “It’s on a lot of people’s minds and I’m done with the ‘way things were done in the past’ mentality.

Source: thestar December 06, 2022 21:12 UTC