Justice, The Chemical Brothers, Rage Against The Machine's first record, most of Porcupine Tree's music.

$100+ fees per band is less than I'd spend to see each one of these artists individually. I went to Desert Trip. GA is fine, they had massive jumbotrons and I didn't miss a second of the shows.

Yes, ticketmaster makes a fuckload of money off the fees, and you bet your ass they're collecting those fees in double on the resell market. I'm not denying that a bit. You should watch the video I linked in my earlier comment, because it lays it out better than I can but I'll use the same example John uses:

Justin Bieber "sold out" Madison square garden in minutes.

Here's what really happened: say MSG has a capacity of 10,000 tickets to sell. They release 5,000 to general sale. That leaves 5,000 tickets. They sparse those out to the artist (which actually happened in this case) and even ticketmaster themselves to sell on the resale market. All while collecting the fees in double, and paying out commissions to the artist on those double fees. That isn't even touching the companies that use bots to buy tickets and sell on the resale market.

It's most definitely a racket. It's most definitely a monopoly and market manipulation. Ticketmaster rakes in fees and percentages on tickets, then pays themselves as they own the venue. Let's not get it twisted though: everyone involved from the promoter (ticketmaster), venue (ticketmaster), and the artist are all getting paid on a massive scale depending on how large the artist is.

It's honestly really complicated the way it all works out. Last Week Tonight has a great episode on it detailing how it works and how shitty it actually is.

They aren't required to be transparent because they're a private company and those negotiations are done via private party contracts.

That's how it's always been. Ticketmaster has been a paid fall guy since the 90s.

The artists take X% of the fees that ticketmaster charges, and ticketmaster gets all the blame. Like the other commenter says: the artists themselves probably have very little to do with these contracts. That doesn't mean they don't know that a) the contract exists and b) they're gonna make money off of it.

IDLES has basically put out three albums of protest songs.

• WAR
• KILL THEM WITH KINDNESS
• GROUNDS
• MODEL VILLAGE
• DIVIDE & CONQUER

EDM

• SG Lewis
• Channel Tres
• Ross From Friends
• Bicep
• SebastiAn

Rock

• Dosser
• Swiss Army Wife
• Mom Jeans.
• Psychedelic Porn Crumpets
• Viagra Boys
• Fontaines DC

Fear Factory - Demanufacture

It's my go to angry album.

Indie labels have submission pages. Find a label that specializes in the type of music you make, find their website and email them through the channels they want you to go through.

Don't be pushy, just be you. Authenticity sells.

In the meantime make a Bandcamp and upload your music independently. Go find a show to play and get your 10,000 hours in.

I go into some more detail in my review (timestamp is 32:04). This one was bland, even if some of the songs are enjoyable.

Cracker Island is full of filler and not very cohesive. I was optimistic going in but ended up being pretty disappointed.

Damon's voice is great, and the features that were chosen had massive potential but I was pretty let down with the album. I am glad other people are liking it though, maybe it's just not for me.

That sounds and atmosphere is created partly by plugging the guitar into a bass amp.

If you've never visited the desert this album was written and recorded in, you should. The desolation of Sky Valley (the unincorporated city) is palpable even though it borders some bustling cities, it's completely understandable how they wrote this album here.

It is indeed a fantastic record

Fear Factory - Demanufacture

• Boys Noize's album Out of the Black
• Nero's album Welcome Reality
• Gesaffelstein's albums Aleph and Hyperion
• Djedjptronic's album RUR
• The Chemical Brothers' album Born In The Echoes
• The Glitch Mob's album Love Death Immortality

Plenty of the dark and heavy in electronic.

• Porcupine Tree - CLOSURE/CONTINUATION
• Silverstein - Misery Made Me
• Bonobo - Fragments
• Spoon - Lucifer On The Sofa
• Denzel Curry - Melt My Eyez, See Your Future

We have a Spotify playlist that's updated and archived every week with new releases of all genres.

Well there's plenty of fantastic metal out there. Some heavier than others. I don't really follow any metal that sounds like the classic 70s-80s metal so I don't have any suggestions there but if you like heavy stuff

• Gojira
• Between The Buried And Me
• Orbit Culture
• Kardashev
• White Ward
• Psycroptic

And a ton more have all released music in the last couple years.

• Spoon
• IDLES
• Fontaines DC
• Viagra Boys
• Porcupine Tree
• Ty Segall
• Royal Blood
• Manchester Orchestra
• Alt-J
• Kennyhoopla
• mom jeans
• Afghan Whigs
• Modest Mouse

These bands have all released albums in the last two years and were received well. There's plenty more than that, also. I've omitted metal bands since you seem to have an aversion to that genre.

It's Thrice - Artist in the Ambulance and it isn't even close for me

The Car is great! I actually reviewed it on my podcast. It's actually a great comparison to RAM, as it's music that an artist put out that is so different from their early work it's a bit jarring.

I'm unsure of how you listened to RAM; however, I highly recommend you download the FLAC files, throw on your best set of headphones and just actively listen to the whole thing front to back. I'll leave you with a quote from the album

>Once you free your mind about a concept of harmony and of music being correct You can do whatever you want

I am a huge dance music fan. Been so since the early 2000s. In 2013 when RAM dropped it was not what I, nor anyone expected. That being said, it's anything but dull. It's like you listened to the first minute of these tracks and skipped it because it's not something that can be played at a rave. Giorgio By Moroder alone is 9 minutes of masterful building and progression, and even includes a prelude of spoken word by Giorgio describing how dance and electronic music progresses.

Will these tracks ever really get played in a sweaty warehouse like Rock'n Roll? No. But that is entirely the message with this album. You're entitled to not like it, but I'll die on the hill defending this album as anything but dull and "unspectacular".

I'll bite. What's dull about it? Like, specifically. Also, what music would you consider not dull?

RIP Prodigy. Havoc's production on this track is fantastic. Truly a classic.

Papa Roach released a song today, an album last year and in 2020 and has 9.8 million monthly listeners on Spotify alone. They're still relevant, if not as popular as they were a couple a decades ago.

Animals As Leaders - The Joy of Motion

Stephan Bodzin - Powers of Ten