Music
No Age take a stand against Walmart with a concert in Los Angeles
by Nicole Villeneuve
June 20, 2012
The erecting of new Walmart stores is very rarely without controversy, often from a neighbourhood’s creative community. Recently, members of R.E.M., Widespread Panic, and Drive-By Truckers came together to protest a new Athens, GA store.
Today, we learned that the latest to put their politics on display are Los Angeles noise rockers No Age; they’ll headline a concert protesting a new store to be built in Chinatown. The show “aims to draw attention to Walmart’s unfair labor practices and their plans for the region, to support the small business institutions that dignify the neighborhood and to demonstrate solidarity with the vibrant music and art scene long housed in Chinatown,” according to a press release. All proceeds will go to “anti-Walmart efforts.”
[via Pitchfork]
