Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy has posted a lengthy statement calling for an industry-wide reparations initiative. "The modern music industry is built almost entirely on Black art," he writes. "The wealth that rightfully belonged to Black artists was stolen outright and to this day continues to grow outside their communities." He has pledged to comm...

Regional Justice Center is the fast, turbulent, hallucinatorily angry hardcore punk project led by Ian Shelton, resident of Los Angeles and sometime member of Self Defense Family. Regional Justice Center often operate as a sort of collective, but while he's been at home under quarantine, Shelton has lately been making a whole lot of music&#8...

Beyoncé has published an open letter on her website addressed to Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron. In it, she calls for swift justice for Breonna Taylor, the 26-year-old woman who was murdered by Louisville police officers executing a no-knock search warrant at her apartment in March. Last week, the Louisville city council voted to ban&...

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Jay-Z and Team Roc, the social justice arm of Jay-Z's Roc Nation management company, took out full-page advertisements in The New York Times, The Chicago Tribute, The Philadelphia Enquirer, and other newspapers around the US in dedication to George Floyd, as Rolling Stone reports.