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Time for another tobacco ad-related indie rock controversy! Remember when Rolling Stone and Camel featured a whole gang of bands in their "Indie Rock Universe" fold-out advertisement, pissing some bands off to the point where Fucked Up and Xiu Xiu actually filed class-action lawsuits against both companies?Now, Marlboro's MXBeat concert series will bring bands like Vampire Weekend, N.E.R.D., Primal Scream, and Girl Talk to Mexico. (That MXBeat website is inaccessible outside Mexico.) One problem, though: By sponsoring these shows, Marlboro may be breaking Mexican laws against advertising tobacco.A press release from the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, an anti-tobacco group, alleges that these shows and their advertisements serve to actively market cigarettes to kids. The shows, widely promoted throughout Mexico, will take place in four cities over the next month, culminating in a huge Mexico City festival on March 14. The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids cites Mexico's 2008 General Tobacco Control Law, which makes illegal "any form of sponsorship as a means of placing the elements of any brand of tobacco products or that promotes the purchase and use of tobacco products by the population." The Campaign is calling for Marlboro to cancel the shows.Here's Campaign president Matthew L. Myers: "The government must take action to uphold Mexico's strong tobacco control law, as well as to protect Mexican youth from the influence of the tobacco industry's irresponsible and illegal marketing. With approximately 27 percent of Mexican youth smoking, we must take all possible action to uphold and enforce our laws." Since the ads for the shows carry the Marlboro name, the Campaign insists that they violate the law. Here, for instance, are a pair of ads that appeared in Mix-Up magazine, a free monthly publication:Um, yeah, that first one is pretty clearly a Marlboro ad. Even if it doesn't explicitly show cigarettes, that "Fumar es causa de cancer" disclaimer makes it pretty clear. I'm not a Mexican lawyer or anything, but the folks at Marlboro may have a legal problem on their hands here. For the bands, this whole situation isn't quite as ethically egregious as the whole Camelstonegate thing, since they presumably knew that they were signing up for a Marlboro-sponsored event. But there does seem to be a real legal issue here.
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So far Vampire Weekend’s Only God Was Above Us rollout has featured two lead singles and one revealing podcast. Today they’re revealing a third song from the album. “Classical” is a noisy, blustery track with a chaotic horn section that reminds me of Radiohead’s “The National Anthem.&am...
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Vampire Weekend: share orchestral adventure of a new single, ‘Classical’
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The track marks the third single to be released from their fifth album 'Only God Was Above Us'The post Vampire Weekend share orchestral adventure of a new single, ‘Classical’ appeared first on NME.
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Vampire Weekend: Talk OGWAU Influences, Ska, Real World Vs. Road Rules On New Podcast Vampire Campfire
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Ezra Koenig has always insisted that Time Crisis, his conversational “online radio show” on Apple Music, is not a podcast, despite that show’s big podcast energy. Now, with Vampire Weekend readying new album Only God Was Above Us, Koenig and bandmates Chris Baio and Chris Tomson have released the first episode of Va...
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Earth: Flower (Ruth Garbus, Sam Gendel, & Philippe Melanson) – “Nature’s Piano”
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New supergroup alert! Vermont musician Ruth Garbus has been active as a solo artist for a while, and they released the album Alive People last year. Meanwhile, the LA-based musician Sam Gendel has done a lot of work both inside and outside the jazz world, releasing albums like 2022’s Superstore and collaborating with people like Vampir...
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The band will be embarking on a lengthy tour this spring in support of fifth album ‘Only God Was Above Us’The post Vampire Weekend announce massive 2024 North American tour appeared first on NME.
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