Pop Loser: Macklemore Says Climate Pledge Arena Won’t Host His Free Palestine Tour

Welcome back to Pop Loser! This week, Macklemore says that nine US arenas turned down his Free Palestine tour, U2’s The Edge (reportedly) wrote a sequel to Elf, and Television guitarist Richard Lloyd passed away. Plus, I’ll discuss why I actually prefer Adventure over Marquee Moon. This Week in Music: This week in Strangerland, Dave Segal attended the first annual Baba Obscura festival and covered every band he saw, including Mdou Moctar, the Gories, Zookraught, the Black Tones, and more. Macklemore says Climate Pledge Arena rejected hosting his Free Palestine tour. On Friday, the rapper shared that booking shows in the US for his benefit tour has been increasingly difficult, with nine major venues turning him down, including the Amazon-owned Seattle arena. “We received available dates at these arenas through the end of the year. But once they found out these were my benefit shows for Palestine, those dates were suddenly off the table,” he wrote. “The doors were closed.

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