This article is a bit of a canard as it's only focusing on the more established venues, none of which have ever been truly invested in local music (Chop Suey, Croc or Showbox). They make their money off national acts coming through town and they promote those shows like crazy, unlike the local acts which get little to no support.

I challenge these young bookers to use more creativity. The venues they manage are well known within the city, yet there has been little to no attention paid to changing the format to meet the needs of the new consumers and the existing.

Understand, they aren't complaining about not booking local acts. They are making more money than ever by not working as hard and not being creative.

Saturday night at the Substation
Early rock show from 6-9pm (all local acts)
9pm: hurricane relief show with a variety of acts from acoustic rock to queercore to hiphop, burlesque by both genders. Each act no more than 20 minutes long.
EDM from 12 to 2am.

Get creative or Zzzz