With the proposal to repeal net neutrality rules set for a vote by the FCC, a growing list of musicians have signed a statement in support of and in defense of net neutrality.
Among those, members of Fugazi, Neutral Milk Hotel, Wilco, R.E.M., Alison Mosshart, Kronos Quartet, Antibalas, Craig Finn, GWAR, Mike Watt and more.
The full list of text is available here, along with a countdown to the vote, which is just over a day away. Music for a Healthy Internet notes that “we’ve built careers and big parts of our lives around our passion to music—creating it and connecting with listeners. Today, the internet is one of the primary places this work happens.”
It continued, “Unfortunately, the FCC’s current proposal would amount to a sharp turn in the opposite direction. It would allow big cable and wireless companies to create new pay-to-play fast lanes, disadvantaging those who cannot pay for preferential treatment, and replicating the industry’s past problems with payola.”
Here’s a full list of the participating artists.
18th & Addison
Aabaraki
Aaron Wagner
Adron
Afi Scruggs
AJ Pantaleo
Alan Epstein
Alec Ounsworth (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah)
Alison Mosshart (The Kills, The Dead Weather)
Allan Wilson (!!!, Secret Drum Band)
Alot Alot
Amanda Palmer
American Lions
Amy Klein
Andrew Adkins
Anna Altman
Antibalas
Antietam
Apostle of Solitude
Arthur Noll
Arrington de Dionyso
Asa Horvitz
Auburn X
BATHS
Beauty Pill
Bedroom Hijinks
Betsy Ganz
Black Belt Eagle Scout
Blue Lotus
Bob D’Amico (Sebadoh, Fiery Furnaces)
Bottle Caps For Dollars
Bound by Entrails
Braille Stars
Brave New Girl
Brendan Canty
Brent Knopf (Ramona Falls, Menomena, Eyelids)
Brian Henneman, Bottle Rockets
Brodie Jenkins (Cathedrals)
Bryan Divisions
Bucket
Bunny’s A Swine
Calamity Jane
Califone
Cheer-Accident
Ché Aimee Dorval
Chris Faroe
Citizen Ten
Craig Finn (The Hold Steady)
Cuddle Formation
Cumulus
Cursive
Dagan Thogerson (Murder by Death)
Dan Friel (Parts & Labor, Upper Wilds)
Daniel Wagner
Daniel Wander
Dark Rodeo
Darrell Westrick
Dave Easley
Dave Narcizo (Throwing Muses)
David Bazan
David Poe
David Rosane & the Zookeepers
Deborah Crooks
Declan Zapala
Deerhoof
Delerium Tremors
Dennis Driscoll
Denver Meatpacking Company
Dethrone the Deceiver
Devin Gallagher (Typhoon, Ghosties)
DJ Spooky
Dogleg
dominoThief
Downtown Boys
Dubais
Dubistry
Dude York
Earth
Eli Janney
Elijah
Eluvium
EMA
Emily Reo
Enablers
Erin McKeown
Erocka Kwal
Flash Car
Fred Thomas
Flobots
Franz Nicolay
GRYPT
GWAR
Gabriel Teodros
Gaian Heart Tribe
Gas Hound
Glassmen
Golden Hour
Good Shade
Harry & The Potters
Hazel
Hazel Atlas
Helen Kellers Ukulele
Helen Kelter Skelter
Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst
HousePlant
Hurry Up
Ian MacKaye
Iji
Insect Ark
Iron Curtain
It Keeps Snowing
J Shogren
Jace Clayton
James Radcliffe
James William Roy
Jane Don’t
Jarboe
Jared Benge
Jay B
Jeff Mangum & Astra Taylor, Neutral Milk Hotel
Jeff Rosenstock
Jeff Tweedy & Spencer Tweedy
Jeffrey Lewis
Jen Strickland
Jeremy Bible
Jesse R Berlin
Jill Sobule
Jimmy Keane
Joe Royall
John Kyle
John Wilkes Booth
John Zay
Jon Spencer
Jonathan Edwards (Panic Room, Luna Rossa)
Jonny X and the Groadies
Julie Cafritz (Free Kitten, Pussy Galore)
Julie Cira & The Wake
Kathy Foster (The Thermals)
Keba Robinson (Crosslegged)
Kevin de Souza (Uptown Boys Choir)
Killer Mike
Kimya Dawson
Kristin Forbes
Kristin Hersh
Kronos Quartet
Kyle McDonald (ZAUM)
Kyle Morton (Typhoon)
Ladykiller
Lapel
Laurie Marie
Lee Baines III & The Glory Fires
Lee Rose
Lightbath
Lisa Schonberg (Secret Drum Band, Explode Into Colors)
Little Big Noise
Loch & Key
Lovely Little Girls
Mad Hallelujah Tribe
Mag.Lo
Marcia Liebenow
Mark Empire
Matthew Caws (Nada Surf)
Matthew Romain
Megabog
Melkbelly
Merchandise
Merrill Garbus (tUnE-yArDs)
Maggie May Morris (Genders, Sunbathe)
Michael Peterson
Mike Sturgill
Mike Watt
Mike Wroblewski (Genders, Paper Brain)
Mirah
Muse en Lystrala (Sirenne, Geek Musica, Crown of Melusine, Umbra Oceania)
Mutual Benefit
My Morning Jacket
Naked Blue
Nate Sabat (Mile Twelve)
Neko Case
Nicholas Hewitt
Nichole Wagner
Nylon Otters
Of Sleeping Bears
Okilly Dokilly
P.J. Franco and The Burnouts
Pallet House
Personal Best
Petaluma
Pete Gitlin
Peter Fish
Peter Stone Brown
Pieter Hilton (Typhoon, Deathlist, Sunbathe, Genders, Secret Drum Band)
Pile
Priests
Pyrosonic
R-SHON
R.E.M.
Rachel Blumberg
Rachel Marco-Havens
Radiator Hospital
Rah Zen
Rebecca Gates
Reeves Gabrels
Rob Alley
Robert “Neutron” Sound
Roland Marconi
Rosali
Rübezahl
STIG
Sacha Mullin
Sarah Fausett
Sarah Shook & the Disarmers
Scarves
Seconds Before Landing
Seluekos
Seracs
Silvio Navarro
Simone White
Skating Polly
Skye Wallace
Slow Mass
Slow Wolves Club
Snow Bored
Space Coyote
SpaceWalker
Speedy Ortiz
Spencer Douglas
Spoonboy
Stay Inside
Stella
Steven Shanks (TimidBlue)
Summer Cannibals
Superchunk
Swearing At Motorists
TW Walsh
Taarka
Tanya Donelly (Belly)
Tara Jane O’Neil
Team Dresch
Thao & The Get Down Stay Down
The Beginner’s Mynd
The Blow
The Buzzards of Fuzz
The Easy Leaves
The Furr
The Goat Wizard
The Josephines
The Moonracers
The New Restaurants
The SpeNerds
The Superweaks
Thrust Club
Thunderfish
Tift Merritt
Tim Lulofs
Tobi Vail (Bikini Kill, Spider and the Webs)
Told Slant
Tom Smith
Trash Panda
Turnip King
Tyler Stacy
Universal Doctrine
Urðarmáni
Vince SanFilippo/The Artist Formally Known As Vince
West of 69
Whims
Wild Cody
Wild Nothing
Will Johnson
Will Sheff (Okkervil River)
Will Stratton
Wimps
World Children’s Choir
Worriers
Xaddax
xtraspicy
YACHT
Zachary Lipez (Publicist UK)
Zohra Atash (Azar Swan)
Zoë Keating
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