It's the same reason that anyone involved in the energy industry is going to end up in Houston. It's the center of where everything is and it's where all the best jobs are. If you want to spend your career in the sticks, you can, but you'll never go as far and never be as well-paid as you will in the place where everyone else is.
It's the same reason activists cluster in big cities and you will find few of them in the suburbs.
It’s this one. We’ve been being pressured to move to LA a lot lately.
Also la entertainment business people just want you to be there if you’re doing business with them, even if it’s a convo you could have over the phone they’d rather meet up to have over priced coffee or at the very least not have to think about the time zones.
And a lot of those are last second snap decisions so You end up missing opportunities by not being able to take advantage of them the second they arrive like you would if you’re there
If you want a more direct answer to what’s happening to the scenes, gentrification and real estate financialization are shutting down venues and making the existing ones take less risks on small bands. But small bands need to be able to work for the talent pool to remain healthy, so the easiest way to do that is consolidate physically
It's the same reason that anyone involved in the energy industry is going to end up in Houston. It's the center of where everything is and it's where all the best jobs are. If you want to spend your career in the sticks, you can, but you'll never go as far and never be as well-paid as you will in the place where everyone else is.
It's the same reason activists cluster in big cities and you will find few of them in the suburbs.
It’s this one. We’ve been being pressured to move to LA a lot lately.
Also la entertainment business people just want you to be there if you’re doing business with them, even if it’s a convo you could have over the phone they’d rather meet up to have over priced coffee or at the very least not have to think about the time zones.
And a lot of those are last second snap decisions so You end up missing opportunities by not being able to take advantage of them the second they arrive like you would if you’re there
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If you want a more direct answer to what’s happening to the scenes, gentrification and real estate financialization are shutting down venues and making the existing ones take less risks on small bands. But small bands need to be able to work for the talent pool to remain healthy, so the easiest way to do that is consolidate physically
Because they want to get bigger and more successful thats why. And there is a “limit” to how big you can get in a local scene in a smaller city.
Even LA artists from the 90s dont stick around their same neighborhood (with the exception of Snoop who still lives in Long Beach)