In January 2017, the cult-adored Boston-based trio Krill explained in a Facebook post why they’d broken up two years prior. “The indie rock world skews upper-middle class, male, and white,” they wrote. “It can feel political and leftist and radical, but it often fails to spur real action.
People sell engagement in this community as inherently countercultural, oppositional, and antagonistic to power. It's not.” Rather than continuing to participate in that scene, they’d decided to take direct action.
Bassist and singer Jonah Furman had gone to work in the labor movement, eventually landing as the National Labor Organizer for Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign.
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