Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few months, the topic of conversation on the minds of bands, fans, venue owners, and on any social media platform you can find is merchandise cuts.

The practice of merch cuts, in which venues take a proportion of a band’s merchandise sales, made repeated headlines in 2023. In March, French avant-garde metal artist Igorrr refused to sell merch at ...

Metal fans love band merch, but which band's merch do they spend the most money on each year? That's one of the revelations in a recent study by Custom Ink delving into the merch-buying preferences of ...

The origin story of merch cuts has two unofficial tellings. When straightedge scenes started booking shows at bars in the 1980s, pub owners struck a deal to take a portion of a band’s merch profits to ...

American singer-songwriter Tessa Violet (@tessaviolet) went on TikTok to allege that an unnamed merch company stole all the merchandise profits from her tour, sparking a wave of similar claims from ...

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In the decades since it became a leading merch company for indie bands from Pavement and Sonic Youth up through the White Stripes and Vampire Weekend, Tannis Root and its co-owner, Bill Mooney, have ...

"Everyone has to react; it can't be just a few bands that say something." "I think in the beginning it was a way for clubs to say, 'Okay, if we have shows and not enough people are coming, we have to ...