Donald J. Trump’s ill-fated rally in Washington, D.C. has claimed a music industry casualty: the relationship between Trump-boosting indie rocker Ariel Pink and his label, Mexican Summer, which announced Thursday it was dropping him from the roster.
“Due to recent events, Mexican Summer and its staff have decided to end our working relationship with Ariel Rosenberg AKA Ariel Pink moving forward,” the label said in a terse, one-sentence announcement on Twitter.
Due to recent events, Mexican Summer and its staff have decided to end our working relationship with Ariel Rosenberg AKA Ariel Pink moving forward.
All the smarts in the world that they had, all their artistic fucking genius… was just window dressing.”.
“I attended the rally on the White House lawn and went back to hotel and took a nap.
“Now I have nothing boring to listen to,” wrote Phoebe Bridgers, quote-tweeting a Pitchfork tweet about the developing controversy over Pink and Maus.
“Like an alt-rock extension of a self-satisfied 4chan user, Ariel Pink continues his episodic PR campaign to offend. »