That one of the most respected experimental bands of our era can’t tour here speaks to a deeper crisis at the heart of not only live music, but a broken record industry that works for only a small percentage of artists and major record labels, while an entire eco-system below scrambles for the scraps off the table, bands struggle to make it work. 4AD recording Sohn was the latest artist to cancel his tour this week in a post on Instagram he offered “after a couple of years of no live music so many acts are touring at the same time, I think in the boom years tickets became disrespectfully expensive, I think Covid got us used to staying at home, a lot of my audience probably became new parents (including me) and there is financial instability everywhere.