PROFILE
A different kind of protest singer
It’s harder than ever to be an anti-corporate musician, saysEzra Furman. Once, alternative music had a powerful seam of revulsion against ‘selling out’, but that dogged purity has faded as it’s got harder and harder to simply make a living by making art. In a post-pandemic, Spotify, Brexited world, there’s a lot of reluctant pragmatism about.
In Furman’s case, the emphasis is very much on reluctant. “I feel an anti-corporate streak flaring up
