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Boiler Room Faces Backlash Over Palestine Support and Ownership Ties

Can underground music survive corporate ownership?

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Boiler Room Faces Backlash Over Palestine Support and Ownership Ties

Boiler Room is facing backlash after its owner, Superstruct Entertainment, was acquired by KKR—a global investment firm linked to Israeli businesses. Fans and artists are calling out the platform’s Palestine fundraiser as performative activism, highlighting the contradiction between Boiler Room’s stated solidarity and its Zionist financial ties. With artists beginning to boycott, the controversy sparks a critical conversation: can underground music survive corporate ownership?

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