New NY state rule bans ticketed music events at bars: ‘This is devastating'

“Music should be incidental to the dining experience and not the draw itself.”

y’know... being involved with the east coast music scene for nearly twenty years, i’ve heard more than my fair share of harsh, cold-blooded, devaluing, get-a-real-job hard-ass bootstrap hangman bullshit , but that above line is giving me hypothermia.