Will ROSALÍA be able to book a tour through the United Kingdom with her Spanish passport without asking permission of the British government once the Brexit dust is settled? What about CHRISTINE & THE QUEENS or IBEYI with their French passports, or ROBYN with her Swedish papers? Will they have to check in with authorities before they answer those emails from GLASTONBURY? And what if the dust never quite settles? Four years after the original vote and four weeks after England's break with the EU became reality, confusion reigns in any number of areas, including the live event industry, assurances from the government notwithstanding. "We recognize the importance of the continued ease of movement of musicians, equipment and merchandise once we’ve left the EU," UK culture minister NIGEL ADAMS said in January, shortly before his country officially Brexited. But musicians don't recognize any evidence of that belief in the UK Home Office's proposed immigration policy. For starters, they're unclear why touring musicians are being addressed at all in immigration policy. "We had been into the Home Office explaining to them that touring is not the same as immigration and they didn’t really get it," DEBORAH ANNETTS, chief executive of the nonprofit INCORPORATED SOCIETY OF MUSICIANS, told the GUARDIAN. Depending who you ask, the proposed rules either will or won't require touring EU musicians to apply for visas to enter the UK, and either will or won't require them to be formally sponsored by an event organizer and prove they have enough money in the bank to support themselves. The proposed rules, needless to say, aren't written in conversational English, and it appears any actual conversations between the government and the culture industry haven't been conducted in that language either. Fearing the EU will impose similar rules on UK musicians, Annetts told the INDEPENDENT the paperwork and financial requirements will be especially hard on indie acts. "This will cut the legs off the bottom half of the music industry," she said. The Home Office swears that won't happen: "The UK attracts world-class artists, entertainers and musicians," a spokesperson said, "and that’s not going to change." That's all the live music industry is asking for. But it's looking for a policy that doesn't simply declare it, but actually makes it so... Is GRIMES' new album Silicon Valley propaganda?... "It feels as if she's there": WHITNEY HOUSTON on tour. In 2020... DEF JAM chairman and CEO PAUL ROSENBERG stepping down... Solving a ROLLING STONES copyright mystery... Onstage at a club strikes me as an extraordinarily bad place for an artist to be carrying a concealed weapon, or even a non-concealed weapon. And I don't believe BLAC YOUNGSTA or any individual musician is the problem; rather, he's a symptom of a much bigger problem we all might want to think about solving... RIP JON CHRISTENSEN, NEDDA CASEI and LINDSEY LAGESTEE.