Month: January 2022

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have jumped into the Spotify/Joe Rogan fracas ... urging the platform to blunt "serious harms" over COVID misinformation. As you know, the couple has a lucrative deal with Spotify -- $30 mil -- but they've come out swinging, with their rep saying, "Since the inception of Archewell, we have worked to address the real-time global misinformation crisis. Hundreds of millions of people are affected by the serious harms of rampant mis- and disinformation every day." The rep went on ...  "Last April, our co-founders began expressing concerns to our partners at Spotify about the all-too-real consequ...

One of the most shocking — and one of the cutest — couples to come out of 2021 is without question Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker. But this new throwback photo Kourtney posted may prove that this couple wasn’t so shocking, and actually, a serendipitous pair that was meant to be. Related story Kourtney Kardashian & Travis Barker Sent Khloé a Sign of Support Amid Tristan Thompson's Betrayal On Jan 29, Kourtney posted a couple of photos of her a few years ago, captioned “June 2018” — but this isn’t your typical concert throwback photo. In the photo’s focus, we see Kourtney rocking to the show in a jean jacket, but we also see her future husband Barker in the ...

Add Joni Mitchell and Nils Lofgren to the #ByeSpotify team. Mitchell – who recently was feted at the Kennedy Center Honors – said on her website Friday that she stands with fellow Canadian-born artist Neil Young in wanting her music removed from streaming service Spotify. Lofgren, who played on Young's latest release "Barn" as a member of Crazy Horse and is also a member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, posted a note Saturday on Neil Young Archives website announcing that "we’ve now gotten the last 27 years of my music off Spotify." "We are reaching out to the labels that own my earlier music to have it removed as well," his message said. "We sincerely hope they honor our wishes, as Neil’s labels have done, his. We will do everything possible towards that end and keep you posted." Sp...

The pair first raised the issue last April and have continued to urge Spotify to root out misinformation, a spokesperson for their foundation, Archewell, said on Sunday. Their invention comes after Neil Young and Joni Mitchell both asked Spotify to pull their music from the platform, objecting to its popular "Joe Rogan Experience" podcast in which the host has made frequent false and inaccurate claims surrounding vaccines and Covid-19. "Last April, our co-founders began expressing concerns to our partners at Spotify about the all too real consequences of COVID-19 misinformation on its platform," an Archewell spokesperson said in a statement. "We have continued to express our concerns to Spotify to ensure changes to its platform are made to help address this public health crisis." "We lo...

US news In a row over Covid misinformation, Spotify sided with the wildly successful podcast host over Neil Young Sun 30 Jan 2022 05.00 EST Some 20 years ago, Joe Rogan was a reality TV host, fronting Fear Factor on NBC, in which hapless contestants faced dangerous, scary or gross stunts.The Joe Rogan v Neil Young furore reveals Spotify’s new priority: naked capitalism | Eamonn FordeNow he’s one of the most powerful figures in American media, though often little acknowledged or actively shunned by the country’s coastal elites. He is sometimes left-leaning but says he detests identity politics and political correctness. He appears committed to some forms of social justice but is amenable to conservatives. The Joe Rogan Experience podcast – the vehicle for his enormous wealth and power ...

Rock musician Nils Lofgren, best known as a member of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band as well as Young’s Crazy Horse, on Saturday became the latest artist to join a protest kicked off by Young, saying in a statement that he, too, would “cut ties with Spotify” and urged “all musicians, artists and music lovers everywhere” to do the same. Singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell also said she plans to remove her music from Spotify in solidarity with Young “and the global scientific and medical communities.”