Spotify’s response to the Joe Rogan controversy is weak – but predictable
The platform is acting now because it has to, and its action is negligible.
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Joe Rogan is far from the most controversial act on Spotify
Neil Young says he doesn’t want to share a platform with the podcaster. He could have picked plenty of other…
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Insult Taylor Swift at your peril: Damon Albarn looks sexist and out of touch
Damon Albarn is not the first man in music to undermine Taylor Swift. And he’s not the first to regret…
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Have we reached peak emo nostalgia?
The announcement of a festival of early 2000s bands shows millennial emos have reached the age when their adolescence is…
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Why so many musicians are selling the rights to their work
Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and David Bowie have all recently sold the rights to their back catalogues for hundreds of…
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On her new “mixtape”, FKA Twigs is having more fun than ever
These pop songs are more playful and less inhibited than anything we’ve heard from Twigs before.
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How Tori Amos’s Little Earthquakes confounded the music press of the 1990s
Her debut album, released 30 years ago, is a simmering ball of explosive confessional material.
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The British Library takes us inside the mind of Beethoven
The artefacts in this major exhibition are poignant aids to understanding the composer’s struggles.
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