Nils Lofgren is the most recent to tug music from Spotify.
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Bruce Springsteen guitarist and Neil Younger bandmate Nils Lofgren is the most recent musician to take his solo work off of Spotify, in protest of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation being unfold by Joe Rogan.
Lofgren, 70, joined Canadian legends Younger and Joni Mitchell in eradicating their music from the streaming service in protest of the podcaster.
“Just a few days in the past, my spouse Amy and I grew to become conscious of Neil and Daryl [Hannah] standing with a whole bunch of well being care professionals, scientists, docs and nurses in calling out Spotify for selling lies and misinformation which might be hurting and killing individuals,” the Rock and Roll Corridor of Famer wrote on Younger’s e-newsletter Saturday.
“When these heroic men and women, who’ve spent their lives therapeutic and saving ours, cry out for aid you don’t flip your again on them for cash and energy. You pay attention and stand with them.”
Rogan has pushed unproven conspiracy theories and anti-vaccination messages on his fashionable present “The Joe Rogan Expertise.”
Spotify officers dominated his commentaries “didn’t meet the brink for elimination,” based mostly on insurance policies that permit podcasters to criticize medical steerage, based on inner memos reviewed by The Verge.
“We apply our insurance policies persistently and objectively,” Spotify PR chief Dustee Jenkins reportedly instructed staff. “They don't seem to be influenced by the media cycle, calls from anybody particular person or from exterior companions. It doesn’t imply I personally agree with this content material. However I belief our insurance policies and the rationale behind them.”
Lofgren known as on all musicians and followers to chop ties with the streaming big, which has 172 million subscribers, and has been panned for paying artists a fraction of a penny per stream.
“We encourage all musicians, artists and music lovers all over the place, to face with us all, and minimize ties with Spotify,” the Loopy Horse and E Avenue band veteran wrote. “Music is our planet’s sacred weapon, uniting and therapeutic billions of souls daily. Choose up your sword and begin swinging.”
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