{"id":27317,"date":"2025-06-30T14:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T14:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/27317\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T14:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T14:22:09","slug":"deerhoof-to-remove-music-from-spotify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/27317\/","title":{"rendered":"Deerhoof to Remove Music From Spotify"},"content":{"rendered":"

Indie-rock stalwarts Deerhoof<\/a> will be removing their music from Spotify<\/a>. \u201c\u2018Daniel Ek uses $700 million of his Spotify fortune to become chairman of AI battle tech company\u2019 was not a headline we enjoyed reading this week,\u201d the band wrote in a statement shared online. \u201cWe don\u2019t want our music killing people. We don\u2019t want our success being tied to AI battle tech.\u201d<\/p>\n

Along with being the the co-founder and chief executive of Spotify, Daniel Ek is the founder of an investment fund called Prima Materia<\/a>. It was reported<\/a> earlier this month that Prima Materia led a new round of investment in Helsing, a defense company that sells software that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to inform military decisions. Prima Materia has been investing<\/a> in Helsing since 2021, and the new round of funding amounts to 600 million euros ($693.6 million). Helsing currently operates in the United Kingdom, Germany, and France.<\/p>\n

Beyond the opposition to Ek and Prima Materia\u2019s investments, Deerhoof criticized Spotify\u2019s utility for artists and status as a music-discovery platform. \u201cSpotify is flushing itself down the toilet,\u201d the band said. \u201cEventually artists will want to leave this already widely hated data-mining scam masquerading as a \u2018music company.\u2019 It\u2019s creepy for users and crappy for artists. Music-making lasts forever but this or that digital get-rich-quick scheme is sure to become obsolete.\u201d<\/p>\n

Deerhoof continued: \u201cOne of the claims often made about Spotify is that it theoretically makes one\u2019s music discoverable by anyone who signs up, no matter how remote they may be from the self-proclaimed centers of hipness. But just because someone is far from Western gatekeepers does not mean they lack culture, or need to hear our band. Deerhoof is a small mom and pop operation, and know when enough is enough. We aren\u2019t capitalists, and don\u2019t wish to take over the world. Especially if the price of \u2018discoverability\u2019 is letting oligarchs fill the globe with computerized weaponry, we\u2019re going to pass on the supposed benefits.\u201d<\/p>\n

Deerhoof closed their statement by acknowledging that their disappearance from Spotify will not be immediate. \u201cWe aren\u2019t sure exactly how soon the takedowns can happen, but it will be as soon as possible,\u201d they wrote. \u201cWe want to thank our various labels for their support on this tricky decision. The grunt work of pulling content off of Spotify is something they\u2019re now tasked with, and they are sharing the financial hit. We know we are asking them to make a sacrifice, and it means a lot to us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Deerhoof, who recently released the new album Noble and Godlike in Ruin<\/a>, join Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, India.Arie, and Crosby, Stills & Nash as artists who have pulled music from Spotify in recent years.<\/p>\n

Young, who has long criticized<\/a> digital streaming platforms for audio-fidelity reasons, pulled his catalog from Spotify<\/a> in 2022 in opposition to the platform\u2019s then-exclusive deal with podcaster Joe Rogan. At the time, he said<\/a> that Rogan was spreading misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic<\/a>. He returned his music to Spotify<\/a> in 2024 after Rogan\u2019s Spotify exclusivity ended and his podcast became available on competing platforms from Apple and Amazon.<\/p>\n

Joni Mitchell pulled her music from Spotify<\/a> in solidarity with Neil Young, as did Graham Nash<\/a>. Mitchell returned<\/a> to Spotify in 2024, while Nash and his band Crosby, Stills & Nash\u2019s boycott lasted<\/a> a handful of months. India.Arie protested Spotify around the same time as Neil Young, too, but she returned<\/a> to the platform in 2023.<\/p>\n

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