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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Mark Beaumont

Neil Young vs Joe Rogan: Has Young finally sparked an artists’ revolt against Spotify?

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The Ancien Régime. The House of Romanov. That MF Doom wannabe from Squid Game. To every uncaring, exploitative, top-serving system comes its moment of reckoning. And it seems Spotify has finally met its mutton-chopped Robespierre.

Last week, folk-rock titan and righteous man of plaid Neil Young insisted that his music be removed from the world’s premier streaming platform in protest at the company’s complicity in spreading anti-vax misinformation via its reported $100m exclusivity deal with Joe Rogan’s podcast The Joe Rogan Experience.

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