News 0 Some Asshats on Spotify Are Stealing a Young Musician’s Work April 25th, 2024 at 4:58pm Hesher Keenan This is happening far too often.
Br00tal-lists 0 Comedian Don Jamieson’s Top 10 Comedy and Metal Tracks with Less Than 1,000 Spotify Plays April 18th, 2024 at 4:13pm Hesher Keenan Time to laugh and headbang in equal measure.
F-F-F-Feudin' 0 Dee Snider Really Doesn’t Like Spotify’s CEO December 29th, 2023 at 9:09am Mandy Scythe He’s not gonna take it anymore.
News 0 Spotify Boots Their CFO After Controversial Layoffs December 11th, 2023 at 2:53pm Mandy Scythe Things just keep getting messier.
News 0 Spotify Lays Off 17% of Workforce, CEO Explains It’s for Typically Cynical Corporate Reasons December 5th, 2023 at 10:23am Mandy Scythe The layoffs come just a week after Spotify Wrapped dropped.
News 0 Spotify Might Stop Paying Lesser Known Artists Because Of Course They Would October 26th, 2023 at 4:08pm Hesher Keenan It’s gettin’ harder out there for artists.
News 0 Metallica’s “Nothing Else Matters” Reaches 1 Billion Stream Milestone on Spotify September 1st, 2023 at 9:39am Hesher Keenan Pretty good for a song James didn’t even want to show anyone.
News 0 Dani Filth Calls Spotify “The Biggest Criminals in the World” June 16th, 2023 at 2:44pm Hesher Keenan Spotify ain’t paying artists very well.
News 0 Study: Want to Make an Average Wage Off Spotify Streams? Move to Mississippi April 28th, 2023 at 12:59pm Hesher Keenan It’s not easy at all.
New Stuff 0 Spotify will Give You More Exposure—If You’re OK with Lower Streaming Rates March 12th, 2023 at 9:00am Mandy Scythe Spotify has a new scheme to get you even more exposure. Unfortunately it will come at the expense of lower royalties.
Black Collar Workers 0 It Took 10 Years, But Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” Hit a Billion Streams on Spotify January 2nd, 2023 at 9:03am Hesher Keenan The Black Album keeps on rollin’
Metal Tech 0 It’s Not Your Fault Nobody Cares About Your Band on Spotify November 2nd, 2022 at 9:48am Hesher Keenan Might as well be streaming into the void.
Metal in the Media 0 Metallica’s “Master of Puppets” Enters Multiple Spotify ‘Top 50’ Charts Due to Stranger Things Finale July 5th, 2022 at 9:30am Emperor Rhombus Both ‘Top 50 Global’ and ‘Top 50 USA’ are here for “Master of Puppets.”
Guilty Pleasure Playlists 0 Spotify Will Create Your Stranger Things ‘Upside Down Playlist’ to Find Songs That’ll Save You From Vecna June 30th, 2022 at 12:05pm Emperor Rhombus With how our playlist looks, it’d probably just get Vecna in the mood.
Pummeling Politics 0 Spotify Pulls Service from Russia March 25th, 2022 at 2:29pm Emperor Rhombus The company cites Russia’s new censorship laws and the safety of its staff.
Everyone's Replaceable 0 Deftones Bassist Sergio Vega Announces His Departure After Deftones Post Four-Person Band Photo on Spotify March 9th, 2022 at 8:22am Emperor Rhombus Vega says, “There was no opportunity for growth for me.”
Worst Week Ever 0 Spotify Removes Joe Rogan’s Maynard Episode Over Racism, Halford Praises Neil Young, and More Top Stories of the Week February 12th, 2022 at 8:38am Emperor Rhombus Also includes Keith Buckley, Guns N’ Roses, Fripp and Toyah, and a whole lot of opinions about Spotify.
...And F*ck You Too 0 Disturbed’s David Draiman to Anti-Spotify Artists: “Blame Yourselves…Streaming Saved Music” February 11th, 2022 at 10:43am Emperor Rhombus What a shmuck.
F-F-F-Feudin' 0 Neil Young To Spotify Employees: “Get Out of That Place Before It Eats Up Your Soul” February 8th, 2022 at 8:21am Emperor Rhombus Aw, and he was doing so well.
F-F-F-Feudin' 0 Phil Labonte to Spotify CEO Daniel Ek: “You’re Kind of A Pile…I Wouldn’t Wanna Be Your Friend” February 7th, 2022 at 12:57pm Emperor Rhombus Did…did we just agree with Phil Labonte?