In late January, Neil Young issued an ultimatum to Spotify in response to The Joe Rogan Experience’s willful platforming of vaccine misinformation—resulting in Young’s catalog’s swift takedown from the streaming service. His critique quickly snowballed, with other notable artists removing their own music in protest of Spotify’s profit off Rogan’s message via an exclusive, $100 […]
Following a recent string of artists announcing their departure from Spotify, Failure is the latest group to remove their music from the popular streaming platform. Similar to Neil Young and Joni Mitchell’s departure, Failure cited COVID-19 misinformation as their primary reason for removing their music from the platform. Additionally, the band also cited Spotify’s lack […]
In this week’s edition of SPIN Presents Lipps Service, host Scott Lipps spoke with none other than Failure. In his conversation with Ken Andrews, Greg Edwards and Kellii Scott, Lipps discussed the band’s new album Wild Type Droid and how things have gone since their 2014 reunion. They also traced the band’s origins and career […]
Paramore singer Hayley Williams has branched out on her own in the last year with a pair of well-received solo albums, a spate of cover tunes — she even hand-delivered a song, “My Limb,” to a fan’s Nashville home. The busy artist’s latest endeavor is her acoustic version of “The Nurse Who Loved Me,” a […]
Failure has shared a newly-recorded cover of Depeche Mode’s “Enjoy the Silence.” “We originally recorded a cover of ‘Enjoy The Silence’ for the 1998 Depeche Mode tribute, For The Masses,” Failure’s Ken Andrews said in a statement. “That album has all but disappeared, no longer in print and not available via streaming platforms but we as […]