{"id":29889,"date":"2025-07-29T11:54:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T11:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/29889\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T11:54:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T11:54:13","slug":"garbage-hole-violent-armageddon-portal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/29889\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Garbage Hole Violent Armageddon Portal&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Xiu Xiu has announced that they are in the process of removing their music from Spotify, over CEO Daniel Ek\u2019s \u201cinvestment in AI war drones\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the San Jose rock trio took to social media to announce their plans, stating: \u201cWe are currently working to take all of our music off of garbage hole violent armageddon portal Spotify.\u201d They continued, Xiu Xiu went on to say: \u201cIt is taking longer than we had hoped due to [procedural] complications, but will be completed soon. Thanks for the support and patience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They then exclaimed: \u201cFor all the reasons you already know \u2014 PLEASE CANCEL YOUR SUBSCRIPTION WITH SPOTIFY.\u201d In a caption on their post, the band added, \u201cSpotify uses music money to invest in war drones.\u201d According to <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2025\/07\/xiu-xiu-removing-music-from-spotify\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Consequence<\/a>, the band has received \u201cfull support\u201d from their three main labels: Polyvinyl, Kill Rock Stars, and Graveface.<\/p>\n<p>Xiu Xiu\u2019s announcement comes after the news that Ek\u2019s investment company, Prima Materia, is investing in Helsing, a German company that builds drones and artificial intelligence for military operations, per the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/cdc02d96-13b5-4ca2-aa0b-1fc7568e9fa0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Financial Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s certainly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/we-dont-want-our-music-killing-people-indie-rock-band-quit-spotify-over-ai-battle\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">not unprecedented<\/a> for artists to hop off the Spotify bandwagon. Even Snoop Dogg previously came out against the company and threatened to jump ship for Tune.FM, telling Billboard, \u201cI don\u2019t fuck with Spotify anymore. I\u2019m only on\u00a0Tune.FM.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Snoop alleged that he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/snoop-dogg-is-beefing-with-spotify-over-his-streaming-payments\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">making very little money<\/a> from the streamer. \u201cThey just sent me some shit from Spotify, where I got a billion streams,\u201d he said during an appearance on the\u00a0Business Untitled\u00a0podcast. \u201cMy publisher hit me. I said, \u2018Break that down, how much money is that?\u2019 That shit wasn\u2019t even $45,000.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In response to Sboop, a Spotify spokesperson said: \u201cWe can\u2019t speak to endorsement deals for Web3 companies but \u2026\u00a0$45K for a billion streams?\u00a0It\u2019s well documented that a billion streams on Spotify generates millions of dollars to rights holders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s unfortunate to hear that Spotify\u2019s payments didn\u2019t make it through to Snoop,\u201d the spokesperson added. \u201cSnoop\u2019s a legend and, hopefully now that he owns Death Row Records, he\u2019s seeing more of that money.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Xiu Xiu has announced that they are in the process of removing their music from Spotify, over CEO&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,28383,136,8154,5282],"class_list":{"0":"post-29889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-indie-rock","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-noisey","14":"tag-spotify"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}