{"id":24325,"date":"2025-07-26T00:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T00:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/24325\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T00:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T00:44:07","slug":"king-gizzard-and-the-wizard-lizard-pull-music-from-spotify-over-dr-evil-tech-bros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/24325\/","title":{"rendered":"King Gizzard And The Wizard Lizard pull music from Spotify over “Dr. Evil tech bros”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The members of prolific Australian rock band King Gizzard And The Wizard Lizard announced this afternoon<\/a> that they were pulling their music from Spotify, specifically citing the actions and investments of streaming service CEO Daniel Ek. Writing that Ek \u201cinvests millions in AI military drone technology,\u201d the band announced on Instagram that \u201cWe just removed our music from the platform. Can we put pressure on these Dr. Evil tech bros to do better? Join us on another platform.\u201d<\/p>\n

The group is the latest band to pull their music from the service over Ek, and specifically his Prima Materia investment fund, which recently raised more than $600 million in funding for military drone developer Helsing. (Ek is also chairman of Helsing, which started as an AI software developer before moving into creating and manufacturing its own drones.) Previously, bands Deerhoof and Bay Area indie band Xiu Xiu announced they were making similar moves to pull their music from the service. (Xiu Xiu\u2019s statement on their own decision, which they announced yesterday<\/a>, goes even harder than King Gizzard\u2019s, with the band writing that \u201cAlthough the financial practices of all streaming services is acutely anti-musician, the actions of Spotify to use the profits they made from essentially stealing music in order to murder people to make even more money is almost beyond comprehension.\u201d)<\/p>\n

King Gizzard actually made two announcements on social media today, also announcing that they were releasing a new collection of demos \u201cOut everywhere except Spotify (fuck Spotify),\u201d and adding, true to the spirit of the thing, \u201cYou can bootleg it if you wanna.\u201d The band recently released its 27th album,\u00a0Phantom Island, and is currently in the midst of an American leg of a 2025 world tour.<\/p>\n

[via\u00a0Variety<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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