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If a dystopic voice asking you “to fulfill your mission” of rounding up undocumented immigrants has snuck its way onto your streaming airwaves, you’re far from the only one. In the last month, online users have reported seeing and hearing an increased amount of recruitment advertising from the Department of …

For all of its convenience, streaming platforms like Spotify and Apple Music have introduced a brutal kind of efficiency to how we listen to music. Algorithms prune and shear outliers, molding our tastes into perfectly symmetrical vectors filled with the same familiar superstars — Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny, Drake (still). …

New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani was once a rapper named Mr. Cardamom — and his rap career is still past tense. On Oct. 4, attorney Jim Walden, who recently backed out of his own independent mayoral campaign weeks before the November election, made an X post featuring an Apple …

Lucas Woodland, frontman of the Welsh post-hardcore band Holding Absence, recently made a disturbing discovery on Spotify: an AI-generated act that cites his band as an influence has more monthly listeners than their human inspiration. Holding Absence has been around for a decade; the AI “band,” Bleeding Verse, only launched …

Spotify launched in 2008 as a problem solver. Napster, the peer-to-peer music service that allowed users to download songs illegally, was in the rearview, and Apple’s iTunes stepped in to give legitimacy to a new consumption method: buying tracks. Music fans then, like in the decades before — spanning everything …

Spotify co-founder Daniel Ek will step aside as CEO of the streaming platform and move up to a new role as executive chairman. Ek announced his decision in a letter shared with Spotify staff on Tuesday, Sept. 30. The corporate shuffle will go into effect Jan. 1, 2026, with Gustav …

Electro-pop duo Sylvan Esso have returned with their first new single in three years — which is being released on their new record label, Psychic Hotline — and announced their decision to pull their music from Spotify. The track, “WDID,” is an urgent, cutting blast of agit-pop filled with grinding …

The Life of a Showgirl might be the most anticipated album on Spotify, like ever. On Monday, the streaming service announced that Taylor Swift‘s 12th studio album surpassed five million pre-saves on the platform, surpassing the record held by The Tortured Poets Department. Monday’s announcement also comes as Spotify revealed …

Under new rules Spotify announced today, an AI “band” like the now-infamous Velvet Sundown will still be allowed on the service, but would be encouraged to label itself properly from the start. Overall, Spotify has zero intention of eliminating AI-generated music from its service, execs said Tuesday, in a press …

Spotify is feeling the thunder of Hilary Duff‘s musical comeback. Rolling Stone can exclusively reveal that searches for Hilary Duff on the streaming service increased by 400 percent after she announced that she would be returning to music after a decade away. The growth across Duff’s catalog is massive: U.S. …