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After a week that saw the music streaming company's exclusive podcast host having to defend himself from accusations of COVID-19 misinformation as well as explain his past use of the N-word & racist jokes, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek wants everyone to know that "Joe Rogan's comments incredibly hurtful" and "that they do not represent the[...]

On Saturday, Joe Rogan took to Instagram in an attempt to explain his frequent use of the N-word (after 23 clips showing him using it 24 times on his podcast resurfaced recently & Spotify pulled a number of episodes) and how comparing a Black neighborhood in Philadelphia to the "Planet of the Apes" isn't racist[...]

One has to wonder if Joe Rogan knew that "damage control" was going to be a large part of his rumored $100M exclusive deal with Spotify, or if the music streaming service thought that no one was paying attention to what was going on in the podcast side of things Whatever the case, both Rogan[...]

Unlike Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, not only is Grammy-winning singer-songwriter India Arie not interested in going on Joe Rogan's Spotify podcast but she's also not interested in having her music available on the streaming service But Arie's issues with Rogan and Spotify extend beyond just the COVID-19 misinformation that's been embraced with open arms on Rogan's[...]

But then he goes and posts support for Spotify's podcast master of manipulative misinformation Joe Rogan and … yeah For those who missed the news yesterday (check it out below), Rogan posted a 10-minute video where the host claimed that he's looking to "do my best in the future to balance things out" in response[...]

In response to the recent controversy surrounding his Spotify podcast The Joe Rogan Experience and artists like Neil Young pulling their music over the streamer's lack of response to his COVID misinformation campaign, Joe Rogan posted a 10-minute video where the host claims that he's looking to "do my best in the future to balance[...]

In reaction to the controversy surrounding musician Neil Young and others pulling their music from the streaming service in response to podcast host Joe Rogan's steady stream of COVID-19 misinformation, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek posted a statement on the streaming music & podcast service (which you can check out below) announcing new & updated policies[...]

Our line-up of news & opinion topics for today includes Spotify selling its soul to Joe Rogan and kicking Neil Young to the curb, The CW's Batwoman previews Camrus Johnson's "Broken Toys," Comedy Central's South Park keeps going classy for Season 25, The CW's The Flash star Grant Gustin looks to be returning for a[...]

For those of you who haven't heard, Spotify was put into a bit of a quandary earlier this week when rock-n-roll icon Neil Young called out the streaming service for allowing celebrated man-child, sixth-most talented person on Newsradio & The Man Show B-Team member Joe Rogan pretty much free range to espouse or host any[...]

The announcement of a multi-year deal will be sweet news for podcast fans, as Bad Robot is developing a whole unit on Spotify with the help of their head of podcasts, Christina Choi Bad Robot is rolling out Bad Robot Audio, a new division dedicated to developing and producing original scripted and non-scripted audio content[...]

In September 2021, it was announced that WarnerMedia-owned cable giant HBO had extended Bill Maher's contract to host Real Time with Bill Maher for two more seasons, extending the 2003-premiering late-night talk show through 2024. In late 2020, Joe Rogan signed a deal with Spotify worth reportedly $100M The deal saw the platform become the exclusive[...]

Spotify and David S Goyer's (The Dark Knight) Batman Unburied made some major casting news over the weekend, rounding out the cast for their upcoming DC Comics audio drama. Gina Rodriguez (Jane the Virgin, Big Mouth) will be joining the cast as Barbara Gordon, the daughter of former police commissioner Jim Gordon and star detective for Gotham[...]

The Morning Show & The Daily Show star Hasan Minhaj will be getting into the riddle game, tackling the voice of the Riddler in Spotify and David S Goyer's (The Dark Knight) upcoming DC Comics audio drama Batman Unburied- and he's not alone. In addition to Minhaj, Lance Reddick (Resident Evil) as Batman's father, Thomas Wayne;[...]

But soon, you will be able to be just as bored by listening to audio-only WWE content as you are from watching their TV Shows because WWE is launching its own exclusive podcast network with The Ringer and Spotify. The official logo of the WWE. From a WWE press release: NEW YORK & STAMFORD, Conn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– The Ringer,[...]

Winston Duke (Black Panther) and Jason Isaacs ("Harry Potter" franchise) will be heading to the mean streets of Gotham City as Bruce Wayne and trusted butler Alfred, respectively, in Spotify and David S Goyer's (The Dark Knight) upcoming DC Comics audio drama Batman Unburied Originally announced back in the fall of 2020, the psychological thriller[...]

DC Comics and Spotify are basically discovering for themselves what Dirk Maggs worked out with DC Super Heroes characters in the late-eighties for BBC Radio 4 – and what DC once knew back in the forties – that super-heroes work on radio And you can do stuff with the medium that suits the genre. Batman Unburied[...]

Nearly five months after Spotify and WarnerMedia's DC Comics announced David Goyer (The Sandman, The Dark Knight) was on board to write and executive produce audio drama Batman Unburied, the companies announced on Monday that nine more shows are on tap to expand the DC audio drama universe Revealed by DC Chief Creative Officer Jim Lee[...]

Lately my Spotify, and even my YouTube, have been filled with mainly a history of podcasts and that might be why my song recommendations feel so old I can't get enough of them lately, but especially those centered around the spooky and true crime of the world As a bisexual genderqueer individual, listening to true crime podcasts[...]

When Spotify and WarnerMedia's DC Comics announced in June that the two were teaming up for a slate of narrative scripted podcasts that take a deep dive into every corner of the DCU, fans were wondering who or what would have the honor of being in the spotlight first Ironically, it's a hero who's not[...]

Spotify is announcing a multiyear partnership with Warners and DC Comics which will include original, scripted, narrative shows with DC Superheroes and Supervillains on Spotify So that the likes of Wonder Woman, Batman, Superman, the Joker and Harley Quinn may have audio dramas as podcasts Marvel Comics has recently entered this field, and the likes[...]

Xbox Game Pass and Spotify are teaming up to offer a special deal Starting today and for a limited time, players in the US and UK who upgrade to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate or join the PC beta will also get 6 months of Spotify Premium Additional details are laid out via the official Xbox[...]

You'd either have to buy the soundtracks outright from Square Enix themselves or resort to a third party. Today, however, that has changed as a ton of Final Fantasy soundtracks are now available on Spotify and Apple Music. From GameInformer: With no prior announcement, Square Enix just dropped the official soundtracks for all 15 mainline games, as well as[...]

With only a week to go before Netflix's series adaptation of Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá's graphic novel series The Umbrella Academy, the streaming service has offered up the series' official playlist for fans to debate – and salivate – over on Spotify (which you can find here). Recently, comic book writer and ex-My Chemical Romance (MCR) front man/co-founder Way teamed up with[...]

Hey kids! Have you heard about the Spotify app? Well, Archie Comics sure has, and by golly as soon as they did they knew they had to get their comics on there right away so they could capture that youthful audience! But Bleeding Cool, you ask, how the heck do you put comic books on Spotify,[...]

Ever want to use your Xbox One console as a cheap, but ultimately ineffective stereo system? Well, soon you might be able to drop your Spotify library onto your Xbox according to the latest rumors. Microsoft's Larry Hryb (aka Major Nelson) was spotted in a screenshot shared to Reddit this week that appeared to show Hryb testing out[...]

There are new Spotify playlists out there now for Blue Beetle, Deathstroke and Supergirl. The list for Blue Beetle comes from artist Scott Kolins and can be found here. Deathstroke's list was compiled by artist Carlo Pagulayan and inker Jason Paz and is here. And writer Steve Orlando, penciller Emanuela Lupacchino and inker Ray McCarthy pulled together the[...]

Spotify does it Netflix does it Amazon Prime does it on many Kindle offerings And Marvel does it with Marvel Unlimited But they are alone in the big comic book publishers to offer an all-you-can-eat subscription service, and they are rather picky regarding which books end up there Scribd does offer a multi-publisher option, but[...]

Spotify is a pretty important force in the music industry, both for consumers and distributors In fact, I'm playing it as I type I don't know many people who don't use it or a direct alternative for at least some of their listening habits. That's why this is a little bit of a coup for Sony[...]