King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard has drawn his music from Spotify.
It includes all 27 studio albums of the productive Australian rock band, plus live albums and compilations.
Explained the decision, the band wrote in a statement published on Instagram: “Hello friends. A PSA to those who are not aware: Spotify CEO Daniel Ek invests millions in AI Military Drone technology. We have just removed our music from the platform. Can we put pressure on these Dr. Evil Tech Bros to do better.”
The band’s statement apparently refers to EK’s ties to the European defense company Helsing, for which EK’s investment fund Prima Materia recently collected more than $ 600 million.
Earlier today, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard published an Instagram post about a new collection of demonstrations and wrote that the songs are “Out everywhere except Spotify (Fuck Spotify). You can start it up if you want.”
King Gizzard is the latest music team in recent weeks that leave the world’s largest music streaming service. On Thursday, the experimental rock band XIU XIU announced plans to remove its directory from Spotify, writing in a statement, “Spotify uses music money to invest in AI war drone. … Although the economic methods of all flow services are acute music, the documents they were used to use they spotify to spotify to spotify to spotify to spotify to spotify to spotify to spotify to spotify to spotify to spotify to spotify to spotify to spotify to spotify to spotify to spotify to spotify to spotify to spotify to spotify to spotify to spotify to spotify to spotify to spotify to spotify to spotify to spotify to spotify to spotify to spotify to Spotify To Spotify To Spotify Making even more money is almost beyond that is almost beyond that, “their Spotify output followed the Rock Act Deerhoof, which also removed their music from the platform, with reference to Prima Materia’s investment.
These artists are not the first to abandon Spotify of ideological beliefs. In 2022, Neil Young ignited a media -festival after requesting his music to be removed from the platform and called it “The Home of Lifehoting Covid Misinformation” due to its partnership with the controversial podcast values Joe Rogan.