December 2024
- Opinion
- Retail
We’re all suffering from qualitynesia now
Borne along on the tide of technology, it is far too easy to forget that CD players sounded better than Spotify.
- Sarah O'Connor
April 2024
How Spotify beat the artist boycotts
Taylor Swift, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and Thom Yorke have all pulled their music from the streaming giant. Eventually, all of them gave up.
- Ellen Pierson-Hagger
January 2023
US rock pioneer David Crosby dies aged 81
The musician helped set up two major bands in the 1960s: The Byrds, and Crosby, Stills and Nash. He was renowned for his guitar-playing and vocal harmonies.
- Robert Jablon
February 2022
- Opinion
- Streaming
Spotify: push into podcasts brings publishing costs
Audio streaming services now find themselves alongside online social networks, fighting pressure to police content as strictly as traditional media.
- The Lex Column
Why Spotify’s Joe Rogan problem isn’t going away
The risk for the streaming platform, which has aggressively promoted Rogan’s podcast, is that music’s biggest stars will join the protest.
- Kevin Roose
January 2022
Joni Mitchell quits Spotify in solidarity with Neil Young
The Canadian singer-songwriter said irresponsible people were spreading lies online, indicating she was leaving the streaming service in protest at podcaster Joe Rogan.
- David Bauder
Neil Young wasn’t bluffing. And now Spotify is taking down his songs
Young’s challenge to Spotify has become a high-profile, if unexpected, flashpoint in the battle over misinformation and free speech online.
- Ben Sisario
January 2021
Neil Young sells half of his 1180-strong Songbook
The deal marks the latest in a bonanza of music rights acquisitions after artists, cut off from touring income by the coronavirus pandemic, look to raise cash.
- Thomas Seal
November 2020
Crown 'unable to govern itself', inquiry hears
Crown Resorts has failed to produce legal advice saying it should not review shell accounts linked to its casinos, an inquiry has heard.
- Lucas Baird
- Updated
- Casinos
Crown says ‘honest mistakes’ on China have been fixed
Lawyers for the group say failures in managing risks to its staff in China should not have any bearing on its fitness to run its new Sydney casino.
- Lucas Baird