The recordings catalogue of Crosby, Stills & Nash has returned to Spotify, less than six months after it was pulled in solidarity with former bandmate Neil Young’s own boycott of the streaming platform.Young, of course, launched his boycott in January in protest against Spotify-exclusive podcast The Joe Rogan Experience, which had been accused of spreading COVID misinformation.Crosby, Stills & Nash followed days later, saying in a statement that they had requested that the labels they work with remove from Spotify all of their recordings – including their solo work, and releases from their various collaborative projects, including those involving Young.“We support Neil and we agree with him that there is dangerous disinformation being aired on Spotify’s Joe Rogan podcast”, they said at the time.“While we always value alternate points of view, knowingly spreading disinformation during this global pandemic has deadly consequences”, they went on. “Until real action is taken to show that a concern for humanity must be balanced with commerce, we don’t want our music – or the music we made together – to be on the same platform”.Spotify and Rogan have both since promised to make changes, respectively in the way they monitor podcast content and deal with controversial guests.
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