<\/p>\n
\u201cA cooler world is possible,\u201d Hotline TNT’s Will Anderson wrote on Instagram about their move off of Spotify – Credit: Graham Tolbert*<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Shoegaze-influenced band Hotline TNT has become the latest in a series of musicians to pull their music from Spotify<\/a>. In a statement posted to the group\u2019s Instagram, founder Will Anderson wrote: \u201cWe are leaving the Spotify streaming service. The company that bills itself as the steward of all recorded music has proven beyond the shadow of a doubt that it does not align with the band\u2019s values in any way. A cooler world is possible.\u201d<\/p>\n While Hotline did not specify the reason behind their departure, artists have been threatening to leave (and actually going through with it) Spotify for years due to a plethora of complaints. Organizations like the National Music Publishers Association<\/a>, representing the \u201cbig three\u201d music publishers \u2014 Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony Music Publishing, and Warner Chappell\u2014 have pushed for government intervention toward better payouts from the streaming giant. However, in 2022, author Roxane Gay<\/a> and rock icons Neil Young<\/a> and Joni Mitchell moved to remove their works from Spotify in light of misinformation<\/a> spread by the platform\u2019s massive Joe Rogan Experience podcast (Young and Mitchell\u2019s music have since returned)<\/a>. Then, this summer, bands Deerhoof <\/a>and King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard<\/a> pulled their catalogues, citing Spotify co-founder Daniel Ek\u2019s nearly $700 million investment in defense company Helsing, which makes military drones and AI defense software. \u201cWe don\u2019t want our music killing people,\u201d Deerhoof said in a statement. \u201cWe don\u2019t want our success being tied to AI battle tech.\u201d<\/p>\n Alongside Hotline TNT\u2019s no-more-Spotify announcement, the band shared plans for a 24-hour live stream on Twitch, YouTube, and Instagram, starting on Sept. 5 at noon ET, telethon style. They plan to sell 500 copies of their latest album, Raspberry Moon, and promise special guests, a Q&A with the band (they\u2019re collecting question submissions on their Instagram story), and prizes.<\/p>\n Best of Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for RollingStone’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cA cooler world is possible,\u201d Hotline TNT’s Will Anderson wrote on Instagram about their move off of Spotify – Credit: Graham Tolbert* Shoegaze-influenced band Hotline TNT has become the latest in a series of musicians to pull their music from Spotify. In a statement posted to the group\u2019s Instagram, founder Will Anderson wrote: \u201cWe are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1974961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[22491,322630,352521,22821,352516,352520],"class_list":["post-1974960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-instagram","tag-recorded-music","tag-sony-music-publishing","tag-spotify","tag-tnt","tag-will-anderson"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Hotline-TNT-Becomes-the-Latest-Band-to-Remove-Music-From.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1974960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1974961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1974960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1974960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1974960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}