Neil Young‘s music is officially coming back to Spotify. The singer-songwriter revealed today (March 12) via his newsletter Neil Young Archives that he made the executive decision to put his music back on the platform after it was no longer the exclusive home for The Joe Rogan Experience podcast.
Though Young didn’t call out Rogan or the podcast in the letter, he previously had removed his entire catalog from Spotify due to Rogan spreading misinformation surrounding COVID-19 and preventative vaccines and measures.
The Joe Rogan Experience is also now available on Apple and Amazon streaming platforms.
“My decision comes as music services Apple and Amazon have started serving the same disinformation podcast features I had opposed at SPOTIFY,” Young said. “I cannot just leave Apple and Amazon, like I did Spotify, because my music would have very little streaming outlet to music lovers at all, so I have returned to Spotify, in sincere hopes that Spotify sound quality will improve and people will be able to hear and feel all the music as we made it.”
You can read Young’s full statement below.
Spotify, the #1 streamer of low res music in the world – Spotify where you get less quality than we made, will now be home of my music again.
My decision comes as music services Apple and Amazon have started serving the same disinformation podcast features I had opposed at SPOTIFY. I cannot just leave Apple and Amazon, like I did Spotify, because my music would have very little streaming outlet to music lovers at all, so I have returned to Spotify, in sincere hopes that Spotify sound quality will improve and people will be able to hear and feel all the music as we made it. Qobuz and Tidal, where my music is presented, are all High res as well.
I hope all you millions of Spotify users enjoy my songs! They will now all be there for you except for the full sound we created. Hopefully Spotify will turn to Hi Res as the answer and serve all the music to everyone.
Spotify, you can do it! Really be #1 in all ways. You have the music and the listeners!!!! Start with a limited Hi res tier and build from there!
Nearly a year after dropping his fourth studio album, Timeless., Davido is still riding the high. After all, the music has proven to align with the album’s title — timeless. Today (March 12), the Nigerian superstar shared the video for “Away,” a fan-favorite song from Timeless
In the video for “Away,” Davido reaps the fruits of his later. As one of the biggest names in Afrofusion, he has certainly earned the right to party. Throughout the clip, Davido flies across the world in private jets and parties at some of the most lavish clubs.
Afrofusion and Afrobeats music has seen a boom across the world, with several artists within the realm dominating streaming charts. In an interview with Ebony, Davido credited the spread of Afrofusion to social media. And through it all, he has his team and his day ones by his side.
“We have social media now and it’s easier to find stuff,” said Davido. “It’s easier to connect the two cultures. The two cultures are the Western culture and African culture. So I feel like Afrobeat is that bridge right now that’s really bridging the gap between the two cultures and bringing both cultures together.”
The 2024 NFL free agency class looked to be loaded at the top with defensive line talent, both on the inside and on the edge, but unsurprisingly as the deadline to keep players from hitting the open market approached, teams got to work locking up some of the top stars on the defensive front.
Chris Jones and Justin Madubuike landed lucrative long-term deals to stay in Kansas City and Baltimore respectively, while Josh Allen and Brian Burns each got the franchise tag from the Jaguars and Panthers. That meant the top available EDGE rusher was unquestionably Danielle Hunter, as the Vikings star pass rusher was coming off of a season in which he racked up 16.5 sacks along with four forced fumbles and 83 combined tackles.
Hunter has reached double figures in sacks in each of his last four healthy seasons (he missed 9 games in 2021), proving himself as a consistent threat to put heat on opposing quarterbacks. That is something every team is looking for, and he figured to find a fairly robust market for his services once free agency opened.
The team that moved in to land Hunter was the Houston Texans, who gave him a two-year, almost fully guaranteed $49 million deal to form a formidable pass rush duo with the reigning Defensive Rookie of the Year, Will Anderson.
Danielle Hunter has agreed to terms with the Houston Texans, to return home! 2-years, 49m with 48m fully guaranteed. Contract has 51m total max. Deal done by @zekesandhu@KlutchSportshttps://t.co/AvjNkqGE3f
It is effectively a defensive end swap, as the Vikings signed Jonathan Greenard to a long-term deal to replace Hunter, and the Texans responded in kind by going out and signing Hunter. Anderson and Hunter figure to give opposing tackles nightmares, and it’s little surprise Houston would look to the defensive side of the ball for a splash signing to further bolster DeMeco Ryans’ group.
Abbott Elementary is having quite a star-studded third season. In the first six episodes alone, the Award-winning sitcom has had guest spots from Josh Segarra, Casey Frey, Sabrina Brier, Jalen Hurts, Jason Kelce, and most recently Bradley Cooper. It seems like everybody who’s anybody is vying for a spot on Abbott — including one St. Louis rapper.
Today (March 13), “Skee-Yee” hitmaker Sexyy Red expressed interest in appearing on the show.
“How I get on Abbott elementary?,” said the rapper in a post on X (formerly Twitter).
Though she didn’t expand upon this, nor has the show’s creator Quinta Brunson responded, it wouldn’t be the first time a rapper has guest starred on Abbott Elementary. Last season, Vince Staples had a multi-episode arc.
Plus, this is all part of Sexyy’s plan to become a household name, as she previously revealed in an interview with Billboard.
I’m going to just be getting richer, bigger, more trendier. I’m going to be everywhere,” she says. “I’m going to be in it for the long haul, [but] not even on purpose, though. Even if I try to stop rapping, they’re going to take some sh*t, turn it into something, put me on the blogs, make it something it doesn’t even have to be, so Imma be here for a minute.”
Donald Trump has always played the part of the smart businessman, but what if — and hear us out — he’s not? What if it’s all an act and he’s not all that great with money or with creating products that people want? His record of failed products would certainly suggest the latter. Truth Social, the former president’s rinky-dink Twitter clone, has stuck around for about 2 ½ years, but it’s never blown up, its future has repeatedly been in doubt, and the big guy has reportedly made nada off of it. It’s such a burden to him that, according to a new report, he once tried to dump it on someone far wealthier than he is.
A new report by The Washington Post claims that last summer Trump was looking to find a buyer for his MAGA social media service, which has long been the exclusive home to his deranged posting. Among those he approached was Musk. Musk said no, possibly in part because he was a little busy creating endless fires at the much bigger social media service he’d purchased late the previous year.
Still, the report shows Trump and Musk have communicated more than people have previously known, with advisers to the former alleging that they’ve pow-wowed a number of times about “politics and business,” which might help explain that rightward turn he’s made in the last few years. As it happens, last week a report emerged that Trump had visited Musk and some other figures wealthier than him, begging them for some much-needed scratch.
The Post reached out for comment and received this from a Trump Media spokesperson: “We heard Trump and Musk were actually discussing buying the Washington Post but they decided it had no value.” Unlike Truth Social, of course.
American Football is celebrating a huge milestone this year. This fall marks the 25th anniversary of their eponymous debut album, which is often referred to as LP1 on by fans. Beginning this spring, American Football will embark on an international tour, performing for fans across various territories.
In addition to their European shows, today (March 12), American Football has announced additional U.S. shows.
Presale for the American Football anniversary shows will begin this Wednesday (March 13) at 10 a.m. EST. A Spotify presale will begin two hours later at noon EST. On Thursday (March 14), local venues will have their own presales beginning at 10 a.m. local time. General onsale begins Friday (March 15) at 10 a.m. EST. Fans can register for the presale here.
You can see the full list of dates below.
05/30 — Milan, Italy @ Alcatraz
06/01 — Barcelona, Spain @ Primavera Sound
06/02 — Barcelona, Spain @ Primavera Sound in the City
06/04 — Madrid, Spain @ Copérnico [SOLD OUT]
06/06 — Porto, Portugal @ Primavera Porto
06/30 — Manchester, UK @ Outbreak Festival
09/11 — Nottingham, UK @ Rock City
09/12 — Glasgow, UK @ Barrowland Ballroom
09/14 — London, UK @ Roundhouse
09/27 — Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
09/28 — Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
10/11 — Las Vegas, NV @ Best Friends Forever Festival
10/12 — Los Angeles, CA @ El Rey
10/13 — Los Angeles, CA @ El Rey
10/25 — Washington, DC @ Howard Theater
10/26 — New York, NY @ Warsaw
10/27 — New York, NY @ Warsaw
Periods have been giving people a run for their money since the beginning of time. It’s a pretty safe bet that nobody likes them. If there was a way to replace them with a text message, email or post card that simply read, “not pregnant this month,” people would happily sign up for that instead. There are so many better ways to deliver the message than debilitating cramps, irritability, headaches and the need for menstrual products.
Emily Vondy took to social media to show her attempt to psyche herself up for her period, and it’s got people laughing. The woman appears to be standing in a mirror filming herself do a pep talk to prepare herself for her upcoming menstrual cycle. But it was honestly probably doing the opposite, though the song is clearly a bop.
“The average woman has about 450 periods in her lifetime, which adds up to ten years. Ten years of our lives will be spent menstruating and I don’t want all those years to suck, so this is my attempt to gaslight myself into thinking my period is super cool,” Vondy says to open the video.
Yikes! Ten years seems a bit excessive, mother nature, but that’s the point of the tune Vondy starts rapping. Pointing out the reason people have periods and how cool our bodies are may make the cramps of a period not seem so bad. Again, not sure it will have the desired effect but commenters really felt her jam was on point.
“Are my kids of homeschooling age yet? No. Do I have a daughter? No. Will this song be apart of our homeschool science curriculum? Yes. Yes it will,” one woman writes.
“Ohhhhhh my gosh!! No lie THIS…. This song should be reproduced and used in Health classes all around. It’s VERY on point of what to expect or should expect and gives the needed encouragement. I’m going to save it for my now 4yr old daughter. It’s fun,” another says.
“Straight to the point NOT PERPENDICULAR this was the most valiant effort I can imagine for period hype. Go team,” someone encourages.
There were puns made in the comments as well and a little confusion on her math with people wondering how periods only lasted 10 years of life. Vondy explained that she meant if you added up all the minutes a person was actively on their period then it adds up to 10 years. Either way, everyone seemed to agree the song was a banger and should be used in curriculum and available on iTunes.
Ari Aster is still a few years from 40, yet he’s already a major auteur. He has two sui generis horror hits on his CV; a semi-pricey underperformer that has future cult item written all over it; and a superfan in no less than Martin Scorsese. He can do whatever he wants, with whatever cast he wants. So it’s not surprise that his next film, which beings production this week, is a) part of a semi-uncool genre, and b) has quite the cast.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Aster’s next film is called Eddington, and it’s described as a “contemporary Western” concerning, per THR, a “small-town New Mexico sheriff with lofty aspirations.” Who’s in it? None other than Joaquin Phoenix, who was very game as the ever-harried titular lead in Aster’s mind-melting epic Beau is Afraid.
As for the rest of the cast, Phoenix will reunite with his Irrational Man costar Emma Stone, who’s hot off a pretty exciting Sunday. The happily ubiquitous Pedro Pascal will be in it, too, as will Austin Butler, recently seen duking it out bald — if sadly sans Sting codpiece — in Dune: Part Two. The cast (or at least that made public thus far) is rounded out by Luke Grimes, Deidre O’Connell, Michael Ward, and Clifton Collins Jr.
Who’s footing the bill for another star-studded Ari Aster mindf*ck? A24, of course, who have always happily given him carte blanche to make whatever he wants, even if it’s a three-hour Jewish mother joke that was never going to turn into another Hereditary or Midsommar (but which definitely bewitches those on its madcap wavelength).
In their Instagram post announcing the title, cast, and genre, A24 claimed Eddington was “coming soon,” but it’s probably not. Let the man work.
We are just days away from Kacey Musgraves‘ fifth studio album, Deeper Well. And ahead of the album, the “Too Good To Be True” hitmaker is offering a group of fans the ultimate listening experience. On Thursday (March 14), New York City’s famed Webster Hall will host A Conversation with Kacey Musgraves: A Look into Deeper Well, which arrives by way of a partnership between American Express and Kacey Musgraves.
Over the course of the event, Musgraves will play the album in its entirely, just hours before its wide release. She will also do a live Q&A about the making of the album and the creative process that went into it. Additionally, she’ll also share a new video for AmEx’s “Story Of My Song” series, as she breaks down the making and meaning behind the Deeper Well track, “Dinner With Friends.”
Tickets will be available exclusively for American Express cardholders to purchase beginning Wednesday (March 13) at 10 a.m. via AXS. Each ticket will cost $20, and fans are allotted two tickets per customer.
Doors for A Conversation with Kacey Musgraves: A Look into Deeper Well open at 7 p.m, and the show begins at 8 p.m.
Deeper Well is out 3/15 via Interscope and MCA Nashville. Find more information here.
So much of the financial advice we get from social media, television, and podcasts focuses on the instant gratification of wealth. Experts promise ways to get rich fast, proposing we cut spending on everyday items – those frilly Starbucks drinks and organic avocados … and eggs – in favor of putting an extra few dollars a week into our checking accounts. Then, if we let time and the apps, the ebooks, the online courses they’re pushing do the work, those bills will accumulate, making us millionaires in one year, or three, or five.
Gabe Dunn isn’t calling bullshit on those how-tos, but they are resetting some expectations with their Bad With Money series.
“I’m never trying to make people rich,” Dunn tells UPROXX. “I’m just trying to make people not as stressed out.”
Instead, their chart-topping podcast promises to be a safe haven for the “not-billionaires of the world,” a place where the financially challenged can learn the basics about things like budgeting, investing, paying off debt, and saving for retirement from some of the most lauded, recognized names across multiple industries — without feeling embarrassed, ashamed, or defeated by their knowledge gaps. It’s a platform where guests can laugh, and cry, and laugh while crying about money – the necessity of it, the unfairness, the ability it has to change lives and ruin them, the sense of accomplishment that comes with learning to manage it, but most of all, the relatability of it all.
Most of us, at one point, have struggled with money, and it’s that thread that Dunn tugs on in their talks, weaving professional advice from the likes of Senator Elizabeth Warren with their own heartfelt, personal experiences as a Queer and trans-best-selling author, comedian, and TV writer just trying, like us, to figure this all out.
Here’s what they’ve learned so far.
1. We Need To Talk About Money More
According to Dunn, who used to pay for everything in cash, avoided credit cards like the plague, and thought one needed a map to “get to the stock market,” what makes money so terrifying for most people is the fact that we don’t talk about it enough. That’s true in the workplace when it comes to discussing salaries with fellow employees. It’s true in our schools, where money management is rarely taught in the classroom. And it’s true in our personal lives – in conversations with friends and family – where topics like debt, savings, and building credit still, weirdly, feel taboo.
“I thought [money] was terrifying,” Dunn admits. “I didn’t know anything. I didn’t know that there were different types of savings accounts. I didn’t know how people retired. I saw money as sort of a day-to-day struggle. My parents were like that. There was no, ‘We have retirement plans.’ I mean, friends of mine whose fathers opened their bank accounts when they were 15? There was nothing like that.”
Once Dunn started their podcast though they realized just how many financial sectors benefit from our lack of knowledge. It’s basically a form of passive gatekeeping and it’s doing a hell of a job keeping us in the dark.
“The biggest mistake would be thinking that you just don’t know enough,” they explain. “A lot of this stuff is just in jargon, but it’s actually not that difficult. I think sometimes obviously stuff is presented a certain way because they want you to hire someone. They want you to hire a financial advisor or whatever. There’s a whole industry. Why would they let you know how to do it yourself?”
2. Start Asking Questions
It might be a bit tedious at first, but Dunn recommends doing the research yourself. Pick a topic you’re curious about and just start typing in a search bar. If you work for a company and you’re wondering about the health of your retirement plan, send an email to your HR department. If you’re looking for ways to invest in the stock market, ask a friend who’s already doing the same thing.
“I just had to research and learn,” Dunn says. “I think a big thing for me was asking and calling. I think sometimes people hide that stuff [but] there are people around that are just sort of waiting for you to ask. HR is just sitting there waiting to do things. So if you go over and you say, ‘Hey, I want to learn about my 401k,’ they’re not going to be like, ‘That’s weird.’ They’re going to be like, ‘Oh, okay, great. That’s my job.’ I had an IRA for years before I realized I could call [the company] and there would be an advisor there. I was like, ‘Hey, I’ve had this IRA for a year.’ And he’s like, ‘Yeah, you were kind of supposed to call in the beginning to talk to me about it.’”
3. Budgeting Is Key And Everyone Can Do It Better
No one likes pulling up their bank account, especially if the number is going to be low, but knowing your monthly intake is key to budgeting and budgeting is key to, well, everything else.
“When I was starting, the first thing I did was go through my bank account and label everything,” Dunn says. “‘What is this? What did I spend on this?’ And I color-coded it. It took me three days and I cried the whole time, but I color-coded it. And I was like, ‘Okay, what am I spending the most on?’ This was in 2016. Now there are apps that’ll do it for you, but I was doing it by hand. I had to see what I was spending.”
One of Dunn’s most requested episodes was the chat they had with fellow podcaster Tiffany Aliche, a financial educator and host of The Budgetnista. The tips they learned during their talk are ones they implement to this day.
“I realized the people are clamoring for budget information,” Dunn says. “What’s hard is that a lot of budget information is really shaming and really doesn’t take into account people’s actual lives. They’ll be like, ‘Okay, we’ll cut cable. That’s how you save money.’ And these people are like, ‘I don’t even have a TV. What are you talking about?’ There’s such a disconnect between the people giving information and the people asking for information.”
But Aliche’s approach felt accessible, whether someone was saving for an expensive trip or just trying to put away a few dollars at the end of the month.
“She asked you to break it down into tiers of A, B, and C,” Dunn explains. “’A’ stuff is stuff you can’t cut like rent and healthcare. ‘B’ is middle stuff that does actually matter to you. And then ‘C’ is kind of take it or leave it. She would say, ‘When you start cutting things, people get really anxious and they just cut a bunch of A stuff. But you can cut one A thing, or you can cut three C things. It just helps you organize it.’ I liked her approach.
4. Look At Everything
If you’re trying to claw your way out of debt (and who isn’t these days) then the best piece of advice Dunn has is to dig up every bill that tells you what you owe. Look debt in the face, have a good cry over it, and then get to work.
“Just look at everything,” they say. “Put everything together, every credit card, every loan. Look at everything.”
Once you’ve done that, pay back smarter, not harder. That means you don’t necessarily need to tackle the biggest chunk of change first.
“For credit and for loans, look at the interest rate, that’s the simplest thing,” Dunn continues. “You can say, ‘Oh, I have a $9,000 loan and I have a $2,000 loan,’ but if the $2,000 loan has 15% interest, you got to get on that one first. People don’t look at interest rates enough.”
5. Disaster Prep – Financially At Least
Even if you’re a guru when it comes to investing or paying off loans, there’s this thing called life and it happens to everyone. It happened to Dunn recently, it happened to guests on her podcasts, and it’ll happen to you – an accident, an injury, a diagnosis, or a repair that comes unexpectedly and with a hefty price tag. Ridding yourself of debt is great, learning stock market lingo is fun, but putting away money for a rainy day you know will come is essential. It’s not necessarily sexy to talk about the way those other things are, but Dunn insists on doing it anyway.
“Tax laws change, then inflation happens, then there’s a recession, then a pandemic hits. I realized that you can know everything and think that you know enough or that you’re perfect, and then something will just slam into you. Like a medical bill, a tooth falls out, or someone hits your car. It’s just never-ending,” Dunn says. “I did an episode a while ago that I loved called ‘What If You’re Fucked?’ about a friend of my dad who was in a motorcycle accident and lost a leg, and he was obviously not expecting that. A friend of mine, her mother was [a victim of] identity theft.” Dunn adds that, “these are people who are living in the real world who’ve had something happen to them, and it’s not really their fault.”
Ultimately Dunn wants to reach those people, the ones like them who are just trying to master the basics to live more comfortably, maybe even a bit freer from financial stress. They’re still “extremely mad” at money, at knowing how much they still don’t know, and at the way capitalism and our financial systems consistently fail us. That’s where the intersectional theme of their money advice podcast comes in, setting itself apart from the rest of the get-rich crowd. But, at the end of the day, Dunn just wants to demystify finances a bit, to build a community where the most basic questions get asked (and answered) without any strings attached.
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