Tag Archives: Dawoud Kringle

Spotify Pisses On Us And Calls It Spring Rain.

A Report by Dawoud Kringle

Spotify has augmented its corporate policy to avoid paying Artists. It has been bundling audiobooks with music by independent artists on Spotify, calling this a “discounted packet.”

In April 2024, Spotify announced that it now considers all its Premium plans ’bundles‘.

In October, Spotify started offering 15 hours worth of audiobooks with its Premium plans for free by ‘bundling’ access to audiobooks with its Premium services. Alongside its decision to classify its Premium music services as bundles, Spotify has also been making moves to offer different types of subscriptions focused on the various types of content it provides. One example is a $9.99 per month standalone audiobook tier in March in the US. On its Q1 earnings report on April 23, Spotify co-founder and CEO Daniel Ek confirmed that a new ‘music-only’ subscription tier is coming to the platform.

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CD Review: SoSaLa “1994 – Live at CBGB”

SoSaLa 1994Artist: SoSaLa
Title: 1994-Live at CBGB
Format: CD (Limited edition of 100) and digital
Record label: DooBeeDoo Rec
Genre: NO WAVE

(Note: the CD is numbered, autographed, and 24bit fidelity)

Digital and International Releases: January 3, 2025
Distributed Worldwide by CD Baby

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Counterculture? What Counterculture?

An Editorial by Dawoud Kringle
(Originally published in https://dawoudtherenegadesufi.substack.com/. Reprinted with Permission)

Music has always been a major part of any culture and counterculture. It always will be. This phenomenon is hard-wired into all human society. Music possesses the power to change a society’s character. The cultural upheavals of the United States during the 1960s are a perfect example of this.

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