Hey I'm Brian Hyatt and this is Rolling Stone Music Now. There is so much to talk about today.

We're going to start by talking about the Neil Young versus Joe Rogan versus Spotify situation.

Now it's not just Neil Young and then Johnny Mitchell pulling their music from

Spotify.

India Ari has followed in their footsteps.

She's concerned about what she sees as Joe Rogan's racially charged language, as well as unsatisfied with Spotify's payouts to artists.

And Crosby Stills and Nash have also joined the boycott.

After we play my conversation with Andy Green, we're going to talk about the weird CD

revival with Rob Sheffield and Brittany Spannos. Does CDs really deserve to come back? I don't really think so, but

Rob and Brittany do. But let's get straight to my

conversation with Andy Green. So much has happened so quickly between New Young

Spotify and Joe Rogan, but to recap, Joe Rogan, very popular pod podcast on Spotify, kind of their marquee name.

He has a big contract with him to exclusively host his podcast.

He had a bunch of episodes where he talks about the COVID-19 vaccines.

I think it's fair to say that he is at least

edging towards the territory of becoming a skeptic of the COVID-19 vaccines. I

think that's probably an understatement. I think many of his fans would say he's just someone who asks questions

but in this particular case it does appear that he's beginning at least to adopt a

definite point of view and he's had some guests who were outliers from the scientific consensus and

it's prompted many to describe him as propagating misinformation on the show. There were some

doctors and other professionals who signed a petition to Spotify, noting that he was propagating misinformation, Rolling Stone broke that news,

and then Neil Young became aware of this and made a dramatic move. He put out a statement on his

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