There are so many reasons to hate Spotify if we care about music. But every time someone (artists, labels or users) quits Spotify not because of that but because the CEO invested in a company that is helping Ukraine defend itself I feel like, as an European, I'm being betrayed

This is a correct take but I would not single out Spotify. All other mainstream streaming services are guilty of different degrees of the same issues. I like that your issues with it are related to how they devalue music and artists and not because of Ek's (good) investments in European defense.

You don't, I have a personal Spotify subscription but the account I use for creating the playlists is a free one

Being at the Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona felt like being surrounded by people with Bluesky accounts

Here, and also on YouTube music and Tidal: open.spotify.com/playlist/3i8...

Also @thesickmanofeurope.bsky.social is the best band name I've seen in 2025 so I hope they're good

(The answer is “no” lmao)

Plus, Hamilton Leithauser's comeback single, another YHWH Nailgun banger, a great collab between Torres and Julien Baker, another Meernaa earworm, a bunch of songs from albums released this fall that I've only listened to last week (hemlock, Anna Butterss...), etc. Here.