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Café Tacvba Frontman Rips Trump and Calls for a Boycott of Spotify

Days after he called U.S. President Donald Trump a “terrorist” at a free concert in Mexico City, the lead singer of the iconic Mexican rock band Café Tacvba is urging record labels to pull his group’s music from Spotify. Rubén Albarrán, one of the founders of the band in 1989, is also calling on fans to boycott the online music platform.   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Rubén Albarrán (@ru.albarran) Albarrán posted this week o…

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Mexico City, Jan 8 (EFE).- Spotify rejected this Thursday that the company finances war actions, as stated by the rock group vocalist Café Tacuba, who asked Universal Music and Warner Music Mexico to remove the band’s catalogue from the service, in protest of the platform’s alleged investment in wars. “We respect the artistic legacy of Café Tacuba and Rubén Albarrán’s right to express their opinions, but the facts tell a different story. Spotify…

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The digital streaming platform Spotify rejected Thursday that the company finances war actions, as Rubén Albarrán, a vocalist for the rock group Café Tacuba, said.

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Rubén Albarrán, vocalist at Café Tacvba, reported that the band formally requested Universal Music Mexico and Warner Music Mexico to withdraw their entire musical catalogue from the Spotify platform, considering that the service contravenes the artistic vision and ethical principles of the group. Through a video broadcast on social networks, Albarrán explained that the petition was made through letters delivered to both record companies, who, un…

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Café Tacvba has made a request to its record labels, Universal Music Mexico and Warner Music Mexico, to remove their Spotify music catalogue. The band’s vocalist, Rubén Albarrán, published a video on social networks in which he explains that the reasons for making this decision are the investments in armament of the founder of the platform, the inclusion of ICE advertising, royalties and the use of artificial intelligence to the detriment of mus…

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Café Tacvba joins the list of artists seeking to remove their music from Spotify. Rubén Albarrán, a member and founder of the alternative rock band, sent a formal letter to Warner Music Mexico and Universal Music Mexico, who by contract have the right to exploit the catalogue of Café Tacvba, to ask them to download their discography from the music streaming platform, mainly for “contravening their artistic vision and their personal ethics, as we…

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