{
  "id": 8256880,
  "title": "Sylvan Esso Return To Spotify",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/18/sylvan-esso-return-to-spotify",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-09-18T13:56:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Stereogum",
    "slug": "stereogum",
    "url": "https://stereogum.com/2511856/sylvan-esso-return-to-spotify/news/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "About a year ago, North Carolina electro-folk duo Sylvan Esso took a righteous risk, removing their catalog from Spotify in protest of founder Daniel Ek's investment in the military defense contractor Helsing. \"While no solution is perfect, we simply can't continue to put our life's work in a store that, in addition to all its other glaring flaws, directly funds war machines,\" the band wrote at…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Consequence",
        "title": "Sylvan Esso Return to Spotify After Year-Long Boycott: “It’s Unsustainable”",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/18/sylvan-esso-return-to-spotify-after-year-long-boycott-its",
        "published": "2026-09-18T15:08:41.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}