Punk Provocateur Sarah Herrera Explains Why She Pulled Her Music From Spotify
Interview in Broken 8 Records
May 14, 2025
by Thomas Bedward
On 18th April 2025, just twenty minutes after her latest album hit Spotify, punk bassist and vocalist Sarah Herrera pulled every one of her songs from Spotify. A collection of seven albums and eleven singles, encompassing over one hundred songs she had recorded and released with her bands and as a solo artist, disappeared. Her life's work, much of it written in her youth, including lyrics penned when she was just eleven, was gone with a few clicks, an act she says took just three minutes.
This wasn't a move made on a whim, but a calculated protest against the "predatory services" that she believes are "ruining the music industry in exchange for short-term profits for a handful of high-level executives." She's since pledged a radical new approach: refusing royalties, offering music only on free public platforms, selling physical media at cost, providing free digital downloads, and even renouncing her publishing rights, moving her work towards the public domain.
Hailing from The Bronx, NYC, Sarah is an artist known for her uncompromising sound, controversial approach, and unshakable passion around music. We recently caught up with her to dig into her history, the punk scene that shaped her, the inspiration behind her often-shocking lyrics, and what comes next.
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