Podcast odd couple: Obama, Springsteen in Spotify series - Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen are teaming up for an eight-episode Spotify podcast series, swapping stories about their upbringings and even a White House singalong around a piano.
The audio streaming service has already worked with Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground production company, and the former first lady’s podcast is the service’s most popular original.
Spotify said Monday it was working with Higher Ground on another podcast, “Tell Them I Am,†which compiles stories from Muslim voices and will debut throughout Ramadan.The service also said it had reached a deal with Warner Brothers and DC Comics for a series of narrative podcasts, with the first being “Batman Unburied.†Director Ava DuVernay is participating in a new podcast about high profile cases of police brutality