Esthero News & Updates

Esthero, Mixing It Up Again

NOT THAT anybody was counting -- okay, a lot of people were counting -- but it was seven years betwe...

Oct 27, 2005 • Washington Post

Esthero To Donate '808s & Heartbreak' Royalties To BLM

While Kanye West is continuing to remind us how perpetually disconnected from the culture he is by d...

Oct 06, 2022 • Hip-Hop Wired

Esthero Says She'll Donate Her Portion of '808s & Heartbreak' Publishing to BLM

Canadian songwriter Esthero is pledging to donate her portion of publishing on Kanye West’s 808s &...

Oct 04, 2022 • Complex

Esthero: Perfect Blend

Esthero is one artist whose name has flowed through the lips of music connoisseurs as an answer to t...

Jun 19, 2005 • AllHipHop

Esthero stops her song to protest against low royalties from streaming services

The Canadian singer-songwriter interrupted the Spotify version of her new track to say the figures d...

Sep 11, 2019 • MusicRadar

ESTHERO "Wikked Lil' Grrr ...

Resurgent Canadian singer-songwriter Esthero still fancies herself a cutting-edge pop artist. We kno...

Jul 21, 2005 • Washington Post

Esthero: 7 Year Bitch

"2001. That's the release date. June/July, 2001." Esthero says this with a laugh, albeit a rueful on...

Dec 31, 2005 • Exclaim!

Esthero 'got really haunted' for new album, Everything is Expensive

The 33-year-old singer is ready for her latest re-introduction We independently select everything we...

Nov 01, 2012 • National Post

Esthero: Local Artist We Love

Esthero (at a recent School Night event at Bardot). We’d worked together on a film years ago, “D...

Nov 07, 2012 • KCRW

Esthero Protests Streaming Royalties In The Middle Of Her New Song

The Canada-born, LA-based singer and songwriter Esthero has been making music steadily since the lat...

Sep 10, 2019 • Stereogum

Esthero protests streaming royalties by interrupting her own song on Spotify

Canadian singer-songwriter Esthero is protesting against the low royalties paid by streaming service...

Sep 19, 2019 • CBC.ca

Esthero – Everything Is Expensive

Before the Weeknd, there was Esthero. The Toronto singer was a forerunner of the space-filled, hip-h...

Nov 21, 2012 • Now

Esthero: Breath From Another

Breath From Another doesn't sound like anything you haven't heard before: Smooth-voiced divas, slick...

Mar 28, 2002 • AV Club

Esthero Interrupts Her Own Track to Protest Spotify Royalties

Esthero is protesting Spotify’s low royalty rates paid to artists — by interrupting one of her o...

Sep 12, 2019 • digitalmusicnews

KPFA Music Director Mike Biggz Interviews Esthero

KPFA Music Director Mike Biggz recently had the pleasure of speaking with the wonderful and amazing ...

Jul 10, 2026 • KPFA

Esthero tactics

ESTHERO with OSCAR PETERSON and RON SEXSMITH as part of the Sonic Bloom fundraising gala for the Tor...

Jun 01, 2005 • Now

POP QUIZ: ESTHERO

It's been seven years since Esthero released her quarter-million- selling debut CD, "Breath From Ano...

Jul 16, 2005 • SFGate