Spotify’s perfect playlists come at a hidden cost—for the fans, for the music scenes that form around bands and, especially, ...

Each December, journalist Liz Pelly observes Spotify Wrapped day with a mix ... "The story of Spotify," Pelly writes in Mood Machine, "is the story of the 21st century's overeager and opportunistic ...

In her book, music journalist Liz Pelly peels back the curtain on the Spotify algorithm and explains how it's affecting the music industry.

Its great strengths are its interviews with Spotify employees, use of internal Slack messages, and bringing into English for ...

The Globe and Mail spoke to Pelly about ‘ghost’ musicians, how streamers have changed how music is produced and consumed and ...

The history of recorded music is now at our fingertips. But the streamer’s algorithmic skill at giving us what we like may ...

Meanwhile, says Liz Pelly, the company leaches profits from working musicians while preparing the ground to replace those musicians with AI-generated neo-Muzak. The broad strokes of the indictment ...

Liz Pelly is a textbook example of a digital ... a Simon & Schuster imprint has just published Pelly’s first book, “Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist.” ...

Mood Machine,' a mix of investigative reporting ... By Mesfin Fekadu In music journalist Liz Pelly’s new book, she writes about how Spotify and the streaming business has reshaped how we listen ...

Each December, journalist Liz Pelly observes Spotify Wrapped ... “The story of Spotify,” Pelly writes in Mood Machine, “is the story of the 21st century’s overeager and opportunistic ...