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

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

Stories about Spotify’s insidious effect on the livelihood of musicians aren't new. Pelly takes that criticism further, ...

And she feels hopeful because, over the past several years, Spotify Wrapped day has also become an occasion to critique the practices of a company that, as Pelly argues in her new book, Mood Machine: ...

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

If you think Spotify was designed to be a music platform, you’ve been tricked. Liz Pelly has the receipts.

For musicians, though, Spotify has been a more existential threat than the file-sharing revolution that spawned it, because it has the veneer of legitimacy. Meanwhile, says Liz Pelly, the company ...

A s a consumer-facing product, Spotify has sucked for years. Whatever utilitarian elegance the platform might’ve had in its ...

Mood Machine,' a mix of investigative reporting and cultural criticism, focuses on how Spotify has reshaped how we listen to music: "This is a book that’s about music, but it’s also a book about ...

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

GQ columnist Chris Black talks to Mood Machine author Liz Pelly, who argues that the $100 billion streaming giant's rise has ...

Novelty suffers, too. By one estimate nearly three-quarters of streamed songs are over 18 months old. Compared with the raucous explosion of genres that characterised popular music until the 2000s— ...