The book, an investigation into the internal practices and cultural effects of the streaming giant, is "an entryway into a ...

Mood Machine,' a mix of investigative reporting and cultural criticism, focuses on how Spotify has reshaped how we listen to ...

From the perspective of a music fan, streaming is, unfortunately, a spectacular product: the universal jukebox! If some have ...

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

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

We’ve been hearing about Spotify “ghost artists” for years. Now, there’s an entire book dedicated to the subject – exploring, ...

When so many of us are listening to music made to order by pseudonymous human musicians on an algorithmic production line, ...

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

In the course of her extensive investigation, Liz Pelly spoke to various former Spotify curators and staff, many of which recalled that the internal pressure to add this type of 'PFC' content grew ...

The report goes into great detail, but here's the short version: rather than give individual artists some much-needed ...

In Pelly’s investigation, she found that Spotify had been working with stock-music companies like Epidemic, which offer music that tends to be played in the background rather than music that is wholly ...