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

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.

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— ...

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

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 ...

Journalist Liz Pelly and musician Ian Kamau discuss what the streaming economy means for both fans and artists.

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

Pelly’s resulting image is apocalyptic. At a time where the music ecology around Spotify continues to wither away, its bid to become an all-consuming platform means growing potential for the ...