Its great strengths are its interviews with Spotify employees, use of internal Slack messages, and bringing into English for ...
If you think Spotify was designed to be a music platform, you’ve been tricked. Liz Pelly has the receipts. "There's a quote ...
Spotify’s perfect playlists come at a hidden cost—for the fans, for the music scenes that form around bands and, especially, ...
Spotify might seem ubiquitous in the music industry right now, but that doesn’t mean prominent musicians have to like it. In ...
In her book, music journalist Liz Pelly peels back the curtain on the Spotify algorithm and explains how it's affecting the music industry.
All of which is to say, the release of Liz Pelly’s Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Cost of the Perfect Playlist is ...
Björk isn’t staying oh so quiet about how much she hates Spotify. In fact, the streaming platform is “probably the worst ...
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— ...
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.