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

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 streamer contracts with production companies to create so-called “perfect fit content” that it pumps out under various ...

Liz Pelly is a textbook example of a digital native. As a teenager in the early 2000s on Long Island’s South Shore, she found a regional community of fellow pop-punk and emo fans through message ...

Each December, journalist Liz Pelly observes Spotify Wrapped day with a mix of horror and hope. For the past decade or so, Pelly has been writing critical essays and investigations into Spotify ...

Liz Pelly’s book Mood Machine, which investigates Spotify’s practice of stuffing playlists with “ghost artists” in order to avoid paying royalties to major labels like Sony and Warner ...

And what if that music were somehow organized into playlists that seemed perfectly suited not only to your tastes but to your mood at the moment? No more having to buy, no more decisions to make ...