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

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

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, ...

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

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

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 ...

Liz Pelly interviewed over 100 industry insiders, former Spotify employees, and musicians, to look at how music has become increasingly playlisted, personalized, and autoplayed. Her new book Mood ...

But, as journalist Liz Pelly, has revealed, the biggest streaming platform on the market might have been supplanting real artists with craftily assembled 'fake' artists in an effort to reduce royalty ...

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