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.

And she feels hopeful because, over the past several years, Spotify Wrapped day has also become an occasion to critique the practices of a company that, as Pelly argues in her new book, Mood Machine: ...

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

Björk isn’t staying oh so quiet about how much she hates Spotify. In fact, the streaming platform is “probably the worst ...

For musicians, though, Spotify has been a more existential threat than the file-sharing revolution that spawned it, because it has the veneer of legitimacy. Meanwhile, says Liz Pelly, the company ...

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

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 ...

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

The Globe and Mail spoke to Pelly about ‘ghost’ musicians, how streamers have changed how music is produced and consumed and ...

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 ...

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 ...