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 ...

Stories about Spotify’s insidious effect on the livelihood of musicians aren't new. Pelly takes that criticism further, ...

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

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