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

Its great strengths are its interviews with Spotify employees, use of internal Slack messages, and bringing into English for ...

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

In her book, music journalist Liz Pelly peels back the curtain on the Spotify algorithm and explains how it's affecting the music industry.

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a debilitating mental health condition characterized by persistent low mood, loss of ...

In her new book, Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist, she explains how Spotify’s shadowy money-making methods and data-first approach not only hurt artists of ...

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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 ...

Read on for W’s most anticipated nonfiction of the season. Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist (Jan 7) 'Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the ...

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 ...