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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

From the perspective of a music fan, streaming is, unfortunately, a spectacular product: the universal jukebox! If some have a twinge of discomfort about the ethical compromises that enable its ...

Mood Machine,' a mix of investigative reporting and cultural criticism, focuses on how Spotify has reshaped how we listen to music: "This is a book that’s about music, but it’s also a book ...

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 ...