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

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

Liz Pelly’s Mood Machine offers a history of the biggest player in streaming.

The streamer contracts with production companies to create so-called “perfect fit content” that it pumps out under various ...

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 ...

Still, their house didn’t survive the Eaton Fire. The book “Mood Machine” explains how Spotify contracts with production companies to create so-called “perfect fit content” that it releases under ...

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