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

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

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 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 ...

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 ...

In essence, she’s arguing for revolution, and she peppers Mood Machine’s concluding chapter with various examples of how people around the world are trying to lay down the seeds of that ...

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 ...

It raises the broader issue of media degradation. In some ways, Mood Machine is like a media literacy project. One of the goals is that, hopefully, users of streaming platforms will be able to ...

And what if that music were somehow organized into playlists that seemed perfectly suited not only to your tastes but to your mood at the moment? No more having to buy, no more decisions to make ...