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 ...

Along the way, as journalist Liz Pelly shows in Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist, the company has recast its product in several guises: quasi-legal ...

It was all the fault of Scandinavian social democracy. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, Sweden became a global center for music piracy largely through a perfect storm of universal and ...

In an article for Fast Company last year, Chris Stokel-Walker raised an alarming question about a certain mostly-ubiquitous ...

Along the way, as journalist Liz Pelly shows in Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist, the company has recast its product in several guises: quasi-legal ...

Spotify has morphed from a straight-forward music library and search engine into a data-driven system built to feed you songs to match your mood and optimize your time on the platform. In this episode ...

Liz Pelly (Author) 288 pages. $20 ... In a chapter on “ghost artists,” Pelly describes Spotify’s push to pad playlists with songs attributed to fake artist profiles but actually developed by ...

Mood Machine, the new book by journalist Liz Pelly, shows us all this and more.It’s an excoriating look at the history of a company that germinated as a way to circumvent the threat of online ...

In an excerpt from the book, Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist, author Liz Pelly revealed that the Swedish music platform has a secretive internal programme ...

The streaming service has completely changed what it means to make and listen to music. What can be done to reverse its enormous influence? There’s a playlist on Spotify, curated by the platform ...