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 and ...

If you think Spotify was designed to be a music platform, you’ve been tricked. Liz Pelly has the receipts. "There's a quote ...

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 ...

In music journalist Liz Pelly's new book, she writes about how Spotify and the streaming business has reshaped how we listen to music, and she points out some of the questionable behavior from ...

For musicians, though, Spotify has been a more existential threat than the file-sharing revolution that spawned it, because it has the veneer of legitimacy. Meanwhile, says Liz Pelly, the company ...

Spotify might seem ubiquitous in the music industry right now, but that doesn’t mean prominent musicians have to like it. In ...

All of which is to say, the release of Liz Pelly’s Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Cost of the Perfect Playlist is ...

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

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

Novelty suffers, too. By one estimate nearly three-quarters of streamed songs are over 18 months old. Compared with the raucous explosion of genres that characterised popular music until the 2000s— ...