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

Its great strengths are its interviews with Spotify employees, use of internal Slack messages, and bringing into English for ...

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

Liz Pelly’s book Mood Machine, which investigates Spotify’s practice of stuffing playlists with “ghost artists” in order to avoid paying royalties to major labels like Sony and Warner ...

In her new book, Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist, she explains how Spotify’s shadowy money-making methods and data-first approach not only hurt artists of ...

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 ...