‘Mood Machine’ Review: Against the Stream
Spotify’s perfect playlists come at a hidden cost—for the fans, for the music scenes that form around bands and, especially, ...
What Spotify took from us by giving us everything
Its great strengths are its interviews with Spotify employees, use of internal Slack messages, and bringing into English for ...
In Mood Machine, author Liz Pelly tunes in to how Spotify has changed the music industry
The Globe and Mail spoke to Pelly about ‘ghost’ musicians, how streamers have changed how music is produced and consumed and ...
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What Spotify Really Costs Us
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 ...
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The Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of Winter 2025
Read on for W’s most anticipated nonfiction of the season. Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist (Jan 7) 'Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the ...