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Drowned in SoundThe Grassroots Pledge: Wrestling Instagram, Spotify, and the Arts Council with promoter David LittlefairWhat does it actually mean to be a grassroots music promoter in 2026?
David Littlefair joins the Drowned in Sound Podcast to discuss the grassroots pledge he's made with Marrapalooza, the DIY festival in Newcastle's Ouseburn Valley - redirecting ad spend away from Meta, refusing to book artists based on follower counts, and putting money back into the local scene instead of offshore platforms.
We also get into the bigger picture: why 85% of Arts Council music funding goes to opera and classical music while brass bands and folk get 0.6% each, how Spotify has spent fifteen years...
2026-02-241h 10
Artistpodden#19 Following up on Spotify with Liz PellyIn this follow-up episode of Artistpodden, we continue the conversation we had with journalist and author Liz Pelly at by:Larm. This time she´s "live" from the offices of GramArt, in conversation with Lasse W. Fosshaug. Building on the themes from our by:Larm discussion, this episode goes deeper into the structures behind today’s streaming economy and what they mean for working artists. About Liz PellyFor years, Pelly has investigated Spotify and uncovered how the company has changed the rules of music: from the economics of streaming to the way...
2026-02-1052 min
Tech Won't Save UsHow Spotify Remade the Music Industry w/ Liz Pelly [Replay]Paris Marx is joined by Liz Pelly to discuss how Spotify changes how we listen to music and the broader impacts it has on the wider music industry. This episode previously aired in February 2025.
Liz Pelly is a music journalist and the author of Mood Machine.
Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon.
The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Ky...
2026-01-011h 06
The ChatterboxSpotify unwrapped w/ Liz Pelly Podcast: Politics Theory Other (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Spotify unwrapped w/ Liz PellyPub date: 2025-12-03Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn 2006, the music streaming service Spotify, founded by Swedish entrepreneurs Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon was launched in the context of widespread music piracy, file sharing, and declining profits for the music majors.
Presenting themselves as music fans who were intent on saving the music industry, Spotify has since gone on to become the dominant music streaming platform, far eclipsing any of...
2025-12-201h 36
Politics Theory OtherSpotify unwrapped w/ Liz PellyIn 2006, the music streaming service Spotify, founded by Swedish entrepreneurs Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon was launched in the context of widespread music piracy, file sharing, and declining profits for the music majors.
Presenting themselves as music fans who were intent on saving the music industry, Spotify has since gone on to become the dominant music streaming platform, far eclipsing any of its rivals, and making Ek and Lorentzon billionaires.
While once lauded by the media, Spotify's reputation has significantly declined as understanding of how little most musicians receive from streaming has become more widespread and as Spotify has courted...
2025-12-031h 36
RA PodcastEX.780 Liz PellyThe New York-based journalist talks about her breakout book, Mood Machine, live from Soft Centre Festival in Sydney.
As we approach the end of 2025, it's clear that one of the year's most zeitgeist-defining books has been Liz Pelly's Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist. The New York-based writer has been on a promotional tour, speaking at festivals around the world, and one of her recent stops was at Soft Centre in Sydney, where this Exchange was recorded live with writer, editor and DJ Audrey Pfister.
Pelly's background is in the DIY scene, college...
2025-10-2232 min
RA ExchangeEX.780 Liz PellyThe New York-based journalist talks about her breakout book, Mood Machine, live from Soft Centre Festival in Sydney.
As we approach the end of 2025, it's clear that one of the year's most zeitgeist-defining books has been Liz Pelly's Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist. The New York-based writer has been on a promotional tour, speaking at festivals around the world, and one of her recent stops was at Soft Centre in Sydney, where this Exchange was recorded live with writer, editor and DJ Audrey Pfister.
Pelly's background is in the DIY scene, college...
2025-10-2232 min
RA ExchangeEX.780 Liz PellyThe New York-based journalist talks about her breakout book, Mood Machine, live from Soft Centre Festival in Sydney.As we approach the end of 2025, it's clear that one of the year's most zeitgeist-defining books has been Liz Pelly's Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist. The New York-based writer has been on a promotional tour, speaking at festivals around the world, and one of her recent stops was at Soft Centre in Sydney, where this Exchange was recorded live with writer, editor and DJ Audrey Pfister.Pelly's...
2025-10-2232 min
7amSpotify and the AI arms raceRecently, Spotify’s founder, Daniel Ek, announced he’s stepping back from running the company. He leaves as one of the richest men in his home country of Sweden – with Forbes estimating his wealth at $9.6 billion. In a departure note to staff, Ek said he wants to focus on creating more European “supercompanies” – companies he described as “developing new technologies to tackle some of the biggest challenges of our time”. The move comes months after Ek’s involvement in the global defence industry was revealed, prompting an artist backlash, with some pulling their music from the pla...
2025-10-1114 min
Big IdeasThe rise of Spotify and the costs of the perfect playlist — with music journalist Liz PellyAmerican music journalist Liz Pelly interrogates the ways Spotify and other streaming giants are reshaping music, not just for listeners, but also for the people who make it.This conversation was recorded on 28 August 2025 in partnership with The Wheeler Centre and Now or Never Festival. Discover more talks and bold conversations by following The Wheeler Centre wherever you get your podcasts or at wheelercentre.com.SpeakersLiz Pelly Music critic, author, Mood machine: The rise of Spotify and the costs of the perfect playlistLauren Taylor Senior programs and podcasts manager...
2025-09-2958 min
Artistpodden#17 Liz Pelly - Disrupting the Playlist Power GameWhat happens when a streaming service not only distributes music, but also shapes the very way we experience it? In this episode of Artistpodden, recorded live at by:Larm, we meet Liz Pelly – journalist and author of Mood Machine.For years, Pelly has investigated Spotify and uncovered how the company has changed the rules of music: from the economics of streaming to the ways algorithms rewrite the relationship between artist and listener. The conversation is both critical and hopeful, pointing to new artist-led movements demanding fairer conditions and a more sustainable music ecosystem.The episode is...
2025-09-2445 min
The Wheeler CentreLiz Pelly: Mood MachineIn the age of algorithms, music is under constant pressure to respond to mood, brand and data.Hear from music journalist and cultural critic Liz Pelly with host Lauren Taylor in this sharp and insightful exploration into how streaming platforms have transformed our relationship with music. Pelly unpacks the shift from art to algorithm-driven content, where music is reduced to a commodified experience and listeners to mere data points.Drawing from years of investigative reporting culminating in her bold exposé 'Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist', Pelly uncovers ho...
2025-09-171h 01
Swetlana AI PodcastSpotify Ghost ArtistsLiz Pelly's Harper's Magazine article exposes Spotify's "Perfect Fit Content" (PFC) program, which secretly uses low-cost, often anonymously produced music to fill playlists. Here's the article: https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machine-liz-pelly-spotify-musicians/This practice, revealed through internal documents and interviews, significantly reduces Spotify's royalty payments to artists while potentially misleading listeners. The program involves partnerships with several production companies that mass-produce this background music, impacting the livelihoods of musicians and raising ethical concerns about transparency and the devaluation of music. Pelly's investigation traces the evolution of Spotify's business...
2025-08-2308 min
The Paradigm Shift on 4ZZZAnalysing the spotify "mood machine" with Liz PellyToday we speak to music writer Liz Pelly about her recent book "Mood Machine" - a critique of algorithmic streaming monolith Spotify and what it is doing to the way we play and listen to music.
Originally broadcast 15/08/25
2025-08-2032 min
Kreative KontrolEp. #1004: Liz PellyLiz Pelly is here to discuss her book Mood Machine – The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist, loving New York City and high hopes for mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, rationality and current reality, becoming a music fan, musician, and investigative journalist, questioning authority, corporations, and oligarchs, why Spotify has become so prominent and why some of its practices warranted further examination, how randomly viral TikTok songs lead to large Spotify pay days, ghost artists and generative AI, what’s next for her, and much more. See Liz speak at Mutek Forum in Montreal between August 20 and...
2025-08-1924 min
The Music ShowLiz Pelly on the Spotify machine, and remembering jazz greats Judy Bailey and Sheila JordanLiz Pelly's book Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist has been received as an evisceration of the streaming platform and the way it has fundamentally changed the business model of music (to its own advantage) over the past fifteen years. Liz joins Andy to talk through her investigation and look at the future of music listening. And we remember American jazz singer Sheila Jordan who died this week at 96, and Australian jazz pianist and composer Judy Bailey who died last week at 89. We'll hear delightful snippets from their interview appearances on...
2025-08-1754 min
e-girl hyperboreawe read mood machine by liz pelly so you dont have to unpacking the lies behindwe read mood machine by liz pelly so you dont have to unpacking the lies behind
2025-08-111h 01
Factually! with Adam ConoverSpotify Is Even Worse Than You Think with Liz PellyIt’s no secret that Spotify pays artists extremely poorly, but it turns out they don’t treat their customers much better. Author and journalist Liz Pelly’s new book, Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist, investigates how Spotify has accelerated the collapse of the music industry, along with their shady practices such as filling playlists with stock music—fooling customers into listening to artists who don’t actually exist. This week, Adam sits with Liz to talk about how a service that brands itself around “discovery” is actually flattening the music-listening experience of...
2025-07-301h 24
RekoZikÉpisode 112 - Episode 112 - Le troisieme larron (Justice Divine, Joe Armon-Jones, The Herbaliser, Spotify)On vous avait surpris dans l’épisode précédent avec un guest de conclusion, nous revoila cette fois avec un invite sur toute la durée de l’émission, en la personne de notre ami de trente ans, Nicolas du podcast l'EntrePod! Le bonhomme nous accompagne donc sur toute la durée de l’épisode avec ses commentaires et sa reko (et on l'en remercie).
Episode en quatre partie cette fois avec d'abord l'album de Justice Divine, formation post-punk de Brest, suivis de l'un des derniers albums du claviériste londonien Joe Armon-Jones du groupe Ezra Collective pou...
2025-07-291h 52
Book Club for Masochists: a Readers' Advisory PodcastEpisode 215 - Battle of the Books 2025It's episode 215 and time for our annual Battle of the Books! This year we're each pitching a non-fiction book we think we should all read and discuss and then you (our listeners) get to vote on which one! Plus! A chance for a listener to win a book! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray 🦇 | Jam Edwards What Book Should We Read? (Click to vote by July 31st...
2025-07-1528 min
7amFake bands, real weapons: How Spotify is fuelling the arms raceSpotify has transformed how the world listens to music. But as it’s grown, the company behind it, and its founder Daniel Ek, have been reshaping more than just the music industry. Ek has become a key figure in the global defence industry, investing more than a billion dollars into military technology based on artificial intelligence. Meanwhile, Spotify itself has embraced AI in ways that many artists say undermine their work. Today, author of Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist Liz Pelly, on how Spotify’s pursuit for powe...
2025-07-1014 min
KQED's ForumForum from the Archives: Liz Pelly on Spotify and the ‘Cost of the Perfect Playlist’Spotify was originally marketed as a democratic, anti-establishment music streaming platform. But according to journalist Liz Pelly, it has become a system favoring major labels and its own algorithmic playlists featuring “ghost artists,” all while underpaying independent artists. Pelly draws on interviews with former employees, music industry veterans and artists to pull back the curtain on the music streaming giant in her new book, “Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Cost of the Perfect Playlist."
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2025-07-0358 min
Phantom PowerDeerhoof’s Greg Saunier on Critical Listening (Ciritcal Listening By Liz Pelly, and Max Alper)
This month, we have a guest pod in the feed: It’s the debut episode of Critical Listening, music technology criticism from journalist Liz Pelly and composer-educator Max Alper, “two lifers of the Northeast underground and independent scholars of streaming era dystopia.” Liz and Max’s guest is Greg Saunier, drummer and founding member of long-running band Deerhoof. They discuss the release of Deerhoof’s 20th release, as well as the challenges of making art under the hegemonic conditions of information capitalism. To learn more about Critical Listening, check out their Patreon page.
This month, we also also share...
2025-06-271h 16
Close All TabsThe Spotify Effect, Pt 1: Ghosts in the PlaylistSpotify has morphed from a straightforward 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, Morgan is joined by music journalist and author Liz Pelly to break down how Spotify built its playlist empire, the rise of so-called “ghost artists” on the platform, and how its algorithmic approach is changing our relationship to music, artists, and the culture around them. Plus, Morgan tries to solve a personal mystery: “Am I being haunted by Sabrina Carpenter?”
Gues...
2025-06-0433 min
Critical ListeningEpisode 1: Greg Saunier from DeerhoofWelcome to episode one of CRITICAL LISTENING, a new podcast about music and technology hosted by Liz Pelly and Max Alper.
How does a band survive 30 years of industry hostility to art? For our first episode, we’re chatting with Greg Saunier, the drummer of Deerhoof, who just released Noble and Godlike in Ruin, their 20th record across 30 years as a band. We talk about the political themes of the group’s recent material, resisting the AI slop machine, and whether recorded music itself is an aberration. Plus, we picked up a conversation on protecting the musical commo...
2025-05-221h 07
Sad FranciscoGhost Artists and Other Ways Spotify is Killing Music with Liz PellyEven if you don't use Spotify, the streaming platform's anti-labor orientation means it's affecting musicians and thus, the music you listen to, which Liz Pelly covers in depth in her new book, "Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist." Discussed this episode: Spotify's in-house "fake"/ghost artists, how it uses a "payola-like" system to charge artists to get discovered, Walter Benjamin's "aura loss," and more. Liz's website https://lizpelly.info Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist https://sfpl.bibliocommons.com/v...
2025-05-1240 min
New Books in Politics and PolemicsLiz Pelly, "Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist" (Atria, 2025)Liz Pelly has been closely following the evolution of Spotify and other music streaming services and the effect they have had on the music sector and musicians themselves for several years. Her book, Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist (Atria, 2025), paints a depressing picture of how the company has exploited the popularity of playlists to grab a larger share of the money we spend on recorded music. Along with the record companies, Spotify has done this at the expense of musicians themselves and especially those is less popular areas like jazz and cla...
2025-05-091h 29
New Books in EconomicsLiz Pelly, "Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist" (Atria, 2025)Liz Pelly has been closely following the evolution of Spotify and other music streaming services and the effect they have had on the music sector and musicians themselves for several years. Her book, Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist (Atria, 2025), paints a depressing picture of how the company has exploited the popularity of playlists to grab a larger share of the money we spend on recorded music. Along with the record companies, Spotify has done this at the expense of musicians themselves and especially those is less popular areas like jazz and cla...
2025-05-071h 29
New Books in MusicLiz Pelly, "Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist" (Atria, 2025)Liz Pelly has been closely following the evolution of Spotify and other music streaming services and the effect they have had on the music sector and musicians themselves for several years. Her book, Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist (Atria, 2025), paints a depressing picture of how the company has exploited the popularity of playlists to grab a larger share of the money we spend on recorded music. Along with the record companies, Spotify has done this at the expense of musicians themselves and especially those is less popular areas like jazz and cla...
2025-05-051h 29
New Books in Performing ArtsLiz Pelly, "Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist" (Atria, 2025)Liz Pelly has been closely following the evolution of Spotify and other music streaming services and the effect they have had on the music sector and musicians themselves for several years. Her book, Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist (Atria, 2025), paints a depressing picture of how the company has exploited the popularity of playlists to grab a larger share of the money we spend on recorded music. Along with the record companies, Spotify has done this at the expense of musicians themselves and especially those is less popular areas like jazz and cla...
2025-05-051h 29
NBN Book of the DayLiz Pelly, "Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist" (Atria, 2025)Liz Pelly has been closely following the evolution of Spotify and other music streaming services and the effect they have had on the music sector and musicians themselves for several years. Her book, Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist (Atria, 2025), paints a depressing picture of how the company has exploited the popularity of playlists to grab a larger share of the money we spend on recorded music. Along with the record companies, Spotify has done this at the expense of musicians themselves and especially those is less popular areas like jazz and cla...
2025-05-051h 29
KVMR NewsKVMR News Special: "Play It Again, Spotify: How Streaming Has Changed The Economics Of Music And How We Listen To It"KVMR public affairs correspondent April Glaser sits down to interview Liz Pelly, author of a new book and hard-hitting investigation into Spotify entitled Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify & The Cost of the Perfect Playlist. Joining the conversation as well is local composer Alexis Alrich.Spotify pays artists fractions of pennies per stream. But Liz Pelly's book goes even deeper to reveal how Spotify has quietly worked to remove bands and artists from its most popular playlists and replaced them with fake or ghost content commissioned for cheaper than paying actual artists. What happens when we...
2025-04-2629 min
Upsample with Carson Tworow & Will ChernoffLaunch episode! Liz Pelly Mood Machine bookWe’re live! To celebrate, we get into the topic that brought us together for the idea of this podcast in the first place: Liz Pelly’s book Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist.(0:00) We have a name(1:50) Liz Pelly's Mood Machine(1:09:57) RecommendationsRecs: Carson - artist Queralt Lahoz, Will - Land & Lore YouTube channel videos on the Vancouver Stock ExchangeFIND US: Will -YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@williamchernoff/-Rhythm Changes: https://www.rhythmchanges.ca/
2025-04-251h 12
Policy PromptPerfect Fit Content (from elevator music to your AI DJ with Liz Pelly)How do you discover music? College radio, word of mouth, serendipity — or your very own AI DJ? In 2006, Spotify’s founders discovered music as “a traffic source” for an advertising model, and have since transformed the music industry. But what are their goals or values when it comes to music and culture beyond the pursuit of profit, and what does it mean for musicians and music lovers? And why aren’t policy makers more concerned about this mega platform?In this episode of Policy Prompt, hosts Vass and Paul welcome Liz Pelly, music and media critic, and the author...
2025-04-2250 minCritical ListeningIntroducing Critical Listening (Episode 0)Critical Listening is a new podcast from journalist Liz Pelly and musician/educator Max Alper exploring music, technology, and culture.
This is episode zero, a short introduction where Liz and Max discuss how the show came to be and what they plan to cover in future episodes. What has Liz been learning on the road promoting her book Mood Machine? What's the deal with Max's online alter ego La Meme Young, and why is he backing away from it? What does it means to cover music and technology through a labor lens, and what would a neo-Luddite...
2025-04-2130 min
The Sam Sanders ShowThe Dark Side Of The Perfect PlaylistFor millions of people, the soundtrack of their lives is curated by Spotify. The streaming giant has made it easier than ever to listen to music, but journalist Liz Pelly argues that it’s also devalued music in our culture and the artists who make it. Her new book is called Mood Machine: The Rise Of Spotify And The Costs Of The Perfect Playlist. Liz breaks down how the streaming service changed the music industry. Then, KCRW DJ and host Novena Carmel shares how she thinks about music in a world dominated by algorithms.
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2025-04-0451 min
Sound Off with Katy HenriksenLiz Pelly on Mood MachineJournalist Liz Pelly joins Sound Off to unpack her new book Mood Machine: On the Rise of Spotify and Costs of the Perfect Playlist. Beyond the fact that Spotify is a tech platform more dedicated to the advertising industry than music, Pelly joins Sound Off to discuss the incentivizing of passive over deep listening and the ways in which the platform itself can be a starting point to looking at systemic issues of hyper-individuality, surveillance capitalism and the billionaire tech class. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2025-03-2719 min
Techtonic with Mark Hurst | WFMULiz Pelly, author, "Mood Machine" from Mar 24, 2025
Discussing Spotify with Liz Pelly, author of "Mood Machine"
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2025-03-2500 min
Intelligence SquaredThe Rise of Spotify, with Liz PellyMusic has become increasingly playlisted, personalized, and autoplayed. But how did we get here, and what does it mean for artists, listeners, and the music industry as a whole?In today’s episode, journalist Liz Pelly unpacks the origins of Spotify, its meteoric rise, and its transformative impact on the way we create and experience music. Whilst researching for her new book, Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist, Pelly conducted over one hundred interviews with industry insiders, former Spotify employees, and musicians.Li...
2025-03-2446 min
Nialler9I was duped by an AI musicianWould you identify an AI song if you pressed play on one? Colm Cahalane and Niall explore what's happening in AI and music now, with an example drawn from the Irish music scene in recent months.
Echoing the early Wild Wild West streaming era that we discussed last week with Liz Pelly that gave rise to Spotify's dominance, our chat this week with Colm Cahalane of Irish music Substack blog Fourth Best / Cork label Hausu finds parallels with what's happening with AI and music right now. AI is breaking new ground, and creating new problems and moral...
2025-03-211h 12
The Internet Is Deadwe read mood machine by liz pelly so you don't have to (unpacking the lies behind spotify)we talk about mood machine by liz pelly, a solution for spotify, acid communism by mark fisher, and how a general acceptance for people / rise in consciousness could improve our world on episode 52 of The Internet Is Dead (Josh Ovalle, Please Be A Guest On My Podcast) Podcast ଘ(ᵕ˵ ૩ᵕ)━☆ﾟ.*･｡(◕‿◕)♡ᕙ(‾̀◡‾́)ᕗ
2025-03-181h 01
Nialler9Mood Machine - A conversation with Liz Pelly about SpotifyThe music and cultural critic Liz Pelly's new book Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Cost of the Perfect Playlist is a deep dive into Spotify's often contentious position in music today.
Liz has been a philosophising on issues brought about by the streaming era's cultural impact for about 10 years now so the book collates a lot of work, thoughts, research and investigative reporting on Spotify and the way it operates.
We talk to Liz about the Swedish streaming giant's outsized influence on the music industry, its gatekeeper effect on trends in music, a...
2025-03-131h 04
Start A Breakthrough Full Audiobook On Your Commute.Mood Machine by Liz PellyPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/84940to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Mood Machine
Author: Liz Pelly
Narrator: Liz Pelly
Format: mp3
Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
Release date: 03-13-25
Ratings: Not rated yet
Genres: Business Aspects
Publisher's Summary:
Drawing on over a hundred interviews with industry insiders, former Spotify employees, and musicians, Mood Machine takes us to the inner workings of today's highly consolidated record business, showing what has changed as music has become increasingly playlisted, personalized, and autoplayed.
2025-03-1311h 50
Pick Please!Odcinek #85 - Najważniejsza książka o muzyce w XXI wieku? - rozmowa o Spotify i “Duchach w Maszynie”Send us a textTo może być jedna z najważniejszych książek XXI wieku o przemyśle muzycznym. A już na pewno o sposobie funkcjonowania najbardziej popularnego serwisu streamingowego dzisiejszych czasów, któremu zarzuca się wręcz szokujące praktyki. Działania, które całkowicie marginalizują znaczenie muzyki, artystów. Które zakładają tworzenie….fikcyjnych wykonawców! O tym właśnie, jak i o wynikach wnikliwego śledztwa dziennikarskiego jest książka Liz Pelly, której tytuł brzmi w oryginale “Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist”. W środowis...
2025-03-1143 minPhantom PowerThe Perfect Playlist Problem: Advertising, Ghost Musicians, and the Manipulation of Listeners w/ Liz Pelly
Liz Pelly is our foremost journalist/critic on the Spotify beat. Her byline has appeared at the Baffler, Guardian, NPR, and many other outlets. She is also an adjunct instructor at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Liz is also been making the media rounds lately, talking about her new book Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist (One Signal Publishers).
The book is both a history of Spotify and an argument that Spotify is not, in fact, a music company, but rather an advertising company focused on manipulating user behavior...
2025-02-2850 min
No Tags40: All the things Spotify didn't want you to know but Liz Pelly found outNo journalist has contributed more to our understanding of the streaming era than Liz Pelly.A contributing editor at The Baffler and a lifelong DIY scene participant, she’s been investigating the inner workings of Spotify since 2016, writing a series of increasingly alarming stories that exposed the streaming giant’s black box of profit-seeking operations: mood-based playlists filled with mysterious fake artists, lean-back listening, algorithmic curation and ‘streambait pop’.Her journalism has provided us with an arsenal of terms to better understand Daniel Ek’s dismal vision of context-free listening. And now she’s expanded her work int...
2025-02-201h 18
Money 4 NothingSpotify Culture (Featuring Liz Pelly + David Turner)This week? Heavy Hitters. As you may (or may not) have heard, journalist/Daniel Ek tormenter/friend-of-the-pod Liz Pelly is making waves with her wonderful new book “Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist.” It’s easily the best thing yet written about the company at the center of modern music, insightfully reconstructing how Spotify’s shifting interests and policies have remade how we listen, who we listen to, and what they get paid.
To get a deeper perspective on both the book and the histories it emerges from, we also called up...
2025-02-191h 28
ClipMood Machine, il saggio Liz Pelly è diventato un caso editoriale nel settore della musicaIl libro "Mood Machine" uscito qualche settimana fa è diventato un vero caso editoriale nel settore della musica. Nel saggio Liz Pelly, giornalista musicale newyorkese di testate come il Guardian o NPR e insegnante associata alla NYU Tisch, affronta l'evoluzione della musica con le piattaforme e con l'intelligenza artificiale, sia generativa che profilativa.
Oggi a Jack Matteo Villaci ha avuto la possibilità di confrontarsi con Liz Pelly, l'autrice dell'opera, proprio su questi argomenti che stanno diventando centrali nell'ambiente musicale.
L'articolo sull'intervista completo uscirà venerdì sul nostro sito, intanto ecco un piccolo estratto di quanto emerso dalla chiacchierata.
2025-02-1903 min
Art and Labor216 – Music Ecology vs the Mood Machine w/ Liz Pelly LIVEThis is the Liz Pelly interview for the real heads!! We have a (perhaps brutally) honest discussion about the state of DIY and our extractive relationship with big tech. How do we untangle? Since Silent Barn times we’ve been researching, organizing, and building alternatives. We outline some of them in a fruitful discussion of Liz’s … Continue reading "216 – Music Ecology vs the Mood Machine w/ Liz Pelly LIVE"
2025-02-141h 03
Taylor Lorenz’s Power UserHow Spotify is Ruining Music: ‘It’s About How Power Works’No platform has had more of impact on what we listen to over the past decade than Spotify. This week, Taylor is joined by journalist Liz Pelly, to discuss her new book "Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist."They discuss the profound impact Spotify has had on the music industry, culture, and the way we consume sound.Pelly reveals the truth about so-called "ghost artists" and other tactics the company has employed to squeeze artists and upend the content ecosystem.They also dig into how Spotify's...
2025-02-1331 min
The New Music Business with Ari HerstandSpotify Commissioned Cheap "Fake Artists" And She's Got the ProofThis week Ari sits down with Liz Pelly, a prominent music journalist and author of the new book Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist. Liz’s journalism has appeared in NPR, The Guardian, and Pitchfork among other prestigious publications. Preceded by an exposé in Harper’s Magazine, Pelly’s latest work, Mood Machine, pulls back the curtain on Spotify’s exploitative practices and uncovers how those practices impact artists and listeners. In this episode, Liz gives the low down on research she conducted for the book and explains how Spotify ha...
2025-02-121h 22
café snakecomplainte de la playlist dropshippéeOn explore le monde des plateformes de streaming musical, leurs rôles et leurs impacts sur le monde de la musique. On discute aussi du nouvel essor du nationalisme consumériste et le piège du dropshipping.Kanye crashout, Jack Schlossberg, Onijah au Pakistan +++Patreon: patreon.com/cafesnakeMusique:Nettspend - Growing UpRaccoon - Passenger PrinceRaccoon- PerrasLa SQ débarque sur TikTokLa Presse, Daphné B.https://www.lapresse.ca/societe/chroniques/2025-02-0...
2025-02-1159 min
Hard ForkThe Musketeers Take Washington + Spotify's Ghost Music + Tool TimeThis week, we’re joined by the Times reporter Jonathan Swan to discuss Elon Musk’s tech takeover of Washington, D.C. Then, Liz Pelly, author of a new book about Spotify, stops by to discuss “ghost musicians” and how Spotify’s algorithms are reshaping music culture. And finally — it’s Tool Time! We’ll tell you all about the new A.I. tools we’re using, plus the one that we wish existed.Guests: Jonathan Swan, a White House reporter for The New York TimesLiz Pelly, author of “Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perf...
2025-02-071h 22
The Nation PodcastsHow Spotify Remade the Music Industry w/ Liz Pelly | Tech Won't Save UsOn this episode of Tech Won't Save Us, we're joined by Liz Pelly to discuss how Spotify changes how we listen to music and the broader impacts it has on the wider music industry. Liz Pelly is a music journalist and the author of Mood Machine.Our Sponsors:* Check out Avocado Green Mattress: https://avocadogreenmattress.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
2025-02-061h 05Tech Won't Save UsHow Spotify Remade the Music Industry w/ Liz PellyParis Marx is joined by Liz Pelly to discuss how Spotify changes how we listen to music and the broader impacts it has on the wider music industry.Liz Pelly is a music journalist and the author of Mood Machine.Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon.The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Eric Wickham.Also mentioned in...
2025-02-061h 05
Audio Unleashed“It’s Like Jan Brady!”We’re on Patreon! Find us at https://www.patreon.com/AudioUnleashed
This week, Dennis and Brent discuss Danny Ritchie’s diagnosis of the legendary Wilson WATT/Puppy; can he find the cure for questionable engineering? Then they ponder whether Spotify is truly evil, and what malice might lurk in the hearts of other streaming services. And they wrap up with speculation about why a stupid article on vinyl seems to have been memory-holed entirely off the internet—and why a vinyl guru’s attempt to demo over YouTube says much about the psychology of crowds and nothing...
2025-02-051h 01
Switched on PopLiz Pelly's Mood Machine says the playlist isn't the product — you areBehind Spotify's promise of infinite music lies a carefully engineered system that shapes not just what we hear, but how music itself gets made. Journalist Liz Pelly's explosive new book "Mood Machine" rips away the curtain on streaming's biggest player, revealing how its algorithms and backroom deals dictate the soundtrack to our lives. With major labels controlling 70% of streams and Spotify commanding over 600 million users, the stakes couldn't be higher. As artists like Björk decry streaming as "the worst thing that's happened to musicians," Pelly uncovers the true cost of our perfect playlists - and what we're really s...
2025-02-0452 min
Switched on PopLiz Pelly's Mood Machine says the playlist isn't the product — you areBehind Spotify's promise of infinite music lies a carefully engineered system that shapes not just what we hear, but how music itself gets made. Journalist Liz Pelly's explosive new book "Mood Machine" rips away the curtain on streaming's biggest player, revealing how its algorithms and backroom deals dictate the soundtrack to our lives. With major labels controlling 70% of streams and Spotify commanding over 600 million users, the stakes couldn't be higher. As artists like Björk decry streaming as "the worst thing that's happened to musicians," Pelly uncovers the true cost of our perfect playlists - and what we're really s...
2025-02-0451 min
My Little UndergroundLiz Pelly Talks Mood MachineMusic Journalist Liz Pelly is on My Little Underground to discusses her motivation for writing her book, Mood Machine - The Rise of Spotify and The Costs of The Perfect Playlist. She also talks the importance of supporting local music scenes, the wild Wild West of post-piracy, pre streaming music period, the status of human curation of music in the age of streaming, and more!
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2025-01-3149 min
The Music Maven: The Latest in Music News and ReviewsNew Sounds, Rising Stars: A 2025 Music RoundupIn the vibrant landscape of music, January 2025 has been a month of exciting releases, noteworthy announcements, and insightful reflections on the industry's trajectory.### New Album ReleasesThe Weeknd kicked off the year with his highly anticipated album, *Hurry Up Tomorrow*, released on January 24. This album blends his signature sound with new experimental elements, featuring tracks like “Dancing in the Flames,” “Timeless” with Playboi Carti, and “São Paulo” with Anitta. The Weeknd is set to embark on a tour and will also make his film debut in May[2].Lil Baby started the year strong with his new...
2025-01-3003 min
Your Morning Coffee PodcastYMC Special Episode - A Conversation With Liz PellyOn this very special edition of the YMC podcast, your host Jay Gilbert has an in-depth conversation with author Liz Pelly on her recently released book entitled Mood Machine - The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist. Subscribe to the newsletter! YourMorning.Coffee
2025-01-2945 min
KQED's ForumLiz Pelly on Spotify and the ‘Cost of the Perfect Playlist’Spotify was originally marketed as a democratic, anti-establishment music streaming platform. But according to journalist Liz Pelly, it has become a system favoring major labels and its own algorithmic playlists featuring “ghost artists,” all while underpaying independent artists. Pelly draws on interviews with former employees, music industry veterans and artists to pull back the curtain on the music streaming giant in her new book, “Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Cost of the Perfect Playlist.”Guests:Liz Pelly, writer; contributing editor to The Baffler
2025-01-2857 min
The Culture JournalistThe great Spotify swindle, with Liz PellyLet’s take a step back in time to the halcyon days of late 2011, back when a little Swedish music app called Spotify landed in our app stores.Its arrival, alongside the rise of early smartphones and “public square” platforms like Twitter, seemed to herald the utopian ideals of a democratizing tech future just on the horizon. Here was an app that professed to level the playing field for music fans and artists alike via what Spotify imagined to be a “data-driven democracy”: For fans, it put pretty much any music you wanted at your fingertips, anytime. On the art...
2025-01-241h 20
Endless ScrollEscape from The Mood Machine (feat. Liz Pelly)Today we have very special guest Liz Pelly on to talk about her great new book Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist. We get into playlist payola, the new age of muzak, questioning the role of corporate power in our lives, and much more. Enjoy! Buy Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Mood-Machine/Liz-Pelly/9781668083505
2025-01-131h 01
This Is Hell!Spotify's Plot Against Musicians / Liz PellyLiz Pelly joins This Is Hell! to discuss her Harper's cover article titled "The Ghosts in the Machine: Spotify's Plot Against Musicians," excerpted from her new book, Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist (One Signal Publishers). An all-new Moment of Truth with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.
Check out Liz's article: https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machine-liz-pelly-spotify-musicians/
And her book: https://lizpelly.info/book
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2025-01-131h 42This Is Hell!Spotify's Plot Against Musicians / Liz PellyLiz Pelly joins This Is Hell! to discuss her Harper's cover article titled "The Ghosts in the Machine: Spotify's Plot Against Musicians," excerpted from her new book, Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist (One Signal Publishers). An all-new Moment of Truth with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.
Check out Liz's article: https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machine-liz-pelly-spotify-musicians/
And her book: https://lizpelly.info/book
Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell
2025-01-131h 42
The Music Book Podcast051 Liz Pelly on SpotifyOn this episode, Marc talks with Liz Pelly, author of “Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Cost of the Perfect Playlist,” published on January 7, 2025. by One Signal. It’s a deeply reported expose of the streaming service Spotify and how their decisions and manipulations have changed music both for artists and for listeners. Liz has been reporting on Spotify for almost a decade and her many published articles on the subject led her to this fascinating book, which will hopefully change the way people think about streaming and what it’s done to music.As she writ...
2025-01-0754 min
Step Inside The Life-Enhancing Full Audiobook Experience!Mood Machine by Liz PellyPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/85310to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Mood Machine
Author: Liz Pelly
Narrator: Liz Pelly
Format: mp3
Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
Release date: 01-07-25
Ratings: 4 out of 5 stars, 45 ratings
Genres: History & Criticism
Publisher's Summary:
Drawing on over a hundred interviews with industry insiders, former Spotify employees, and musicians, Mood Machine takes us to the inner workings of today’s highly consolidated record business, showing what has changed as music has become increasingly playlisted, personalized, and autoplayed.
2025-01-0711h 50
Disintegrator[Superlecture]: Nobody Listens to Music Anymore (Marek)On finishing the project of music, on TikTokCore and SpotifyCore, on music as cosplay and the technicity of cultural imperialism, on the bureaucratic turn in the arts, on being dangerous. Lecture given for my beloved DMR at Columbia University at the beginning of December. Feeling a bit bolder than usual on this one, but it's cuz my toddler is sleeping good.
2024-12-3053 min
This WreckageE275: Unwrapping Spotify w/ Liz PellyMusic journalist Liz Pelly joins us to discuss her new book The Mood Machine the Rise of Spotify and the Cost of the Perfect Playlist. How did the DIY culture of mixtapes and file sharing move towards massive streaming platforms? And with nearly every song freely accessible why are so many listening to elevator music instead? You can listen to this full episode gratis by signing up at our free membership tier over at patreon.com/theAntifadaLinks to Liz's work:https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machine-liz-pelly-spotify-musicians/
2024-12-3053 min
Nadgryzieni - Rozmowy (nie tylko) o tech509: Ogromny scam okradający YouTuberów na miliony dolarów, którego sami promowaliOstatni odcinek roku 2024 to prawdziwa mieszanka tematów, od technologii po kulturę i oszustwa internetowe. Na początku autorzy w sekcji follow-up omawiają mikrofony Holyland Lark M1 i JBL Quantum Stream Wireless, a następnie przechodzą do tematu użytkowników Google Pixel, iMaca M4, a Thomas opowiada o swoim nowym nabytku – Sony ZV-E10. Pojawiają się też takie aplikacje, jak App in the Air i Flighty, wspominany jest nowy monitor ASUS ProArt Display 6K PA32QCV oraz są plotki o powrocie routerów Apple, nowych funkcjach AirPods Pro 3 i HomePodzie z ekranem. Dalsza część odcinka to dyskusje na temat artykułu „The Ghos...
2024-12-272h 07Techtonic with Mark Hurst | WFMUGuest host Lily Wen interviews Liz Pelly from Mar 25, 2024
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2024-03-2600 minMoney 4 NothingPenny Fractions Live with Cherie Hu and Liz PellyOur good friend David Turner celebrated five years of Penny Fractions earlier this month with a live show at Nowadays. On stage, David was joined by our very own Sam Backer along side heavy-hitters Liz Pelly and Cherie Hu. Enjoy this live recording from the show as the crew run through everything you'd expect from a M4N discussion on the current state of the music industry: criticisms, hot takes, laughs, shade, shout-outs...oh and lollipops.
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2022-11-161h 02
Nialler9Is it time to quit Spotify?There's been a lot of talk in Andrea and Niall's circles this week about the ethics of having a Spotify account in the wake of the Joe Rogan / Neil Young flareup.So we thought we'd finally get one of our old pals, Liz Pelly, a NYC writer who has written extensively about Spotify and streaming issues in recent years on to discuss the ethics, morality of the issues that people are talking about while looking at alternative models and services for streaming and Spotify.Why did it take a celebrity podcaster paid by Spotify touting misinformation for this to happen? Wh...
2022-02-031h 05Money 4 NothingLiz Pelly on Alternative Platforms and Possible FuturesWe talk to writer and critic Liz Pelly who has long been one of the most astute critics of the modern musical economy. But while we all know that streaming is broken—what comes next? Liz has recently been exploring a set of new platforms that are seeking to create alternatives to existing industry structures. We dig into everything from public library-based programs that support local music to swing-for-the-fences proposals for government intervention in the streaming markets. Tomorrow’s ethical consumption—today!
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2021-02-081h 07
The Blood Zone#09 - We'll Be Middle Aged Children (But So What)go to 10:24 to skip my long-winded intro hi folks! it's 2021 now, i guess. and all the time i spent inside with anxiety over the past year has made me far more aware of how much i'm rapidly aging into irrelevance... perfect time for my 33 year old self to get back into the Cinderella story of a bunch of middle aged guys with families who hit the big time from the city of Dayton in my home state of Ohio.... Guided By Voices. specifically i focus on what i consider to be the strangest and most unique album...
2021-01-241h 43
Interdependence GuestsStreaming Issues with Liz PellyIn this episode we speak with the writer Liz Pelly, who over the past 5 years has written a series of revelatory critical pieces about the streaming economy for The Baffler.
We discuss whether the distinction of Independence is all that useful in music at this point in history, take a look at the ways in which the streaming platforms flatter some kinds of music and have flattered to deceive for others, and question what the recent Spotify exclusivity deal with Joe Rogan might mean for musicians.
This is a nice and long conversation, and we had one or two connection...
2020-12-241h 42
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Malgré la fermeture des clubs et l’annulation des concerts et des festivals, la musique a envahi nos espaces confinés, et maintenu un lien entre nous. Dans cet épisode court, Clémentine et Émeline reviennent sur une année où la musique s’est consommée digitale...
2020-12-1325 min
Reimagining the Internet07 Reimagining Digital Music with Liz PellyCritic and music journalist Liz Pelly joins us for a fascinating interview about why the Spotify model is so bad for musicians and what that might mean for podcasters. Liz is a veteran of the DIY music community as a former member of the Silent Barn collective in Brooklyn, and a stalwart of independent journalism with her own publication The Media, and pieces published Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, and the New York Times.
2020-12-0926 minTech Won't Save UsHow Spotify is Built On Artist Exploitation w/ Liz PellyParis Marx is joined by Liz Pelly to discuss how the Spotify model of streaming music continues a long trend of exploitation in the music industry and why musicians need to organize around a vision for a different world of music.Liz Pelly is a freelance writer and critic who has spent the past decade working with community arts spaces. She is also a contributing editor and columnist at The Baffler. Follow Liz on Twitter as @lizpelly.Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the go...
2020-11-2643 min
Channel**PRIVATE RSS** Interdependence 5 - Liz PellyIn this episode we speak with the writer Liz Pelly, who over the past 5 years has written a series of revelatory critical pieces about the streaming economy for The Baffler.We discuss whether the distinction of Independence is all that useful in music at this point in history, take a look at the ways in which the streaming platforms flatter some kinds of music and have flattered to deceive for others, and question what the recent Spotify exclusivity deal with Joe Rogan might mean for musicians.This is a nice and long conversation, and we...
2020-06-041h 42
InterdependenceInterdependence 5 - Liz PellyIn this episode we speak with the writer Liz Pelly, who over the past 5 years has written a series of revelatory critical pieces about the streaming economy for The Baffler.We discuss whether the distinction of Independence is all that useful in music at this point in history, take a look at the ways in which the streaming platforms flatter some kinds of music and have flattered to deceive for others, and question what the recent Spotify exclusivity deal with Joe Rogan might mean for musicians.This is a nice and long conversation, and we...
2020-05-2950 min
The SolecastThe Impacts of Streaming w/ Don Giovani Records, Liz Pelly, & Daddy KevIn this super-long episode of the solecast I'm doing a deep dive into the impacts that streaming and corporate consolidation has had on the music industry. This is a very long episode, clocking in at almost 3 hours. Instead of splitting it up into a multi-part episode I wanted everything in once place, so people could treat this as a mini audio documentary, listen while you have time, pause it and return to it, there is a lot of information here that is important, if you care about music. Hopefully this Megasode format allows you to gain a nuanced and in d...
2020-01-302h 46
SAY MORESOFAR SOUNDS, SPOTIFY, & HOW CAPITALISM RUINED MUSIC w/ LIZ PELLYOlivia & Melissa chat with writer, Liz Pelly, who dives deep into the exploitation of artists by streaming platforms, the appropriation of the "house show" through venues like SoFar Sounds, & how we can be more conscious music listeners.
2019-11-1449 min
Water & MusicEpisode 8 (ft. Eugene Kan + Charis Poon): The case for greater creative and algorithmic accountability in the music industryINTRO/OUTRO MUSIC:Yung Skrrt & Jonah Baseball - "The Man" (feat. Houdinne & Lunarboy) (Instrumental)Spotify | SoundCloud | BandcampYung Skrrt: Twitter | InstagramCOVER ART:Arielle TrenkFEATURED GUESTS:Eugene Kan — co-founder, MAEKANCharis Poon — writer, editor and producer, MAEKANBoth Eugene and Charis co-host the weekly podcast Making It Up, and were two of five co-writers of the essay "The Modern Creator's Paradigm: Reasons for More Critique and Accountability."SHOW TIMESTAMPS:[2:50] Interview begins.[4:00] Are we as consumers sufficiently challenging the creative work that's out...
2019-06-251h 15
Somerset House StudiosRecoding Music: Has the internet truly brought autonomy to musicians? | Feminist InternetHas the internet truly brought autonomy to musicians?
The Internet has changed the way we make, share and listen to music. Now, more than ever, female and non binary artists should have the opportunity to be heard on their own terms. But what are the effects of algorithm led streaming sites on artist autonomy, our listening habits and the value of music? In this episode we speak to those in and around the music industry who are challenging the way we make and consume music in the age of streaming.
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Liz Pelly writes abo...
2019-05-2436 min
ChannelEP 11: DOWNSTREAM (Liz Pelly)When Spotify was founded in 2006, it aimed to solve the problem of online music distribution, remunerating artists for plays. 13 years on, it is a massive data node that is having a profound effect on how artists and audiences connect. In this cast, New Models speaks with music journalist Liz Pelly, who has written extensively on Spotify, particularly its impact on independent music. She talks to us, here, about Spotify's structure, how it nudges artists to optimize their acts through metrics, and what it understands "music" (let alone "independent") culture to be. Liz also gives an update on community organizing in...
2019-03-021h 21
New ModelsEP 11: DOWNSTREAM (Liz Pelly)When Spotify was founded in 2006, it aimed to solve the problem of online music distribution, remunerating artists for plays. 13 years on, it is a massive data node that is having a profound effect on how artists and audiences connect. In this cast, New Models speaks with music journalist Liz Pelly, who has written extensively on Spotify, particularly its impact on independent music. She talks to us, here, about Spotify's structure, how it nudges artists to optimize their acts through metrics, and what it understands "music" (let alone "independent") culture to be. Liz also gives an update on community organizing in...
2019-03-021h 21
The Art of Process with Aimee Mann and Ted LeoEp. 3 - Dan Wilson "In the Belly of the Rock"On this episode of The Art of Process, we talk to one of our favorite songwriters, Dan Wilson. From his start in the Twin Cities indie scene of the early 80s to his rise as a noted "song-whisperer," working with artists ranging from Adele, to the Dixie Chicks, to Pink, and many others among and between, he's displayed an integrity and a commitment to artistry that shows through in all of his work. Join us as we discuss everything from meeting in the slow bake of a hot tent with yogurt on the side (it's every bit as gross...
2019-02-1144 min
The Future of WhatBest of 2018Episode #143: From streaming to the inner-workings of indie labels, hear our most popular interviews of 2018 as determined by you, our listeners:
- Liz Pelly on Spotify and “The Problem with Muzak”
- Rob Jones on sustaining Jealous Butcher Records
- Jen Cloher’s approach to the music business
- Justin Schmidt weighs in on whether artists need a record label
Produced by Will Watts and Anna McClain. Engineered by Brent Asbury at Beta Petrol.
2019-01-0458 min
Words & GuitarsThe Importance of DIY Culture with Liz PellyFrom publications to venues, DIY culture is able to highlight and share voices that are unadulterated from the influence of corporate culture. Liz Pelly joins Michael & Zac to discuss the importance of artist-run outlets and the many challenges they face to stay afloat in a sea of big money and the appropriation of phrase […]
2018-11-1500 min
ffilesSpotify and the Algorithmic Status Quo with Liz PellyInterview with NYC-based writer https://soundcloud.com/lizpelly
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2018-07-1828 min
Beyond the FilterBeyond The Filter 23 - The Problem With Music with Liz Pellyhey! for the very first time this show has a musical intro! enjoy! the name of the track is "Forgotten Valley" by Kota Hoshino from the Forever Kingdom OST. if you like this episode, please consider supporting me on Patreon at: http://www.patreon.com/ellaguro on this episode i'm joined by music writ....This item belongs to: audio/opensource_audio.This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3
2018-03-3100 min
The Next TrackEpisode #90 – Liz Pelly on Streaming Muzak and PlaylistsJournalist Liz Pelly talks about streaming muzak, Spotify, playlists, and the future of streaming.
This week’s guest:
Liz Pelly
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Show notes:
The Problem with Muzak
The Secret Lives of Playlists
Future of Music Coalition
Episode #89 – Too Much Music; James Jackson Toth’s Failed Experiment
U.S. Copyright Authorities to Make Subscription Music Services Increase Payout Rate to Publishers and Musicians
Topsify
Filtr
Digster
Hands On: iTunes 10’s Ping feature
Merlin
Music fans bought a lot of cassettes last year
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2018-02-0243 min