Liz Pelly is a textbook example of a digital native. As a teenager in the early 2000s on Long Island’s South Shore, she found a regional community of fellow pop-punk and emo fans through message ...

Critiques of technology often downplay, deny, or ignore the advantages that tech firms offer to their users. Take Mood Machine, Liz Pelly's book assailing the audio streaming giant Spotify. Some of ...

When it comes to music streaming subscriptions, Spotify has the lion’s share of the market. According to Digital Music News, the Swedish streamer occupies a little over a third of the U.S. market, and ...

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 ...

Let’s say a band self-releases an album on Spotify that garners 100,000 streams in one month. That band, we’ll call them Fatty Smith, includes a vocalist, drummer, bassist, and guitarist, who each ...

Spotify is a cesspool of corruption that deincentivizes the creation of original songs and rips off artists, according to this spirited debut. Music journalist Pelly critiques the streaming service’s ...

“Frictionless” is one of those tech-world ideals that sounds more promising than it actually is. What if you could press a button and get all the music in the world? And what if that music were ...