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

Liz Pelly’s Mood Machine offers a history of the biggest player in streaming.

In her book, music journalist Liz Pelly peels back the curtain on the Spotify algorithm and explains how it's affecting the music industry.

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 ...

The streamer contracts with production companies to create so-called “perfect fit content” that it pumps out under various ...

"Our model offers the first universal mechanism for mood switching or cycling, which operates analogously to the sun and the moon driving spring tides at specific, recurring times," said Storch ...

Still, their house didn’t survive the Eaton Fire. The book “Mood Machine” explains how Spotify contracts with production companies to create so-called “perfect fit content” that it releases under ...

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 ...

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 ...