Streambait? Spotify-core? The Swedish streaming giant has birthed genres that a new book argues has taken the edge off modern ...

Novelty suffers, too. By one estimate nearly three-quarters of streamed songs are over 18 months old. Compared with the raucous explosion of genres that characterised popular music until the 2000s— ...

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

Spotify might seem ubiquitous in the music industry right now, but that doesn’t mean prominent musicians have to like it. In ...

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 ...

Publisher Macmillan said the book is "a testament to the human spirit and its capacity to endure, evolve and find purpose in ...

Liz Pelly's Mood Machine is a new book covering the history and present of music streaming service Spotify. Elizabeth Lopatto covered the book for The Verge and extrapolates on what the book has to ...