Mood Machine,' a mix of investigative reporting and cultural criticism, focuses on how Spotify has reshaped how we listen to ...

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In Pelly’s investigation, she found that Spotify had been working with stock-music companies like Epidemic, which offer music that tends to be played in the background rather than music that is wholly ...

Liz Pelly interviewed over 100 industry insiders, former Spotify employees, and musicians, to look at how music has become increasingly playlisted, personalized, and autoplayed. Her new book Mood ...

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