Mood Machine The Rise Of Spotify And The Costs Of The Perfect Playlist Liz Pelly by Liz Pelly 9781668083529, 1668083523, ISBN101668083507 instant download after payment.

Drawing on over one hundred interviews with industry insiders, former Spotify employees, & 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, & autoplayed.

Building on her years of wide-ranging reporting on streaming, music journalist Liz Pelly details the consequences of the Spotify model by examining both sides of what the company calls its two-sided marketplace: the listeners who pay with their dollars and data, & the musicians who provide the material powering it all. The music business is notoriously opaque, but here Pelly lifts the veil on major stories like streaming services filling popular playlists with low-cost stock music & the rise of new payola-like practices.

For all of the inequities exacerbated by streaming, Pelly also finds hope in chronicling the artist-led fight for better models, pointing toward what must be done collectively to revalue music & create sustainable systems. A timely exploration of a company that has become synonymous with music, Mood Machine will change the way you think about & listen to music.

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Liz Pelly is a journalist living in New York. Her essays & reporting have appeared in The Baffler, where she is a contributing editor, as well as in The Guardian, NPR, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, and many other outlets. She frequently speaks about music streaming on radio shows & podcasts, including appearances with The New York Times Popcast, NPR’s Morning Edition, & others. Pelly teaches in the recorded music program at New York University, & has spent over a decade involved in all-ages show booking. Learn more at LizPelly.info and follow her on social media @LizPelly.