Podcast appearances and mentions of liz pelly

Even if you don't use Spotify, the streaming platform's anti-labor orientation means it's affecting musicians and thus, the music you listen to, which Liz Pelly covers in depth in her new book, "Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist." Discussed this episode: Spotify's in-house "fake"/ghost artists, how it uses a "payola-like" system to charge artists to get discovered, Walter Benjamin's "aura loss," and more. Liz's website  https://lizpelly.info Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist https://sfpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S93C6719844 Critical Listening (Liz's new podcast with Max Alper) https://www.patreon.com/criticallistening Bay Beats - SF Public Library's music streaming service https://baybeats.sfpl.org   Support us and find links to our past episodes: patreon.com/sadfrancisco  

Once upon a time, we listened to music, now, music listens to us. Algorithms have become the DJ of culture serving up curated moods, optimizing our emotions, and quietly reshaping the soundtrack of our lives says Music journalist Liz Pelly.

Listen to John Maytham's weekly book reviews and share his passion for all things literary. From fiction to non-fiction, John reads and reviews a range of books that would sit well on your reading list. The Creation of Half-Broken People by Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu, Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist by Liz Pelly, Killer Potential by Hannah Deitch Follow us on:CapeTalk on Facebook: www.facebook.com/CapeTalkCapeTalk on TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@capetalkCapeTalk on Instagram: www.instagram.com/capetalkzaCapeTalk on YouTube: www.youtube.com/@CapeTalk567CapeTalk on X: www.x.com/CapeTalkSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Liz Pelly has been closely following the evolution of Spotify and other music streaming services and the effect they have had on the music sector and musicians themselves for several years. Her book, Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist (Atria, 2025), paints a depressing picture of how the company has exploited the popularity of playlists to grab a larger share of the money we spend on recorded music. Along with the record companies, Spotify has done this at the expense of musicians themselves and especially those is less popular areas like jazz and classical. I spoke to Liz at an event in Brussels organised by music venue Ancienne Belgique. Later we were joined by Jozefien Vanharpe of Leuven university, professor of intellectual property law, and Nick Yule of AEPO Artis, an association for collecting societies for performing artists. This is Simon Taylor with a podcast for New Books Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/politics-and-polemics

Liz Pelly has been closely following the evolution of Spotify and other music streaming services and the effect they have had on the music sector and musicians themselves for several years. Her book, Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist (Atria, 2025), paints a depressing picture of how the company has exploited the popularity of playlists to grab a larger share of the money we spend on recorded music. Along with the record companies, Spotify has done this at the expense of musicians themselves and especially those is less popular areas like jazz and classical. I spoke to Liz at an event in Brussels organised by music venue Ancienne Belgique. Later we were joined by Jozefien Vanharpe of Leuven university, professor of intellectual property law, and Nick Yule of AEPO Artis, an association for collecting societies for performing artists. This is Simon Taylor with a podcast for New Books Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/economics

Liz Pelly has been closely following the evolution of Spotify and other music streaming services and the effect they have had on the music sector and musicians themselves for several years. Her book, Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist (Atria, 2025), paints a depressing picture of how the company has exploited the popularity of playlists to grab a larger share of the money we spend on recorded music. Along with the record companies, Spotify has done this at the expense of musicians themselves and especially those is less popular areas like jazz and classical. I spoke to Liz at an event in Brussels organised by music venue Ancienne Belgique. Later we were joined by Jozefien Vanharpe of Leuven university, professor of intellectual property law, and Nick Yule of AEPO Artis, an association for collecting societies for performing artists. This is Simon Taylor with a podcast for New Books Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/performing-arts

Liz Pelly has been closely following the evolution of Spotify and other music streaming services and the effect they have had on the music sector and musicians themselves for several years. Her book, Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist (Atria, 2025), paints a depressing picture of how the company has exploited the popularity of playlists to grab a larger share of the money we spend on recorded music. Along with the record companies, Spotify has done this at the expense of musicians themselves and especially those is less popular areas like jazz and classical. I spoke to Liz at an event in Brussels organised by music venue Ancienne Belgique. Later we were joined by Jozefien Vanharpe of Leuven university, professor of intellectual property law, and Nick Yule of AEPO Artis, an association for collecting societies for performing artists. This is Simon Taylor with a podcast for New Books Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/music

Liz Pelly has been closely following the evolution of Spotify and other music streaming services and the effect they have had on the music sector and musicians themselves for several years. Her book, Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist (Atria, 2025), paints a depressing picture of how the company has exploited the popularity of playlists to grab a larger share of the money we spend on recorded music. Along with the record companies, Spotify has done this at the expense of musicians themselves and especially those is less popular areas like jazz and classical. I spoke to Liz at an event in Brussels organised by music venue Ancienne Belgique. Later we were joined by Jozefien Vanharpe of Leuven university, professor of intellectual property law, and Nick Yule of AEPO Artis, an association for collecting societies for performing artists. This is Simon Taylor with a podcast for New Books Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/book-of-the-day

How should you count The Police's "Bed's Too Big Without You?" Why do so many people revere Marty Friedman's solo on Megadeth's "Tornado of Souls"? What's going on with those pauses during the Bluey theme? And what the heck is that sound on Sly and the Family Stone's "Sex Machine"? Those questions and many more on the first mailbag episode of Season Seven. Thanks to Nevada Jones (voice) and Scott Pemberton (guitar) for their expert contributions!REFERENCED/DISCUSSED:"Bed's Too Big Without You" by The Police from The Police, 1979"Thirty One" by Lydian Collective from Adventure, 2018"4K Cozy Coffee Shop with Smooth Piano Jazz Music for Relaxing, Studying and Working" on YouTubeMood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playbook by Liz Pelly, 2025, and a Harper's excerpt about Spotify's "Perfect Fit Content" initiative"Executive Blend," "Funky Fanfare," by Keith Mansfield, and "Organ Mania" by Keith Mansfield and Alan Hawkshaw from KPM 1000 Series, Vol. 1"Tornado of Souls" by Megadeath from Rust in Peace, 1990"Sex Machine" by Sly and the Family Stone from Stand!, 1969"Show Me The Way" by Peter Frampton from Frampton, 1974"Bluey Theme" by Joff Bush"The Organic Sound of Bluey, with Sound Designer Dan Brumm" - Twenty Thousand HertzDemonstration of the Kustom Electronics Bag Talkbox----LINKS-----

We're on Patreon! Find us at https://www.patreon.com/AudioUnleashed This week, Dennis and Brent deconstruct the latest column by Stereophile's editor-in-chief and contemplate whether his position on spooky woo-woo has devolved in the past decade. Then they ogle cool amps and preamps on AliExpress that borrow revered brands yet cost only hundreds—and also examine how crazy it'd be to buy this stuff right now (b/c tariffs, not b/c communism and chopsticks). They conclude with a not-terribly-deep dive into a new article from Dennis about audio DIY, but not the kind of audio DIY you're probably imagining. Brent's audio projects:

I motivi più o meno validi per abbandonare Spotify. I nostri dischi della settimana sono quelli di Viagra Boys, Maria Somerville e Samia. Nuovi singoli e nuovi album annunciati per Haim, Ben LaMar Gay e Sharpie Smile. I nomi del Siren Festival a Cagliari, del Poplar Festival a Trento e della Biennale Musica di Venezia. Populous ci consiglia in esclusiva un disco da ascoltare (trovate l'intervista più estesa su Telegrammy). Segnalazioni in chiusura: un'intervista a Rossano Lo Mele e una a Derrick Gee, un nuovo podcast di Liz Pelly.

KVMR public affairs correspondent April Glaser sits down to interview Liz Pelly, author of a new book and hard-hitting investigation into Spotify entitled Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify & The Cost of the Perfect Playlist. Joining the conversation as well is local composer Alexis Alrich.Spotify pays artists fractions of pennies per stream. But Liz Pelly's book goes even deeper to reveal how Spotify has quietly worked to remove bands and artists from its most popular playlists and replaced them with fake or ghost content commissioned for cheaper than paying actual artists. What happens when we think we're listening to a band, but it's actually just content made by a company to keep us streaming for longer?Many thanks to Alexis Alrich for providing her original composition for this story, "Bell and Drum Tower," recorded in 2020 by the Janacek Philharmonic. Learn more about Alexis' work at her website.More information on Liz Pelly's book can be found at her publisher's website here. 

We're on Patreon! Find us at https://www.patreon.com/AudioUnleashed This week, Dennis and Brent explore the fast-growing world of made-to-order lathe-cut records – and even play one for you! (Prepare to be … well, prepared.) Then they delight in some made-to-order pink noise from Erin's Audio Corner, and deconstruct Holly Cole's new made-to-order (well, for audiophiles) album with the help of Stereophile.  Brent's audio projects:

Sat, 12 Apr 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://feed.neuezwanziger.de/link/21941/17004434/spotifys-mood-machine-krachts-air-varoufakis-zur-zollpolitik-thomas-wagners-soziologen-humans-fernseh-ki-atomkrieg-schoene-lieder-minority-rule 486b2b88f46363f31e8e12e574cb5b65 Wolfgang und Stefan treffen sich vorm Salon Am meisten überrascht von Spotifys Erfolg ist offenbar die Gründerriege von Spotify selbst. Junge Menschen, die technikaffin sehr reich wurden, davon träumen, den Tod auszutricksen und zum Teil seit Jahren keine Arbeit mehr in die Plattform stecken, sondern nur noch von ihrer Rendite leben - haben es mit einer Kundschaft zu tun, die einfach von Moment zu Moment einen guten Soundtrack sucht. Sie starteten als Werbeplattform, verstanden sich als Musiksuchmaschine, überzeugten mit einem Instant-Play-Button und stellten dann fest, dass das jahrzehntelang bewährte Konzept der Kuration auch für ihre Plattform taugt. Also überschreiben sie jetzt Suchanfragen und kümmern sich um "perfect fit content". Der für alles zentrale Grundbegriff lautet: Flattening. Wir reden ausführlich darüber. Dann besprechen wir Romane und weitere Literatur zum Atomkrieg, Trumps Zollplan und seine Panikattacke, Nachkriegssoziologie, Smart-Homes und GPT als Fernsehzuschauer. Außerdem heute die Legitimation: Ihr dürft eure Podcasts schneller hören! Termine KÄS-Termine 2025: Fr. 20.06. / Fr. 19.09. / Fr. 19.12. per Mail: neuezwanziger@diekaes.de SOMMERSALON am 23. August! Tickets gibts hier Literatur Spotify hat unser Hören verändert, macht den Musiker zum Content-Creator und verändert die Emotionen und Stimmungen der Gesellschaft. In ihrem Buch "Mood Machine. The Rise of Spotify and the Cost of the Perfect Playlist" untersucht Liz Pelly detailliert, wie KIs und Algorithmen immer mehr die Musikproduktion dominieren. simonandschuster.com Christian Kracht legt mit "Air" einen rätselhaften Roman vor: Moderne und archaische Welten überlagern sich, die Schrift gerät abhanden, der Minimalismus ist plötzlich nicht nur eine Mode. kiwi-verlag.de Donald Trump fantasiert seit Jahrzehnten über Zölle. Jetzt wurde es ernst und er bekam eine Panikattacke. Wir lesen von seinen Beratern und ein Lagebild von Yannis Varoufakis. stefanschulz.notion.site "Abenteuer der Moderne. Die großen Jahre der Soziologie. 1949 - 1969" heißt das neue Buch von Thomas Wagner, in dem er keine trockene Einführung in die Soziologie der frühen Bundesrepublik bietet, sondern anhand der schwierigen bis freundschaftlichen Beziehung zwischen dem rechten Arnold Gehlen und dem linken Theodor W. Adorno zeigt, wie ein Fach seine Renaissance erlebt und die Kunst Gegenpole verbindet. klett-cotta.de Human Nagafi hat Fernsehen geschaut und sich die Argumente einer "Hart aber fair"-Sendung von GPT kartographieren lassen. linkedin.com Brauchen wir dringend mehr atomare Aufrüstung? Spielt Putin nur mit unserer Angst? Wie hilfreich ist die Spieltheorie? Diese und weitere Fragen beantwortet der analytische Philosoph Olaf Müller in seinem lesenswerten Buch "Atomkrieg. Eine Warnung". reclam.de Lena Bültena sagt, ihr dürft eure Podcasts schneller hören. Im Zweifel macht es euch noch klüger. zeit.de Das Smart-Home ist inzwischen in jeder Neubausiedlung angekommen, die Superreichen aber rücken plötzlich von der Technologie ab, erläutert Alexandra Abramian. hollywoodreporter.com Werden wir von einer Minderheit regiert? Ja, sagt Ash Sarkar und klärt über eine Paradoxie auf. Wir warten mit ihr auf die angekündigte Revolution. bloomsbury.com Die aus Kairo stammende Sopranistin Fatma Said verliebte sich schon als Kind in das deutsche Kunstlied. Auf ihrem neuen sensationellen Album "Lieder" präsentiert sie Werke von Schubert, Mendelssohn, Brahms und Schumann. warnerclassics.com Komm' in den Salon. Es gibt ihn via Webplayer & RSS-Feed (zum Hören im Podcatcher deiner Wahl, auch bei Apple Podcasts und Spotify). Wenn du Salon-Stürmer bist, lade weitere Hörer von der Gästeliste ein. full Wolfgang und Stefan treffen sich vorm Salon no Stefan Schulz und Wolfgang M. Schmitt 2459

Spotify promised independent artists a new revenue stream, and listeners exposure to new music. In the new book 'Mood Machine,' music journalist Liz Pelly examines how the streaming giant has shaped our listening habits.

Liz Pelly, author of Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist talks through the many practices at Spotify over the years that have impacted independent musicians-- from outsourcing stock music Spotify pays a lower royalty rate for and flooding Spotify's in-house playlists with that stock music, to paying artists a 30% lower royalty rate in exchange for promotion on Spotify. Then, guitarist and independent musician Lance Allen talks about how he was able to pay off his mortgage and buy a car off Spotify royalties and how he’s continued to find success on the music streaming service.Support the show: https://www.kexp.org/sound/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We're on Patreon! Find us at https://www.patreon.com/AudioUnleashed This week, Dennis and Brent stop by Strata-gee to see how Sonos is strategorizing to scramble back to the summit of the sound souk with a new … oh, wait, change in plans! Then they ally themselves (very conditionally) with a British-ish mastering engineer who contends that high-priced DACs are a scam. Then they bring their incomparable incredulity to bear on the question of whether adding hobbled Dolby Atmos functionality to Cadillacs is the way forward for Atmos or Cadillac. Brent's audio projects:

Podden gästas av Rasmus Fleischer tillsammans med den numera objektiva och inte på något sätt Gigwatch-kopplade Flamman-reportern Jacob Lundberg. Vi pratar om Spotifys utveckling genom åren, om musiken som vara, övervakningskapitalism, finansialisering och om den universellt giltiga teorin om sugifiering. Samtalet baseras löst på vår läsning av boken Mood Machine av Liz Pelly som släpptes […]

Podden gästas av Rasmus Fleischer tillsammans med den numera objektiva och inte på något sätt Gigwatch-kopplade Flamman-reportern Jacob Lundberg. Vi pratar om Spotifys utveckling genom åren. Vi talar också om musiken som vara, övervakningskapitalism, finansialisering och om den universellt giltiga teorin om sugifiering. Samtalet baseras löst på vår läsning av boken Mood Machine av Liz Pelly som släpptes tidigare i år.

Journalist Liz Pelly joins Sound Off to unpack her new book Mood Machine: On the Rise of Spotify and Costs of the Perfect Playlist. Beyond the fact that Spotify is a tech platform more dedicated to the advertising industry than music, Pelly joins Sound Off to discuss the incentivizing of passive over deep listening and the ways in which the platform itself can be a starting point to looking at systemic issues of hyper-individuality, surveillance capitalism and the billionaire tech class. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Discussing Spotify with Liz Pelly, author of "Mood Machine" Tomaš Dvořák - "Gameboy Tune" - "Mark's intro" - "Interview with Liz Pelly" [0:01:31] - "Mark's comments" [0:49:34] Cadence Weapon - "My Computer" [0:55:43] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/150392

Music has become increasingly playlisted, personalized, and autoplayed. But how did we get here, and what does it mean for artists, listeners, and the music industry as a whole? In today's episode, journalist Liz Pelly unpacks the origins of Spotify, its meteoric rise, and its transformative impact on the way we create and experience music. Whilst researching for her new book, Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist, Pelly conducted over one hundred interviews with industry insiders, former Spotify employees, and musicians. Liz Pelly is a music journalist and author living in New York. Her essays and reporting have appeared in the Baffler, where she is a contributing editor, as well as in the Guardian, NPR, Rolling Stone and Pitchfork. She's joined by Timandra Harkness, writer, presenter and author of Technology is Not the Problem, for a conversation on the ethics of streaming, the economics of playlists, and the hidden costs of the “perfect” listening experience. If you'd like to become a Member and get access to all our full conversations, plus all of our Members-only content, just visit intelligencesquared.com/membership to find out more. For £4.99 per month you'll also receive: - Full-length and ad-free Intelligence Squared episodes, wherever you get your podcasts - Bonus Intelligence Squared podcasts, curated feeds and members exclusive series - 15% discount on livestreams and in-person tickets for all Intelligence Squared events  ...  Or Subscribe on Apple for £4.99: - Full-length and ad-free Intelligence Squared podcasts - Bonus Intelligence Squared podcasts, curated feeds and members exclusive series … Already a subscriber? Thank you for supporting our mission to foster honest debate and compelling conversations! Visit intelligencesquared.com to explore all your benefits including ad-free podcasts, exclusive bonus content and early access. … Subscribe to our newsletter here to hear about our latest events, discounts and much more. https://www.intelligencesquared.com/newsletter-signup/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Would you identify an AI song if you pressed play on one? Colm Cahalane and Niall explore what's happening in AI and music now, with an example drawn from the Irish music scene in recent months. Echoing the early Wild Wild West streaming era that we discussed last week with Liz Pelly that gave rise to Spotify's dominance, our chat this week with Colm Cahalane of Irish music Substack blog Fourth Best / Cork label Hausu finds parallels with what's happening with AI and music right now. AI is breaking new ground, and creating new problems and moral issues in doing so. Colm recently posted a ruminating article on AI on Fourth Best, which talks to an artist called Kawaii Hoe who inadvertently, and relatively innocently duped me into covering their energetic AI-generated hyperpop music on the site - Like I said it's the Wild Wild West. We talk about this scary new world of not knowing whether an artist is making music entirely with AI or not, and the implications and creative quandary of generated art. Because you can now make a full music project with AI, does that mean you should? Are AI musicians just really gifted at prompts? Are the outputs music? As AI music flooded streaming platforms, social media and we cannot put the genie back in the bottle, what's next? As Liz Pelly's book shows, Spotify will do what it can to reduce royalty rates so what's to stop it from replacing real artist's music with AI-generated music? Isn't this already happening whether they allow it or not?    * Support Nialler9 on Patreon, get event discounts, playlists, ad-free episodes and join our Discord community Listen on Apple | Android  | Patreon | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS Feed | Pod.Link

We're on Patreon! Find us at https://www.patreon.com/AudioUnleashed This week, Dennis and Brent page through the storied Gray Lady (known to some as the New York Times and to Brent as “employer”) and find, to their amazement, an in-depth profile of high-end vinyl company Acoustic Sounds and its iconoclastic proprietor, Chad Kassem. Then they check out what YouTube star Cheapaudioman says are the biggest mistakes audiophiles can make (besides failing to listen to the Audio Unleashed podcast). They conclude by digging through a Tape Op profile of a man in Burbank, California whose life's work is getting messed-up tapes to play so you can finally hear A Flock of Seagulls as they were meant to be heard. Buy-now links for products mentioned herein (As Amazon Associates, we may earn a small cut from qualifying purchases):

Wir treffen euch in Frankfurt, um Podcasts zu hören. Zuerst geht es um den neuen Luxus. Dinner auf einer entlegenen Eisscholle – das ist ganz normal. Die Superreichen wollen doch auch nur ihr gewöhnliches Leben führen, mit jedem Tag etwas mehr Action. Gleichzeitig erzählen uns die Handlanger der Reichsten, dass ein Leben in der Stadt schon Luxus für alle bedeutet. Mehr ist nicht drin, damit für die Superreichen das superreiche Extra bleibt. Ebenso verwundert hören wir uns durch die deutsche politische Podcast-Bubble. Und dann begeben wir uns noch in den echten Karneval und hören uns die weisen Worte von der Bühne der Mainzer Sitzung an. Wer also noch nie einen Witz über Habeck und Heizungen gehört hat, ist dort – und damit auch bei uns – ganz richtig. Helau! Nächste Salon-Lektüre: MOOD MACHINE: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist von Liz Pelly

Liz Pelly, author of Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist, speaks to Weekend AM's Melissa Tobin.

The music and cultural critic Liz Pelly's new book Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Cost of the Perfect Playlist is a deep dive into Spotify's often contentious position in music today. Liz has been a philosophising on issues brought about by the streaming era's cultural impact for about 10 years now so the book collates a lot of work, thoughts, research and investigative reporting on Spotify and the way it operates. We talk to Liz about the Swedish streaming giant's outsized influence on the music industry, its gatekeeper effect on trends in music, and how Spotify has emphasised mood and passive listening above discovery and initiative. We talk about the vast collection of user behaviour on the platform that has lead to artists chasing a more homogenous "streambait pop" sound, how Spotify uses  fake "ghost" artists and their Perfect Fit Content system to reduce royalty rates and squeeze out real artists on the platform's popular algorithmic and editorial playlists. * Support Nialler9 on Patreon, get event discounts, playlists, ad-free episodes and join our Discord community   Listen on Apple | Android | ACAST | Patreon | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS Feed | Pod.Link  

No guest this week, but plenty of meat as we take our previous episode with Spotify chronicler Liz Pelly as a jumping off point to talk about the idea of independence.We use the word ‘independence' a lot on No Tags without really investigating what we mean by it. In a era when the major labels are all stake-holders in the biggest streaming platform on Earth, and are hoovering up indie labels and distributors like never before, how feasible is it to operate as a truly independent artist – whatever that means? And how can the term ‘independent' apply to indie labels with multiple offices and millions in the bank as well as one-person DIY operations?To explain, we think about the important history of independent distribution, catch up with the latest music biz headlines affecting independent artists, and ask ourselves… have the major labels simply won at this point?It's a little lighter elsewhere, as we talk ghosts (4:15) and debrief Anora's Oscar sweep (49:52), followed by some thoughts on The Brutalist, Nosferatu and 1971's The Working Class Goes to Heaven.If you're enjoying No Tags, please do rate, review and subscribe on your podcast app of choice. We'd also ask you to consider subscribing to our paid tier, which costs £5 a month and helps us continue bringing you these regular podcasts (plus it gives you a discount on our book.) Get full access to No Tags at notagspodcast.substack.com/subscribe

To może być jedna z najważniejszych książek XXI wieku o przemyśle muzycznym. A już na pewno o sposobie funkcjonowania najbardziej popularnego serwisu streamingowego dzisiejszych czasów, któremu zarzuca się wręcz szokujące praktyki. Działania, które całkowicie marginalizują znaczenie muzyki, artystów. Które zakładają tworzenie….fikcyjnych wykonawców! O tym właśnie, jak i o wynikach wnikliwego śledztwa dziennikarskiego jest książka Liz Pelly, której tytuł brzmi w oryginale “Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist”. W środowisku muzycznym nie kojarzymy żadnej książki, która wywołała by takie poruszenie, a przecież nie trafiła jeszcze na półki sklepów. Autorka pisze o zjawisku Duchów w maszynie (fikcyjnych artystów), których muzyka jest na siłę wrzucana do playlist co gwarantuje im setki tysięcy odtworzeń. Ale tak naprawdę to tylko część tej historii.Ta książka może okazać się świadectwem tego, gdzie dziś jesteśmy jako ludzkość. W dobie galopującej do przodu technologii, sztucznej inteligencji, chęci zarabiania przez firmy na rynku muzycznym i postępującej marginalizacji muzyki (tło, prostactwo artystyczne, kompozycje na zlecenie). Nie mówiąc o marginalizacji przejawów kreatywności artystycznej i szukania kolejnych sposób zarabiania więcej kosztem muzyków.O tym i o wnioskach, jakie nasuwają się po opublikowanych rewelacjach przez Liz Pelly, porozmawiamy w dzisiejszym odcinku Pick Please Podcast!Oczekiwana data premiery książki w Polsce: 13 marca 2025 r.muzyka: Łukasz WojciechowskiZachęcamy też do śledzenia naszego profilu na Facebooku - https://www.facebook.com/PickPlease/oraz Instagramie - https://tiny.pl/cxk21 LINKOWNIA:Fragment książki - https://tiny.pl/3_jjrmk7 Artykuł ze strony www (The Honest Broker) - https://tiny.pl/3n5r0gd9 Spotify (Wikipedia) - https://tiny.pl/twdtfmwn Liz Pelly (strona www autorki) - https://tiny.pl/4ch7bw09 Youtube:“Niecne postępowanie streamingu” (znakomite omówienie z kanału OdB.pl) - https://tiny.pl/8zp8gv42 

In their 15 years on the scene, Spotify has reshaped the way that people listen to music. A new book explores what the streaming company did to get so powerful, and how it is continuing to alter the music landscape, often in ways that disadvantage the artists it claims to support. Journalist Liz Pelly discusses the reporting from her book, Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist. Liz Pelly will be in conversation with WNYC's John Schaefer at the New York Public Library's Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library on March 11.

We're on Patreon! Find us at https://www.patreon.com/AudioUnleashed This week, Dennis and Brent unexpectedly flip the phase of their podcast by lavishly praising another audio pundit. But they quickly get back to business with an in-depth report on what might be the most preposterous subwoofer review (and most preposterous subwoofer setup) in a long history of preposterous subwoofer reviews by audiophile mags. Then they try to figure out why a famed accessories manufacturer insists that blind testing doesn't work yet employs it nonetheless, and contemplate Passion for Sound's assertion that science disproves the validity of science. Buy-now links for products mentioned herein (As Amazon Associates, we may earn a small cut from qualifying purchases):

Partendo dalla notizia del progetto Is This What We Want?, un disco a cui hanno partecipato oltre mille musicisti britannici, composto da 12 registrazioni fatte in spazi vuoti e silenziosi, torniamo ad affrontare il problema della musica e dei diritti d'autore riascoltando il parere di Mike Sponza e Liz Pelly con un estratto dalle loro interviste, con Ciro Pagano dei Gaznevada parliamo del film Going Underground, raccontiamo del problema della collaborazione di Stormzy con Mc Donald's e del suo presunto voltafaccia alla causa palestinese e parliamo del tour del Wu-Tang Clan

On this week's Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: National Treasury Employees Union President Doreen Greenwald, on the Power at Work podcast, talks about the attack on the rights of federal workers by the Trump administration and NTEU's strategies in defending its members; Tesla Fremont Assembly worker Branton Philipps, after working for years at the plant -- which has over 20,000 workers -- talked with Work Week Radio about why he quit in protest this week after opposing the union busting, racism and health and safety dangers at the plant, caused by owner Elon Musk; On Fire Up: Plumbers, from Melbourne, Australia, the fellas talk about the summer, when the temps soar; Rasean Clayton, an AFSCME member who heads up the A. Philip Randolph Institute's Arizona chapter, talks about the work of the Institute and other issues in labor on Words and Work; In a special LIVE Art and Labor show OK talks with Liz Pelly about the state of DIY and our extractive relationship with big tech. PLUS: Harold's Shows You Should Know. Help us build sonic solidarity by clicking on the share button below. Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people's issues and concerns. @PowerAtWorkBlog @labormedianow @3CR @ArtandLaborPod #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO Edited by Captain Swing, produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.

No journalist has contributed more to our understanding of the streaming era than Liz Pelly.A contributing editor at The Baffler and a lifelong DIY scene participant, she's been investigating the inner workings of Spotify since 2016, writing a series of increasingly alarming stories that exposed the streaming giant's black box of profit-seeking operations: mood-based playlists filled with mysterious fake artists, lean-back listening, algorithmic curation and ‘streambait pop'.Her journalism has provided us with an arsenal of terms to better understand Daniel Ek's dismal vision of context-free listening. And now she's expanded her work into a new book, Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist.It's essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how we came to live in a world where ‘coastal grandma' is a genre and where ambient electronica playlists are filled with cheap stock music by unknown artists.We asked Liz to explain the pivotal moments in this decade-long transition, whether Spotify has changed the sound of the underground too, and what Daniel Ek's endgame might be. Get your hard hat on.Elsewhere in this week's episode, Chal runs down the best music she saw on a trip to Ljubljana's MENT festival (3:49), we talk the films that could potentially tank a new relationship (9:47), Tom highlights a new release on CDR's Pathways programme (13:00) and we even briefly discuss get-rich-quick schemes. Niche music recs and iffy financial advice? It could only be No Tags.As ever, if you're enjoying No Tags, please do rate, review and subscribe on your podcast app of choice. We'd also ask you to consider subscribing to our paid tier, which costs £5 a month and offers you nothing but the warm glow of philanthropy and a discount on our book – the second pressing of which is finally out now!  Get full access to No Tags at notagspodcast.substack.com/subscribe

This week? Heavy Hitters. As you may (or may not) have heard,  journalist/Daniel Ek tormenter/friend-of-the-pod Liz Pelly is making waves with her wonderful new book “Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist.” It's easily the best thing yet written about the company at the center of modern music, insightfully reconstructing how Spotify's shifting interests and policies have remade how we listen, who we listen to, and what they get paid. To get a deeper perspective on both the book and the histories it emerges from, we also called up David Turner—of the late (lamented) Penny Fractions—pulling him out of retirement for one last big music + capitalism score. Together Liz, David, and Sam dive into everything from the economics of ghost artists and the aesthetics of vibes-based listening to the intentional destruction of cultural context in the streaming age. It's a conversation that helps clarify the singularity of Spotify culture—and allows us to better detach its operations from the meaning of digital music. Come for the playlists. Stay for what they've done to you.   Buy Liz Pelly's book "Mood Machine" Subscribe to our Newsletter!  

We're on Patreon! Find us at https://www.patreon.com/AudioUnleashed This week, Dennis wonders why a writer for The Atlantic is wondering why his cheap Bluetooth speaker can't generate the feeling of community he got at a Beyoncé concert, while Brent wonders why Dennis was reading The Atlantic. Then they dig into a recent article on acoustics by one of audio's most popular personalities to learn what's better: a lousy speaker in a good room or a good speaker in a lousy room. They conclude with a deep dive into—surprise!—an article about hi-fi published in a mainstream scientific magazine, which recommends a whole new (well, kinda new) speaker layout. Buy-now links for products mentioned herein (As Amazon Associates, we may earn a small cut from qualifying purchases):

Nella prima parte ospitiamo una lunga intervista a Liz Pelly, giornalista statunitense autrice del caso editoriale su Ai e piattaforme musicali "Mood Machine", Nella seconda mezz'ora ospitiamo Nervi per intervista e Mini Live

This is the Liz Pelly interview for the real heads!! We have a (perhaps brutally) honest discussion about the state of DIY and our extractive relationship with big tech. How do we untangle? Since Silent Barn times we’ve been researching, organizing, and building alternatives. We outline some of them in a fruitful discussion of Liz’s … Continue reading "216 – Music Ecology vs the Mood Machine w/ Liz Pelly LIVE"

No platform has had more of impact on what we listen to over the past decade than Spotify. This week, Taylor is joined by journalist Liz Pelly, to discuss her new book "Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist."They discuss the profound impact Spotify has had on the music industry, culture, and the way we consume sound.Pelly reveals the truth about so-called "ghost artists" and other tactics the company has employed to squeeze artists and upend the content ecosystem.They also dig into how Spotify's algorithm-driven playlists have reshaped not just listening habits but also the very nature of music production, artist careers, and industry power structures.SUBSCRIBE TO POWER USER ON YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@TaylorLorenz

This week Ari sits down with Liz Pelly, a prominent music journalist and author of the new book Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist. Liz's journalism has appeared in NPR, The Guardian, and Pitchfork among other prestigious publications. Preceded by an exposé in Harper's Magazine, Pelly's latest work, Mood Machine, pulls back the curtain on Spotify's exploitative practices and uncovers how those practices impact artists and listeners. In this episode, Liz gives the low down on research she conducted for the book and explains how Spotify has unfairly conspired with major labels since its launch. As she does in Mood Machine, Liz calls out Spotify's Perfect Fit Content (PFC) program and explains how its use of ghost artists degrades the integrity of their model for all. Ari and Liz discuss the value of music and how that can differ in the eyes of major corporations and individuals. Whether you're an artist, label, or listener who uses Spotify, this episode will help you understand the impact Spotify's model has on your relationship to music.https://www.instagram.com/lizpelly Harper's article: https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machine-liz-pelly-spotify-musicians/Chapters00:00 The Inner Workings of Spotify12:48 Ghost Artists and the PFC Program37:50 Spotify's Launch and Major Label Relationships41:26 The Evolution of Streaming Contracts44:14 Valuing Music: A Cultural Perspective49:43 The Impact of Streaming on Music Value56:10 Algorithms and the Personalization of Music01:01:20 The Role of Music in Society01:07:23 Future Solutions for Musicians01:19:38 Defining Success in the New Music BusinessEdited and mixed by Ari DavidsMusic by Brassroots DistrictProduced by the team at Ari's TakeOrder the THIRD EDITION of How to Make It in the New Music Business: https://book.aristake.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, we're joined by the Times reporter Jonathan Swan to discuss Elon Musk's tech takeover of Washington, D.C. Then, Liz Pelly, author of a new book about Spotify, stops by to discuss “ghost musicians” and how Spotify's algorithms are reshaping music culture. And finally — it's Tool Time! We'll tell you all about the new A.I. tools we're using, plus the one that we wish existed.Guests: Jonathan Swan, a White House reporter for The New York TimesLiz Pelly, author of “Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist”Additional Reading: Inside Musk's Aggressive Incursion Into the Federal GovernmentThe Ghosts in the MachineChatGPT's deep research might be the first good agent Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

Paris Marx is joined by Liz Pelly to discuss how Spotify changes how we listen to music and the broader impacts it has on the wider music industry.Liz Pelly is a music journalist and the author of Mood Machine.Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon.The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Eric Wickham.Also mentioned in this episode:You can read an excerpt of Liz's book in Harper's.The CEO of Suno AI said people “don't enjoy” making music.Support the show

On this episode of Tech Won't Save Us, we're joined by Liz Pelly to discuss how Spotify changes how we listen to music and the broader impacts it has on the wider music industry. Liz Pelly is a music journalist and the author of Mood Machine.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Er du træt af at være afhængig af amerikansk tech? Vi afprøver et par af Europas bedste pendanter til sociale medier, browsere, chatbots osv. - og diskuterer, hvorfor Europa er så bagud på brugerrettet tech. Vi møder også forfatteren Liz Pelly, der i en ny bog mener at afsløre, hvordan Spotify fylder sine playlister med billige, falske artister for at spare penge på royalties. Og så tester vi OpenAIs urimeligt dyre Pro-abonnement til næsten 2.000 kr./md. med de nye AI-agenter - Deep Research og Operator. Værter: Marcel Mirzaei-Fard, techanalytiker og Henrik Moltke, DRs techkorrespondent.

We're on Patreon! Find us at https://www.patreon.com/AudioUnleashed This week, Dennis and Brent discuss Danny Ritchie's diagnosis of the legendary Wilson WATT/Puppy; can he find the cure for questionable engineering? Then they ponder whether Spotify is truly evil, and what malice might lurk in the hearts of other streaming services. And they wrap up with speculation about why a stupid article on vinyl seems to have been memory-holed entirely off the internet—and why a vinyl guru's attempt to demo over YouTube says much about the psychology of crowds and nothing about vinyl. Buy-now links for products mentioned herein (As Amazon Associates, we may earn a small cut from qualifying purchases):

Music Journalist Liz Pelly is on My Little Underground to discusses her motivation for writing her book, Mood Machine - The Rise of Spotify and The Costs of The Perfect Playlist. She also talks the importance of supporting local music scenes, the wild Wild West of post-piracy, pre streaming music period, the status of human curation of music in the age of streaming, and more!  — Buy Mood Machine:  https://lizpelly.info/book Follow @lizpelly on Instagram! Follow My Little Underground:  https://www.instagram.com/mlupod/ https://www.facebook.com/mlupod https://bsky.app/profile/mlupod.bsky.social Listen to My Little Underground on your favorite podcast app:  https://linktr.ee/mlupod #mlupod

On this very special edition of the YMC podcast, your host Jay Gilbert has an in-depth conversation with author Liz Pelly on her recently released book entitled Mood Machine - The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist.  Subscribe to the newsletter! YourMorning.Coffee    

Spotify was originally marketed as a democratic, anti-establishment music streaming platform. But according to journalist Liz Pelly, it has become a system favoring major labels and its own algorithmic playlists featuring “ghost artists,” all while underpaying independent artists. Pelly draws on interviews with former employees, music industry veterans and artists to pull back the curtain on the music streaming giant in her new book, “Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Cost of the Perfect Playlist.” Guests: Liz Pelly, writer; contributing editor to The Baffler

Let's take a step back in time to the halcyon days of late 2011, back when a little Swedish music app called Spotify landed in our app stores.Its arrival, alongside the rise of early smartphones and “public square” platforms like Twitter, seemed to herald the utopian ideals of a democratizing tech future just on the horizon. Here was an app that professed to level the playing field for music fans and artists alike via what Spotify imagined to be a “data-driven democracy”: For fans, it put pretty much any music you wanted at your fingertips, anytime. On the artist side, it promised to replace industry gatekeepers with a system where anyone who wrote a good enough song could land a viral hit — while also righting the compensatory wrongs of technological predecessors like Napster.That's…. not exactly how it's played out.Today, Spotify's myth of meritocracy has been supplanted by a system where major labels make millions of dollars a day from streaming while artists make less than a penny per stream; where AI DJs do the choosing for you within an algorithmic echo chamber; and where “vibe”-oriented playlists are filled with music by ghost artists designed to keep you listening longer while paying attention less.How all of this came to pass — and its far-reaching ripple effects on everything from cultural taste and aesthetics to the very meaning of being an “independent” artist — is the subject of Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist, a new book by independent music journalist Liz Pelly. The work culminates a decade of dogged reporting covering Spotify's rise from democratizing platform to corporate behemoth, and how, in the process, it has eroded the vast majority of artist's ability to make a living off of their work.Liz joins us to discuss how independent artists got swept up in a system that was clearly never built with them in mind, and how it managed to devalue their work to almost nothing. We also get into Spotify's flattening impact on music, in both an aesthetic and economic sense. And we break down the platform's push towards “lean-back” listening — you know, beats to study and chill to — and how it's reshaped the very meaning of being a fan.Follow Liz on Instagram.Get Mood Machine and check out more of Liz's work here.Read an excerpt, "The Ghosts in the Machine," at Harper's This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theculturejournalist.substack.com/subscribe

Liz Pelly joins This Is Hell! to discuss her Harper's cover article titled "The Ghosts in the Machine: Spotify's Plot Against Musicians," excerpted from her new book, Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist (One Signal Publishers). Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell

Liz Pelly joins This Is Hell! to discuss her Harper's cover article titled "The Ghosts in the Machine: Spotify's Plot Against Musicians," excerpted from her new book, Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist (One Signal Publishers). An all-new Moment of Truth with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview. Check out Liz's article: https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machine-liz-pelly-spotify-musicians/ And her book: https://lizpelly.info/book Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell

Today we have very special guest Liz Pelly on to talk about her great new book Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist. We get into playlist payola, the new age of muzak, questioning the role of corporate power in our lives, and much more. Enjoy!   Buy Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Mood-Machine/Liz-Pelly/9781668083505  

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On this episode, Marc talks with Liz Pelly, author of “Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Cost of the Perfect Playlist,” published on January 7, 2025. by One Signal. It's a deeply reported expose of the streaming service Spotify and how their decisions and manipulations have changed music both for artists and for listeners. Liz has been reporting on Spotify for almost a decade and her many published articles on the subject led her to this fascinating book, which will hopefully change the way people think about streaming and what it's done to music.As she writes, “In my writing and reporting, I've been driven toward a deep impulse toward demystification–toward shedding light on the inner workings of streaming companies and debunking the myths they perpetuate. Sometimes it feels more complicated and convoluted than I could ever have imagined. Other times it just all feels like music industry business as usual. The truth is somewhere in the middle: the story of streaming is as much about what's changed as what's stayed the same.”We hope you enjoy Marc's conversation with Liz Pelly!

Isaac is joined by Liz Pelly and Max Peretsky to talk Liz's new book Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist.

Isaac is joined by Liz Pelly and Max Peretsky to talk Liz's new book Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist.

Á jóladag var nýjasta kvikmynd leikstjórans Robert Eggers frumsýnd í Bandaríkjunum. Hryllingsmyndin Nosferatu með Lily Rose Depp í aðalhlutverki. Nú er hún líka komin í bíó á Íslandi og hægt að fara og láta sér líða illa og ónotalega. Myndin er endurgerð á samnefndri mynd þýska leikstjórans Murnau frá 1922 - sem var síðan endurgerð af samlanda hans Werner Herzog árið 1979 - og allt er þetta byggt á skáldsögu Bram Stoker um drakúla greifa. Eggers er þekktur fyrir að leggja mikla áherslu á sögulega nákvæmni í myndum sínum en myndin gerist um vetur í skáldaða bænum Wisburg í þýskalandi, árið 1838. Á morgun kemur út bókin Mood machine, Stemningsvélin - uppgangur Spotify og verð hins fullkomna spilunarlista eftir blaðakonuna Liz Pelly. Einn kafli úr bókinni birtist í tímaritinu Harpers fyrir jól og varpaði nýju ljósi á eina lífseigustu samsæriskenninguna um skítlega viðskiptahætti streymisrisans Spotify, draugalistamennina svokölluðu. Við höfum fjallað um þetta fyrirbæri nokkrum sinnum í Lestinni undanfarin 5 ár en nú viðrðast komnar sannanir fyrir því að Spotify græði á gervilistamönnum sem fylla marga spilunarlista streymisþjónustunnar. Við ræðum við Árna Matthíasson tónlistarblaðamann. Við fáum líka sendingu frá Katrínu Helgu Ólafsdóttur, tónlistarkonu. Hún ræðir við grænlensku tónlistarkonuna og trommudansarann Nuka Alice.

Music journalist Liz Pelly joins us to discuss her new book The Mood Machine the Rise of Spotify and the Cost of the Perfect Playlist. How did the DIY culture of mixtapes and file sharing move towards massive streaming platforms? And with nearly every song freely accessible why are so many listening to elevator music instead? You can listen to this full episode gratis by signing up at our free membership tier over at patreon.com/theAntifadaLinks to Liz's work:https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machine-liz-pelly-spotify-musicians/https://thebaffler.com/downstream/big-mood-machine-pellyhttps://thebaffler.com/downstream/streambait-pop-pellyhttps://thebaffler.com/downstream/wrapped-and-sold-pelly https://thebaffler.com/latest/podcast-overlords-pellyCheck out the Art and Labor PodcastMusic/image: Lo-Fi Girl

DJ PAYPAL - "Go Off!" - IRL DJ PAYPAL - "Work" - Drake Edits Vol. 2 Music behind DJ: [Guest host Lily Wen interviews NY-based journalist Liz Pelly about how surveillance changes listening habits.] DJ PAYPAL - "Whisper Zone" - IRL DJ PAYPAL - "We Finally Made It (feat. DJ Earl)" - Sold Out https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/138198

On November 15, the Open Markets Institute and the AI Now Institute hosted an event in Washington D.C. featuring discussion on how to understand the promise, threats, and practical regulatory challenges presented by artificial intelligence. Justin Hendrix moderated a discussion on harms to artists and creators, exploring questions around copyright and fair use, the ways in which AI is shaping the entire incentive structure for creative labor, and the economic impacts of the "junkification" of online content. The panelists included Liz Pelly, a freelance journalist specialized in the music industry; Ashley Irwin, President of the Society of Composers & Lyricists; and Jen Jacobsen, Executive Director of the Artist Rights Alliance.

Our good friend David Turner celebrated five years of Penny Fractions earlier this month with a live show at Nowadays. On stage, David was joined by our very own Sam Backer along side heavy-hitters Liz Pelly and Cherie Hu. Enjoy this live recording from the show as the crew run through everything you'd expect from a M4N discussion on the current state of the music industry: criticisms, hot takes, laughs, shade, shout-outs...oh and lollipops. Subscribe to our newsletter! Follow us on Twitter!

Is 'everything' simply too much? I argue that 'anything' is probably what we need!

There's been a lot of talk in Andrea and Niall's circles this week about the ethics of having a Spotify account in the wake of the Joe Rogan / Neil Young flareup. So we thought we'd finally get one of our old pals, Liz Pelly, a NYC writer who has written extensively about Spotify and streaming issues in recent years on to discuss the ethics, morality of the issues that people are talking about while looking at alternative models and services for streaming and Spotify. Why did it take a celebrity podcaster paid by Spotify touting misinformation for this to happen? Why wasn't the long-held issue of small royalty payments by streaming services a greater factor? We look at whether the streaming model is actually sustainable, user-centric payment systems (supported by Deezer) vs pooling, platforms such as Resonate, Bandcamp and how public libraries might point the way forward. Plus a mention for Irish streaming service MINM. Listen to the episode below or subscribe in your favourite podcast app: Subscribe in Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS Feed Episode notes / references Music on this week's show: JarjarJr - 'Boost' Socialized Streaming: A case for universal music access, Real Life, Liz PellyLibrary Music: Public libraries offer small-scale streaming alternatives for local archiving, The Broadcast, Liz PellyPodcast Overlords: Spotify only works for the stars, The Baffler, Liz Pelly Songs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify Playlist Support Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord chat + member playlists & content. Andrea has a Ghost newsletter Andrea's own podcast - My Favourite Album Subscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon. Previous podcast episodes

Music is a public good: It brings people together, it provides an outlet, an archive, and reflects the tenor of society at any given moment. We don’t currently conceptualize universal access to music as a public good, to be managed in the public interest with public funding. We should. We should think about socializing music streaming.  Read more essays on living with technology at reallifemag.com and follow us on Twitter @_reallifemag.

Support the Union of Musicians & Allied Workers (UMAW) Cuomo protest!! We’re joined by music journalist and DIY angel Liz Pelly and returning angel David Turner. We discuss their work including Liz’s new piece in Real Life “Socialized Streaming: A case for universal music access.” Plus, we each reveal the contents of our high school … Continue reading "Episode 114 – Music and Labor 2 w/ Liz Pelly and David Turner"

Support the Union of Musicians & Allied Workers (UMAW) Cuomo protest!! We’re joined by music journalist and DIY angel Liz Pelly and returning angel David Turner. We discuss their work including Liz’s new piece in Real Life “Socialized Streaming: A case for universal music access.” Plus, we each reveal the contents of our high school … Continue reading "Episode 114 – Music and Labor 2 with Liz Pelly and David Turner"

We talk to writer and critic Liz Pelly who has long been one of the most astute critics of the modern musical economy. But while we all know that streaming is broken—what comes next? Liz has recently been exploring a set of new platforms that are seeking to create alternatives to existing industry structures. We dig into everything from public library-based programs that support local music to swing-for-the-fences proposals for government intervention in the streaming markets. Tomorrow’s ethical consumption—today! Sign up for our newsletter!   Further Reading: Protest Platforms: Music Streaming Cooperative Restores Agency to Artists - Shadowproof     

go to 10:24 to skip my long-winded intro hi folks! it's 2021 now, i guess. and all the time i spent inside with anxiety over the past year has made me far more aware of how much i'm rapidly aging into irrelevance... perfect time for my 33 year old self to get back into the Cinderella story of a bunch of middle aged guys with families who hit the big time from the city of Dayton in my home state of Ohio.... Guided By Voices. specifically i focus on what i consider to be the strangest and most unique album of their catalog, 1993's Vampire on Titus. i also go over why i fell out with GBV over the years after my intense fandom of them in my late teens, my issues with the GBV fandom (aka cult), and the (many) things i feel like nuGBV has lost compared to the classic 90's lo-fi albums. here's a list of things referenced in this episode: Nuggets compilation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuggets:_Original_Artyfacts_from_the_First_Psychedelic_Era,_1965%E2%80%931968 info on Record Clubs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_club Scat Records: https://realscatrecords.com/ Closer You Are: The Story of Robert Pollard and Guided By Voices: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/37506059-closer-you-are Self-inflicted Aural Nostalgia podcast episode on Vampire on Titus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h0QXtssTG0 Penny Fractions newsletter: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/pennyfractions Future of Music Coalition: https://twitter.com/future_of_music Liz Pelly: https://lizpelly.com/ AND MY PATREON: http://www.patreon.com/ellaguro   all songs used in this episode are by Guided By Voices: "Club Molluska" from Same Place The Fly Got Smashed "Dusted" from the Fast Japanese Spin Cycle EP "Motor Away" from the Crying Your Knife Away live album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSJfeNKLbx0 "No. 2 in the Model Home Series" from Vampire on Titus "Donkey School" from Vampire on Titus "Wondering Boy Poet" from Vampire on Titus "'Wished I Was A Giant'" from Vampire on Titus Tim Heidecker on GBV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfG8nEhNMhk "The Best of Jill Hives" from Earthquake Glue "Expecting Brainchild", "Superior Sector Janitor X", "Dusted", "Marchers in Orange", "Sot", "World of Fun", "Jar of Cardinals" "E-5", "Gleemer (The Deeds of Fertile Jim)", "What About It", and "Non-Absorbing" from Vampire on Titus "Don't Stop Now" from King Shit & The Golden Boys "Superior Sector Janitor X" (again) "The Old Grunt" from Mag Earwhig! "The Weeping Boogeyman" from Universal Truths and Cycles "Ambergris" from Same Place the Fly Got Smashed "Pendulum" from Same Place the Fly Got Smashed

On this week's show I'm joined by Paris Marx, creator and host of the Tech Won't Save Us podcast. Paris is a socialist writer whose critical perspectives on technology have been published by NBC News, Jacobin, Tribune, In These Times, OneZero, Recode, Citymetric, Salon, and more. Paris is a PhD student at the University of Auckland researching tech futures, and completed a Master’s in urban geography from McGill University. They are also writing a book about transportation and technology for Verso Books. The podcast Tech Won’t Save Us challenges the notion that tech alone can drive our world forward by showing that separating tech from politics has consequences for us all, especially the most vulnerable. The show isn't simply about tearing down tech. It also presents radical ideas for a better world and better technology. Recent shows have included  Emma Kinema a former tech and games worker who is a Campaign Lead with the Communications Workers of America on the Campaign to Organize Digital Employees. She also co-founded Game Workers Unite Freelance writer and critic, Liz Pelly, discusses how the Spotify model of streaming music continues a long trend of exploitation in the music industry and why musicians need to organize around a vision for a different world of music. And, Will Evans, a reporter at Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting discussing his investigative reporting on how excessive productivity targets are causing high rates of injury at Amazon warehouses, how executives have misled the public about the problem, and what that suggests about the impacts of the company’s “customer obsession.”  You can check out the show at https://techwontsave.us/ and you can subscribe to the show wherever you get your podcasts.  On today’s show we’ll be talking about the need to take on the tech utopianism of Silicon Valley from a Left perspective. We'll also get into the push by the billionaire class for the kind of free-market, galactic capitalism we've discussed on the podcast.  You can follow Paris on Twitter @parismarx. Follow Tech Won't Save us: @techwontsaveus. You can support his podcast, too: https://www.patreon.com/techwontsaveus/

Malgré la fermeture des clubs et l’annulation des concerts et des festivals, la musique a envahi nos espaces confinés, et maintenu un lien entre nous. Dans cet épisode court, Clémentine et Émeline reviennent sur une année où la musique s’est consommée digitalement et en profitent pour partager les sons qui ont marqué 2020. « How TikTok Has Changed The Music Industry », Text-Only Version (2020) Vice, « Inside Club Quarantine: The future of Nightlife », Youtube (2020)Marie Ottavi, « « L’appart chez moi », venons en aux fêtes », Libération (2020)Dayna Evans traduit par Sandra Proutry-Skrzypek, « De l’éthique du streaming musical sous le capitalisme », Vice (2020)Criticism of Spotify, Wikipédia Willa Köerner, René Kladzyk, « Music industry investigation report », The creative independent (2019)Tristan Gaudiaut, « Spotify va passer le cap des 300 millions d’utilisateurs », Statista (2020)Jari Muikku, Lottaliina Pokkinen, « Streaming: pro-rata vs user-centric distribution models », Fim (2018) Tech won’t save us, « How Spotify is Built On Artist Exploitation w/ Liz Pelly » Apple Podcast (2020)Liz Pelly, « Discover Weakly, sexism on Spotify » , The Baffler (2018)Jada E. Watson, « Reflecting on Spotify’s Recommender System », Songdata (2019) Damon Krukowski, « A Tale Of Two Ecosystems: On Bandcamp, Spotify And The Wide-Open Future », Text-Only Version (2020)Néon, « Le chanteur Spleen (The Voice 2014) visé par des accusations de violences sexuelles par plusieurs femmes » (2020)Survey on female and non-binary DJs & producers in 2020 - by L’Appel du 8 MarsBinge Audio, « Programme B: Troubles fêtes, hors série » (2020) Matt Moen, « Arca: Embracing the Flux », Paper (2020)Frankie Dunn, « Björk and arca reveal their intimate letters to each other », i-d Vice (2020)Emma Buoncristiani, « La nouvelle compile Nadsat rassemble les talents émergents de la scène électro », Trax (2020)Terrence Parker, « Detroit The Blueprint Of Techno », Youtube Nolan Feeney, « How Dua Lipa Brought the World to the Dancefloor - Amid a Pandemic », Billboard (2020)Lous and the Yakuza, « Lous and the Yakuza: Lous Plurielle », Youtube (2020)La playlist Quoi de Meuf: Quoi de Meuf - Hits 2020, Spotify. Vous pouvez acheter votre playlist Spotify sur Bandcamp Quoi de Meuf est une émission de Nouvelles Ecoutes. Cet épisode est conçu par Clémentine Gallot et présenté avec Emelline Amétis. Mixage Laurie Galligani. Montage et coordination Ashley Tola.

Critic and music journalist Liz Pelly joins us for a fascinating interview about why the Spotify model is so bad for musicians and what that might mean for podcasters. Liz is a veteran of the DIY music community as a former member of the Silent Barn collective in Brooklyn, and a stalwart of independent journalism with her own publication The Media, and pieces published Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, and the New York Times.

Liz Pelly, musician, community artspace volunteer, writer, contributing editor at The Baffler, and all around amazing person joins the show to discuss something she has been researching and reporting on for years now- the exploitative nature of Spotify and the streaming world. She discusses how major labels and Spotify get the majority of the money and the artists themselves are left with close to nothing. Follow Liz's work at the Baffler: https://thebaffler.com/authors/liz-pelly Listen to Privacy Issues: https://privacyissues.bandcamp.com/ Sign up for her newsletter: https://tinyletter.com/lizpelly#_=_ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Paris Marx is joined by Liz Pelly to discuss how the Spotify model of streaming music continues a long trend of exploitation in the music industry and why musicians need to organize around a vision for a different world of music.Liz Pelly is a freelance writer and critic who has spent the past decade working with community arts spaces. She is also a contributing editor and columnist at The Baffler. Follow Liz on Twitter as @lizpelly.Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter.Read the plan for the future of the show and supporter benefits on Patreon.Find out more about Harbinger Media Network and follow it on Twitter as @harbingertweets.Also mentioned in this episode:Liz’s work looks at many aspects of Spotify, including the model it’s pushing on musicians and increasingly on podcastersParis has written about how consolidation and the emergence of streaming is having similarly negative effects in film and televisionNaomi Klein explains how New Deal arts programs funded 225,000 musical performances which reached 150 million Americans — and much moreCherie Hu tweeted a diagram showing how different streaming and music companies have stakes in one anotherThe Verge obtained Sony Music’s contract with SpotifyHow Galaxy 500 and Pavement had random songs take off on SpotifySpotify CEO says artists need to record music more frequentlyHenderson Cole’s proposal for an American Music LibraryThe Union of Musicians and Allied Workers launched the Justice at Spotify campaignSupport the show (https://patreon.com/techwontsaveus)

In this episode we speak with the writer Liz Pelly, who over the past 5 years has written a series of revelatory critical pieces about the streaming economy for The Baffler.We discuss whether the distinction of Independence is all that useful in music at this point in history, take a look at the ways in which the streaming platforms flatter some kinds of music and have flattered to deceive for others, and question what the recent Spotify exclusivity deal with Joe Rogan might mean for musicians.This is a nice and long conversation, and we had one or two connection issues, so forgive us if you notice one or two jarring edits!Check out Liz's work online here:https://lizpelly.com/https://thebaffler.com/authors/liz-pelly

For many of us—even without it being much of a conscious choice—buying music has been replaced by subscribing to a music streaming service. Here in Canada, streaming numbers have long overtaken physical or digital album sales. One study reported over 75 billion streams in 2019, a 30 percent increase from the year before. Compare that to sales, which have dropped by 25 per cent in the same time period. As record stores close, streaming platforms continue to crop up. Spotify, Apple Music, CBC Listen, YouTube Music, Tidal - and that's just in North America! Their offers keep expanding too: just last month, Spotify launched a separate app just for kid-friendly songs. And it's not just that it's changed how we access music. Listening is becoming more about singles and playlists geared to moods and activities. An endless stream of music, you might say. Major music events like the Junos usually boost the streaming numbers and sales for winning artists. So with the 2020 Juno Awards coming up on March 15th, we are looking into what we gain and lose when streaming music. And how is that changing the music that we listen to? + Liz Pelly is a writer covering music, culture and streaming, and a contributing editor, columnist and event producer at Baffler Magazine. She's also an adjunct instructor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. + Gary Sinclair, Lecturer in Marketing at Dublin City University, who's studied how our changing habits around music listening affect our sense of music ownership. + Miranda Mulholland, musician and owner of Roaring Girl Records, and a musicians' rights advocate. Her album, By Appointment or Chance, is nominated for a JUNO this year in the Traditional Roots Album of the Year category

In this super-long episode of the solecast I'm doing a deep dive into the impacts that streaming and corporate consolidation has had on the music industry.  This is a very long episode, clocking in at almost 3 hours.  Instead of splitting it up into a multi-part episode I wanted everything in once place, so people could  treat this as a mini audio documentary, listen while you have time, pause it and return to it, there is a lot of information here that is important, if you care about music.  Hopefully this Megasode format allows you to gain a nuanced and in depth understanding of where the music industry is at, how its gotten to where it is, and how we as artists and listeners can navigate this. First I'm joined by Joe from Don Giovanni Records to talk about how the changes we have seen over the last 20 years have made it increasingly difficult for most independent labels to compete.  Joe gives a history of how this consolidation has impacted independent infrastructure from blogs, to record stores to radio and beyond.  Don Giovanni is an incredible record label, check out their releases at https://www.dongiovannirecords.com/ For Part two I'm just by journalist Liz Pelly to talk about some of the less considered aspects of how these algorithms are shaping art itself, its ability to surveil moods and advanced forms of marketing.  Liz also offers a number of ideas for ways people can reclaim power in this shifting landscape.  Check out some of her pieces for the baffler “Big Mood Machine”  or “Stream-bait pop.”  Then I sit down with my long time friend, collaborator and distribution partner Daddy Kev of Alpha Pup.  Kev is an OG from the LA beat scene and is co-owner of Alpha Pup Distribution.  He is optimistic about how artists can do in the future and offers a number of suggestions for how those who choose to engage in these platforms can think about maximizing their potential to reach supporters.  https://alphapuprecords.com/ Music: True Deceiver Drifts & Floats

Olivia & Melissa chat with writer, Liz Pelly, who dives deep into the exploitation of artists by streaming platforms, the appropriation of the "house show" through venues like SoFar Sounds, & how we can be more conscious music listeners.

When Spotify was founded in 2006, it aimed to solve the problem of online music distribution, remunerating artists for plays. 13 years on, it is a massive data node that is having a profound effect on how artists and audiences connect. In this cast, New Models speaks with music journalist Liz Pelly, who has written extensively on Spotify, particularly its impact on independent music. She talks to us, here, about Spotify's structure, how it nudges artists to optimize their acts through metrics, and what it understands "music" (let alone "independent") culture to be. Liz also gives an update on community organizing in NYC's IRL music/nightlife sphere. For more, check: http://lizpelly.com/

On this episode of The Art of Process, we talk to one of our favorite songwriters, Dan Wilson. From his start in the Twin Cities indie scene of the early 80s to his rise as a noted "song-whisperer," working with artists ranging from Adele, to the Dixie Chicks, to Pink, and many others among and between, he's displayed an integrity and a commitment to artistry that shows through in all of his work. Join us as we discuss everything from meeting in the slow bake of a hot tent with yogurt on the side (it's every bit as gross as it sounds), to the melancholy loneliness of solo songwriting versus collaboration, experiments in ALL CHORUS songs, and the rise of streaming services like Spotify, and how they've become something of a new tail wagging the old dog of songwriting in ways both frustrating and potentially fun. Special thanks to Laura Swisher at maximumfun.org for being our "podcast-whisperer" and continuing to help us through the process of getting this off the ground and establishing some sort of flow. New episodes every-other Monday, and as always, please subscribe, download, like, etc., wherever you get your podcasts. Finally have it together enough to add some relevant links below, should you choose to dig further...   Our MaximumFun page: https://maximumfun.org/shows/art-of-process  Semisonic's "Closing Time" official video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGytDsqkQY8  AMAZING 1986 cbale access Trip Shakespeare appearance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFgGinztxiY  Bunratty's is still there, now called Wonder Bar, but I don't really understand what's going on with this website: http://www.bunrattys.com/  A really interesting deep dive if you want to take a left-turn into Spotify and genre creation, by Liz Pelly (@lizpelly), who's been doing a lot of great thinking and writing on this: https://thebaffler.com/downstream/streambait-pop-pelly  Follow: @DanWilsonMusic  @AimeeMann @TedLeo  @artofprocesspod  @MaxFunHQ  ​

Episode #143: From streaming to the inner-workings of indie labels, hear our most popular interviews of 2018 as determined by you, our listeners: - Liz Pelly on Spotify and “The Problem with Muzak” - Rob Jones on sustaining Jealous Butcher Records - Jen Cloher's approach to the music business - Justin Schmidt weighs in on whether artists need a record label Produced by Will Watts and Anna McClain. Engineered by Brent Asbury at Beta Petrol.

From publications to venues, DIY culture is able to highlight and share voices that are unadulterated from the influence of corporate culture. Liz Pelly joins Michael & Zac to discuss the importance of artist-run outlets and the many challenges they face to stay afloat in a sea of big money and the appropriation of phrase […]

Recorded live from Pete’s Candy Store! Doug and Jordan talk to Baffler columnist Liz Pelly about our new future where everything is free but nobody gets paid. Appropriately and at Liz's request, Doug covers Gillian Welch's modern classic "Everything Is Free" and premieres his new song “Los Angeles” which is about convincing yourself that if you move to LA it will solve all your New York problems, or whatever. Additional music from the truly fantastic Thelma. This is a fun but weird one! Listen and watch out for Jordan who was clearly on the verge of a nervous breakdown when we were taping! Check out Liz Pelly online (website / Baffler articles / Twitter / Instagram) and Thelma too! (Bandcamp / Facebook / Twitter / Instagram) timestamps 0:00 “Theme From Special Delivery” by Dougie Poole 2:51 “Los Angeles” by Dougie Poole 8:14 “Laptop” by Dougie Poole 11:17 Jordan does a really bad job with the intro to the show 13:20 Liz Pelly Reads reads segment from “The Problem with Muzak” 18:00 conversation between Doug, Jordan and Liz 34:21 “Everything Is Free” by Gillian Welch cover by Dougie Poole 41:14 "No Dancing Allowed" by Thelma 45:26 "Stranger Love" by Thelma 50:30 "Orlando" by Thelma 54:04 "Sway" by Thelma 57:37 "Chosen Ones" by Thelma

We all know that the recorded music industry has gone through many changes in recent decades, but it can be interesting to take a long view of the various ways that music has been sold. Show notes: Frank Denyer: Music for Shakuhachi (http://www.anothertimbre.com/denyershakuhachi.html) Visualizing 40 Years of Music Industry Sales (Visual Capitalist) (https://t.co/hyJcgCiGkg) Ringtones Composed by Brian Eno for the Nokia 8800 Scirocco Phone (https://www.kirkville.com/ringtones-composed-by-brian-eno-for-the-nokia-8800-scirocco-phone/) Creating the Windows 95 Startup Sound (http://mentalfloss.com/article/50824/creating-windows-95-startup-sound) 48% of people who buy vinyl don't listen to the records (https://www.whathifi.com/news/48-people-who-buy-vinyl-dont-listen-to-records) Episode #119 - Caoilfhionn Rose on Gigging, Busking, Recording, and Releasing Her First Album (https://www.thenexttrack.com/122) Cassette Store Day (http://cassettestoreday.com) Episode #90 – Liz Pelly on Streaming Muzak and Playlists (https://www.thenexttrack.com/93) Our next tracks: Bach: the Cantatas for the Complete Liturgical Year, La Petite Band, Sigiswald Kuijken (https://amzn.to/2CPHLJp) PJ Harvey: Rid of Me (https://amzn.to/2PGgQTk) If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

How is the sausage made? In this episode we present a making of episode; how we make our podcast. Show notes: Episode #124 - Deluxe Editions (https://www.thenexttrack.com/127) Blue Yeti microphone (https://amzn.to/2OzAoex) Rode NT1 microphone (https://amzn.to/2OvnkHl) Audio Hijack (https://www.rogueamoeba.com/audiohijack/) Take Control of Audio Hijack (https://www.kirkville.com/learn-how-to-record-any-audio-on-your-mac-with-my-new-book-take-control-of-audio-hijack/) Episode #123 - John Cage's Silent Piece 4'33", with Kyle Gann (https://www.thenexttrack.com/126) Episode #121 - Roie Avin on Modern Prog Rock Masterpieces (https://www.thenexttrack.com/124) Episode #67 – The Grateful Dead's Legendary 5/8/77 Cornell Concert, with Author Peter Conners (https://www.thenexttrack.com/70) Episode #60 – Geoff Edgers on the Slow Death of the Electric Guitar (https://www.thenexttrack.com/63) Episode #90 – Liz Pelly on Streaming Muzak and Playlists (https://www.thenexttrack.com/93) Episode #89 – Too Much Music; James Jackson Toth's Failed Experiment (https://www.thenexttrack.com/92) Episode #18 – New Yorker Music Critic Alex Ross Discusses Listening to Classical Music (https://www.thenexttrack.com/19) Episode #9 – Will Hermes on Discovering New Music (https://www.thenexttrack.com/10) Episode #58 – David Weigel on the History of Progressive Rock (https://www.thenexttrack.com/61) Episodes with Andy Doe (https://www.thenexttrack.com/search?utf8=✓&term=andy+doe) Episodes with Chris Connaker (https://www.thenexttrack.com/search?utf8=✓&term=chris+connaker) Episode #35 – Musician and Developer Peter Chilvers on Brian Eno's Album and App Reflection (https://www.thenexttrack.com/36) Episode #115 - App Developer Peter Chilvers on the New Travis & Fripp Apps (https://www.thenexttrack.com/118) Episode #114 - Theo Travis on His New Travis & Fripp Apps (https://www.thenexttrack.com/117) PhotoActive (https://www.photoactive.co) Intego Mac Security Podcast (https://podcast.intego.com) Our next tracks: Durutti Column: M24J: Anthology (https://amzn.to/2OCNesD) Joe Strummer: Joe Strummer 001 (https://amzn.to/2OyRQjC) If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

Interview with NYC-based writer https://soundcloud.com/lizpelly http://lizpelly.com/writing https://twitter.com/lizpelly

For the 100th episode, Doug and Kirk discuss how they listen to music today, and how their music listening has changed in the two years they've been producing this podcast. Show notes: Episode #90 – Liz Pelly on Streaming Muzak and Playlists (http://www.thenexttrack.com/93) Episode #85 – How Much Music Is Too Much? (http://www.thenexttrack.com/88) Episode #89 – Too Much Music; James Jackson Toth's Failed Experiment (http://www.thenexttrack.com/92) Record Labels Splitting Long Tracks into Multiple Tracks to Maximize Streaming Income (https://www.kirkville.com/record-labels-splitting-long-tracks-into-multiple-tracks-to-maximize-streaming-income/) Episode #69 – Brian Brandt of Mode Records on John Cage, Morton Feldman, and the Music Business (http://www.thenexttrack.com/72) Episode #1 – Songs to Albums to Songs (http://www.thenexttrack.com/2) Episode #2 – To Stream or to Own Music? (http://www.thenexttrack.com/3) Our next tracks: Max Richter: Sleep (https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/sleep/1358135251) (Apple Music); CD/Blu-Ray version (https://amzn.to/2JGEQTF) Jeff Beck: Rock 'n' Roll Party (Honoring Les Paul) (https://amzn.to/2EJ3pvk) If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606) or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.

hey! for the very first time this show has a musical intro! enjoy! the name of the track is "Forgotten Valley" by Kota Hoshino from the Forever Kingdom OST. if you like this episode, please consider supporting me on Patreon at: http://www.patreon.com/ellaguro on this episode i'm joined by music writ....This item belongs to: audio/opensource_audio.This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3

Journalist Liz Pelly talks about streaming muzak, Spotify, playlists, and the future of streaming. This week’s guest: Liz Pelly Liz Pelly’s newsletter Show notes: The Problem with Muzak The Secret Lives of Playlists Future of Music Coalition Episode #89 – Too Much Music; James Jackson Toth's Failed Experiment U.S. Copyright Authorities to Make Subscription Music Services Increase Payout Rate to Publishers and Musicians Topsify Filtr Digster Hands On: iTunes 10’s Ping feature Merlin Music fans bought a lot of cassettes last year Our next tracks: Kirk: Nils Frahm: All Melody Doug: Ten Years After: Watt If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast. Special Guest: Liz Pelly.

Episode #109: Playlists have been a huge driver in the growth of streaming music, and platforms like Spotify are pushing their curated playlists more than ever. Securing a coveted placement on one of the top playlists could mean millions of streams and new fans for an artist. These playlists drive discovery, chart performance, and sales, and the tastemakers creating them aren't just kids compiling their favorite songs. From brands to professional curators, many are taking advantage of this new marketing opportunity. But could curation become a viable revenue stream? And how do artists get their music to these mysterious influencers? On this episode we hear from Garrison Snell, who built his company, Crosshair, around getting curators compensated. We're also joined by journalist Cherie Hu, who has written about music curation models for Forbes. Walt Lilly, the curator behind the Apollo Playlist brand gives us an idea of what goes into a successful playlist. If you want to hear more about playlisting, check out our recent interview with Liz Pelly. Get 15% off at rockabilia.com with code PCFUTUREOFWHAT Subscribe to The Future of What on iTunes: http://apple.co/1P4Apk0 Follow us: Twitter: http://bit.ly/2gOYMYM Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thefutureofwhat/ Instagram: http://bit.ly/1L6T8fl

Episode #109: Writer Liz Pelly has spent the last year discussing how streaming services like Spotify and the rise of playlisting affect our the health of our music industry. She joins us on the show to break down her recent piece in The Baffler Magazine, "The Problem with Muzak." We'll also hear from Peter Harris, founder of Resonate, a cooperatively owned streaming service based on a stream-to-own model built with blockchain technology. Get 15% off at rockabilia.com with code PCFUTUREOFWHAT Subscribe to The Future of What on iTunes: http://apple.co/1P4Apk0 Follow us: Twitter: http://bit.ly/2gOYMYM Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thefutureofwhat/ Instagram: http://bit.ly/1L6T8fl

In this week's Pocket Edition, Melody Thomas speaks with Liz Pelly about what is behind Spotify playlists; BBC Future reporter Melissa Hogenboom shares the story of her father's dementia and his love of music. Plus local musicians Marlon Williams, Samuel Flynn Scott and Chelsea Jade share their summer jams.

With its easy-to-access content and vast selection of ready-made playlists, Spotify has amassed more than 100 million users globally since its inception. But according to writer Liz Pelly it's narrowing the range of music we listen to.  

In a recent article on artist advocacy site CASH Music, journalist Liz Pelly investigated "The Secret Lives Of Playlists", and what she found out has sparked another cycle of controversy for the world's largest provider of streaming music, Spotify.Is payola running rampant in the world of playlists? Is that really a problem? Do streaming services have a "moral" obligation to artists or has the label system simply evolved, meet the new boss, same as the old boss? Casey Rae (The Priest They Called Him: William S. Burroughs & The Cult of Rock 'n' Roll) and Michael Kentoff (The Caribbean) join Kevin in the basement to try and navigate this hyper-complicated landscape and hopefully come up with some answers.PLUS! Indie-Folk collective The Good Graces are back with a new LP (Set Your Sights) and we've got listen to one of it's best tracks for ya! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ben Ratliff, Maria Sherman and Liz Pelly discuss the band’s new album and punk music.