How Spotify Remade the Music Industry w/ Liz Pelly [Replay]

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. This episode previously aired in February 2025. 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 Kyla Hewson. Production for this episode was originally by Eric Wickham. Also mentioned in this episode: Shout-out to the book The People’s Platform by Astra Taylor You can read an excerpt of Liz’s book in Harper’s. The CEO of Suno AI said people “don’t enjoy” making music. The Edmonton Public Library was mentioned for spearheading some cool projects featuring local musicians - combat capitalism by supporting the cool projects operating out of your own local library! Hoopla works with local libraries to share music (and Libby partners with libraries to share audiobooks)

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How Spotify Remade the Music Industry w/ Liz Pelly [Replay] is an episode from Tech Won't Save Us by Paris Marx.

This episode is 66:34 long.

This episode was published on Jan 1, 2026.

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