Liz Pelly is a writer and critic based in New York. She covers music, culture, media, streaming and the internet. Her byline appears most often at The Baffler, where she is a columnist and contributing editor. She currently teaches music writing in the recorded music program at NYU Tisch, and co-authors a bi-weekly newsletter, Cryptophasia.
Select Writing:
- Socialized Streaming: A case for universal music access, Real Life
- With gigs canceled and no relief, musicians form a nationwide union, In These Times
- #Wrapped and Sold: On Spotify’s year-end campaign, The Baffler
- Podcast Overlords: Spotify only works for the stars, The Baffler
- Invisible costs: Digital music takes an unprecedented environmental toll, No Depression
- Sofar, So Bad: A global startup aims to exploit underground music, The Baffler
- Big Mood Machine: Spotify pursues emotional surveillance for global profit, The Baffler
- The Antisocial Network: How Facebook hurts music communities, Logic Magazine
- In the Era of Teen$ploitation: on Teen Boss magazine, The Baffler
- Streambait Pop: The emergence of a total Spotify genre, The Baffler
- Unfree Agents: Spotify's Uber-like model for independent artists, The Baffler
- Discover Weakly: Sexism on Spotify, The Baffler
- Cut the Music: Inside M.A.R.C.H.—the NYPD's secret, venue-closing task force, The Baffler
- The Problem with Muzak: Spotify's bid to remodel an industry, The Baffler
- Streaming cooperative Resonate restores agency to artists, Shadowproof
- Saga believes artists should have more control, Shadowproof
- CASH Music helps artists navigate industry rife with corporate exploitation, Shadowproof
- The Secret Lives of Playlists: Major label influence on Spotify, Watt
Some past projects: The Media, Silent Barn, PS Eliot zine
Find me on the internet: Bandcamp, Buy Music Club, Tinyletter, Tumblr, Instagram
lizpelly at gmail dot com