The Shuffle Was Never Random: How Spotify Rigged Its Own Platform Against Artists and Listeners
Independent artists were told Spotify was a level playing field. It wasn't.
While real musicians earn fractions of a cent per stream, Spotify seeded its most-followed playlists with fake artists through a secret internal program called Perfect Fit Content — designed to reduce royalty payouts to …
The Shuffle Was Never Random: How Spotify Rigged Its Own Platform Against Artists and Listeners
Independent artists were told Spotify was a level playing field. It wasn't.
While real musicians earn fractions of a cent per stream, Spotify seeded its most-followed playlists with fake artists through a secret internal program called Perfect Fit Content — designed to reduce royalty payouts to …
Ep. 187- Harry Dresden prefers to go by Harold. (Small Favor)
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Hannah and Laura are in the middle of Jim Butcher's Small Favor and they are (spoiler) loving this book so far. They are admittedly struggling to remember all the different plots and characters in this series (SO many) but dig that Harry Dresden pays his taxes. They also chat about…
E79 - Bird Eating and Bird Migration
Margaret and Camden discuss what it really mean to "eat like a bird" (5:20) and if all birds migrate (17:39).
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Ep. #1114: Stuck
Greg Obis from Stuck is here to discuss their new album Optimizer, following Bob Weston in operating Chicago Mastering Service, his background in audio engineering and an internship he had at Electrical Audio, how Michael Azerrad’s Our Band Could Be Your Life helped him re-assess punk rock, explain…
Why Spotify Is Killing Music Discovery (Guardian Article) ft. Jochan Embley | The Back Beat #7
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A Guardian music journalist realised Spotify had quietly smoothed the hard edges off his own taste, so he quit. This week I'm joined by my oldest friend, journalist Jochan Embley, to dig into algorithms, streaming payouts, why he swapped Spotify for Apple Music, and how to actually…
Black Marble
Black Marble (aka Chris Stewart) goes record shopping at Amoeba Hollywood in this "What's In My Bag?" episode. The electronic musician digs into the book section, picking up "How Music Works" by David Byrne and Lol Tolhurst's "Goth: A History," and finds one of his all-time favorite post-punk album…
Curious Listening In the Streaming Era
What does it mean to be a curious listener? In this episode, recorded live at Big Ears 2026, author and music journalist Liz Pelly joins legendary WNYC radio host John Schaefer to explore the art of curious listening — and what we risk losing in the age of algorithmic recommendations. Alongside gu…
how instrumental artists can engage passive "playlist" listeners | guitarwavers monthly focus topic
in this episode of the guitarwavers podcast, I'm sharing something a little different: our monthly focus topic call on engaging passive listeners, with fellow guitarwavers martin (chasing reverb), peter (friend from work) and simon burghardt.
calm instrumental music mostly plays in the background o…
4. The Critic (Marc Ribot)
Marc Ribot has played guitar for Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, Norah Jones, Robert Plant, and about a thousand other people. He's also one of the most outspoken critics of AI music. He calls Suno and Udio plagiarism machines. And for him, the whole thing comes down to consent: nobody asked the musicia…
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