“I Never Owned Any Music ... player, according to a survey by Luminate. All this has made White bullish on novel methods for artists to engage with listeners outside of places like Spotify ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Music-streaming service Spotify announced it would remove "hate music," music by white supremacists, from its vast streaming library. The move comes after a music news blog ...

Spotify’s new royalty system ... of the sounds at a “fraction of the value” of music track streams. A sound featuring 30 seconds of white noise has thus far been worth the same as an artist ...

Plus, it's just kind of ugly. Psst is an alternative Spotify player that's focused on the music. The open-source desktop application only works for Spotify premium users, who can use it instead of ...

Then, author Liz Pelly stops by to discuss her new book on Spotify, and how its algorithms are reshaping music culture ... from talking to folks in the White House and the government.