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liz pelly

@lizpelly.bsky.social

writer in nyc, author of Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist, co-host of @criticallistening.bsky.social lizpelly.info

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liz pelly@lizpelly.bsky.social · 19h ago

suno says its new "v6-wild" model makes user generations more "weird" & "wild". what could that mean? unpacking it in our new headlines ep. they also claim v6 is the first licensed model made after the Warner deal... but that it happens to also be trained on user "creations" made w the old model

Critical Listening@criticallistening.bsky.social · 2d ago

New Headlines episode is out for subscribers at patreon.com/criticallistening, part of our subscriber-bonus series where Max and Liz each bring a story from across the music-tech and biz press to summarize, contextualize and discuss.

liz pelly@lizpelly.bsky.social · 2w ago

I know it's a cliche at this point to say but music bloggers were truly the canary in the coal mine for having their work ingested into ai systems that replaced them when echo nest used the whole music blogosphere to create data sets for streaming service rec systems. BuT iT's JuSt MuSiC

liz pelly@lizpelly.bsky.social · 2w ago

I loved this interview with Sweeping Promises about moving to Kansas, using their label advance to buy a house & turn it into an affordable studio for DIY bands, how they learn about new music from musickers crashing at their house, love of record stores & more www.patreon.com/CriticalList...

Episode 24: Sweeping Promises | Critical Listening

Welcome back to another episode of Critical Listening, DIY Lifers edition. For our third installment of Listening Habits, our series where w

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Brian Merchant@bcmerchant.bsky.social · 3w ago

This conversation with @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social couldn't be more timely. With the AI industry talking about *its own products' potential to cause human extinction* we drill into who might still want to build such technology, and why. Hint: it's in the title of their new book.

The End Times Fascists of AI, ft. Naomi Klein + Astra Taylor

Listen now (64 mins) | A conversation with Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor about “end times fascism” in the tech industry.

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liz pelly@lizpelly.bsky.social · last mo.

people like to celebrate when they were at an early show of someone who went on to tour w/ a celebrity, play MSG or whatever but you know what's also cool...being in a small room of people you've gone to shows with for 10+ years who kept making & caring about art despite the odds being so against it

jenn pelly@jennpelly.bsky.social · last mo.

Working on this was honestly spiritually energizing. I interviewed Corin Tucker and Tracy Sawyer about their legendary teenage riot grrrl band Heavens to Betsy and feminist revenge, the clarity of youth, their unexpected reunion and upcoming archival LP www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...

‘We never apologised for our rage or revenge-seeking’: riot grrrl legends Heavens to Betsy reunite

Alongside Bikini Kill and Bratmobile, Corin Tucker and Tracy Sawyer created a feminist punk vernacular that’s still inspiring the likes of Olivia Rodrigo. They recall the clarity and conviction of the...

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liz pelly@lizpelly.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I am participating in an international indie pop underground mixtape exchange this summer and it has been a blast spending an exorbitant amount of time trying to make the absolute perfect cassette for a person I may never meet 10/10

Critical Listening@criticallistening.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Listening Habits is our new series where we speak with musicians & musickers about their daily listening habits, the tools they use to listen, how they find new music & what it means to be a critical listener. icymi the first installment w Wendy Eisenberg is also out wherever you listen to podcasts

Critical Listening@criticallistening.bsky.social · 2mo ago

** episode 22 with L'Rain is out now ** we talk with Taja Cheek about her new album, what it means to challenge listeners, her personal listening habits (the second installment of our new series), how she discovers music, her relationship w music tech, and more www.patreon.com/CriticalList...

Episode 22: L'Rain | Critical Listening

For Episode 22, we spoke with songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and curator Taja Cheek, on the brink of her group L’Rain’s fourth

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liz pelly@lizpelly.bsky.social · 3mo ago

a couple weeks late here but I really recommend this piece by @see-saw.fun on the Kings Road Merch Union in Minneapolis & major label union-busting (TLDR a merch warehouse was sold by Epitath to Sony, long-time workers/musicians unionized, now Sony plans to shut it down) see-saw.fun/minneapolis-...

minneapolis punks voted to unionize a merch warehouse. sony music plans to shut it down.

Kings Road employs punk artists and produces merch for some of the world’s biggest punk bands. The morning of the union’s first day of bargaining, owners Sony Music revealed plans to shutter the workp...

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