Brooklyn Voices: Liz Pelly

January 7, 2025
7:30pm
Live at St. Joseph's University BK

Liz Pelly presents Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist (book launch)
In conversation with Max Alper

Greenlight is happy to partner with The Baffler for a reading and discussion celebrating the release of Liz Pelly’s Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist. Drawing on over a hundred interviews with industry insiders, Mood Machine is an unsparing investigation into Spotify’s origins and influence on music, as well as the inner workings of today’s highly consolidated record business, lifting the veil on a notoriously opaque industry. Pelly describes what has changed as music has become increasingly playlisted, personalized, and autoplayed; yet, for all of the inequities exacerbated by streaming, she also finds hope in chronicling the artist-led fight for better models. Joining Pelly onstage is composer, educator, and writer Max Alper aka La Meme Young, for an in-depth discussion on the book, followed by an audience Q&A and signing. Copies of Mood Machine and issues of The Baffler will be available for purchase. The United Musicians and Allied Workers will also be tabling.

Ticket options:
Free — General admission (book not included)
$28.99 — Book bundle ticket

Wine reception to follow

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