莉兹·佩利

莉兹·佩利（英语：Liz Pelly），美国记者、作家、纽约大学的兼职教授。 其2025年由Hodder & Stoughton出版的著作《Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist》探讨了音乐串流平台Spotify涉及的假音乐家争议。

小传

佩利在长岛长大，有同为音乐记者和作家的双胞胎妹妹珍妮（Jenn）。两人都曾为高中的学生报撰写音乐评论。在十几岁时，佩利就给当地的非主流周报撰写音乐评论，之后就读波士顿大学，主修新闻学 。她在大学期间参与学生广播节目，日后她表示当时经历使她结识了当地的音乐界与地下音乐圈。

佩莉在毕业后任职《波士顿凤凰报》两年。期间，她报导了占领运动与当地的组织活动。2010年代中期，她住在布鲁克林社区营运的艺术空间寂静谷仓附近，并参与营运该空间。她在这时候开始研究Spotify，并为音乐的非营利组织CASH Music部落格与《The Baffler》杂志撰写串流平台的文章。

2025年，其处女作《Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist》由Hodder & Stoughton出版社出版。该书批判性检视了Spotify，探讨包括假音乐家争议的多项争议。

佩莉的文章散见于全国公共广播电台（NPR）、《卫报》、《滚石》、《Pitchfork》等媒体，并曾做客《纽约时报》流行音乐播客、NPR的《早间新闻》等广播节目和播客。目前她在纽约大学录音音乐系任教。

Liz Pelly is an American writer, journalist, and adjunct professor at New York University. Her book Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist, which critically examines the music streaming platform Spotify including the platform's promotion of fake artists, was published in 2025 by Hodder & Stoughton.

Early life and education

Pelly grew up on Long Island. She has a twin sister named Jenn, who is also a music journalist and writer. They both wrote about music for their high school newspaper.

Pelly started writing about music as a teenager for a local alt-weekly newspaper, before studying journalism at Boston University. While at university she was involved in college radio, which she says connected her "with the local music community and the underground scene".

Career

After graduation, Pelly worked for The Boston Phoenix for its final two years where she covered "the Occupy movement and [...] local organizing efforts". In the mid-2010s, she lived at and was involved with running Silent Barn, a collectively run community art space in Brooklyn. Whilst living there she began researching Spotify, and started writing essays about streaming for the blog of a music nonprofit called CASH Music and then for The Baffler. In 2025 her first book, Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist, was published by Hodder & Stoughton. The book is a critical examination of Spotify including the platform's promotion of fake artists.

Pelly's writing has been published by The Guardian, NPR, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, amongst others. She has appeared on radio shows and podcasts such as The New York Times Popcast, NPR's Morning Edition. She teaches in the recorded music program at New York University. She is the co-host of the Critical Listening podcast alongside music educator Max Alper.