This year the streaming giant rolled out a feature grouping users into US university towns, in the process founding three new gay capitals of the world: Berkeley, Burlington and Cambridge
Nov 30, 2023
Spotify
For our second zine in our digital series spotlighting talent from Spotify’s Lorem talent, the brother and sister duo talk their favourite Lorem artists, childhood memories and what it’s like working with your sibling
Nov 01, 2023
To celebrate Spotify’s Lorem playlist, the up-and-coming indie musician and creative director are the first collaborators featured in our ongoing digital zine series
Oct 12, 2023
Social media algorithms and top-down trend cycles have ruined memes as we know it, but perhaps we’re approaching a new posting epoch
Sep 29, 2023
To inaugurate our series spotlighting Spotify’s ‘Lorem’ playlist, the streaming platform’s editor Lizzy Szabo asked three Dazed team members about all things music
Sep 07, 2023
Abortion is generally understood as something sad or shameful, but a new trend of feel-good playlists rejects the stigma around the procedure entirely
AI-generated music is clogging up Spotify algorithms and creating an increasingly mid and barren hellscape – but is there more to the story?
May 23, 2023
The musician has removed his music from the streaming service to protest Joe Rogan’s sketchy vaccine claims, and he wants other musicians to follow suit
Jan 28, 2022
The UK’s DCMS committee has called for legislative changes to address the unbalanced distribution of streaming revenues
Jul 15, 2021
Spotify Our Generation
The friends and collaborators come together to contemplate the future of music genres and raving out of lockdown
Mar 25, 2021
A glitch-emo scene born on Soundcloud, grown on Discord, and blown-up on Spotify, here’s a rundown of hyperpop’s key players
Mar 17, 2021
Illustrator Eliza Williams discusses her designs for Dazed and Spotify’s Our Generation project, which features slowthai, Arlo Parks, and Bakar alongside their favourite upcoming artists
Mar 11, 2021
‘You’ve been listening to a lot of Phoebe Bridgers lately. U okay?’
Dec 23, 2020
The community focus of Audius looks set to give the music industry a much-needed shake-up
Nov 20, 2020
A ‘new experiment’ will allow artists to influence what music the platform recommends to listeners, but critics are questioning whether the trade off in royalties is worth it
Nov 03, 2020
DR. Martens
