Journalist Liz Pelly and musician Ian Kamau discuss what the streaming economy means for both fans and artists.

I rarely use Spotify because it’s ugly and doesn ... For many people in the music business, this is a really good time—people who work at major record labels or top executives at streaming ...

Spotify has its competitors, certainly, like Apple Music and Tidal, but they’re not really alternatives so much as lesser expressions of the same problem. Was it ever a good deal? Sure ...