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The Most Dangerous Thing in Culture Right Now is Beauty You think I’m crazy, but just wait and see....
a year ago
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Stupidity: A Reading List You get smarter by studying foolishness—so here's how I'd teach a 12-week course on stupidity
8 months ago
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The Most Powerful Sound in the World Is Just One Syllable And it comes from you
8 months ago
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The Best Online Essays & Articles of 2023 Longform journalism is coming back (and deserves our support)
a year ago
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Your Brain on Art My Q&A with Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross
8 months ago
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The Rise of the Anonymous Music Star Do streaming platforms view famous artists as a threat to their brands?
9 months ago
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How Coffee Became a Joke The crisis at Starbucks is a sign of our un-serious times
9 months ago
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Is Silicon Valley Building Universe 25? How a creepy experiment from 1968 is eerily relevant today
7 months ago
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How We Became a Techno-Optimist Family You can too!
9 months ago
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Why Creatives Will Win by Thinking Small In 2024, the path to success has been turned upside down
8 months ago
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Let's Just Admit it: The Algorithms Are Broken So I'm begging the tech overlords to let us opt out from their dystopia
8 months ago
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An Open Letter to Taylor Swift I'm asking a favor—but not for me. I want you to do a favor for the music.
a year ago
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Tell Us About the Person Who Inspires You Most It's Open Mic Day at 'The Honest Broker'
6 months ago
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All Bad Music Will Eventually Disappear Or how I learned to stop worrying about those godawful playlists
9 months ago
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How Did Silicon Valley Turn into a Creepy Cult? Tech leaders once gave us coolness, but now it's just Kool-Aid
7 months ago
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How I Write I tell everything in an in-depth video interview
8 months ago
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It's Open Mic Day—Talk About Anything You Want What's on your mind?
9 months ago
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The State of the Culture, 2024 Or a glimpse into post-entertainment society (it's not pretty)
11 months ago
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30% of Children Ages 5-7 Are on TikTok And why did youth mental health problems accelerate after 2010?
9 months ago
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A Failed Rock Adaption of Dune Might Have Starred Mick Jagger, Orson Welles & Salvador Dalí (with... This gets the top spot on my list of never-made films I'd like to see
11 months ago
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The 6 Laws of Dying Hollywood Franchises Here's how you kill an entire genre
8 months ago
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What Is Really Inside the Briefcase in 'Pulp Fiction'? Here's the latest installment of my book 'Music to Raise the Dead'—currently available only on...
9 months ago
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"This Is a Hell of a Statement I'm About to Make—But He Superseded Miles" More on the mystery of Dupree Bolton, and updates on other recent articles.
11 months ago
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10 YouTube Videos I'm Enjoying Right Now My life is pretty much like yours. Except that total strangers send me all sorts of things.
a year ago
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My Rule of the 6 Spheres Like most people, I'm reluctant to discuss personal matters, but I take this rule very...
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Like most people, I'm reluctant to discuss personal matters, but I take this rule very seriously—it's at the heart of my worldview and keeps me on the right path
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How Picasso Turned Me into a Strategy Consultant I share a shameful incident from my student days
7 months ago
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Are Harvard Graduates Better Than Harvard Dropouts? Or how I spent $503,402 on college education
a year ago
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Open Mic Discussion: How Do You Deal with Disabilities that Put Your Vocation at Risk? A reader asks for your advice
10 months ago
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The Real Crisis in Humanities Isn't Happening at College Our problem is in the real world—not the ivory tower—and so is the solution
10 months ago
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Where Do Music Genres Come From? A new section from my online book 'Music to Raise the Dead'
4 months ago
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What's the Greatest Live Music Event You Ever Saw? Today is open mic day at The Honest Broker
7 months ago
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Do Drummers Live Longer? And can listeners also enhance their health through rhythm?
6 months ago
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The Death of the Magazine Or what happens when journalism forgets about quality writing
5 months ago
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Are We Now Living in a Parasite Culture? In the new consumer economy, you get consumed
4 months ago
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Nine Observations on the Avant-Garde Has it disappeared? Does anybody care? Should they?
5 months ago
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10 Reasons Why Technological Progress Is Now Reversing Or How Silicon Valley Started Breaking Bad
5 months ago
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He Might Have Been the First Jazz Star... But Ford Dabney kept making wrong bets at the wrong time
7 months ago
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Tell Us What You're Doing? Today is open mic day at The Honest Broker—and you can promote your own projects
4 months ago
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A 2000-Year-Old Argument Over the Flute Is the Most Important Thing in Our Culture Right Now This bitter debate from ancient times helps us understand today's crisis in music and other creative...
6 months ago
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Here's a Map to 'The Honest Broker' Let me take you on a tour
8 months ago
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Crisis in the Culture: An Update I revisit past predictions
8 months ago
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Tell Us About Your Worst (or Best) Day Gig It's Open Mic Day at 'The Honest Broker'
5 months ago
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How to Know If You're Living in a Doom Loop Let's look at the warning signs
6 months ago
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The Final Triumph of Cormac McCarthy (1933-2023) The novelist delivered an end-of-life masterpiece, but the culture machine was barely interested
a year ago
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The Strangest Hit Songwriter in History He wrote one of my favorite songs, but was so much more than a composer
7 months ago
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13 Observations on Ritual And other responses to my 'dopamine culture' article
11 months ago
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How the Music Business Can Tame the Dangerous AI Dragon Here's a five point plan that makes a difference (and not just for music)
7 months ago
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Fela Kuti in Prison How Nigeria literally went to war against one musician—and lost
5 months ago
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My Secret Life as a Social Media Coach When people ask my advice on how to flourish online, I share these five rules
4 months ago
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The Blue Collar Jobs of Philip Glass I praise his work as a composer—but also as plumber, taxi driver, steel mill worker, and other...
5 months ago
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Why Love Songs Are Badass And how to read Sappho
6 months ago
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How to Read Greek Tragedy in a Netflix World If you dare
5 months ago
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How Secret Practices of Magical Musicians Survived Into the Modern World A new installment of my online book 'Music to Raise the Dead'
7 months ago
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Who Was Kid Bailey? I try to solve the last big mystery of the Delta blues
6 months ago
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Eleven Predictions: Here's What AI Does Next Are you ready? Is anybody ready?
4 months ago
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When the Olympics Gave Medals to Artists They did it for 40 years—so why did they stop?
6 months ago
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How Many Visionary Artists Are Mentally Ill? A surprising number of creative people have visions, hear voices, or have strange encounters in...
3 months ago
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Nine Predictions for the Future of the Music Business I offer a forecast for 10 years in the future—and it's filled with good news (surprise!)
3 months ago
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Healing with a Tin Whistle Also a story about Dave Brubeck (and more)
a year ago
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"I Told Three Big Lies That Changed My Life" A story from the comments section
6 months ago
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I Do My First Video Interview in More Than a Year Here's my guest appearance on Rick Beato's video channel
8 months ago
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Live Music Is Coming Back! Is this the first stirring of a backlash against sanitized, algorithmic digital culture?
5 months ago
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I Had to Say Something at My Son's Wedding So I'm sharing it with you too
10 months ago
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The Dying Singer Who Cured Himself with Music The strange case of Leo Kofler
4 months ago
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I Receive a Letter from a High School Student I share this dispatch from 11th grade in its entirety
10 months ago
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Google Thinks Beethoven Looks Like Mr. Bean Instead of real portraits, Google serves up AI-generated garbage
5 months ago
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A Look at Bill Evans's 15-Year-Old Pianist Grandson And other updates on previous posts
a year ago
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Doctors Raise a Patient from a Deathlike State with Electronic Music Is ultrasound the healing song of the 21st century?
5 months ago
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The Best Books of the 21st Century The Honest Broker assesses the NY Times list
6 months ago
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Should We Get Angry When Artists Sell Out? Is it really okay to take the money and run?
3 months ago
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Terry Gibbs Celebrates His 100th Birthday—but Why Isn't He a NEA Jazz Master? A newly-discovered recording from 1959 reminds us of this artist's greatness
3 months ago
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Western Music Isn't What You Think Or how my views on culture proved to be all wet
9 months ago
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How Miles Davis Hired John Coltrane A fascinating interlude from James Kaplan's new book '3 Shades of Blue'
10 months ago
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How Do You Celebrate Truman Capote's 100th Birthday? Today is his centenary, but is Capote a hero or just an embarrassment?
4 months ago
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A Landlubber’s Guide to Sea Shanties You don't need to be a sailor to put these songs to work
a year ago
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8 Ways of Connecting Your Wi-Fi Can't Deliver They are the pillars of a happy life. So why are they under such fierce attack?
3 months ago
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15 Observations on the New Phase in Cultural Conflict If the old motto was watch out below, the new one ought to be: Watch out above!
2 months ago
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The 25 Best Online Articles of 2024 Here's my favorite longform writing of the year
a month ago
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They Praised AI at SXSW—and the Audience Started Booing My survey confirms that consumers are getting angry about new tech (and not just AI)
10 months ago
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The Rise and Fall of The Village Voice A new book reminds us what we lost when the counterculture disappeared
9 months ago
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In 2024, the Tension Between Macroculture and Microculture Will Turn into War And I can already tell you who will win
a year ago
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How Did Pop Culture Get So Gloomy? Audiences seek out darkness and dysfunction, but why?
4 months ago
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Could Any Other Jazz Trumpeter Match Up with Louis Armstrong in the 1930s? The short answer is no—but these eight horn players came close
a year ago
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Am I Wrong About the Live Music Resurgence? Am I crazy? Let's find out...
3 months ago
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Why Are Huge Tech Companies Getting Into the Book Business? Do they want to help writers or destroy them?
a month ago
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In Search of Dupree Bolton (Part 2 of 2) I conclude the story of my quest to find a legendary jazz musician who disappeared in the early...
10 months ago
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Dana Gioia on Stephen Sondheim An extract from his new book
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I Say Forbidden Things About Sports What's happening in athletics is tragic—but don't expect to hear about on ESPN
2 months ago
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30 Signs You Are Living in an Information Crap-pocalypse The Age of Information has come to a brutal end—here's how it happened
a year ago
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The 6 New Rules of Communicating The era of teleprompters and talking points has come to an end
2 months ago
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12 Things I Learned from René Girard How a thinker who hated trends & fashions became trendy & fashionable
10 months ago
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Dave Hickey on Dolly Parton and Richard Pryor I share passages from the expanded 30th anniversary edition of 'The Invisible Dragon'
a year ago
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Why Is Music Journalism Collapsing? This is a bigger problem that you can fix with a Pitchfork
a year ago
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Why Gregory Bateson Matters Or what a counterculture might look like in the 21st century
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Is Honest Writing the Next New Thing in Journalism? And 21 reasons why writers are dishonest
10 months ago
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What's the Most Profitable Movie of the Year? (No, I Won't Watch It.) I share updates on ten recent articles
3 months ago
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Why Is the Tesla Cybertruck So Depressingly Ugly? It's a bigger problem than just one sinister-looking car
2 months ago
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Nick Drake at Age 75 On a milestone birthday, I revisit a singer-songwriter nobody ever really knew
a year ago
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Why I Don't Read Reddit And why I did read Reddit's IPO filing—here are seven things I learned
11 months ago
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My Search for Hidden Meanings in Beatles Songs Before the Internet, we often had no idea what hit songs were about
2 months ago
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How to Dress Like Duke Ellington Today I offer fashion tips to clueless guys
a year ago
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Help!—AI Is Stealing My Readers I thought piracy was bad, but I've now seen something much worse
11 months ago
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Why Did Social Media Go to War Against Writers? And can we ever get along?
a year ago
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Why Streaming Subscription Prices Will Continue to Rise You are a user—so get ready to be used
3 months ago
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The Ugly Truth About Spotify is Finally Revealed A year-long investigation by an independent journalist is very alarming
a month ago
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How Virtual Reality Died Meta, Microsoft, and Apple lost billions trying to convince us to live in the Matrix. Can you guess...
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Meta, Microsoft, and Apple lost billions trying to convince us to live in the Matrix. Can you guess what they're doing next?
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Are Social Media Platforms the Next Dying Malls? It was cool to hang out at the mall—until it wasn't
a month ago
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How to Read Plato And other remarks on teaching yourself great books
6 months ago
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The Number of Songs in the World Doubled Yesterday Did you even notice?
a year ago
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My 10 Most Popular Articles of 2023 Number one will surprise you
a year ago
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What You Can Learn from Just Seven Pages by Hannah Arendt She wrote this book in the 1950s, but it's frighteningly relevant right now
3 months ago
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The Honest Broker's 20 Most Popular Articles From 2024 Phew, I published 171 articles this year—here are the ones you liked the most
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How I Stopped Hating Steely Dan I thought I was immune, but still became a Dan stan—this is my story
a year ago
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How to Break Free from Dopamine Culture My quest for a healthier relationship with technology
11 months ago
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What Happened to Sly Stone? At age 80, he tells his tale—but is it a story of recovery, or mere survival?
a year ago
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How I Survived (Barely) as a Jazz Musician at Business School Nobody was a less suitable MBA candidate than me at age 23
a year ago
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I Ask Seven Heretical Questions About Progress And I offer seven radical hypotheses. But can you handle the truth?
a year ago
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Open Mic: What Should I Write About? And some coming attractions at The Honest Broker
a year ago
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Cruising for Classical Music in LA A section from Dana Gioia's new book
2 months ago
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Mainstream Is Now Fringe, and Fringe Is Mainstream The current state of media is total anarchy
a month ago
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I Revisit My Doom-and Gloom Forecasts What did I get right? What did I get wrong? And what will happen next?
a year ago
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It's Open Mic Day: Tell Us What You're Doing Here's a chance to pitch your own project
11 months ago
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Open Thread: What Is Your Spiciest Hot Take? Tell us your most controversial views on music, books, movies & other arts
a year ago
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I Give the Worst Writing Advice in the World But I believe every word of it
2 months ago
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The Parable of Anna Akhmatova Who is more powerful, the artist or the dictator?
4 weeks ago
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Are There Alternating Cycles of Hot and Cool in American Cultural History? (Part 1 of 2) And are we midway through a hot cycle right now?
a year ago
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How to Survive as the Only Opera Fan in Elementary School My brother Dana shares a story about his unusual childhood
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Is There a Crisis of Seriousness? Back in 1996, critic Susan Sontag warned that seriousness was disappearing from society...
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Twelve Brutal Truths about AI Music Ignore the hype—here's what the bots will really do to our songs
a year ago
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Judgment Day Arrives at the Washington Post And updates on seven other recent articles at The Honest Broker
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If I Ran a Major Record Label... I'd do these 10 things
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How We Lost the Ability to Listen In this extract from my book 'Music to Raise the Dead' I look at how texts replaced songs as sources...
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In this extract from my book 'Music to Raise the Dead' I look at how texts replaced songs as sources of wisdom and guidance
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A Tale of Three Songwriters: Duke Ellington, Joni Mitchell & Johnny Green Will Friedwald looks at popular composers who found fulfillment beyond commercial hits
a year ago
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How Bing Crosby Made Silicon Valley Possible The singer who popularized "White Christmas" was also a visionary tech innovator
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How 'American Graffiti' Invented Classic Rock (and Changed My Life) My favorite George Lucas film turns 50 tomorrow, and I love it for the soundtrack—but for a whole...
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In Search of Dupree Bolton How I tracked down the most mysterious musician in the history of West Coast jazz
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The Hottest Drummer You've Never Heard A new book pays tribute to the amazing Chick Webb, the hardest swinging jazz drummer of his day
a year ago
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In 2025, Your Boss Will Launch a Podcast I warn about new grifts in my latest arts & culture briefing paper
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100 of My Favorite Things in Music (Part 1 of 2) And you can add some of your own
a year ago
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Open Mic Day: Tells Us About Your Favorite Movies, Music, Books, Etc. of 2024 Share your best picks!
2 months ago
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I Share Private Journal Entries Random jottings on music (and other topics) from my notebook
3 weeks ago
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Are There Alternating Cycles of Hot and Cool in American Cultural History? (Part 2 of 2) I grew up in a cool culture. But that era has now ended. Right now, we are clearly sizzling in the...
a year ago
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Give Me Your Best Suggestions for Movies and TV Shows It's open mic day at The Honest Broker
a year ago
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My Survey of 16 Classic Works of New Journalism Let's make New Journalism new again
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What Happened to My Search Engine? Or why tech upgrades are now mostly downgrades
a year ago
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How African Musicians Came to Medieval and Renaissance Europe Western music has always been multicultural
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How Songs Created Western Rational Thinking And Socrates sends me on a mad chase into the wild world of musical dreams
a year ago
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Stoicism in the Gioia Family My brother Dana tells how our LA childhood gave us a direct connection to an ancient Roman worldview
a year ago
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8 Pieces of Advice for Struggling Young Musicians (or Other Creative People) They keep reaching out to me with the same sad story—and here's what I say
a year ago
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Today is Open Mic Anarchy You can talk about absolutely any subject
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The Brilliant Bad Decisions of John Luther Adams He never finished high school, took demanding work outside of music, moved to a cabin in Alaska,...
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He never finished high school, took demanding work outside of music, moved to a cabin in Alaska, etc. Can you really win a Pulitzer Prize this way? Well, yes. . .
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Death: A Literary Guide Can you really prepare for it or even understand it? These 10 books are my cherished touchstones on...
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Can you really prepare for it or even understand it? These 10 books are my cherished touchstones on the matter.
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Open Mic: Tell Us About Anything You Want It’s Open Mic Day at The Honest Broker. And it’s totally open today—you can talk about anything you...
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It’s Open Mic Day at The Honest Broker. And it’s totally open today—you can talk about anything you want in the comments.
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In the Music Business, 80 Is the New 20 It's never been better for dead and dying musicians
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A Conversation with Jason Moran The celebrated pianist, composer, and Artistic Director for Jazz at the Kennedy Center talks with...
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Get Ready to Pay More for Music The power brokers have already squeezed musicians—so fans will be next
a year ago
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An Executive Briefing Paper on the Creative Economy Here's my latest culture and arts survey
a year ago
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Notes Toward a New Romanticism Or why it's 1800 all over again
a year ago
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Half of Waking Hours Are Now Devoted to Entertainment An Executive Briefing Paper on Arts, Media & Culture
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My Ultimate Texas Songwriter Playlist I've handpicked 56 tracks from the Lone Star State (3 hours of music)
a year ago
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Is There Such a Thing as Western Harmony? Does anyone really own music theory, and who gets to decide?
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I'm Confessing that I Love Doris Day As a jazz singer—but I don't know if that makes it better or worse
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The Hit Singles of Sun Ra On the 30th anniversary of the Afrofuturist's death, I explore the oddest discs in his discography
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An Analysis of 47 Million Transactions Tells an Amazing Story about the Music Business Forget about streaming—physical merchandise is now the key to success
a year ago
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How I Disintermediated My Writing Career It's a clumsy word, but a lovely thing to do
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Why Recording Studios Are Unplugging From the Internet And other recent articles of interest
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How Musicians Invented the Antihero In this section from my new book 'Music to Raise the Dead', I probe the hidden musical origins of...
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In this section from my new book 'Music to Raise the Dead', I probe the hidden musical origins of Hollywood protagonists
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I Talk with an AI Music Historian Maybe a chatbot can teach me a few things
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Can Songs Really Replace Philosophy? Nobody has told you this before, but our rationalistic STEM worldview originated in magical songs
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12 Outstanding New Albums by 12 Artists from 12 Countries These under-the-radar records absolutely deserve your attention
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We Need More Jazz Vinyl Cafés And I have a hunch we will get them
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Here's My Mission Impossible Article—But I Refuse to Talk About the Movie I just care about the theme song
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Were the First Laws Sung? I make some radical claims in this extract from my new book 'Music to Raise the Dead'
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A Manifesto in Defense of Courtship Today the Honest Broker gives love advice
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The Death of the Slow Dance (and Other Emerging Trends) My latest briefing paper on the state of the creative economy
a year ago
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Google Is Now the East India Company of the Internet Long ago, another company tried to control global connectivity—it had an unhappy ending
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When a Single Person Controlled the Copyright on All Music (Even Blank Music Paper) Music copyright law is a mess today—but it's always been that way
a year ago
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Judgment Day Has Arrived for the Journalism Business From Upworthy to Buzzfeed, all the click chasing gimmicks have failed—but there is one sure option...
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My 'Personal Favorites' Carla Bley Playlist I pay tribute to the jazz pianist and composer—who left us yesterday at age 87
a year ago
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“The Only Sensible Person in the World” 10 Perspectives on Joan Didion
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Why You Should Skip My Articles and Go Straight to the Comments Here are some highlights from yesterday's open mic anarchy thread
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Car Drivers Torment a City with Celine Dion Songs An update on dangerous music
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In 1970, Alvin Toffler Predicted the Rise of Future Shock—But the Exact Opposite Happened And it's much, much worse
a year ago
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Open Thread: What Are Your Picks for the Cultural Highlights of 2023? What music, books, movies, or other creative works made the biggest impact on you this year?
a year ago
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Why I Ran Away from Philosophy Because of Sam Bankman-Fried Or how flawed thinking can make $10 billion disappear
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How the Internet Went to Threads And how we can sew it back together
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The Best Recordings of 2023 (Honorable Mention List) I'll soon share my 100 favorite albums of the year—meanwhile here are 50 honorable mention records...
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My Lost Gumby Essay Or how I overcame ontological horror with the help of a rubbery toy
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Ugly Numbers from Microsoft and ChatGPT Reveal that AI Demand is Already Shrinking The only areas where AI is flourishing are shamming, spamming & scamming
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How I Take Notes In response to reader requests, I share my 3 levels of note-taking
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Investment Funds Are Now Selling the Rock Songs They Bought They will even take less than "fair market value"
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How To Kill a Superhero Hollywood embraces a desperate strategy—canceling franchise films before they're released
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Why Do Heroes Always Have Theme Songs (Part 1 of 2) An excerpt from my new book 'Music to Raise the Dead'
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Nobody Will Tell You the Ugly Reason Apple Acquired a Classical Music Label But you need to know, because it offers a glimpse into the dark future of streaming
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Why Are Music Fans Throwing Things at Pop Stars? The latest trend in music is injuring your favorite artist
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Is Rock Dead? (and Other Questions from Readers) And I invite you to ask questions of your own
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Tony Bennett’s Greatest Jazz Collaborations I pick a dozen favorite tracks—each showcasing the vocalist in tandem with a jazz legend
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We Have Entered the Self-Loathing Stage of the Internet Or why web platforms keep changing their names like criminals in the Witness Protection Program
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Panic Among the Streamers Spotify's losses get worse, and the CEO dumps $100 million in stock—but that's just a small part of...
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Spotify's losses get worse, and the CEO dumps $100 million in stock—but that's just a small part of the streaming crisis
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How Musicians Invented Stand-Up Comedy Even today rhythm makes a joke funnier
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Hey Madonna, Let Me Bring My Band to Your Concert My latest briefing paper on culture, arts & society
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How Musicians Invented the Law Songs are far more powerful than you think
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A Tribute to Tony Bennett (1926-2023) I've been a fan since childhood—and it feels like I've lost a part of my extended family
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How an Angry Woman in Baltimore Almost Killed the Jazz Age When Mrs. Martha Lee went to war against jazz (1922)
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Why Is Music Getting Sadder? Songs are a cultural indicator—so what are they telling us right now?
a year ago
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12 Predictions on the Future of Song Investing Who will eventually own all the dead stars of rock & roll?
a year ago
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My 12 Favorite Problems A dozen things that drive my writing, research, thinking & actions
a year ago
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Old Media Finally Wakes Up from a Coma The empire strikes back—or at least it will try
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Jim Croce and Me 50 years ago today, the gifted singer-songwriter died in a plane crash
a year ago
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AI Is Defeated in Hollywood—But What About Music? I describe a legit pathway to victory, but we need a general to lead the battle
a year ago
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"The Infrastructure of the Recording Industry Is About to Fail” The entire Hollywood ecosystem is tottering on the brink
3 days ago
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What Can Music Do Today? Here's the final chapter of my new book 'Music to Raise the Dead'
5 days ago