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11 2025 March

The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: The Endless Refrain by David Rowell

What would a world without any new music sound like? Perhaps we are already there, a reality music writer and journalist David Rowell explores in...

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26 2025 February

The Manufactured Controversy Around Michael Jackson’s 12 Unreleased Songs

Michael Jackson recorded 12 songs with his longtime producer Bryan Loren that were never released to the public. According to multiple sources, the songs have...

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14 2025 February

The Super Bowl Halftime Show Went Over Many People’s Heads. Here’s What It Meant …

Recently it seems like stories about social media often center on the negative impact of various platforms making it easy to spread misinformation, fuel hate...

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07 2025 February

What The AI-Enhanced Beatles Grammy Award Win Tells Us About the Future of Memories

In case you missed it, at this past weekend’s Grammy Awards, the Beatles took home the win for Best Rock Performance for the AI-assisted track...

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06 2025 February

Bad Bunny Celebrates Puerto Rico and His Heritage by Creating Exclusive Experience

The first nine shows of Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny’s upcoming summer tour are sold out. That’s not particularly surprising. The interesting thing about them...

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17 2024 December

New Study Finds Music Can Alter the Way We Feel About Our Memories

Imagine if the way you remember a moment from your past was dependent on the music you were listening to at the time. It turns...

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18 2024 October

The Virtues of [Not] Playing It Safe

Can a song capture 50 years of one of the most iconic buildings in the world? Tim Minchin is an Australian composer who was commissioned...

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05 2024 September

Why I Paid Human Musicians + Artists to Create the Sonic Identity for My Podcast

Earlier this week I posted on LinkedIn about a project that my team and I have been working on for nearly a year. During the pandemic, I...

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01 2024 August

Milli Vanilli Could Have Been Heroes Today … Maybe?

If you are a certain age, you might remember Milli Vanilli. I still have a cassette tape of their album that I could have resold...

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26 2024 July

Is Katy Perry Holding Empowered Women Back, Or Are We Missing the Joke?

There is a moment in Katy Perry’s new video for “Woman’s World” where she sticks a gas pump into her backside and turns the clock...

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14 2024 May

Imagining the Future of Hip Hop and Art in 50 Years

The day after the Met Gala, the Internet was flooded with deep fakes of celebrities who weren’t there, wearing things they never wore. Some of them...

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11 2024 March

The First (And Maybe Last) Song Ever Released as a Slice of Pizza

If you think sales of music in a physical format like a CD are dead, this new single released as a slice of pizza might...

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30 2024 January

Why Music Journalism Is Collapsing and How to Find New Music 

“Before streaming, everybody in the value chain needed new music. The record stores would go broke if people just listened to the old songs over...

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