11 2026 February
Friction and the Power of Tokyo’s Popular New Cassette Cafe
After ordering your coffee at a Shibuya district cafe in the middle of Tokyo, you can browse a collection of cassette tapes to pick the...
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How Technology is Rethinking Songs and Musical Instruments
Yesterday Eleven Labs announced a collaboration with Grammy award winning artists like Liza Minnelli and Art Garfunkel to use their AI tools to compose and perform all-new...
Read Now03 2025 October
SXSW 2026 Announcement!
SXSW is reinventing itself in 2026! The latest session announcement just came out and I’m excited to share that I’ll be back as a Featured...
Read Now11 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...
Read Now26 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...
Read Now14 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...
Read Now07 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...
Read Now06 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...
Read Now17 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...
Read Now18 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...
Read Now05 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...
Read Now01 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...
Read Now26 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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