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The Honest Broker's 20 Most Popular Articles From 2024
In 2025, Your Boss Will Launch a Podcast
The 25 Best Online Articles of 2024
The Ugly Truth About Spotify Is Finally Revealed
Mainstream Is Now Fringe, and Fringe Is Mainstream
I've Been Watching These 17 YouTube Videos
Are Social Media Platforms the Next Dying Malls?
10 Great Vince Guaraldi Tracks NOT from Charlie Brown TV Shows
Dana Gioia on Stephen Sondheim
Why Are Huge Tech Companies Getting Into the Book Business?
The 100 Best Recordings of 2024 (Part 2 of 2)
The 100 Best Recordings of 2024 (Part 1 of 2)
I Say Forbidden Things About Sports
I Give the Worst Writing Advice in the World
Power Is Shifting Rapidly to Indie Creators
My Search for Hidden Meanings in Beatles Songs
Open Mic Day: Tells Us About Your Favorite Movies, Music, Books, Etc. of 2024
Strange and Dazzling Things Are Happening Right Now
15 Observations on the New Phase in Cultural Conflict
The 6 New Rules of Communicating
Cruising for Classical Music in LA
The War Against Indie Creators Is Now Getting Dirty
Why Is the Tesla Cybertruck So Depressingly Ugly?
Is There a Crisis of Seriousness?
My New Favorite Music Genre Is Polish Noir
Why Streaming Subscription Prices Will Continue to Rise
What's the Most Profitable Movie of the Year? (No, I Won't Watch It.)
My 10 Favorite Paul McCartney Post-Beatles Musical Moments
What You Can Learn from Just Seven Pages by Hannah Arendt
Is Hollywood Ready for 2,000 New Competitors?
Should We Get Angry When Artists Sell Out?
Is This the Worst Month Ever for Legacy Media?
My Year of Tech and Relaxation
Am I Wrong About the Live Music Resurgence?
Nine Predictions for the Future of the Music Business
8 Ways of Connecting a Smartphone Can't Deliver
The New Culture War Is Real Vs. Bogus
Terry Gibbs Celebrates His 100th Birthday—but Why Isn't He a NEA Jazz Master?
Are Visionary Artists Just Mentally Ill?
The Most Mysterious Band in Music Today
How Do You Celebrate Truman Capote's 100th Birthday?
How Did Pop Culture Get So Gloomy?
A 12-Month Immersive Course in Humanities (Continued)
My Secret Life as a Social Media Coach
Where Do Music Genres Come From?
What's Happening to Entertainment?
Are We Now Living in a Parasite Culture?
The Dying Singer Who Cured Himself with Music
Where Did All the Book Readers Go?
Eleven Predictions: Here's What AI Does Next
Did Frank Sinatra Really Perform at My Grandma's High School?
Ten New Albums I'm Recommending Now
How to Read Greek Tragedy in a Netflix World
Google Thinks Beethoven Looks Like Mr. Bean
My Alternative Tech Canon: 26 Mind-Expanding Books
The Hottest Trend in Romance Is "Just Talking"
Doctors Raise a Patient from a Deathlike State with Electronic Music
10 Reasons Why Technological Progress Is Now Reversing
How to Live a Good Life (According to Aristotle)
Tell Us About Your Worst (or Best) Day Gig
The Blue Collar Jobs of Philip Glass
12 YouTube Videos I'm Enjoying Right Now
Nine Observations on the Avant-Garde
Expect Heavy Turbulence for the Next 5 Months
How to Know If You're Living in a Doom Loop
52 Reasons to Fear that Technological Progress Is Reversing
A 2000-Year-Old Argument Over the Flute Is the Most Important Thing in Our Culture Right Now
When the Olympics Gave Medals to Artists
The Slow, Painful Death of the SoCal Entertainment Ecosystem
Nine New Albums I'm Loving Right Now
"I Told Three Big Lies That Changed My Life"
The Best Books of the 21st Century
Tell Us About the Person Who Inspires You Most
A 12-Month Immersive Course in Humanities
He Might Have Been the First Jazz Star...
How Did Silicon Valley Turn into a Creepy Cult?
6 Pop Culture Figures Who Inspire Me
How Secret Practices of Magical Musicians Survived Into the Modern World
How the Music Business Can Tame the Dangerous AI Dragon
Are You Ready for Avant-Garde Dining?
How Does Our Sense of Humor Change With Age? A Statistical Analysis
How Picasso Turned Me into a Strategy Consultant
What's the Greatest Live Music Event You Ever Saw?
The Banishment of Beauty from Everyday Life
The Strangest Hit Songwriter in History
Is Silicon Valley Building Universe 25?
Ten New Albums I'm Enjoying Right Now
Crisis in the Culture: An Update
The 6 Laws of Dying Hollywood Franchises
CEOs Go to War Against Creatives
The Most Powerful Sound in the World Is Just One Syllable
Twelve Albums for Immersive Listening
Let's Just Admit it: The Algorithms Are Broken
Here Are 52 of My Favorite Quotes
Here's a Map to 'The Honest Broker'
I Do My First Video Interview in More Than a Year
Why Creatives Will Win by Thinking Small
Nine New Albums I'm Recommending Right Now
All Bad Music Will Eventually Disappear
It's Open Mic Day—Talk About Anything You Want
The Culture is Changing at Warp Speed
30% of Children Ages 5-7 Are on TikTok
Western Music Isn't What You Think
What Is Really Inside the Briefcase in 'Pulp Fiction'?
How We Became a Techno-Optimist Family
30 Ways to Revitalize Arts & Culture
The Rise of the Anonymous Music Star
The Rise and Fall of The Village Voice
A Dozen YouTube Videos I'm Enjoying Right Now
I Receive a Letter from a High School Student
In Search of Dupree Bolton (Part 2 of 2)
I Don't Give Investment Advice, but...
The Real Crisis in Humanities Isn't Happening at College
Open Mic Discussion: How Do You Deal with Disabilities that Put Your Vocation at Risk?
12 Things I Learned from René Girard
My 60 Favorite Nonesuch Albums (Part 3 of 3)
They Praised AI at SXSW—and the Audience Started Booing
I Had to Say Something at My Son's Wedding
Is Honest Writing the Next New Thing in Journalism?
How Miles Davis Hired John Coltrane
9 New Albums I'm Recommending Right Now
How to Break Free from Dopamine Culture
20 Things They Don't Teach in Music School
My 60 Favorite Nonesuch Albums (Part 2 of 3)
Help!—AI Is Stealing My Readers
The State of the Culture, 2024
My 60 Favorite Nonesuch Albums (Part 1 of 3)
How to Survive as the Only Opera Fan in Elementary School
It's Open Mic Day: Tell Us What You're Doing
"This Is a Hell of a Statement I'm About to Make—But He Superseded Miles"
How to Tell If You're Living in a Binary Crisis
Nine Ugly Truths about Copyright
How We Lost the Ability to Listen
12 Recent Studies Reveal the Life-Changing Power of Rhythm
I Ask Seven Heretical Questions About Progress
Why Are Folkloric Narrative Songs Everywhere—from Video Games to Taylor Swift Concerts?
Why Is Music Journalism Collapsing?
Open Mic: What Should I Write About?
What Happened to My Search Engine?
A Look at Bill Evans's 15-Year-Old Pianist Grandson
My 50 Favorite Albums from the Golden Age of Capitol Records (Part 3 of 3)