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The 30 Most Intriguing Musicians of 2025
How Lalo Schifrin Composed the Mission Impossible Theme Song
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"The Next New Thing in Music Will Not Come from New York, Los Angeles, or London"
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The Rise and Fall of Sly Stone
Where in the World Is the World's Fair?
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Substack Has Changed in the Last 30 Days
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Today You Can Talk About Anything and Everything (Well, Almost)
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The 30 Most Intriguing Musicians of 2025 (Part 2 of 3)
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The Four Horsemen of the Pop Culture Apocalypse
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Are We Living in a Time of Cultural Collapse?
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Harrison Ford and the Origin of Western Civilization
30 Ways to Revitalize Arts & Culture
Now You Know the Rest of the Story...
I Get Into Dogfights on Social Media
How I Identify Heroes & Villains in the Music Business
Hollywood Will Be a Ghost Town in Five Years
Today I'm Starting My 5th Year on Substack—But Have I Learned Anything?
Ghosting Spotify: A How-To Guide
How I Learned About Great Literature from Comic Books
Is This the Dominant Personality Type of Our Time?
How Many NY Times Journalists Does It Take to Write 500 Words?
40 Observations on Public Discourse
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How to Discover Mindfulness in a Nazi Solitary Confinement Cell
Here's Why I'm Telling Young Musicians to See the Dylan Biopic
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Two Robots Talk About Me Behind My Back
My 12 Favorite Existential Songs
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The 30 Most Intriguing Musicians of 2025 (Part 1 of 3)
How James Bond Can Fix the Crisis in Masculinity
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I Tamed the YouTube Algorithm...
Why Journalism Is Like Stinky Cheese
If William Shakespeare Came to Hollywood Today...
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The World Was Flat. Now It's Flattened
We Really Are Entering a New Age of Romanticism
My 12-Month Immersive Course in Humanities—The Final Installment!
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John Coltrane's Love Is Still Supreme at Age 60
When Louis Armstrong Conquered Chicago
The Culture Scene Is Total Madness
"The Infrastructure of the Recording Industry Is About to Fail”
16 YouTube Videos I'm Watching This Week
Old Media Finally Wakes Up from a Coma
Google Is Now the East India Company of the Internet
In the Music Business, 80 Is the New 20
When Algorithms Come to Your Neighborhood
A Manifesto in Defense of Courtship
My Survey of 16 Classic Works of New Journalism
Get Rich in Your Parent's Basement
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