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Save the Waves, Another Spotify Exodus, and Reflecting on Artist and Audience Resistance in the Music Industry

During my most recent browse of The Wire, Raymond Cummings’ review of the Save the Waves: People for Public Media compilation caught my eye. Save the Waves was released in […]

September 3, 2025

The Musical Object as Conduit for the Personal, from Artist to Audience

I took a trip to New England during the first week of August, and despite my common sense repeatedly reminding me that I had limited room in my carry-on for […]

August 18, 2025

What Process Music Teaches About Time and Transparency

Several months ago now, Nonesuch released an immense CD boxset of Steve Reich’s Collected Works, spanning his early phase pieces like Come Out, his popular Music for 18 Musicians, and […]

July 28, 2025

Real Life: Marie Davidson, Identity Formation, and Albums as Snapshots Into the Contemporary Working Musician

It’s been a little while since I did a classic, artist profile-style blog, so I reflected on who I’ve been listening to on repeat recently that warranted a deep dive. […]

July 15, 2025

Recommended For Me: A Dream Logic Dive Into Crate Digging, the Indie Web, and Musical Exploration Outside Familiarity

We’ll see when I get to the bottom of this essay, but this whole blog post may be the result of heat wave delusions. If you live in the Midwest […]

June 30, 2025

Social Media vs. Authenticity, Pop vs. the Underground, and Addison Rae vs. It All

I don’t typically talk about pop music here on the blog, but I cannot deny what I have been preoccupied with these past couple of weeks. While I do proclaim […]

June 16, 2025

Going Offline at Cincinnati’s Analog Fair 2025

This blog post is a suitable companion to last time’s review of Liz Pelly’s Mood Machine, as I find that Cincinnati’s third annual Analog Fair based out of Northside, is […]

June 4, 2025

Lean Forward and Read Liz Pelly’s ‘Mood Machine’

If you’ve been reading the blog for the past few months, my topics have tended towards discussions of music, data, streaming technology, and physical media. I’ve been preoccupied with these […]

May 22, 2025

Field Notes on Field Recordings

Lately, I’ve tried to listen to music less while walking around the city. I have been a chronic headphones user since a very young age, and from the second I […]

April 29, 2025