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2026

A Method for Listening to New Musicoriginal ↗
16 Jun 2026

2025

The Tyranny of Rhyme and Metaphor in Songwritingoriginal ↗
29 Dec 2025
Political Songwriting in the Space of Reasons for Actionoriginal ↗
15 Oct 2025
Writing for Posterityoriginal ↗
24 Jan 2025

2024

Music Videos On a Budgetoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2024
Track-by-Track: Ten Modern American Work Songs (in honor of the 10 Year Reunion of the NYU Class of 2014)original ↗
30 Aug 2024

2022

Music Career as a Conceptoriginal ↗
22 Nov 2022

2021

The Birth of Imposter Syndromeoriginal ↗
25 Sept 2021
The New Economic Model for Musicians: Keeping Your Day Joboriginal ↗
7 Sept 2021
Why Music Reviews Still Matteroriginal ↗
1 Aug 2021
Religious Revisionism and The Good Newsoriginal ↗
16 Apr 2021
The Return of Scam Services: A Public Service Announcementoriginal ↗
4 Jan 2021

2020

Metacritic Should Update its Independent Outlets Listoriginal ↗
26 Dec 2020
Public Service As A Genreoriginal ↗
26 Dec 2020

2019

The Independent Album Release Calendaroriginal ↗
20 Nov 2019
What it Means to be a Singer-Songwriteroriginal ↗
27 Oct 2019
Monetization and Alienationoriginal ↗
13 Oct 2019
What do Singer-Songwriters Want from Socialism?original ↗
10 Oct 2019
Anti-Asian-American Bias in Indie Music Journalismoriginal ↗
8 Oct 2019
The Karaoke Crasheroriginal ↗
12 Sept 2019
It is Rational to Play Sofar; It is Irrational to Attend Sofaroriginal ↗
23 May 2019
An Empirical Indicator of the Tightening in Music Coverage?original ↗
17 May 2019
Economics, Algorithms and Singlehoodoriginal ↗
11 May 2019
Monetization of Word of Mouthoriginal ↗
29 Apr 2019
DIY, à la Fin de Siècleoriginal ↗
9 Feb 2019

2018

Towards an Asian-American Musicoriginal ↗
21 Dec 2018
Unreliable Narration in Songwritingoriginal ↗
3 Dec 2018
The Academic Standard for Publication of Musicoriginal ↗
25 Nov 2018
Year of Migration Lecture – The Return Homeoriginal ↗
9 Oct 2018
Proposal: The Expenditures Limit on Indieoriginal ↗
11 Sept 2018
Perfect Strangers Interview – St. Lenox: Indie Music’s Renaissance Manoriginal ↗
9 Aug 2018
The Violin Competitionoriginal ↗
18 May 2018
Dog Whistle Programmingoriginal ↗
25 Feb 2018
Auto-Tune, Tuning and Emotional Impactoriginal ↗
16 Feb 2018

2017

Music and Social Justice / or Why Many Musicians Should Not Release Records for General Public Consumptionoriginal ↗
17 Jan 2017

2016

The Difference Between Emotional Richness and Aesthetic Qualityoriginal ↗
23 Dec 2016
Triangulation of Emotion and Emotional Competency in Listeningoriginal ↗
17 Dec 2016
Transfiguration in Musicoriginal ↗
25 Nov 2016
Introduction to Modern American Social Realismoriginal ↗
29 Oct 2016
Swan Song Theoryoriginal ↗
18 Oct 2016
Chord Complexity in Songwritingoriginal ↗
2 Oct 2016
A Long Awaited Homecomingoriginal ↗
13 Aug 2016
What is American Music?original ↗
1 Jul 2016
Three Conceptions of Listening Localoriginal ↗
24 Jan 2016
Thoughts on Nostalgia: A Video Premiereoriginal ↗
8 Jan 2016

2015

The Unity Theory of Phrasingoriginal ↗
8 Oct 2015
On Political Songwritingoriginal ↗
28 Sept 2015
Budget vs. Lo-Fi, as a Genreoriginal ↗
21 Aug 2015
On Fear of Classical Musicoriginal ↗
15 Aug 2015
The Event Space Rental with Cash Bar vs. The $5 Coveroriginal ↗
5 Jul 2015
On the Live vs. Recorded Music Distinction, Magic Time-Delay and Auto-Karaokeoriginal ↗
1 Jun 2015
The Rules of Open-Mic – The Egalitarian Music Institutionoriginal ↗
16 May 2015
The Vinyl Record – A Skeptic’s Account of the Graven Imageoriginal ↗
18 Apr 2015
How to Play or Sing Runs – A Mixture of Two Techniquesoriginal ↗
10 Apr 2015
The Art of Interpretationoriginal ↗
21 Mar 2015
Zen and the Art of Karaokeoriginal ↗
4 Mar 2015
The Sampler’s Pangramoriginal ↗
24 Feb 2015
On Work Life, Bill Berry and Humanityoriginal ↗
23 Feb 2015
Music Journalism, the L.A. Times and Music Theoryoriginal ↗
31 Jan 2015
Fake Postoriginal ↗
31 Jan 2015