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August 31, 2026 

It’s a tired little ritual of American sprawl. Developers clear-cut a forest, fill in a wetland, grade a hillside flat, and then, with a flourish, name the resulting cul-de-sac “Treetops.” The irony is so reliable…

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July 27, 2026

American professional musicians today sit in a strange statistical fog, somewhere between official labor categories and the gig economy’s shadows, but the scale is still enormous. Federal and industry estimates suggest well over 150,000–170,000 people…

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July 20, 2026

AI-generated music may be approaching market saturation, and the reason for that is simple: the novelty has worn off. What once looked like a disruptive breakthrough now, in many corners of the industry, looks like…

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June 1, 2026  

There was a time, not necessarily a happier or better-informed one, when music journalism was a thing. The halcyon days, when there was a trusted, blind-bake relationship among musicians and listeners, and the writer was…

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March 2, 2026  

The compact disc (CD), a 1.2 mm-thick polycarbonate roundel 120 mm in diameter, can hold up to 74 minutes of stereo audio, roughly 650 MB, on a single spiral track. It is read by a…

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April 7, 2025

I’ve been ruminating lately on my favorite question: Why? It seems odd to have a hierarchical order for questions, just as it does to have a favorite among them. Does one question prove more…