Music Journalism Insider

Music Journalism Insider - Archive

Causes Worth Supporting

2019-11-02T14:01:00Z

Notes On Process

2019-11-02T16:24:00Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch

2019-11-03T01:33:00Z

#001: Welcome To Music Journalism Insider!

2019-11-05T12:28:55.546000Z

Ian Bourland Interview (Massive Attack’s Blue Lines 33 1/3)

2019-11-07T09:24:00Z

Constance De Jong Interview (Tony Conrad Writings)

2019-11-07T09:35:00Z

#002: A Massive Attack 33 1/3

2019-11-07T11:44:25.031000Z

#003: #MeToo In Music Journalism

2019-11-12T11:59:59.442000Z

Ben Merlis Interview (Goin' Off: The Story of the Juice Crew and Cold Chillin' Records)

2019-11-14T10:25:00Z

Fred Goodman Interview (Why Lhasa de Sela Matters)

2019-11-14T10:26:00Z

#004: Lhasa de Sela & Cold Chillin'

2019-11-14T10:53:14.194000Z

Sean Cannon Interview (Striped: A White Stripes Podcast)

2019-11-19T02:38:29.769000Z

S.W. Lauden Interview (Go All The Way: A Literary Appreciation of Power Pop)

2019-11-19T02:46:41.895000Z

Ed Ward Interview (The History of Rock & Roll, Volume 2: 1964–1977: The Beatles, the Stones, and the Rise of Classic Rock)

2019-11-19T10:26:00Z

#005: The History of Rock & Roll

2019-11-19T11:45:33.450000Z

Mark Katz Interview (Build: The Power of Hip Hop Diplomacy in a Divided World)

2019-11-21T01:51:50.339000Z

Joanna Love Interview (Soda Goes Pop: Pepsi-Cola Advertising and Popular Music)

2019-11-21T01:52:11.322000Z

Jillian Mapes Interview (Pitchfork)

2019-11-21T09:33:00Z

#006: Beginning to See the Light

2019-11-21T12:10:17.509000Z

Eliza Borné Interview (Oxford American)

2019-11-26T11:04:56.126000Z

Scott B. Bomar Interview (BMG Books)

2019-11-26T11:05:09.974000Z

#007: Sorry For All The Politics, But…

2019-11-26T11:18:52.039000Z

Joe Muggs Interview (Bass, Mids, Tops: An Oral History of Sound System Culture)

2019-11-27T07:12:00Z

Matt Anniss Interview (Join The Future: Bleep Techno and the Birth of British Bass Music)

2019-11-27T11:31:24.391000Z

#008: Changing the Electronic Music Narrative

2019-11-27T11:32:44.090000Z

Mark Evan Bonds Interview (The Beethoven Syndrome: Hearing Music as Autobiography)

2019-12-03T11:01:14.567000Z

Árni Heimir Ingólfsson Interview (Jón Leifs and the Musical Invention of Iceland)

2019-12-03T11:02:00.654000Z

#009: Things Only A Former Editor Would Understand

2019-12-03T11:11:35.443000Z

Shirley Halperin Interview (Variety)

2019-12-05T10:56:18.024000Z

Davy Reed Interview (The Face)

2019-12-05T10:56:28.836000Z

Robin James Interview (The Sonic Episteme: Acoustic Resonance, Neoliberalism, & Biopolitics)

2019-12-05T10:56:39.443000Z

#010: Pop Star Leftovers

2019-12-05T11:01:48.501000Z

Martin Iddon Interview (John Cage and Peter Yates: Correspondence on Music Criticism and Aesthetics)

2019-12-10T10:03:57.200000Z

Danielle A. Jackson Interview (Hive, Longreads)

2019-12-10T10:04:29.070000Z

Candace McDuffie Interview (Freelance Writer)

2019-12-10T10:05:04.453000Z

Derek Walmsley Interview (The Wire)

2019-12-10T10:05:35.040000Z

#011: Female Fronted Is Not a Genre (Samantha Small Interview)

2019-12-10T10:12:21.603000Z

Ryan Wayne Dohoney Interview (Saving Abstraction: Morton Feldman, the de Menils, and the Rothko Chapel)

2019-12-12T09:39:37.256000Z

Caspar Melville Interview (It’s a London Thing: How Rare Groove, Acid House and Jungle Remapped the City)

2019-12-12T09:39:57.398000Z

Briana Younger Interview (The New Yorker)

2019-12-12T09:40:14.752000Z

Jes Skolnik Interview (Bandcamp Daily)

2019-12-12T09:40:30.018000Z

#012: Billboard Top 100: Week of 14,000 BC

2019-12-12T10:21:32.060000Z

Macon Holt Interview (Pop Music and Hip Ennui: A Sonic Fiction of Capitalist Realism)

2019-12-17T11:07:40.906000Z

Heidi Waleson Interview (Mad Scenes and Exit Arias: The Death of the New York City Opera and the Future of Opera in America)

2019-12-17T11:08:00.321000Z

Aaron Gonsher Interview (RBMA Daily)

2019-12-17T11:08:17.487000Z

Charlie Harding & Nate Sloan Interview (Switched On Pop Podcast)

2019-12-17T11:08:34.646000Z

#013: Whoop Whoop

2019-12-17T11:14:48.102000Z

Shana L. Redmond Interview (Everything Man: The Form and Function of Paul Robeson)

2019-12-19T10:13:41.365000Z

Vincent L. Stephens Interview (Rocking the Closet: How Little Richard, Johnnie Ray, Liberace, and Johnny Mathis Queered Pop Music)

2019-12-19T10:14:12.325000Z

David Toop Interview (The Wire)

2019-12-19T10:14:34.594000Z

Cat Jones Interview (The Pit)

2019-12-19T10:14:59.307000Z

#014: Montgomery Burns, Features Editor

2019-12-19T10:25:44.532000Z

Bryan Wagner Interview (The Wild Tchoupitoulas)

2020-01-07T11:11:20.070000Z

#015: The Public Enemy Swimsuit Issue

2020-01-07T11:15:33.837000Z

Kip Lornell Interview (Capital Bluegrass: Hillbilly Music Meets Washington, D.C.)

2020-01-14T11:21:12.878000Z

Steven Hyden Interview (Uproxx)

2020-01-14T11:22:20.473000Z

#017: Superior Zip Codes

2020-01-14T11:25:56.474000Z

Judy Cantor-Navas Interview (Liner notes to The Complete Cuba Jam Sessions)

2020-01-21T01:32:29.161000Z

Brendan Greaves Interview (Liner Notes to Terry Allen & the Panhandle Mystery Band’s Pedal Steal + Four Corners)

2020-01-21T01:32:52.136000Z

Steve Greenberg Interview (Liner Notes to Stax '68: A Memphis Story)

2020-01-21T01:33:14.403000Z

Robert Marovich Interview (Liner notes to The Gospel According to Malaco)

2020-01-21T01:33:28.855000Z

Jeff Place Interview (Liner notes to Pete Seeger: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection)

2020-01-21T01:33:46.035000Z

#019: SPIN Gets Sold (Again)

2020-01-21T10:47:12.270000Z

#021: Have You Seen My LinkedIn, Bro?

2020-01-28T10:59:51.625000Z

#023: Breakfast Buffet With Cannibal Corpse

2020-02-04T11:33:30.598000Z

Laura Aha Interview (Groove)

2020-02-11T02:03:50.085000Z

#025: Amateur Cranks and Crackpots

2020-02-11T11:09:00.757000Z

#027: I Am Once Asking Again For Your Support

2020-02-18T10:51:48.675000Z

#030: A Non-Participant (And Fine With It)

2020-02-25T10:52:23.478000Z

#032: An Apology

2020-03-03T10:37:09.922000Z

#033: Believe In The Underdogs

2020-03-10T09:51:48.790000Z

Anurag Tagat Interview (Indian Freelance Journalist)

2020-03-17T02:07:48.069000Z

David Gutkin Interview (The Modernities of H. Lawrence Freeman)

2020-03-17T02:09:31.549000Z

#034: Wash Your Skinny Fists

2020-03-17T10:06:31.735000Z

#035: Music Journalism During COVID-19 [SPECIAL EDITION]

2020-03-23T11:11:48.814000Z

Roshanak Kheshti Interview (Switched On Bach 33 1/3)

2020-03-24T02:43:08.101000Z

#036: It's Every Party Ever

2020-03-24T10:10:30.891000Z

Matt Colquhoun Interview (Egress: On Mourning, Melancholy and Mark Fisher)

2020-03-31T01:05:07.782000Z

#037: A Kind Of Collective Choreography

2020-03-31T09:55:52.072000Z

Kyle Barnett Interview (Record Cultures: The Transformation of the U.S. Recording Industry)

2020-04-07T01:39:42.251000Z

#038: Must Be The Monayyy

2020-04-07T08:27:36.470000Z

#039: Passion: The Punk Version

2020-04-14T09:09:22.908000Z

Five Tips For Making Zines

2020-04-21T02:03:24.942000Z

#040: Framed David Brooks Tweets

2020-04-21T09:34:47.137000Z

#041: High Quality Inputs

2020-04-28T09:05:41.171000Z

#042: Peppa Pig's Related Artists

2020-05-04T10:23:30.951000Z

#043: Quarantine Haircut

2020-05-11T10:34:19.737000Z

Davide Bortot & Stephan Szillus Interview (Juice Magazine)

2020-05-18T00:00:09.377000Z

Jason Tate Interview (AbsolutePunk)

2020-05-18T00:09:18.413000Z

#044: Each One Teach One

2020-05-18T09:28:06.684000Z

#045: Taking It Day-By-Day

2020-05-26T11:23:03.946000Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: L7: Pretend That We're Dead

2020-05-27T01:16:00Z

#046: Another Heavy Week

2020-06-01T09:27:20.774000Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda

2020-06-02T01:19:00Z

#047: A Potent Lexicon

2020-06-08T09:43:34.536000Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: Our Hobby Is Depeche Mode

2020-06-09T01:21:00Z

#048: Open Your Peripheral

2020-06-15T10:18:55.684000Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: Who Is Poly Styrene?

2020-06-16T01:22:00Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: Instrument

2020-06-22T00:24:00Z

#049: Nerve-Shredding And Life-Affirming

2020-06-22T10:46:19.890000Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: Alice Coltrane Black Journal Segment

2020-06-28T23:20:56.977000Z

#050: An Otherwise Mostly Entertaining Thing

2020-06-29T10:31:23.038000Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: ZZ Top: That Little Ol’ Band From Texas

2020-07-06T00:01:00Z

#051: Pre-Bearded Trajectories Of Expectation

2020-07-06T09:45:27.809000Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: Hip-Hop Evolution

2020-07-12T23:08:00Z

#052: A Range Of Usages

2020-07-13T09:59:35.018000Z

#053: El Expreso Imaginario [SPECIAL EDITION]

2020-07-15T12:30:28.015000Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: Boy Howdy: The Story of Creem Magazine

2020-07-19T23:06:00Z

#054: Another World Is Possible

2020-07-20T10:13:00.785000Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: Jesse Jams

2020-07-27T01:23:13.070000Z

#055: An Entire Song About Grocery Shopping

2020-07-27T10:51:27.704000Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: Yo No Soy Guapo

2020-08-02T23:09:00Z

#056: Inebriated Persimmons

2020-08-03T10:11:07.729000Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: Heavenly Pop Hits - The Flying Nun Story

2020-08-10T00:01:52.913000Z

Nadine Hubbs and Francesca T. Royster Interview (Journal of Popular Music Studies)

2020-08-10T01:09:37.160000Z

#057: An Eight Ulcer Man On Four Ulcer Pay

2020-08-10T10:16:13.262000Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: Garth Brooks: The Road I’m On

2020-08-16T23:48:16.618000Z

#058: Is Your Child Texting About Miles Davis?

2020-08-17T10:11:44.247000Z

#059: Notes On Process: Lindsay Zoladz [SPECIAL EDITION]

2020-08-19T10:05:58.473000Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: The Last Angel of History

2020-08-23T19:08:33.930000Z

#060: The Three Stages Of A Viral Tweet

2020-08-24T10:43:43.952000Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: Keyboard Fantasies: The Beverly-Glenn Copeland Story

2020-08-30T23:23:00Z

Andre Gee Interview (Freelance Writer)

2020-08-30T23:34:10.041000Z

#061: Always Meant For This Time

2020-08-31T10:09:49.181000Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: John Was Trying To Contact Aliens

2020-09-08T01:40:00Z

#062: A DIY NASA

2020-09-08T10:43:11.596000Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: The Man Who Would Be Polka King

2020-09-14T01:01:00Z

Ronen Givony Interview (Not for You: Pearl Jam and the Present Tense)

2020-09-14T01:10:34.770000Z

#063: Act Like A Self-Promotional Hussy

2020-09-14T10:10:34.507000Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: White Riot

2020-09-20T23:04:55.931000Z

#064: There Is So Much More To It

2020-09-21T10:06:39.984000Z

Cary Baker Interview (Conqueroo PR)

2020-09-27T17:01:03.019000Z

#065: A Story To Tell

2020-09-28T10:03:50.674000Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: Black Wax

2020-10-04T23:14:10.551000Z

#066: Apropos Of Absolutely Nothing At All

2020-10-05T10:11:47.741000Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: Patrick

2020-10-12T00:24:12.584000Z

#067: Ew, Is That A Copper Mine?

2020-10-12T10:12:00.997000Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: Bass Worship

2020-10-18T23:25:00Z

#068: A Fierce, Fiery, Uncontrollable Passion

2020-10-19T10:10:06.715000Z

#069: This Impossible, Invaluable Force

2020-10-26T10:13:37.926000Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: Rumble

2020-11-02T00:57:11.587000Z

#070: Something Really Ancient

2020-11-02T11:15:37.101000Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: Madonna: Truth or Dare

2020-11-08T18:07:08.863000Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: Strike A Pose

2020-11-08T18:07:57.384000Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: I'm Tryna Tell Ya

2020-11-08T18:09:05.023000Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: The Summer of Rave 1989

2020-11-08T18:09:41.918000Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: Cunningham

2020-11-08T18:10:15.960000Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: Only When I Dance

2020-11-08T18:10:56.347000Z

[SPECIAL EDITION] Dance Documentaries You Gotta Watch

2020-11-09T11:04:52.580000Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: Til Infinity: The Souls of Mischief

2020-11-16T00:41:00Z

#071: No, Dionne, I Was Not Aware Of That

2020-11-16T10:39:52.286000Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: The Rise of Experimental Music in the 1960s

2020-11-22T16:35:00Z

Paul Du Noyer Interview (The Complete John Lennon Songs 1970-1980)

2020-11-22T17:06:00.885000Z

#072: Insect Antenna & Cheese Graters

2020-11-23T11:13:41.554000Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: The Sound of Belgium

2020-12-06T16:34:00Z

#073: Mentasmic Abandon

2020-12-07T11:47:49.485000Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: Another State of Mind

2020-12-13T16:56:54.106000Z

#074: Quebecois Street Punks

2020-12-14T11:05:51.554000Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: Just For The Record

2020-12-20T15:14:00Z

#075: Fictive Personas And Narrative Trickery

2020-12-21T11:20:26.275000Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: Larry’s Garage

2021-01-10T16:44:00Z

#076: How’s It Going?

2021-01-11T11:07:01.305000Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: Quincy

2021-01-17T23:44:00Z

#077: The Sea Shantey Edition

2021-01-19T11:06:43.943000Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: The Next Seattle

2021-01-24T19:28:00Z

#078: The Web Of Resonances

2021-01-25T11:06:05.215000Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: Desolation Center

2021-02-01T00:55:00Z

#079: Exploding Refrigerators

2021-02-01T11:21:53.583000Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: Flags and Fences

2021-02-07T16:39:00Z

#080: Disrupting The Listening Bubble

2021-02-08T11:04:58.381000Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: Full Mantis

2021-02-15T01:32:00Z

#081: A Silly Little Newsletter

2021-02-16T11:31:29.939000Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: Storming Sarajevo

2021-02-21T17:29:03.269000Z

#082: Millennials Could Never

2021-02-22T10:48:20.929000Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: My Secret World

2021-02-28T17:09:00Z

#083: Anoraks and Moptops

2021-03-01T11:10:32.803000Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: Our Vinyl Weighs A Ton

2021-03-07T17:38:00Z

Grammy Nominee Scott B. Bomar Interview (Liner notes to Various Artists - The Bakersfield Sound: Country Music Capital of the West, 1940-1974)

2021-03-07T18:15:36.686000Z

Grammy Nominee Tim Brooks Interview (Liner notes to Various Artists - "At the Minstrel Show)

2021-03-07T18:16:42.434000Z

Grammy Nominee Colin Hancock Interview (Liner notes to Gus Haenschen - The Missing Link: How Gus Haenschen Got Us from Joplin to Jazz and Shaped the Music Business)

2021-03-07T18:17:12.100000Z

Grammy Nominee David Sager Interview (Liner notes to Nat Brusiloff - Out of a Clear Blue Sky)

2021-03-07T18:17:37.541000Z

Grammy Winner Bob Mehr Interview (Liner Notes to The Replacements’s Dead Man’s Pop)

2021-03-07T18:18:12.276000Z

#084: Lots Of Good Stuff In Here

2021-03-08T11:09:41.413000Z

The Soviet Union's Unofficial Music Journalism [SPECIAL EDITION]

2021-03-10T11:07:04.222000Z

#085: Trust The Writer

2021-03-15T10:16:10.853000Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: Breadcrumb Trail

2021-03-21T23:11:11.810000Z

#086: The Perfect Puzzle Piece

2021-03-22T09:59:20.265000Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: Picture My Face

2021-03-28T16:32:00Z

#087: We Are The Telescopes

2021-03-29T10:06:18.038000Z

#088: A Tricky Time

2021-04-05T10:08:51.242000Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: Tokyo Melody

2021-04-12T00:07:00Z

Angela Stefano Interview (The Boot)

2021-04-12T01:02:09.464000Z

#089: The Nuclear Codes

2021-04-12T10:04:57.670000Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: Your War (I'm One Of You)

2021-04-18T16:35:00Z

#090: Unlistenable Faux-Art

2021-04-19T09:59:07.519000Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: Tropicália

2021-04-25T16:08:00Z

#091: The Chaos Pit

2021-04-26T10:08:11.268000Z

[SPECIAL EDITION] Music Journalism In The Year 2221

2021-05-03T10:01:58.850000Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: Rise Above: The Tribe 8 Documentary

2021-05-10T00:06:26.424000Z

#092: The Skanaissance

2021-05-10T10:19:42.643000Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: Space Lady

2021-05-16T17:07:41.387970Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: Fanny: The Right To Rock

2021-05-16T17:07:49.158086Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: I Am A Cliché

2021-05-16T17:07:52.197000Z

#093: Do Not Fill Plastic Bags With MP3s

2021-05-17T10:04:55.243000Z

#094: Supposedly Niche Communities

2021-05-24T10:07:00Z

"Everything Was On Fire": Brazil's Most Influential Music Magazine [SPECIAL EDITION]

2021-05-26T10:03:00Z

#095: Live Music Is Best

2021-06-01T10:07:02.279000Z

#096: The Deluxe Version

2021-06-07T10:09:40.676000Z

#097: The Current Artform

2021-06-14T10:04:51.430000Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: These C---sucking Tears

2021-06-21T00:06:38.948000Z

#098: Scowling, In My Dressing Gown

2021-06-21T10:03:10.710000Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: Los Punks: We Are All We Have

2021-06-27T18:21:09.357000Z

#099: Glorious Mohawks

2021-06-28T10:11:55.949000Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: The Man Named Turtle

2021-07-05T18:36:39.701000Z

#100: A Lot of Recs

2021-07-06T10:06:46.500000Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: Slave to the Grind

2021-07-11T17:41:28.949883Z

#101: Thomas Edison Hated Vibrato

2021-07-12T10:20:10.368000Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: The Drums of Winter

2021-07-18T23:34:01.419636Z

#102: The Perfect Music Publication

2021-07-19T10:11:36.479000Z

#103: The Soundest Archival Move

2021-07-26T10:06:45.679000Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: RP Boo - Bangin' on King Drive

2021-08-02T05:19:00.112237Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: The Hip-Hop Nucleus

2021-08-02T05:22:25.699620Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: Crowd

2021-08-02T05:25:47.742326Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: All Tomorrow's Parties

2021-08-02T05:28:08.944273Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: Talkin' Headz - The Metalheadz Documentary

2021-08-02T05:29:12.523896Z

Stuff You Gotta Watch: Parties Edition [SPECIAL EDITION]

2021-08-02T10:00:00Z

The Soviet Union's Official Music Journalism [SPECIAL EDITION]

2021-08-09T10:10:00Z

Archives and Historical Resources [SPECIAL EDITION]

2021-08-16T10:04:00Z

Simon Reynolds: Notes on Process [SPECIAL EDITION]

2021-08-23T10:07:00Z

Mental Health and Music Journalism [SPECIAL EDITION]

2021-08-30T10:03:00Z

#104: But Yeah, That Didn't Happen

2021-09-07T10:03:00Z

Gameli Hamelo Interview (Freelance writer)

2021-09-13T03:28:13.508000Z

Ronan Munro Interview (Nightshift)

2021-09-13T03:31:03.621000Z

Jack Riedy Interview (Freelance writer)

2021-09-13T03:32:37.056000Z

#105: A Flame Emoji Tweet

2021-09-13T10:03:00Z

Leonard Lehrman Interview

2021-09-20T03:38:16.391000Z

Aaron Cohen Interview

2021-09-20T03:42:39.202820Z

Tatiana Cirisano Interview

2021-09-20T03:44:36.936000Z

#106: Distracted By Hustle Twitter

2021-09-20T10:03:00Z