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December 18, 2023
Read More I’m Todd L. Burns, and welcome to Music Journalism Insider, a newsletter about music journalism. I highlight some of the best stuff I hear, read,...
Melissa A. Weber Interview
December 17, 2023
I’m Todd L. Burns, and welcome to Music Journalism Insider, a newsletter about music journalism. Click here to subscribe! Melissa A. Weber is an artist-...
Insider Extra: December 15 - Recommendations Smörgåsbord
$ · December 15, 2023
Insider Extra: Recommendations Smörgåsbord I’m Todd L. Burns, and welcome to Music Journalism Insider, a newsletter about music journalism. I highlight some...
Grayson Haver Currin: Notes on Process [SPECIAL EDITION]
December 11, 2023
Grayson Haver Currin: Notes on Process [SPECIAL EDITION] I’m Todd L. Burns, and welcome to Music Journalism Insider, a newsletter about music journalism. I...
Insider Extra: December 8
$ · December 8, 2023
Insider Extra: December 8 I’m Todd L. Burns, and I put together Music Journalism Insider, a newsletter about music journalism. The newsletter collects some...
#194: Cutting Corners
December 4, 2023
Cutting Corners I’m Todd L. Burns, and welcome to Music Journalism Insider, a newsletter about music journalism. I highlight some of the best stuff I hear,...
Stuff You Gotta Watch: Without Getting Killed or Caught
December 2, 2023
Guy Clark’s remarkable 1975 debut album Old No 1 was quickly recognized as a classic of what would later be described as “Americana.” With his best friend...
Arjun Chadha Interview
$ · December 2, 2023
Arjun Chadha is the founder and editor-in-chief of Get Familiar Magazine, which is one of the best hip-hop magazines in Europe. As Arjun puts it, “I simply...
Frank Furtado Interview
$ · December 2, 2023
Frank Furtado is the content manager for Middle 8, a YouTube channel with more than 600,000 subscribers. Frank’s videos are lengthy, highly researched, and...
Insider Extra: December 1
$ · December 1, 2023
Insider Extra: December 1 I’m Todd L. Burns, and I put together Music Journalism Insider, a newsletter about music journalism. The newsletter collects some...
#193: Pressure, Responsibility, and Excitement
November 20, 2023
Pressure, Responsibility, and Excitement I’m Todd L. Burns, and welcome to Music Journalism Insider, a newsletter about music journalism. I highlight some of...
Stuff You Gotta Watch: Dig!
November 19, 2023
Ondi Timoner’s 2004 documentary Dig! bursts to a start with the psychedelic sounds of The Brian Jonestown Massacre. Band leader Anton Newcombe struts down...
Lydia Bangura Interview
$ · November 19, 2023
Lydia Bangura is an operatic soprano, music theorist, and podcaster. She’s currently in the third year of a music theory PhD program at the University of...
Peter A. Berry Interview
$ · November 19, 2023
Peter A. Berry is a writer-editor with bylines in Okayplayer, Stereogum, and many more. Previously, he was on staff at XXL, but he’s currently freelance. How...
Insider Extra: November 17
$ · November 17, 2023
Insider Extra: November 17 I’m Todd L. Burns, and I put together Music Journalism Insider, a newsletter about music journalism. The newsletter collects some...
#192: Embarrassing But True
November 13, 2023
Embarrassing But True I’m Todd L. Burns, and welcome to Music Journalism Insider, a newsletter about music journalism. I highlight some of the best stuff I...
Stuff You Gotta Watch: The Whole Gritty City
November 12, 2023
New Orleans is quite possibly the subject of more music documentaries than any other city in the world. Understandably, the Big Easy’s fame as the birthplace...
Spencer Kornhaber Interview
$ · November 12, 2023
Spencer Kornhaber is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where he’s been working since 2011. His new book is On Divas: Persona, Pleasure, Power. How did you get...
Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth Interview
$ · November 12, 2023
Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth is a visiting assistant professor in comparative studies and an archivist in the Center for Folklore Studies at The Ohio State...
Dayal Patterson Interview
$ · November 12, 2023
Dayal Patterson is the founder of Cult Never Dies and a longtime music journalist. His new project is a massively expanded version of Black Metal: Evolution...
Insider Extra: November 10
$ · November 10, 2023
Insider Extra: November 10 I’m Todd L. Burns, and I put together Music Journalism Insider, a newsletter about music journalism. The newsletter collects some...
#191: Ego Clouds
November 6, 2023
Ego Clouds I’m Todd L. Burns, and welcome to Music Journalism Insider, a newsletter about music journalism. I highlight some of the best stuff I hear, read,...
Stuff You Gotta Watch: Latcho Drom
November 5, 2023
As an introduction to Europe’s largest minority, the people often called “gypsies,” Latcho Drom, from 1993, is an enchanting, impressionistic documentary—and...
Dimas Sanfiorenzo Interview
$ · November 5, 2023
Dimas Sanfiorenzo is a journalist and editor. He’s written for Vibe, BET, BBC, and more. Most recently, however, he worked for Okayplayer and Okayafrica as...
Nicolas-Tyrell Scott Interview
$ · November 5, 2023
Nicolas-Tyrell Scott is a culture and music journalist, speaker, critic, and curator. He’s had bylines in HYPEBEAST, NME, Paper, and more. He’s also the host...
Bob Ruggiero Interview
$ · November 5, 2023
Bob Ruggiero is a freelance music journalist who has been writing for Houston Press since 1997. His new book is The Classic Rock Bob Reader: Selected...
Insider Extra: November 3
$ · November 3, 2023
Insider Extra: November 3 I’m Todd L. Burns, and I put together Music Journalism Insider, a newsletter about music journalism. The newsletter collects some...
October 30 - Recommendations Smörgåsbord
October 30, 2023
October 30 - Recommendations Smörgåsbord I’m Todd L. Burns, and welcome to Music Journalism Insider, a newsletter about music journalism. I highlight some of...
Insider Extra: October 27
$ · October 27, 2023
Insider Extra: October 27 I’m Todd L. Burns, and I put together Music Journalism Insider, a newsletter about music journalism. The newsletter collects some...
#190: A Culture Of Responsiveness
October 23, 2023
A Culture Of Responsiveness I’m Todd L. Burns, and welcome to Music Journalism Insider, a newsletter about music journalism. I highlight some of the best...
Ted Davis Interview
$ · October 22, 2023
Ted Davis is the music editor at Merry-Go-Round Magazine and ambient columnist at Bandcamp Daily, with bylines at Rolling Stone, NPR Music, Pitchfork,...
Donald S. Passman Interview
$ · October 22, 2023
Donald S. Passman practices law in Los Angeles, California, and has specialized in the music business for over 40 years. The Harvard Law grad is the author...
Denise Von Glahn Interview
$ · October 22, 2023
Denise Von Glahn is the Curtis Mayes Orpheus Professor and Area Coordinator of Musicology, College of Music, Florida State University. Her scholarly...
Insider Extra: October 20
$ · October 20, 2023
Insider Extra: October 20 I’m Todd L. Burns, and I put together Music Journalism Insider, a newsletter about music journalism. The newsletter collects some...
#189: A Poptimistic Manifesto
October 16, 2023
A Poptimistic Manifesto I’m Todd L. Burns, and welcome to Music Journalism Insider, a newsletter about music journalism. I highlight some of the best stuff I...
Craig Gill Interview
$ · October 15, 2023
Craig Gill is the director of University Press of Mississippi. He’s been working in the academic world for more than three decades, with stints at...
Lucretia Tye Jasmine Interview
$ · October 15, 2023
Lucretia Tye Jasmine is a freelance writer, artist, and interviewer. Her first book is '70s Teen Pop, which is part of the new 33 1/3 series "Genre." How did...
Grant Sharples Interview
$ · October 15, 2023
Grant Sharples is a freelance writer with bylines in Stereogum, Pitchfork, The Ringer, and more. He’s just started as the indie music columnist at Uproxx....
Insider Extra: October 13
$ · October 13, 2023
Insider Extra: October 13 I’m Todd L. Burns, and I put together Music Journalism Insider, a newsletter about music journalism. The newsletter collects some...
#188: Then Comes Everything Else
October 10, 2023
Then Comes Everything Else I’m Todd L. Burns, and welcome to Music Journalism Insider, a newsletter about music journalism. I highlight some of the best...
Stuff You Gotta Watch: Once Upon a Time in New York
October 8, 2023
New York in the mid '70s was a rough place. "But," as narrator Richard "Rocky Horror Show" O'Brien says at the beginning of Once Upon a Time in New York,...
Sowmya Krishnamurthy Interview
$ · October 8, 2023
Sowmya Krishnamurthy is a music journalist with bylines in Rolling Stone, Billboard, XXL, and many more. As an on-air host, she has appeared on MTV, MSNBC,...
Tseliso Monaheng Interview
$ · October 8, 2023
Tseliso Monaheng is a writer, filmmaker, editor, photographer, music producer, video artist, and more. As he puts it, “yeah, coupla things.” Right now, much...
Chris Dalla Riva Interview
$ · October 8, 2023
Chris Dalla Riva is a writer, musician, and senior product manager at Audiomack. Chris’s writing, much of which can be found on his newsletter, Can’t Get...
Insider Extra: October 6
$ · October 6, 2023
Insider Extra: October 6 I’m Todd L. Burns, and I put together Music Journalism Insider, a newsletter about music journalism. The newsletter collects some of...
#187: Part Of The Air We Breathe
October 2, 2023
Part Of The Air We Breathe I’m Todd L. Burns, and welcome to Music Journalism Insider, a newsletter about music journalism. I highlight some of the best...
Stuff You Gotta Watch: One More: A Definitive History of UK Clubbing
October 1, 2023
Released as a companion piece to Matt Trollope's book of the same name, One More: A Definitive History of UK Clubbing is an extensive and immersive journey...
Carrie Tipton Interview
$ · October 1, 2023
Carrie Tipton is a musicologist. For six seasons, she hosted the book interview podcast Notes on Bach, and her work often touches on “a lot of things inside,...
Mike Huguenor Interview
$ · October 1, 2023
Mike Huguenor is a musician, writer, and the former arts editor of Metro Silicon Valley. Mike just left his job at Metro and is now working on a biography of...
W. Anthony Sheppard Interview
$ · October 1, 2023
W. Anthony Sheppard is the Marylin and Arthur Levitt Professor of Music at Williams College, where he teaches courses in 20th-century music, opera, popular...
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