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Insider Extra: February 24
$ · February 24, 2023
Insider Extra: February 24 I’m Todd L. Burns, and I put together Music Journalism Insider, a newsletter about music journalism. The newsletter collects some...
#163: Omnivorous Tastes
February 21, 2023
Omnivorous Tastes 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: We Like It Like That
February 20, 2023
Warning: it’s quite possible that you won’t be able to sit still while watching Matthew Ramirez Warren’s We Like It Like That. The main culprit is its...
Quinn Moreland Interview
$ · February 20, 2023
Quinn Moreland is a freelance culture writer. She is a former staff writer at Pitchfork, where she worked from 2015 to 2022. Her writing has appeared in The...
Aidan Levy Interview
$ · February 20, 2023
Aidan Levy is a lecturer in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Aidan has a new book out called Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music...
Richard Osborne Interview
February 20, 2023
I’m Todd L. Burns, and welcome to Music Journalism Insider, a newsletter about music journalism. Click here to subscribe! Richard Osborne is Associate...
Insider Extra: February 17
$ · February 17, 2023
Insider Extra: February 17 I’m Todd L. Burns, and I put together Music Journalism Insider, a newsletter about music journalism. The newsletter collects some...
#162: Unwavering Conclusions
February 13, 2023
Unwavering Conclusions 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: Bullwackie in New York
February 12, 2023
After having done some recording in his home country of Jamaica in the 1960s, Lloyd Barnes, AKA Bullwackie, migrated to the Bronx. In 1976, he set up a...
Dr. Allie Martin Interview
$ · February 12, 2023
Dr. Allie Martin is Assistant Professor at Dartmouth College. Over the years, her work has been supported by the Ford Foundation, the Smithsonian...
Lily Moayeri Interview
$ · February 12, 2023
Lily Moayeri is a freelance music journalist. She’s had bylines in Variety, Billboard, SPIN, and more, and hosts the independent podcast Pictures of Lily—all...
Jason Schneider Interview
$ · February 12, 2023
Jason Schneider is a Canadian music historian and former assistant editor at Exclaim. He now runs the music PR company Jason Schneider Media. His latest...
Insider Extra: February 10
$ · February 10, 2023
Insider Extra: February 10 I’m Todd L. Burns, and I put together Music Journalism Insider, a newsletter about music journalism. The newsletter collects some...
AI Is About To Rock The World Of Music Journalism! [SPECIAL EDITION]
February 6, 2023
AI Is About To Rock The World Of Music Journalism! I’m Todd L. Burns, and welcome to Music Journalism Insider, a newsletter about music journalism. I...
Insider Extra: February 3
$ · February 3, 2023
Insider Extra: February 3 I’m Todd L. Burns, and I put together Music Journalism Insider, a newsletter about music journalism. The newsletter collects some...
Best Album Notes Grammy Nominees [SPECIAL EDITION]
January 30, 2023
Best Album Notes Grammy Nominees [SPECIAL EDITION] I’m Todd L. Burns, and welcome to Music Journalism Insider, a newsletter about music journalism. I...
Gareth Murphy Interview
January 29, 2023
I’m Todd L. Burns, and welcome to Music Journalism Insider, a newsletter about music journalism. Click here to subscribe! Gareth Murphy is a 2023 Grammy...
Fernando Gonzalez Interview
January 29, 2023
I’m Todd L. Burns, and welcome to Music Journalism Insider, a newsletter about music journalism. Click here to subscribe! Fernando Gonzalez is a 2023 Grammy...
Bob Mehr Interview
January 29, 2023
I’m Todd L. Burns, and welcome to Music Journalism Insider, a newsletter about music journalism. Click here to subscribe! Bob Mehr is a 2023 Grammy Award...
Ted Olson Interview
January 29, 2023
I’m Todd L. Burns, and welcome to Music Journalism Insider, a newsletter about music journalism. Click here to subscribe! Ted Olson is a 2023 Grammy Award...
Insider Extra: January 27
$ · January 27, 2023
Insider Extra: January 27 I’m Todd L. Burns, and I put together Music Journalism Insider, a newsletter about music journalism. The newsletter collects some...
#161: Bucolic Folk Foundations
January 23, 2023
Bucolic Folk Foundations I’m Todd L. Burns, and welcome to Music Journalism Insider, a newsletter about music journalism. I highlight some of the best stuff...
Stuff You Gotta Watch: Timeshift: Prog Rock
January 22, 2023
At the beginning of Timeshift, which looks back at the golden age of British prog rock, narrator Tommy Vance declares, “Progressive rock is the music that...
Jason Lipshutz Interview
$ · January 22, 2023
Jason Lipshutz is executive director of music at Billboard, where he has worked since graduating from college in 2010 (with the exception of a one-year break...
Jewel Wicker Interview
$ · January 22, 2023
Jewel Wicker is a freelance entertainment and culture reporter from Atlanta, Georgia—a place central to what she does. Much of her writing focuses on the...
Andrea Warner Interview
$ · January 22, 2023
Andrea Warner is a freelance writer and the author of Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography and We Oughta Know: How Four Women Ruled the ’90s and...
Insider Extra: January 20
$ · January 20, 2023
Insider Extra: January 20 I’m Todd L. Burns, and I put together Music Journalism Insider, a newsletter about music journalism. The newsletter collects some...
#160: Keep The Recorder On
January 17, 2023
Keep The Recorder On 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: You Are What You Eat
January 16, 2023
A slice of countercultural weirdness directed by Monterey Pop camera operator Barry Feinstein, You Are What You Eat is an experimental semi-documentary that...
Katie Bain Interview
$ · January 16, 2023
Katie Bain is the director of Billboard Dance. She’s worked for many outlets in her years as a music and culture journalist, including LA Weekly, Insomniac,...
Ginger Dellenbaugh Interview
$ · January 16, 2023
Ginger Dellenbaugh is a music historian who has taught and written about music and politics, the cultural techniques of the human voice, and vernacular...
Insider Extra: January 13
$ · January 13, 2023
Insider Extra: January 13 I’m Todd L. Burns, and I put together Music Journalism Insider, a newsletter about music journalism. The newsletter collects some...
#159: Awkward High-School Photos
January 9, 2023
Awkward High-School Photos I’m Todd L. Burns, and welcome to Music Journalism Insider, a newsletter about music journalism. I highlight some of the best...
Brooklyn White Interview
$ · January 8, 2023
Brooklyn White is features editor at Essence. In 2021, she was named a Critical Writing Fellow by Recess and, the following year, she was awarded Seeds of...
Clayton Purdom Interview
$ · January 8, 2023
Clayton Purdom is a freelance writer/editor. He’s the former editorial director of video game publication Kill Screen and an internet culture writer at A.V....
Falina Enriquez Interview
$ · January 8, 2023
Falina Enriquez is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Falina’s research focuses on the cultural politics of music...
Insider Extra: January 6
$ · January 6, 2023
Insider Extra: January 6 I’m Todd L. Burns, and I put together Music Journalism Insider, a newsletter about music journalism. The newsletter collects some of...
Insider Extra: December 23
$ · December 23, 2022
Insider Extra: Recommendations Smörgåsbord I’m Todd L. Burns, and welcome to Music Journalism Insider, a newsletter about music journalism. I highlight some...
#158: Playlisting As Praxis
December 19, 2022
Playlisting As Praxis 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: I Was There When House Took Over the World
December 18, 2022
There’s no way to adequately grasp the emergence of a cultural phenomenon outside of its social and political context. House music is no exception. Its...
Sam Backer and Saxon Baird Interview
$ · December 18, 2022
Saxon Baird & Sam Backer are the hosts of the essential podcast about music and capitalism, Money 4 Nothing. Saxon is an American-born artist and...
Rachel Narozniak Interview
$ · December 18, 2022
Rachel Narozniak is a senior writer at Dancing Astronaut and a freelance music journalist with bylines in Billboard Dance. As she puts it, “I used to be very...
Salomé Voegelin Interview
$ · December 18, 2022
Salomé Voegelin is a writer, researcher, and practitioner, who works from the relational logic of sound to focus on the in-between and the liminal, where...
Insider Extra: December 16
$ · December 16, 2022
Insider Extra: December 16 I’m Todd L. Burns, and I put together Music Journalism Insider, a newsletter about music journalism. The newsletter collects some...
#157: Thursday Nights
December 12, 2022
Thursday Nights 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: Meio Metro De Pedra
December 11, 2022
How hard was it to release a rock’n’roll record in 1960s Portugal? First, you had to make sure none of your band members were about to be shipped off to war....
Joe Levy Interview
$ · December 11, 2022
Joe Levy is an Editor at Large at Billboard and host of the Setting the Standard podcast. His past accolades are nearly too many to count. Among them? Music...
Patrick Hicks Interview
$ · December 11, 2022
Patrick Hicks is a content creator on TikTok. In less than a year, he’s created a channel with nearly 300,000 followers by simply telling great music stories...
Chelsey Hamm Interview
$ · December 11, 2022
Chelsey Hamm is Assistant Professor, Music Theory, as well as Director of Music Theory and Aural Skills at Christopher Newport University. Her research...
Insider Extra: December 9
$ · December 9, 2022
Insider Extra: December 9 I’m Todd L. Burns, and I put together Music Journalism Insider, a newsletter about music journalism. The newsletter collects some...
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