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The wee small hours of Wednesday, May 9th found me strapped to a gurney in the back of an ambulance careening down Pennsylvania Avenue, barely conscious and very confused… As it’s been told to me, the apparently very handsome young EMTs who’d shown up to my wife’s and my apartment roughly twenty minutes […]
everything is free now
In this episode of Talking Like a Jerk, I invite back my panel of journalists — Bryce Rudow and Marcus Dowling — to discuss the disruptions, for both artists and listeners, caused by the dominance of Spotify and other music streaming services. To do this, we peer reviewed Liz Pelly’s 2017 investigation into Spotify’s questionable […]
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For finally updating the “So You Want to Write for Random Nerds? Here’s How…” post with RN’s new editorial email address and submission guidelines, I get to reward myself with the tacking-up of an editorial bounty months in the making: our massive, meandering list of article ideas — which has admittedly gotten a bit backlogged, […]
to the beat of your own drum
This month, it is possible to have a fulfilling and crowded month of mind-opening music experiences without spending any money. This is all thanks to the Kennedy Center, who have flexed their relevant muscles to organize the impressively progressive and unexpectedly woke Direct Current festival: In their own words… Direct Current’s inaugural season traces an […]
dubstep dies in darkness
The music journalist with integrity is a modern rarity beset by obstacles: the slow death of their industry, defensive hostility from artists, and the easy temptation to lower their standards in the name of potential virality. So, for this episode, I invited prolific writer Marcus Dowling and RN Editor-in-Chief Bryce Rudow to join me in […]
