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2026 70

  1. The New Analog
  2. Witness among the Witness Trees
  3. Alternate Ending
  4. Futurecasting
  5. Making Cents
  6. Four Prose Poems
  7. Wrong-Way Risk
  8. Rough Music
  9. Prose Poem
  10. The Politics of Accumulation
  11. Music for iPorts
  12. Two Prose Poems
  13. Mic Check
  14. The Disconnect
  15. Smartphones vs. The Live Experience
  16. Taja le Fay
  17. User's Manual
  18. Two-minute Pop, 30-second Rock
  19. A Modest Proposal
  20. Cult Classics
  21. AI Destroyed Civilization and All I Got Was This Lousy Label
  22. Two Prose Poems
  23. Raise the Bar
  24. Two Prose Poems
  25. Solutions for All but Artists
  26. Terms of Service
  27. Organize FFS
  28. Three Prose Poems
  29. We Came Through, Sang Scott Walker
  30. Areski, 1940-2026
  31. Zine
  32. Digital Diary
  33. All So Probable
  34. 27 May 1977
  35. Listening to 2001: A Space Odyssey
  36. On Fire Revisited
  37. We Need a Recording Industry
  38. Peel Slowly and See
  39. Two Prose Poems
  40. The Struggle Continues
  41. Three Prose Poems
  42. Music Streaming is a Prediction Market
  43. Community Radio is a Dream of Intelligent Design
  44. Standards
  45. Three Prose Poems
  46. Three Prose Poems
  47. Financialization is a Psyop
  48. What’s Past is Prologue (Live at Café Oto) Listening Party
  49. Two Prose Poems
  50. Three Prose Poems
  51. A Conversation about Why Sound Matters
  52. Water World
  53. Major Scale
  54. Seven Million Songs a Day
  55. Two Prose Poems
  56. The Dream of the 90s is Dead at SXSW
  57. Two Prose Poems
  58. What's Past is Prologue
  59. Three Prose Poems
  60. Listening to Noise
  61. Two Prose Poems
  62. Take My Books, Please
  63. Surface Noise
  64. 5000 Musical Terms
  65. 5000 Musical Terms
  66. Backstage
  67. Epiphanies
  68. Sans Papiers
  69. Perpetual War and 'World' Music
  70. Revisiting the Pyramid of Inequality that is Streaming Music

2025 54

  1. What is the Artist to Fascism?
  2. Anti-Copyright Extremists
  3. What’s Missing from Today’s Pop Music and Museum Galleries? Call It Boogie
  4. The Missing Now
  5. A Tale Of Two Ecosystems: On Bandcamp, Spotify And The Wide-Open Future
  6. The Year AI Broke
  7. Sly Fidelity
  8. Who Are We Kidding
  9. Soft Power
  10. Critical Listening
  11. Load-In
  12. UMAW Goes to Washington
  13. A Changing Picture
  14. Why Sound Matters
  15. Gimme Some Money
  16. Inputs & Outputs
  17. Artificial Labor
  18. Vox Populi
  19. The Reintroduction of the Living Wage for Musicians Act
  20. Outsider Music
  21. Depression Special
  22. Nick Drake Laughs!
  23. Units
  24. Listen, Listen
  25. Free Form Radicals
  26. Four Prose Poems
  27. Natalia Lafourcade's Theater of Song
  28. Received Wisdom
  29. Two Prose Poems
  30. Interview with Lee Ranaldo
  31. Music Is Too Important To Be Left To The Marketplace
  32. João Gilberto
  33. Isolation Row
  34. Following the Sounds
  35. Various Positions
  36. Tears of Exile
  37. Testimony to the New York City Council Committee on Civil Service and Labor
  38. Fear and Farce
  39. Try Saying You're Alive!
  40. Culture Club Clash
  41. For Jonathan Sterne
  42. Spotify is a Microcosm of Billionaire BS
  43. Notes from the Underground
  44. Not Just Plain Folk
  45. Becoming Led Zeppelin
  46. The Prehistory of Music
  47. Active Listening
  48. Christian Wolff
  49. Thinking Under Fascism
  50. Music and Revolution
  51. Interview with Tom Rapp of Pearls Before Swine
  52. On First Looking into Brand’s Whole Earth Catalog
  53. Black-market Bob
  54. Cut-ups

2024 38

  1. Nice Opening, Duchamp
  2. Dear Subscribers
  3. The Unclassifiable, Unstreamable Eighties Albums of Annette Peacock
  4. The Common Listener
  5. Plus Ça Change, Plus C'est the Same Shit
  6. A Thousand Shows Later
  7. Tokyo Story
  8. Take the Soap out of the Wrapper
  9. Harry Smith
  10. Listening to the Bay of Fundy
  11. How German Is It
  12. Maggie’s Farm
  13. Ways of Hearing
  14. This Is Boston Not Honolulu
  15. In My Backyard
  16. The New Second-Hand Smoke?
  17. I Spoke Without Pay at an AI Conference Charging $375 a Head and No I’m Not Bitter At All
  18. Afterimage
  19. Afterimage
  20. Afterimage
  21. Afterimage
  22. Afterimage
  23. Afterimage
  24. Sneer of Cold Command
  25. Anti-Viral Sounds
  26. Weimar on the Charles
  27. Four Hours of Music
  28. The Memory Theater Burned
  29. The Memory Theater Burned
  30. The Memory Theater Burned
  31. AHRA, DPRA, LWMA
  32. 656 Unexpected Millionaires
  33. The Living Wage for Musicians Act
  34. To the Reader
  35. Musicking
  36. Self-Checkout
  37. A Pyramid of Inequality
  38. Et tu, Substack?

2023 24

  1. Spool! (pause.) Spooool!
  2. A Year of Necessary Music
  3. Poetry is an Art of Sound
  4. 1,000 Streams or Bust
  5. After Bandcamp, What?
  6. Solidarity
  7. DIY Professional
  8. On Tour!
  9. Summer Soundscape
  10. One Hundred and Twenty-four Speakers
  11. Songs In Heat
  12. The Power of the AM
  13. Self Storage
  14. Got to Give It Up
  15. On Tour!
  16. Musicians Need Labor Rights More than Copyrights
  17. Against Innovation
  18. Imaginary Folk
  19. Planned Obsolescence
  20. Broken Thing
  21. Be Your Own Algorithm: A Golden Age of Downloads
  22. Real Bands in Real Rooms
  23. Charles Simic
  24. 2022: The Year Music Broke

2022 45

  1. A Hollywood Ending
  2. Everything I Was Worried About Then, I Am More Worried About Now
  3. Strangers on a Train
  4. Six Weeks of Confusion
  5. ¡Ay!
  6. Self Storage
  7. Working Wherever We May
  8. De-mixing the Beatles
  9. 52 and You
  10. The Red Herring of Intellectual Property
  11. Power to the People
  12. Cash on the Barrelhead
  13. The Contingency of Listening
  14. Ten Dreams of (Im)Possible Musics
  15. A Call in Congress to Create a New Streaming Royalty
  16. What Is a Stream, Anyway?
  17. The Last Field Recordists
  18. Why Robins Sing at Night
  19. On the Passage of a Lot of People through a Rather Brief Moment in Time
  20. Self Storage
  21. Silver Jubilee
  22. Finding Home
  23. Enter Sandman
  24. A Face Made for Radio
  25. Click Wheel of Fortune
  26. The Jazz-Adjacent Sound of Now
  27. Address to the British Screen Forum
  28. Self Storage
  29. Toward a Community Theory of Value
  30. Masks Are Off
  31. Beat of the Traps
  32. Self Storage
  33. Flooding the Zone
  34. The Idea of the Album
  35. And the Band Played On
  36. Scaling Up
  37. Why, Sometimes, Do Images Begin to Tremble?
  38. Self Storage
  39. The Lockdown Concert
  40. In Sounds Begin Responsibilities
  41. The Big Short of Streaming
  42. There Is No CD Revival
  43. After the Deluge
  44. Self Storage
  45. On Berger's Ways of Seeing

2021 17

  1. Everything I Was Worried About Then, I Am More Worried About Now
  2. Where Do We Go From Here
  3. The Difficult Sixth or Seventh Album
  4. Self Storage
  5. The Problem with Live Music
  6. Self Storage
  7. Ed Sheeran's Vinyls
  8. Self Storage
  9. An Economic Argument for Piracy
  10. Sale Is Unlawful
  11. Self Storage
  12. Radio, Radio
  13. Conceptual Music
  14. Zeitgeist
  15. Tears in Rain
  16. Traveling for a Living
  17. Welcome to Dada Drummer Almanach