Are We Having Fun Yet? On Pop’s Morose New Normal. This article from Pitchfork pulls together examples, numbers, and insight about what I've been feeling about popular music lately. It's a great read on what has changed, why it may have changed, and...
This article from The Ringer goes into the power of the playlist in 2017, especially when compared to a weaker year of big name album releases: How the Playlist Finally Usurped the Album...
This article from The Economist is a great read on using Hip Hop as a vehicle for teaching students about technology: Spitting Lines - How hip-hop is introducing children to coding and technology. It talks about classrooms in New York, Spotify and...
This article by Matthew Daniels, the author/programmer behind "The Largest Vocabulary In Hop Hop", is an exciting look at the rise of coding in journalism: The Journalist Engineer. This is the direction I'm aiming, although I’m definitely more...