The Weight of Our Inheritance, pt. 2: Culture As a Burden

Do We Choose Music — Or Does Music Choose Us? | DNA, Musical Taste and the Baggage of Our Ancestors

Asha Bhosle, Bollywood, Cornershop, and Making Sense of Heritage in a Multi-Cultural World

Are Songs the Roadmap of Our Lives? | Love, Mixtapes, and Musical Identity

How To Talk To Famous People | Why “Don’t Meet Your Heroes” Isn’t True!

The Strange Social Contract Between Artists and Fans

Humor in Music and The "Myth" of the Tortured Artist: Does Happiness Kill Creativity?

Nirvana's Nevermind and the Cult of the Artist as Prophet

Music Journalism, Mortality, and the Editor Who Changed My Life

Jack Black and Jack White On SNL Should've Been A Bigger Deal

Why Tool’s Undertow Still Feels Dangerous | Alternative Metal’s Darkest Descent

Why Metal Needed Satan and the Meaning of Evil in Music

When Did Hip-Hop Become Untouchable? | Gangsta Rap, Cultural Power, and the Critics Who Guard It

The Uncomfortable Truth About Music, Culture and Race

Daily Note Live - The Super Bowl, Bad Bunny, Kid Rock, and the state of American monoculture

The Death of Colbert and Late Night, PBS/NPR and FS1 with @feedbackdef

World War 3 is on the table

Media Studies: Is Rock Music White?

Weirdest hype video ever

All My Favorite Rappers Are Crazy

The Downfall of Shannon Sharpe and Shedeur Sanders (MEDIA STUDIES with James Brown)

Way-belated Super Bowl halftime commentary

Finn McKenty Bites the Bizkit! Is he cosplaying as an internet villain?

Whittling down the days to Armaggedon

Post-Thanksgiving Purge with James Brown's Media Studies

Trump vs. NABJ and Aerosmith is dead

MEDIA STUDIES livestream June 9, 2024

Media Studies with James Brown: Pearl Jam and Diss Tracks!

Media Studies with James Brown 4-28-24

MEDIA STUDIES with JAMES BROWN March 30, 2024

Media Studies with James Brown 3/9/24

Media Studies 3/2/24

Media Studies with James Brown

Media Studies with James Brown

America's gun homicide problem—who the hell asked me?!