Featured: Top of Home Page/Features/Media/Music When Kendrick Lamar Hits NPR, We All Win By Ben Rubenstein / 17 December 2014 When everyone feels they can be an expert, how do you reassert your ownership over a topic? By waiting for its crossover moment.
Featured: Top of Home Page/Features/Music Dirty Diapers Don’t Scare Me Nearly as Much as the Wiggles Do By Ben Rubenstein / 9 July 2014 Parenthood comes with a lot of change, and a lot of decisions to be made, including this one: What’s your musical strategy?
Featured: Top of Home Page/Features/Music/Technology Drive Me Crazy: The Day the iPhone Took Over My Car By Ben Rubenstein / 19 May 2014 You just want to drive fast and listen to your favorite song. Your "smart" car may have other ideas. Welcome to the future.
Featured: Top of Home Page/Internet/Music Forgotify Rises to the Challenge of Spotify By Ben Rubenstein / 20 March 2014 Forgotify serves as an entry into an internet wormhole, into the many songs that streaming listeners forgot, and it shows us a lot about our habits in the process.
Featured: Top of Home Page/Features/Food Drink/Music Beer Is the New Music By Ben Rubenstein / 9 January 2014 Obsessive collection, mainstream mocking, and a never-ending list of styles. It’s no surprise that so many music nerds turn into beer geeks, as well.
Featured: Top of Home Page/Features/Music/Sports Music Is Vital to the Sports Fan Experience, But Which Traditions Are Worth Keeping Around? By Ben Rubenstein / 21 November 2013
Books/Featured: Top of Home Page/Features/Film/Music How John Lurie Made Me Read Fewer Books By Ben Rubenstein / 27 September 2013
Featured: Top of Home Page/Internet/Music/Technology In with the A&R Crowd By Ben Rubenstein / 30 July 2013
Featured: Top of Home Page/Internet/Music/Technology Got a Song Request? There’s an App for That By Ben Rubenstein / 19 May 2013
Featured: Top of Home Page/Features/Music Alicia Keys Got Blackberry and Kanye West is Seething By Ben Rubenstein / 19 March 2013
Featured: Top of Home Page/Features/Internet/Music Songza: The Thinking Listener’s Playlist App? or Another Reinforcer of the Same Old Taste? By Ben Rubenstein / 17 January 2013
Featured: Top of Home Page/Features/Internet/Music What’s the Rap on Rap Genius? By Ben Rubenstein / 2 December 2012