Faith Hahn

Open-mindedness is a world-saving virtue.

Tell a wise person or else keep silent

for those who do not understand

will mock it right away.

For most of recorded history, there were two ways of making a living as a musician. You could work for a patron—the court, the church, an individual aristocrat—or you could sing for your supper, sometimes literally, as an itinerant minstrel. Then, by the turn of the twentieth century, a third option opened, that of recording artist, in which little... See more

“The writing of the pose is the literary product of the MFA system and of Instagram in equal measure—it brings writing into the ordinary grueling business of the curation of the self which dominates advanced capitalist culture today.”

Music has emerged as private equity's recession-resistant darling, thanks to streaming's predictable revenue patterns and live entertainment's remarkable post-pandemic resilience.

Almost anyone can tell you the cost of living has increased between the onset of the pandemic and today. Implying anything else is, as my younger colleagues would say, legit gaslighting, or at least missing the point. Now, in recent months, headline after headline proclaims “inflation has cooled.” But does that mean we are out of the water?

This... See more

“Attribution shouldn’t start when the song is done — it should start when the model starts learning,” says Sean Power, the company’s cofounder. “We’re trying to quantify creative influence, not just catch copies.”