I'm a journalist and photographer living in New York City. I write about music, music + data, culture, science, food and healthcare. With Ian Chainey, I've been writing Stereogum's monthly metal column, The Black Market, for nearly a decade. At my day job, I'm SoundCloud's senior director of music intelligence and analytics.
Here's a selection of some of my work, and don't hesitate to reach out if you're interested in working together.
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Hyperpop music and artists like Charli XCX, ElyOtto, and Odetari have been on an astronomical rise in the 2020s, and these glitchy high-energy sounds are being heard worldwide.
A look at the woman-run metal label Fiadh Productions. Plus: the best metal of June 2023.
You might be surprised where some of the biggest heavy metal bands and genres in the world are from-and what countries have the most metalheads.
The SoundCloud data wrangler talks about the world of information in the numbers.
Plus: the best new metal of January 2023!
Chicago-born genre drill is expanding its cultural reach across the world thanks to up-and-coming artists adding their local flare to it.
Burnout is on the rise among doctors. Is medical school the place to make a difference? More than half of all American physicians now say they have experienced at least one symptom of burnout-emotional exhaustion, for instance, or a sense that their work doesn't mean anything.
Public health physician Barry Levy sends a warning about climate change. Sea levels are rising and trees are flowering earlier, signs that climate change is already here. And that change arrives with troubling questions about what dangers lie in store for humans.
Some vintage spirits may spoil, but others develop complex flavors and textures, leading a small group of "dusty hunters" to seek out these forgotten bottles.
Satoru Furuta of the Imayo Tsukasa sake brewery thinks that the world would be a better place if everyone incorporated more fermented products into their lives.
Xóchitl Castañeda looks for the immigrants invisible to the U.S. health care system. Sharp words are nothing surprising during any presidential election, but some of the unkindest this year have been directed at people who can't easily respond.
Who should shoulder the cost of training new residents? Quite unusually among the professions, physicians receive an education that is partly subsidized by the U.S. government-a subsidy to the tune of $15 billion per year, which is paid to hospitals to cover costs related to training residents. But that arrangement may be changing.
Margaret Sanger was a lifelong pioneer for birth control-and drove major innovations in the devices that made it possible. One hundred years ago this October, Margaret Sanger opened the first family-planning clinic in the United States.
Big fish eat little fish, right? It ain't necessarily so. Some fish farms are now turning to vegetarian feed options in attempts to get sustainable.
Kauan blend elements of folk and metal better than perhaps any other band today, clouding doom in a lush and weary atmosphere. I've found Kauan have always suited feelings of displacement. The sparse snare and woodblock echo in still silence, and simple little piano melodies feel as if they'll be picked up and blown away on a cold wind, but not before searing into your soul.
The 5,000 year history of the "art" comes down to physics, spirituality, and risk.
Can a video game really improve cognitive function? One company holds out hope for the holy grail: the blessing of the FDA. Play a video game developed by Lumosity, the leader in the "brain training" games movement, and you'll find yourself solving equations and remembering patterns.
Winemakers are exploring unusual techniques in the hopes of producing better wine, and that includes storing their precious bottles in a watery grave.
The teaching cadaver is as old as the study of medicine. Is there a better alternative? It is a rite of passage for many medical students-meeting and dissecting their first cadaver. In many ways, this is their first patient. Students encounter, for the first time, the human body in its marvelous complexity: muscles, ligaments and organs, exposed on the examining table.
A software platform from Apple is helping medical researchers collect health data from any iPhone user
No one is under the delusion that alcohol is a health drink, but new nutritional labels on some of booze's biggest brands could help to inform our drinking decisions.
In the tiny town of Gagliato in southern Italy, I met a local chef who makes crema di limoncello that will stop you in your tracks-and she doesn't even drink.
When it comes to the cost of treatments, hospitals struggle to give customers a straight answer. Number of states that legally require private insurers to clearly post prices for medical treatments. In Massachusetts, insurers' websites must show-in a consumer-friendly format-the updated, out-of-pocket prices individuals would pay for treatments at different providers.
Editor's note: The Lower East Side has been a bastion of entrepreneurship for many decades. In the last couple of years, one trend being seen here and elsewhere is the establishment of "hybrid stores."
Wyatt Marshall is a writer in New York City. "I never planned on playing this music for anyone, let alone releasing it. So it was not without complications for me to unleash this project into the world." Two months ago, "Nattens Barn," the debut song from Myrkur-Icelandic for "darkness"-appeared on Pitchfork.
On Sunday night, my girlfriend and I headed to the Clinton Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn to go out to dinner. For non-Brooklynites, or Brooklynites that don't go south of South 6th, Clinton Hill is a grown-up neighborhood, one that's home to those people you read about who take real vacations and have second bedrooms not occupied by roommates.
Jessie Ware played her first US show last night at the Box, a swanky and intimate venue on Manhattan's Lower East Side. It was a flashy entrance for Ware, whose debut album, Devotion, is one of the strongest releases of 2012 (and, for whatever reason, currently unavailable on iTunes, Amazon, and Spotify -- she recently tweeted that the Spotify situation will be fixed soon).
