Wyatt Bass Marshall

Journalist and Photographer

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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How Music Charts
02/23/2024
The Hype Behind Hyperpop Artists

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.

Stereogum
06/30/2023
Fiadh Means Many Things

A look at the woman-run metal label Fiadh Productions. Plus: the best metal of June 2023.

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Q&A: Wyatt Marshall

The SoundCloud data wrangler talks about the world of information in the numbers.

How Music Charts
04/21/2023
The Globalization of Drill

Chicago-born genre drill is expanding its cultural reach across the world thanks to up-and-coming artists adding their local flare to it.

Protomag
Physician, Rest Thyself

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.

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Hot Water

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.

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Hidden Americans

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.

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The Doctor Bill

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.

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The Pill and the Pessary

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.

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Stream Kauan Sorni Nai (Stereogum Premiere)

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.

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The Foggy Future of Brain Games

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.

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Mortal Remains

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.

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ResearchKit

A software platform from Apple is helping medical researchers collect health data from any iPhone user

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White Coats

The classic physician garb has a rich and complex history

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Pricing Transparency

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.

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Shedding Light on the Darkness of Myrkur

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.

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Hospital Food

Across the country, meals served to patients get an update.

NOISEY
Food Trend Alert: Artisanal Black Metal Cuisine | NOISEY

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.

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Jessie Ware @ The Box, NYC 12/10/12 - Stereogum

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).