I’ve got a new journal article out! It’s called “Horizons ’83, Meet the Composer, and New Romanticism’s New Marketplace,” and it’s in the new issue of …

It’s been a minute! A few weeks, at least. The problem with doing a newsletter about your book is what to do with it when you’re not working on your bo…

OK, it’s time to tell you about something that I still can’t believe exists, and which I want to share with you. And which you should share with anyone…

So, first off, the big news: the book is in! I sent the full manuscript to my editor last Wednesday, the day before heading to Boston for the annual Am…

Lots of stuff going on! First, and most important: New Sounds Lives! NEW SOUNDS FOREVER. An extraordinary campaign mounted to preserve and continue an …

And we’re back! While I was away from social media for a couple weeks, I missed the outpouring of anger about WNYC’s dropping New Sounds, one of the mo…

So maybe you saw yesterday's tweets! Yes, that's right folks, Industry is Industry-ed. (There was a really interesting conversation in the replies abou…

We haven't talked much about process lately, so a little update. Recall, if you will, the state of my manuscript: Each chapter has a full, solid draft;…

I’m only sharing bits and pieces of all of what I have with all of you—in fact, I’m only sharing bits and pieces of all of what I have in the book itse…

So at one point, not all that long ago, Peter Gelb looked like this: And now, as you probably know, Peter Gelb looks like this: This is not a newslette…

So Industry (the newsletter, not the book) has 175 or so subscribers, which is pretty cool! One nice perk is that occasionally people respond to the ne…

So what’s this book about, anyway? It’s about Bang on a Can, new music & institutions in the 1980s and 1990s, yadda yadda yadda, if you’ve been reading…