This deal will finally happen—and for the worst possible reasons| www.honest-broker.com
The tech titans couldn't have built their empires without songs—and now they are destroying the cultural ecosystem that made them rich.| www.honest-broker.com
Insiders worry that Hollywood is the next Detroit—but it's actually much worse than that| www.honest-broker.com
And the tech bros won| www.honest-broker.com
My recent essay on this author got an unexpectedly huge response. But where should readers go next?| The Honest Broker
This author, who committed suicide in 2008, is more timely now than ever before—for the worst possible reasons.| The Honest Broker
Can they really get away with this?| www.honest-broker.com
The Vault contains more than 400 essays by Ted Gioia on various topics (mostly literary). It is available only to paid subscribers to The Honest Broker. Click to read The Honest Broker, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.| www.honest-broker.com
How a thinker who hated trends & fashions became trendy & fashionable| www.honest-broker.com
Do streaming platforms view famous artists as a threat to their brands?| www.honest-broker.com
It's not just the music biz—legacy media outlets everywhere are playing the same dangerous game. Here's how it will play out.| www.honest-broker.com
They call it the "Greatest Generation"—so why is its art disappearing?| The Honest Broker
New research tells a disturbing story about music discovery| www.honest-broker.com
At the end of his life, Walt designed the most ambitious plan in the history of Hollywood. What happened to it?| The Honest Broker
I celebrate the life and legacy of Hermeto Pascoal, who left us yesterday at age 89| The Honest Broker
Are you tired of listening to the same old tracks, but distrust the playlist gods at Spotify?| www.honest-broker.com
And other absurdities from late stage entertainment culture| www.honest-broker.com
Our problem is in the real world—not the ivory tower—and so is the solution| www.honest-broker.com
I didn't ask for this gig—so why did I ever agree to it?| www.honest-broker.com
I continue my tale of fear and loathing in the journalism trade| www.honest-broker.com
60% of Gen Z wish they could return to a time before everybody was ‘plugged in'| www.honest-broker.com
Something has changed in the last few days.| www.honest-broker.com
And other updates on recent articles| www.honest-broker.com
Just when you thought major labels couldn't get more stupid...| The Honest Broker
I'm making this previously paywalled article available to everybody| The Honest Broker
From Baby Shark to Squid Game, the same strategy is producing huge overseas successes. Can others learn from the Korean model?| The Honest Broker
Can you imagine fans of Latin music showing support for the Taco Bell logo?| The Honest Broker
What happens when you can't trust photos, videos, text, or the entire web?| www.honest-broker.com
Below is the first installment of my three-part essay on Hunter Thompson.| www.honest-broker.com
It’s nice to have good news to share from the music industry.| www.honest-broker.com
And other responses to my 'dopamine culture' article| www.honest-broker.com
The people who hate us now love us—should we be worried?| www.honest-broker.com
I share my favorite films on artistry from the 21st century| www.honest-broker.com
10 Perspectives on Joan Didion| www.honest-broker.com
It's a clumsy word, but a lovely thing to do| www.honest-broker.com
Or why 'Abundance' is more than just a political agenda| www.honest-broker.com
This isn't innovation, it's tyranny| www.honest-broker.com
Here's our reading for months 4-5—get ready for a whirlwind tour!| www.honest-broker.com
Or what happens when vulgar technocrats control the arts| www.honest-broker.com
This has been quite a day at The Honest Broker| www.honest-broker.com
I rarely talk about my workaday life before I settled into music and writing. Those days are far too strange and confusing to convey without writing a whole book about them. And I’ll never write that book because a lot of it I’d rather forget.| www.honest-broker.com
We cover lots of ground at The Honest Broker| www.honest-broker.com
Here's the latest news from the zombie wars| www.honest-broker.com
An update on the war against algorithms and technocratic manipulation| www.honest-broker.com
Here's the final chapter of my new book 'Music to Raise the Dead'| www.honest-broker.com
The current state of media is total anarchy| www.honest-broker.com
A year-long investigation by an indie journalist is a call to action| www.honest-broker.com
My latest arts and culture briefing| www.honest-broker.com
Audiences seek out darkness and dysfunction, but why?| www.honest-broker.com
What did I get right? What did I get wrong? And what will happen next?| www.honest-broker.com
Recent revelations from an alleged industry insider paint a disturbing picture| www.honest-broker.com
These works offer a holistic, humanistic critique of technology—and healing alternatives to a device-driven life| www.honest-broker.com
How Nigeria literally went to war against one musician—and lost| www.honest-broker.com
Last week, the IOC reinstated Jim Thorpe's 1912 Olympic gold medals—it's time to do the same with Duke Ellington's 1965 Pulitzer Prize.| www.honest-broker.com
I'm asking a favor—but not for me. I want you to do a favor for the music.| www.honest-broker.com
My survey confirms that consumers are getting angry about new tech (and not just AI)| www.honest-broker.com
I share some private details of how I educated myself through books| www.honest-broker.com
Can you really learn this stuff by just reading 250 pages per week for a year? Let's try and find out.| www.honest-broker.com
Here's how you kill an entire genre| www.honest-broker.com
And why did youth mental health problems accelerate after 2010?| www.honest-broker.com
Here's the latest installment of my book 'Music to Raise the Dead'—currently available only on Substack| www.honest-broker.com
My quest for a healthier relationship with technology| www.honest-broker.com
This gets the top spot on my list of never-made films I'd like to see| www.honest-broker.com
I thought piracy was bad, but I've now seen something much worse| www.honest-broker.com
Or a glimpse into post-entertainment society (it's not pretty)| www.honest-broker.com
In this extract from my book 'Music to Raise the Dead' I look at how texts replaced songs as sources of wisdom and guidance| www.honest-broker.com
Or why tech upgrades are now mostly downgrades| www.honest-broker.com
And I offer seven radical hypotheses. But can you handle the truth?| www.honest-broker.com
And I can already tell you who will win| www.honest-broker.com
In this section from my new book 'Music to Raise the Dead', I probe the hidden musical origins of Hollywood protagonists| www.honest-broker.com
Does anybody use it? Does anybody talk about it? Does anybody care?| www.honest-broker.com
Mark Zuckerberg is betting his company on a new idea—but this is a wager he will almost certainly regret.| www.honest-broker.com
Should newspapers ask writers to shill for celebrities?| www.honest-broker.com
Or why it's 1800 all over again| www.honest-broker.com
Or how flawed thinking can make $10 billion disappear| www.honest-broker.com
A dozen things that drive my writing, research, thinking & actions| www.honest-broker.com
You think I’m crazy, but just wait and see....| www.honest-broker.com
It's not oil or eggs or toilet paper—but something far more important| www.honest-broker.com
