March 20, 2026

Is “Saving the Music” Actually Killing It?

Why $75 Million Can’t Buy What Your Grandmother Had for Free When Apple recently scaled up its partnership with the Save The Music Foundation, the headlines were celebratory. And why not? Since its founding, STM has invested over $75 million in more than 2,800 school music […]
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February 25, 2026

The Reveal: The Musicking Pyramid

This is the final part of this four-part series. We’ve proven music is your birthright. We’ve shown the neuroscience of the Shared Brain.  But we’ve also named the crisis: we are musically malnourished. We’ve traded the high‑protein activity of making music for the high‑sugar habit of […]
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February 18, 2026

The “Shared Brain” and the Loneliness Cure

We’ve traced music back at least 60,000 years and proven it’s your biological birthright. But why does that matter in 2026? Today, we’re talking about the bottom line: why we’re lonelier than ever despite having infinite music, and what neuroscience reveals about the cure. The Largest […]
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February 6, 2026

The 60,000-Year-Old Secret in Your Throat

Last week, we talked about “The Great Musical Malnutrition” – how we’re gorging on digital ear-candy while our biological selves starve. Today, I’m taking you deep into a Slovenian cave to show you why music isn’t a hobby. It’s a survival technology older than our own […]
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January 30, 2026

The Great Musical Malnutrition – Your Spotify habit is starving your soul

A few weeks ago I was watching the news, where Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stood behind a podium and did something we haven’t seen in decades. He threw out the old playbook. He unveiled a new, inverted food pyramid – a total reset for […]
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December 29, 2025

Two Threats to Music’s Future: Forced Lessons and AI Generation

We’re losing music. Not recorded music – we have more of that than ever. We’re losing something far more precious: the living tradition of making music together as families and communities. And ironically, two seemingly opposite forces are accelerating this loss: well-meaning parents forcing music lessons […]
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