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May 15, 2026

The Yell You Never Knew Was Music

Let me ask you something strange. When was the last time you made a really loud noise? Not talking. Not laughing politely at someone else’s joke. A full, unguarded, body-wide, embarrassing noise? If you have to think hard about it, you are not alone. Most adults […]

May 8, 2026

The Song Factory’s Real Product Is Your Silence

Picture a Tuesday morning in Nashville, USA. A songwriter arrives at a publishing office on Music Row (a historic district, serving as the heart of the country music industry since 1950s) and sits across from someone they have never met. They exchange a few words. One […]

April 24, 2026

I Have Been Saying This for Years. This Proves It!

It happened the way the best discoveries usually do – sideways, by accident, while looking for something else. I was following a thread of research this morning, one thing leading to another the way it does, and suddenly I was reading about a man named Victor […]

April 17, 2026

How Music Harmony Became the Operating System of the Western Civilization

For centuries, the history of Western music has been told as a linear success story: a slow climb from the “primitive” single-voice chants of the early medieval Church to the glorious, multi-layered polyphony of the Renaissance and the complex symphonies of the Romantic era. In this […]

April 10, 2026

The Room That Sings Back

I was walking through a building recently when I heard something that stopped me mid-step. Beautiful singing was coming from behind the door to the stairs. Two young women were singing on a staircase. Not casually humming – singing. Old music, something from the 17th century, […]

April 1, 2026

A Breath of Melody: The Art of Whistling

One of the first sounds I remember from my childhood was a silver thread of sound moving through our home: my father whistling. My ocko – as we say in Slovak – had a great musical ear, a beautiful baritone, and a fantastic memory for songs […]

March 25, 2026

Whose Name Is On Your Back?

Let me tell you what happened in Toronto in 2024. Taylor Swift came to town. Sold out multiple nights at the Rogers Centre. The city – the actual municipal government of Canada’s largest city – proposed renaming the street leading to the venue after her. A […]

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 […]

March 12, 2026

My 10 Best Music Books of 2025

A Musicably Annual Reading List At the beginning of each year, I find myself doing the same thing: looking back at what the previous year brought us in music writing. Not the music itself – but the thinking about music. The books that tried to understand […]