Author Archives: Justin Colletti

This week I got to visit some pretty fantastic recording studios in DUMBO Brooklyn and write about them for SonicScoop. I also had an amusing alert go off on my phone. When I was twenty-five, I set a calendar reminder for February 23rd, 2012 – my thirtieth birthday. As I sat down to dinner, it […]

When people tell you they’ve had a life-altering sandwich, you should believe them. You should also hurry up and try it yourself, because you never know how long it’s going to last. This is New York. 90-year-old bakeries close down because they can’t meet the $5,500 monthly rent for a 450 sq foot storefront; Fantastic […]

This week I have a new article out about the making of The Magnetic Fields’ new album, Love at the Bottom of the Sea. If you’re a fan of the band, there’s a documentary out called Strange Powers, and it’s now streaming on Netflix. (Trailer below.) Last week, I got to talk to Chairlift (who […]

Earlier this week, an attorney friend invited me to the New York Tech Meetup at NYU’s Skirball center. It’s the largest of the New York Meetups, and it borders on being the largest Meetup in the nation. (Apparently San Franciscans like technology and meetups even more than New Yorkers. They are after all, the seat of […]

Trust Me, I’m A Scientist has always been open to outside contributors. But in the last 3 days, I’ve gotten more queries from prospective writers than I have in the past 6 months. That’s because in this month’s issue, I did something we all forget to do sometimes. I asked. It sounds obvious — And […]

Today we launched the new February issue of Trust Me, I’m A Scientist, the music magazine for music-makers. I’m especially excited about this one because it’s our first issue with new associate editor Blake Madden. (Blake is a musician who writes plays in the fantastic Seattle synthrock outfit Hotels. He’s also the author of a […]

Went to a show at Carnegie Hall last night. The main hall, Stern Auditorium. Maria had 4 students on stage. It’s a phenomenal space, and insanely well-funded. I’m not usually big on pomp and opulence, but I have to admit that there’s something seductive about that room. It made me want to tell the world: […]

“Pretentious” is one of those words you don’t hear a lot once you reach adulthood. It’s always popular with the young folks, but by certain age people seem to stop using it very much. Maybe some day we’ll find the hidden Holden Caulfield gene, and scientists will explain that there are dedicated neural circuits called […]

As a culture, we put a lot of emphasis on the successes of precocious young talents. This is especially true in the arts. I’ve known many ambitious, talented young people who have tracked their development against the Glenn Goulds, the Mozarts, the Truman Capotes and the Kurt Cobains. This is rarely a good idea. We’ve […]