Category Archives: All Stories

A few days go, the New York Times published a short video about conducting. In it, the New York Philharmonic’s Alan Gilbert plays guinea pig for a suite of motion-capture cameras that analyze his movements as he discusses the methods and goals of a conductor. Of all Gilbert’s commentary, one remark near the end is […]

This Monday, we released the new April issue of Trust Me, I’m A Scientist – The music magazine for people who make music. In This Issue You Will: Explore the evolution of “ear-splitting” in How To Win the Loudness War. Travel the universe with Neil Young and Stephen Hawking in a time machine made out […]

I Never Talk to Strangers Earlier this week, I had a chance meeting with an editor from The New Yorker while riding on the subway. I was engrossed in my copy of that magazine, and she was sitting inches to my right, scribbling out notes in brisk flurries of red ink. She’d look up from […]

Yesterday was the first Monday of the month, which means we released the March issue of Trust Me, I’m A Scientist,  “The music magazine for people who make music.” In The March Issue, You’ll Find: The real story behind “Mastered for iTunes“, complete with tips from some of top mastering engineers in the world. Exclusive […]

While doing research for an article today, I stumbled across a listening test on MP3orNot.com. MP3orNot.com is a website that allows you to quiz yourself with a blind ABX test which compares fairly high-resolution 320kbps MP3 files against the older, 128kbps standard. I hope it doesn’t come across as bragging when I say that I […]

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 […]