The Culture Journalist

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A podcast about the future of culture, with Emilie Friedlander and Andrea Domanick.

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Episode Date
The story of vaporwave
May 21, 2026
The slow cancellation of the future: A Mark Fisher primer
May 08, 2026
Coachella trend report 2026: Let's watch YouTube together
Apr 24, 2026
The experience economy arms race and the end of the recording artist
Apr 10, 2026
Opinionated software: AI and the arts, revisited
Mar 20, 2026
Brooklyn's lost indie decade
Mar 06, 2026
Welcome to the reality exchange
Feb 13, 2026
The network state moment
Jan 29, 2026
36 predictions about culture in 2026
Jan 16, 2026
The agony and the ecstasy of the modern job hunt
Dec 23, 2025
Revisiting Hauntology, or the sound of lost futures
Dec 04, 2025
Mayor Mamdani and the new image politics
Nov 14, 2025
How 21st century culture lost its way, with W. David Marx
Oct 23, 2025
How the job market got so broken
Oct 10, 2025
Watch: 'One Battle After Another' roundtable with Joshua Rivera and Drew Millard
Oct 07, 2025
Welcome to the right's cancel culture era
Sep 25, 2025
Inside NYC's thriving cinephile underground
Sep 11, 2025
Machines talking to machines: The future of the internet
Aug 14, 2025
How the tattooed foodie bro became the defining person of 2025
Aug 01, 2025
Britney Spears and how the media lost its mind
Jul 17, 2025
How A24 turned cinema into a lifestyle
Jul 03, 2025
How the NBA lost its cool
Jun 20, 2025
The geopolitics of pop culture, with Jaime Brooks of Elite Gymnastics (free)
Jun 13, 2025
How to save the world, with Malcolm Harris
May 28, 2025
How to get dressed in America, with Biz Sherbert
May 09, 2025
How culture internalized the logic of the stock market
Apr 25, 2025
"Trump Trad" and the aesthetics of the New Right
Apr 10, 2025
What was the yuppie?
Mar 28, 2025
Disaster media, with Matt Pearce and Emma Kemp
Mar 07, 2025
How "process squeeze" hijacked music creation
Feb 21, 2025
DOGE and the fallacies of techno-utopianism
Feb 07, 2025
Do algorithms make culture boring?
Jan 30, 2025
The great Spotify swindle, with Liz Pelly
Jan 24, 2025
A people's history of Zyn
Jan 09, 2025
How the Dems became the party of the Professional Managerial Class
Nov 15, 2024
So your song has gone viral on TikTok
Oct 31, 2024
Astra Taylor's age of insecurity
Oct 24, 2024
How a bill to save local journalism turned into a mysterious AI incubator
Aug 30, 2024
Tomorrow's music today, with Simon Reynolds
Aug 15, 2024
Emilie's trial by fire as a Kim’s Video clerk
Jul 25, 2024
Remembering Kim's Video, the world's coolest video store
Jul 18, 2024
How groceries got gentrified, with Snaxshot's Andrea Hernández
Jul 02, 2024
The broken promises of neo-leftist crypto
Jun 20, 2024
Inside the bill that could (finally) regulate Big Streaming
Jun 06, 2024
Welcome to music's shitpost modernism era
May 09, 2024
Coachella 2024 trend report
Apr 26, 2024
How the hipster economy went mainstream
Apr 11, 2024
Antitrust 101 for culture workers
Mar 28, 2024
Oscar-winner Cord Jefferson on how Hollywood became so risk-averse
Mar 14, 2024
Digital media's pivot to nothingness pt. 2
Mar 07, 2024
The fall of Pitchfork
Feb 29, 2024
Escaping algorithmic culture with Kyle Chayka
Feb 15, 2024
Inside the TikTok shoegaze revival
Feb 01, 2024
New Year's special: How to make creative work when you're busy with other s**t
Jan 18, 2024
The past, present, and future of the musical commodity
Dec 14, 2023
ENCORE: Lessons from the Luddites for the digital age
Nov 30, 2023
The decline of the digital third space, with Ruby Justice Thelot
Nov 16, 2023
Chronicling the early days of social media, with Taylor Lorenz
Nov 02, 2023
A survey of post-pandemic nightlife, with Shawn Reynaldo
Oct 05, 2023
Bringing back hyper-local media with Hell Gate
Aug 15, 2023
MrBeast lays bare how the internet really works
Jul 27, 2023
There's a lot of ways to lose your house
Jul 21, 2023
Inside the VICE bankruptcy files
Jul 14, 2023
Jobflation is real
Jul 06, 2023
Anatomy of a scene
Jun 29, 2023
Is it time to bring back the Luddite movement?
Jun 16, 2023
Towards a theory of the pitch
Jun 08, 2023
How Big Streaming decimated the screenwriting profession
Jun 01, 2023
Why everyone's into golf all of a sudden
May 18, 2023
What the hell is happening
May 04, 2023
What is chokepoint capitalism?
Mar 23, 2023
Spotify and the End of Human Curation
Mar 17, 2023
Why modern work is so chaotic and exhausting
Mar 03, 2023
Digital media's pivot to nothingness
Feb 16, 2023
Why everything is getting worse all the time, with DIS
Feb 02, 2023
Bunker, Mars colony, or seastead?
Jan 19, 2023
Is A.I. good or bad for art?
Sep 22, 2022
Inside the new digital musical counterculture, with Mark Redito
Aug 11, 2022
We are all outsiders, with Eve 6 Guy
Jul 26, 2022
The Boomer Ballast effect, with Kevin Munger and Joshua Citarella
Jun 15, 2022
The tricky business of reporting on the New Right
May 12, 2022
Coachella Vibes: A Serious Investigation
Apr 27, 2022
What is a metalabel?
Apr 11, 2022
Who owns Mac Miller's story?
Mar 28, 2022
Is it time for platform socialism?
Mar 14, 2022
The secret history of dark academia and post-pandemic aesthetics
Feb 28, 2022
Neil Young vs. Spotify Emergency Roundtable
Feb 02, 2022
Teaming up to buy the Constitution is so 2021
Dec 27, 2021
The Logan Roy School of Journalism
Nov 09, 2021
Tonight we're gonna party like it's Woodstock '99, with Craig Jenkins
Aug 31, 2021
Five Days in a TikTok Mansion
Jul 22, 2021
Has music journalism lost its way?
Jun 17, 2021
Parasocial Anxiety
May 21, 2021
The rise of the clickbait restaurant
Apr 16, 2021
What are NFTS? And can they save independent music?
Mar 12, 2021
Is counterculture still possible?
Feb 25, 2021
What is creativity worth?
Nov 20, 2020
Every story is a labor story, with Kim Kelly
Oct 30, 2020
The digital hustle
Oct 16, 2020
Is TikTok a cultural propaganda machine?
Oct 01, 2020
How 2013 changed music forever
Sep 24, 2020
When the last venue closes
Sep 18, 2020
Localize it, with Jeff Weiss
Sep 09, 2020
So you're a laid-off journalist
Sep 01, 2020
The real-life cult that started on Facebook
Aug 25, 2020
The load is getting heavier to carry, with Kristin Corry
Aug 18, 2020
Welcome to The Culture Journalist
Aug 17, 2020