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A newsletter and podcast on the craft, philosophy, and history of music. Hosted by Luke F. Walton. Co-owned with and produced by Beformer. New episodes Tuesdays; the newsletter and deeper dives on Substack.

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A Gentle Shelf with Andrew Scheps (Adele, U2, Hozier) Play Watch Mix philosophy, breaking in, and AI in the studio with Andrew Scheps.
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What Babies Listen To Play September 22, 2026
Fishbowls of Influence Play September 15, 2026
What Being Good at Groove Is Play September 8, 2026
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A Brief History of Funk Music June 3, 2026 When groove is the point!
Long Live Rock 'n' Roll April 29, 2026 Modern rock and its many, many splinters from the tree of rawk!
Please — No Chops. April 15, 2026 How a Boston advertisement and a Seattle train yard killed hair metal
The Flow State November 21, 2025 Let me take youuu hiiiiigher
MTV Killed the Radio August 27, 2025 The message always matches the medium
Watch the new “Alright” music video! July 11, 2025 Welcome back to Scoobert Doobert summer 🌞
The Most Successful Rock Album of All Time: Back in Black July 9, 2025 It sold 2x as much as "Abbey Road!"
Rock Star? Pop Star? Alien? April 30, 2025 How David Bowie and Barbarella created Glam Rock

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Tuning into the Universe's Frequency (What Are Notes?) All notes are frequencies; all frequencies are waves. A note is what an ensemble agrees to call a pitch (culture, not essence) on an infinite gradient.

Why are there twelve notes? Western music's twelve tones come from stacking octaves (2:1) and fifths (3:2): a search for order and divinity in ratios, whether or not the universe is actually that tidy.

It's the Circle of Fifths Stack perfect fifths twelve times and you close a circle, or a spiral, until musicians fudge the math (enharmonics) the way geocentrism fudged the planets.

440 or 432 Hz — What Frequency Is Better? A=440 Hz is a 20th-century compromise, not a cabal. 432 is a beautiful idea that cheapens music if you treat it as the one true frequency. Frequency is a spectrum, not a binary.

A Brief History of Funk Music When groove is the point: Music History 101.

Long Live Rock 'n' Roll Modern rock and its many splinters from the tree of rawk.

CBGB: from Punk to Post-Punk Downtown New York, punk, and what came after CBGB.

Rock Star? Pop Star? Alien? How David Bowie and Barbarella created glam rock.

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