Into the Dark Forest
A new podcast season, new releases on Metalabel, and A-Corps on NPR
Yancey Strickler
Creativity, Artist Corporations, and NPR
A new show documents the history and rise of creative culture and A-Corps
How the 1971 "Artist Contract" previewed A-Corps
A historical look at the fight for artist's rights
What's the difference between an artist and a creator?
Parsing some crucial and nuanced distinctions
Dark Forest Theory, six years in
The internet is dying on the outside but growing on the inside
What the world needs now is groupcore
Metalabel's new statement of purpose and a preview of an upcoming release
The internet needs a phone book
Read to the end to find out which Metalabel release the New Yorker named one of the Best Books of 2025 so far