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Colin Abernathy

Culture Editor · Covers Culture, Music, Film · Contact the newsroom

Colin Abernathy edits Komposite's culture desk, covering film with historical depth and the business and legacy of popular music.

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FilmFour hundred million on a ten-million filmSEPTEMBER 21, 2026
Music BusinessThe CD is up fifty-nine per centSEPTEMBER 20, 2026
StreamingOne hundred and fifty thousand a daySEPTEMBER 18, 2026
RightsUniversal sues the pipe, not the songSEPTEMBER 16, 2026
TouringTherapy reaches the tours that cannot afford itSEPTEMBER 14, 2026
MediaAt thirty, an independent label sells curationSEPTEMBER 14, 2026
RightsA tenth of streams are not realSEPTEMBER 14, 2026
StreamingThe lyric sheet became the engagement surfaceSEPTEMBER 13, 2026
MediaProducers ask governments to make streamers pay for local storiesSEPTEMBER 11, 2026
RightsUniversal stops litigating and starts licensingSEPTEMBER 11, 2026
Music BusinessThe growth is somewhere elseSEPTEMBER 7, 2026
Live MusicThe festival middle disappearsSEPTEMBER 7, 2026
MediaAnimation follows the pipelineSEPTEMBER 7, 2026
Music BusinessVinyl is a real business againSEPTEMBER 6, 2026
StreamingHalf the uploads are machinesSEPTEMBER 6, 2026
Music BusinessThe superfan is the business modelSEPTEMBER 6, 2026
FilmGames became the safest betSEPTEMBER 6, 2026
FilmThe big screen got biggerSEPTEMBER 6, 2026
MediaPublishing is Hollywood's R&DSEPTEMBER 6, 2026
FilmDocumentaries lost their buyerSEPTEMBER 5, 2026
Music BusinessSync is the growth lineSEPTEMBER 5, 2026
Music BusinessStreaming learns to weight a playSEPTEMBER 4, 2026
FilmConsent becomes a line itemSEPTEMBER 4, 2026
Live MusicAll-In pricing comes to ticketsSEPTEMBER 4, 2026
FilmProduction follows the rebateSEPTEMBER 4, 2026
FilmRestoration is a funding problemAUGUST 17, 2026
FilmThe window reopens, slowlyAUGUST 16, 2026
Music BusinessCatalogs are a rates tradeAUGUST 19, 2026
Live MusicThe rooms that build careersAUGUST 18, 2026
FilmHow a Vine kid and a Netflix editor built a monster for the app ageAUGUST 23, 2026
FilmThe repertory cinema is having its best decade in fifty yearsAUGUST 15, 2026
MusicWhy Sticky Fingers still mattersAUGUST 14, 2026
FilmWhy studios keep sending old movies back to theatersJULY 24, 2026
MusicOld songs are winning streaming, and it's not nostalgia aloneJULY 20, 2026
FilmThe practical effects comeback is really about trustJUNE 29, 2026
MusicThe farewell tour that never ends is a business modelJUNE 25, 2026
FilmThe disc endures: physical media's stubborn second lifeJUNE 8, 2026
MusicHow Rumours keeps finding new generationsJUNE 2, 2026