For the Record is a conversation series where we speak with all manner of music heads — DJs, music journos, indie label captains, record shop owners, listening bar kingpins, et al — about their stories + the music that makes them.
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Brandon Stosuy is the co-founder and editor in chief of The Creative Independent. He previously worked as director of Editorial Operations at the online music publication, Pitchfork. Brandon curates the annual Basilica SoundScape festival in Hudson, New York, and has been a music curator at MoMA PS1 in New York City and the Broad museum in Los Angeles. For over a decade, he and the visual artist Matthew Barney have collaborated on a series of live art and music events in Long Island City. Up Is Up, But So Is Down, his anthology of downtown New York literature, was a 2006 Village Voice book of the year. Brandon is also the author of three books on creativity, Make Time for Creativity, Stay Inspired, How to Fail Successfully (all published by Abrams) and two children’s books, Music Is... and We Are Music (both published by Simon & Schuster). In November of 2024 he published the anthology, Sad Happens: A Celebration Of Tears, also on Simon & Schuster. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two sons.
MUSIC MENTIONS
From small town perspective shifts (9:15):
Curatorial evolution over the years (20:00):
Q&A
Discovering music today (31:00):
First album ever purchased (41:00):
Most recent album purchased (42:28):
Artists discovered in the past year (45:17):
Desert island discs (50:09):