I’m Gary Moskowitz and I’m a journalist, journalism educator, and musician in San Francisco, California.

I write and report on music and culture, with bylines in The New York Times, The Economist, San Francisco Weekly, The Atlantic, GRAMMY.com, KQED, Reasons To Be Cheerful, Red Bulletin Magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle, the Village Voice, The Daily Telegraph, Newsweek, Mother Jones Magazine, and other publications. For TIME Magazine, I’ve written about digital music royalties, video stores, Afrobeat, Berlin Techno, and Hyperlocal news sites. I write the MUSIC NERD newsletter.

I’m on Muckrack, and Twitter, and Threads, and LinkedIn, and Medium, and Substack.

I mentor young journalists with Report For America, and I’ve taught journalism writing and reporting courses at UC Berkeley, San Francisco State University, UCLA, Cal State East Bay, City University London, and the London School of Journalism.

I play trumpet in RADIO VELOSO. We gig regularly throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, and our music has appeared in a Tommy Hilfiger web series (our song hits at 4:48), a Lenny Kravitz furniture ad, and an independent film called The Wrong Guy.

I previously played trumpet in an 11-piece London Afrobeat band, an Oakland punk-soul band, a San Francisco fazz-junk quintet, a Los Angeles roots ska band, a Florida ska band, and others. I’ve toured throughout the United States and Europe.

Before pursuing journalism, I was a flower delivery van driver, a Greyhound Bus terminal attendant, a ski lift operator, prep cook, dishwasher, a bar back, and a Starbucks comment card evaluator.

To contact me, email moskowitz.gary [at] gmail.com